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Can We Really Make a Difference? Exploring Pre-Service Teachers' Experience with Socio-Scientific Issues Aiming for Democratic Participation in Science
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Cook, Kristin Leigh – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Responding to calls for an empirical glimpse into a socioscientific issues (SSI)-based curriculum that aims to promote democratic participation, enhance students' connections to science, and empower students for the betterment of society (Dos Santos, 2008; Sadler, Barab, & Scott, 2007; Tal & Kedmi, 2006; Fusco & Barton, 2001; Hodson, 2003), this…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Teaching Methods, Scientists, Scientific Principles
Mapping out the Transition toward Information Societies: Social Nature, Growth, and Policies
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Hilbert, Martin – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research thesis sheds lights on different aspects of the transition toward information societies. It consists of a collection of interrelated studies that analyze in more rigorous terms three main and complementary aspects of the transition (see Figure below). After and "introductory" CHAPTER ONE, the consecutive CHAPTER TWO of this…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Social Influences, Social Environment, Science and Society
Impact of Enterprise Resource Planning on Organizational Productivity in an Information Technology Organization
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Garg, Manoj – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Negative consequences follow when an expensive technological implementation fails to accomplish expected benefits and results instead in interrupted business, lost revenues, and dissatisfied and demoralized users. The problem researched in this study was how an organization should introduce advanced technology to system users to optimize…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Social Change, Statistical Analysis, Employees