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Wahab, E. O.; Ajiboye, O. E.; Atere, A. A. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2011
This research is motivated as a result of rapid changes in the lifestyle of our youths and the increasing deterioration of their welfare in terms of the increase in the number of out of school youth in the country, high incidence of child participation in economic activities and incidence of street children in Nigeria. Although, many researches…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Poverty, Incidence, Child Welfare
Bannier, Betsy J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to identify and explain factors that motivate and assist adult, online chemistry students to both enroll and persist in successfully completing general chemistry. Secondarily, the study sought to identify aspects of the online education process that are most challenging for adult, online chemistry students. Using a…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Help Seeking
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Lydon, Susannah; King, Chris – Professional Development in Education, 2009
A comparative review of the research literature regarding the effectiveness of continuing professional development (CPD) demonstrates that a range of different factors needs to be present if it is to have impact in the classroom and that short CPD episodes are unlikely to be effective. The Earth Science Education Unit approach to CPD had to be…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Teaching Methods, Professional Continuing Education, Teacher Workshops
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Glover, Derek; Miller, David – Professional Development in Education, 2009
There are concerns that the effective use of interactive whiteboard technology is being inhibited by its use only as a means of presentation. This article looks at the way in which a working group drawn from the university and school areas of mathematics teaching developed materials to enhance the pedagogic use of interactive whiteboard…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Chalkboards, Professional Development
Weston, Dawn M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to identify current student preferences in order to improve distance education curriculum delivery of the distance education program of the United States Army Command and General Staff College (USACGSC). In this age of rapidly changing contemporary operating environments facing the United States Army, soldiers need…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes, Preferences
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Bright, N. Geoffrey – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2010
In this article, the author explores some particularly "luminous" paradoxes that have emerged from qualitative material gathered as part of an ethnographic study carried out over the last five years. The research, now a doctoral study, grew initially out of the author's own contradictory experiences of running learning provision in the…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Adult Education, Unions, Foreign Countries
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Westgarth-Smith, Angus R. – Journal of Biological Education, 2004
The Bumblebee Game is an exciting outdoor game, which demonstrates aspects of bumblebee natural history including food chains, food webs and competition for food, predation by crab spiders, parasitism by "Conopidae" ("Diptera") and brood parasitism by cuckoo bees. It has been played successfully with groups of 10-25 people. Although most suitable…
Descriptors: Ecology, Natural Sciences, Science History, Outdoor Education
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Reisman, Molly – Journal of Museum Education, 2008
Design-Based Research (DBR) has been a tool of the learning sciences since the early 1990s, used as a way to improve and study learning environments. Using an iterative process of design with the goal of reining theories of learning, researchers and educators now use DBR seek to identify "how" to make a learning environment work. They then draw…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Informal Education, Museums, Educational Environment
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Miller-Day, Michelle – Qualitative Inquiry, 2008
After being told in an end-of-year job review that performances are not considered valuable research outcomes, the author argues in this essay that performance matters. This essay makes a case for recognizing performance ethnographies as research, pedagogy, and active service and concludes with guidelines for performance ethnographers who are…
Descriptors: Action Research, Ethnography, Job Performance, Research Methodology
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Lopes, J. Bernardino; Silva, Antonio Alberto; Cravino, Jose P.; Costa, Nilza; Marques, Luis; Campos, Carlos – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2008
This study is a meta-interpretative analysis that focuses on research conducted and published by other researchers. Concepts central to this study include global practical relevance, curriculum design, and formative situation. We analyzed 35 studies selected from 374 published studies in the years 2000 and 2001 in three journals referenced in the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Meta Analysis, Data Interpretation, Teacher Education Programs
Gerstacker, Matthew D. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Throughout the course of human history, individuals have been forced to face a vast array of stressful situations. Each of these experiences and encounters required adequate management, if not to ensure survival, then to provide education or protection. Simultaneously, human beings were diversifying, establishing groups based on physical and…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Public Colleges, Self Efficacy, Conflict
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Fensham, Peter J. – Science Education, 2009
Policy has been a much neglected area for research in science education. In their neglect of policy studies, researchers have maintained an ongoing naivete about the politics of science education. In doing so, they often overestimate the implications of their research findings about practice and ignore the interplay between the stakeholders beyond…
Descriptors: Science Education, Role Perception, Theory Practice Relationship, Politics of Education
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Buck, Alexy; Geissel, Brigitte – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2009
This article draws on exploratory qualitative interviews with German education policy experts. We ask whether, as Germany faces new challenges, changes have occurred in respect of the education ideal of the democratic citizen; perceived implications for civic education and schooling are also drawn out. Interviews were conducted with senior…
Descriptors: Political Science, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Interviews
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Debuse, J.; Lawley, M. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2009
The majority of ICT graduates must begin their careers by successfully fulfilling the requirements advertised within online recruitment sites. Although considerable research into employer requirements is commonly undertaken when preparing curricula, studies investigating how well the graduate attributes on which curricula are based match those…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Theory Practice Relationship, Curriculum Evaluation, Education Work Relationship
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Agbatogun, A. Olaoluwakotansibe – Journal of Political Science Education, 2009
This study examined the extent to which the use of print and broadcast mass media could predict the level of awareness and participation of secondary school teachers in political activities and its implications on the quality of Nigerian education system. Eight hundred and two secondary school teachers from South West states of Nigeria served as…
Descriptors: Elections, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Mass Media Effects
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