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Batane, Tshepo; Ngwako, Abraham – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
Equipping pre-service teachers with technology skills and knowledge is now regarded as a vital element of any teacher-training program so as to capacitate the new teachers to meet the educational demands of the twenty-first century. Therefore, it is important to establish whether these teachers do actually apply these skills when they first get to…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods, Beginning Teachers
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Rwaimba, Samuel Muthomi – Online Submission, 2016
This was a descriptive survey study design which sought to establish the school based factors that affect the learning of Kenyan Sign Language in primary schools for learners with hearing impairment in Embu and Isiolo counties in Kenya. The target population was all teachers teaching in primary schools for learners with hearing impairment in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Elementary School Students, Deafness
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Portelance, Liliane; Caron, Josianne; Martineau, Stéphane – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2016
Collaboration between student teacher trainers, the cooperating teacher, and the university supervisor, is directly connected with the sharing of respective knowledge (Gervais & Desrosiers, 2005). However, fruitful exchanges are not necessarily usual (Sanford & Hopper, 2000), which is considered the most detrimental factor in the student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Educators, Cooperating Teachers
Gassama, Sorie – Online Submission, 2012
The main objectives of the study: 1. To investigate the academic success rate of recent voluntary minorities from Liberia living in Houston, and to examine the reasons why Voluntary Liberian Minorities are being successful or unsuccessful in school. Liberia, which means "land of the free," was founded by freed slaves from the United…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Refugees, War, Minority Groups
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Nadeem, Sanober; Rafique, Ghazala; Khowaja, Liaquat; Yameen, Anjum – Child Care in Practice, 2014
Family environment plays a very important role in early child development and the availability of stimulating material in the early years of a child's life is crucial for optimising development. The Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) inventory is one of the most widely used measures to assess the quality and quantity of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Child Development, Early Experience
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Macdonald, Doune; Abbott, Rebecca; lisahunter; Hay, Peter; McCuaig, Louise – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2014
Background: The association between physical activity/fitness with cognitive and academic functioning has become a topic of considerable research interest. Increasingly, schooling systems are being expected to respond to these relationships through curricular and extra-curricular interventions. Purpose: This paper reports on the qualitative…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
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San, Ismail – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2014
The purpose of this study was to determine the level of self-efficacy of prospective mathematics teachers (PMTs) on the competency "planning and organizing instruction" that is one of the teacher competencies identified in 2009 by Ministry of Education. The sample of this study consists of 111 total prospective teachers (PTs) study in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Planning
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Shih, Chih-Ming; Huang, Kuang-Hsu – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2009
This case study investigated a shared living space used by four participants with severe visual impairments and their four sighted children. In this case study, the authors discovered that the participants with visual impairments focused on two aspects of design features: tactile and visual. At the same time, they revealed a unique aesthetic…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Visual Perception, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
Ng'asike, John Teria – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation discusses the findings of an ethnographic exploratory study of Turkana nomadic pastoralist children's sociocultural practices of their everyday lifestyles and science curriculum and instruction in Kenyan early childhood curriculum. The study uses the findings from Turkana elders to challenge the dominant society in Kenya that…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Curriculum Development, Indigenous Knowledge, Early Childhood Education
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Usman, Lantana M. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2009
In northern Nigeria, over 80% of the unskilled and uneducated adolescent street boys, or "Almajiris", are from the ethnic Hausa-Fulani tribes. They depend on street begging and menial jobs for daily survival. In dealing with the situation, state vocational centers were established as the Millennium Hope Project (MHP) to provide the boys…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Vocational Education, Males
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Coll, Richard K. – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2008
This paper reports on a major national study of higher education science and engineering learning communities in New Zealand. The scope of the research project along with a description of the methodology and method used in the study together with rationale for the study and research approach adopted are provided here. Details of the theoretical…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Scientific Methodology
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McCabe, Helen – Disability & Society, 2008
This article presents the results of research conducted at the first place where autism was diagnosed in China, the Nanjing Child Mental Health Research Center. The purpose was to examine the development of service provision for children with autism in this state-run medical institution. Specifically, the specific intervention model for autism,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Autism, Family Involvement, Foreign Countries
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Ellstrom, Eva; Ekholm, Bodil; Ellstrom, Per-Erik – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to first elaborate on the notion of a learning environment based on an empirical study of care work. Second, to explore how aspects of a learning environment may differ between and within units in the same organization, and how to understand and explain such differences. Design/methodology/approach: The study…
Descriptors: Naturalistic Observation, Work Environment, Industrial Psychology, Interviews
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Leach, Penelope; Barnes, Jacqueline; Malmberg, Lars-Erik; Sylva, Kathy; Stein, Alan – Early Child Development and Care, 2008
The quality of care offered in four different types of non-parental child care to 307 infants at 10 months old and 331 infants at 18 months old was compared and factors associated with higher quality were identified. Observed quality was lowest in nurseries at each age point, except that at 18 months they offered more learning activities. There…
Descriptors: Child Care, Infant Care, Caregiver Attitudes, Child Caregivers
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Hardy, Ian; Lingard, Bob – Journal of Education Policy, 2008
This article draws on Bourdieu's field theory and related concepts of habitus and capitals, to explore policy implementation in relation to a particular case of teacher professional development in Queensland, Australia. This implementation process is described as an effect of the interplay between what is called the policy field and the field of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Educational Policy
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