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Kiley, Jill; Robinson, Daniel Bruce – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This article presents the results from a qualitative case study that examined the influencers upon a somewhat unique group of female students who opted out of elective physical education (PE). More specifically, this study focused upon female students attending an affluent private school, investigating why--when they transitioned from middle…
Descriptors: Females, Decision Making, Enrollment Influences, Elective Courses
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Price, Jeremy F.; McNeill, Katherine L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
As knowledge of and familiarity with science becomes an increasingly important aspect of contemporary life and citizenship, efforts have been made to make the science curriculum a “lived” curriculum (Hurd, 2000), one that reaches out to the lives, communities, and experiences of students. In this research around a high school urban ecology…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Theories, Science Curriculum, Secondary School Curriculum
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Sinelnikov, Oleg; Hastie, Peter – European Physical Education Review, 2008
Given Russian students' general lack of group work and opportunities to develop student responsibility in their prior schooling experiences, the purpose of this study was to examine how a group of Russian high school students responds to novel demands of participation in a sport education season. Forty-two students from two ninth-grade physical…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Social Systems, Student Journals, Student Responsibility