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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"theories of action"”.
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Transforming civics and citizenship education in the middle years of schooling : an exploration of critical issues informing teachers' theories of action
In the past decade there has been a revival of interest in civics and citizenship education at the national and global level. While the revival of interest has influenced all levels of education, this study has a particular focus on civics and citizenship education in the middle years of schooling. …
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The Georgia Project: A Binational Attempt to Reinvent a School District in Response to Latino Newcomers
Within the research domains of Latino/Hispanic education, educational leadership, and school/community relations, this ethnographic case study documents the creation and early development of the Georgia Project, a collaboration between Dalton (GA) Public Schools, the Universidad de Monterrey (of …
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Elementary school administrators' perceptions of parental involvement : from espoused theory to theory-in-use within school improvement efforts
… study explored the perceptions and practices of elementary school administrators regarding parental involvement in three urban elementary schools. Particular attention was given to understanding the connection between the beliefs that school leaders shared about parental involvement and its …
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Where symbols meet meanings: The organization of gestures and words in the middle temporal gyrus
Every day we use actions, gestures and words to interact with other people and with the environment. Being able to understand people’s movements and communicative intentions is critical to our ability to act successfully in the world. Here we present three studies aiming at investigating the …
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Characterizing the spatiotemporal profile and the level of abstractness of action representations: neural decoding of magnetoencephalography (MEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data
When we observe other people's actions, a network of temporal, parietal and frontal regions is recruited, known as action observation network (AON). This network includes areas that have been reported to be involved when we perform actions ourselves. Such findings support the view that action …
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Developing Leadership Capability for Rigorous Inquiry: An Intervention Study
… This qualitative study examined the impact of an intervention on two senior leaders’ approaches to leading school-wide professional inquiry (PI). The research questions were framed using problem-based methodology to identify the actions characterising and explaining senior leaders’ …
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Some issues arising from the role relationships of the non-executive director
<p>This research has selected a number of areas of member theorising about the role and role relationships of the non-executive director for discussion and analysis. The kinds of things members theorise about are; the nature of the role, the issue of competent role performance, the relationships …
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Concussion's impact on learning: The need for return-to-learn protocols for hospital and school collaboration
… public schools. Concussion is a mild form of TBI; the vast spectrum of TBI makes it a complex disability, which may involve intensive physical rehabilitation and cognitive therapy. The primary purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine the collaboration between educational and …
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Beyond Enlightenment: The Evolution of Agency and the Modularity of the Mind in a Post-Darwinian World
<p>Working out of the social and philosophical revolutions from the Enlightenment, contemporary action theory has unwittingly inherited several Cartesian ideas regarding the human mind: that it is unified, rational, and transparent. As a result, we have for too long conceived of action as …
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Legislating Learning: What Happened in the Process?
The Problem: The intent of this qualitative research is to explore policymakers' perceptions of lowa's House File 2272 (1998), the Accountability for Student Learning Act, This study describes the policy process as it applied to enactment of HF2272, and is guided by three central questions: What …
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Effects of Misassignment on Bias in the Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity
<p>The question of whether social interventions are effective has become an ever more important concern as programs are asked to justify their funding and theories of action. Although the randomized control trial (RCT) is a rigorous choice of design with regards to establishing causality, there are …
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Agents in Crisis: Theoretical Studies on Agency, Meaning and Time
The concept of crisis has become a staple in describing the current state of the social world. In the last decades, sociological theorists have retrieved the notion in connection with its cognate idea of critique. This retrieval comes hand in hand with recognising a dual character of crisis …
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The Ontology, Etiology, and Moral Psychology of Action: Aristotle and Today
Aristotle’s theory of action answers two central questions in Action Theory today: What causes action? What role do psychological attitudes play in action? Chapter 1 dispels misunderstandings about Aristotle’s theory of causation. Influential interpretations assume that Aristotle’s material, …
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On the Edge of the Envelope. A Case Study of the Children's Initiative: An Inquiry into Collaboration and Shared Vision
… the country, few have the breadth or the scope of the San Diego Children's Initiative. The general purpose of this research study was to analyze and develop an interpretive case study describing the initial collaborative process of the Strategic Action Committee of the San Diego Children's …
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Approaches to action
The objective of this thesis is to introduce recent philosophy of mind to philosophy of action in an attempt to evaluate the three currently dominant theories of action. These theories each concur with the general consensus in philosophy of action that the acts of an agent are causally derived. …
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Unconscious priming of "freely" chosen voluntary actions: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence
In the course of development organisms learn to associate their actions with the effects these actions have in the environment. Recent studies have shown that perceiving or anticipating action-effects automatically activates actions, which formerly have been experienced to cause these effects …
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Visualization of Guidelines on Computer Networks to Support Processes of Design and Quality Control
… and exchange knowledge. Such systems are often referred to as quality systems as they intend to support development as well as standardized work regarding the quality of the product and increase satisfaction of the company’s customers and other stakeholders (employees, owners, …