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Srebotnjak, Tanja; Norgaard, Lee Michelle – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to map and analyze sustainability activities and relationships at the seven Claremont Colleges and graduate institutions using social network analysis (SNA) to inform sustainability planning and programming. Design/methodology/approach: Online surveys and interviews were conducted among faculty, staff and…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Higher Education, Sustainability, Online Surveys
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Sanya, Losira Nasirumbi; Sseguya, Haroon; Kyazze, Florence Birungi; Baguma, Yona; Kibwika, Paul – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2018
Purpose: We examine the nature of networks through which new hybrid banana varieties (HBVs) in Uganda are developed, and how different actors engage in the technology development process. Design/methodology/approach: We collected the data through 20 key informant interviews and 5 focus group discussions with actors involved in the process. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Focus Groups, Agricultural Occupations
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Zhimin, Luo; Chunlian, Chen; Xian, Wang – Frontiers of Education in China, 2016
Good alumni relations are key to universities and colleges winning support from their graduates. With reference to social capital theory, an important problem in establishing strong alumni relations is how to turn alumni resources, an important university social network, into productive, public, and abundant capital. Based on the established…
Descriptors: Universities, Alumni, Case Studies, Social Capital
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Preedy, Sarah; Jones, Paul – Industry and Higher Education, 2017
This study considers the phenomenon of student-led enterprise groups in UK higher education institutions with regard to their role and activities and their potential to enhance entrepreneurial learning. The researchers adopted a case study methodology, acknowledging that a multiplicity of variables influences pedagogical development and therefore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Cooperative Learning, Case Studies
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Mania-Singer, Jackie – Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, and Research, 2017
This qualitative case study used General Systems Theory and social network analysis to explore the relationships between the members of a district central office and principals of elementary schools within an urban school district in the Midwest. Findings revealed sparse relationships between members of the district central office and principals,…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, School Districts, Central Office Administrators, School Administration
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McGrath, Helen; O'Toole, Thomas – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2016
This paper applies an action research (AR) design and action learning (AL) approach to network capability development in an entrepreneurial context. Recent research suggests that networks are a viable strategy for the entrepreneurial firm to overcome the liabilities associated with newness and smallness. However, a gap emerges as few, if any,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Entrepreneurship, Action Research
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Rodway, Joelle – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
Networks are frequently cited as an important knowledge mobilization strategy; however, there is little empirical research that considers how they connect research and practice. Taking a social network perspective, I explore how central office personnel find, understand and share research knowledge within a research brokering network. This mixed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Networks, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship
Martins da Silva, Vanessa Cristina; Siqueira, Sean Wolfgand Matsui – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
In online learning environments, tutors have several problems to carry out their activities, such as evaluating the student, knowing the right way to guide each student, promoting discussions, and knowing the right time to interact or let students build knowledge alone. We consider scenarios in which teaching and learning occurs in online social…
Descriptors: Interaction, Social Networks, Electronic Learning, Tutors
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McCauley, M. P.; Ramanadhan, S.; Viswanath, K. – Health Education Research, 2015
This study demonstrates a novel approach that those engaged in promoting social change in health can use to analyze community power, mobilize it and enhance community capacity to reduce health inequalities. We used community reconnaissance methods to select and interview 33 participants from six leadership sectors in "Milltown", the New…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Opinions, Community Leaders, Community Attitudes
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Choudry, Sophina; Williams, Julian; Black, Laura – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
The aim of this article is to explore the structure of social capital in peer networks and its relation to the unequal access of educational resources within mathematics classrooms. We hypothesise that learners can gain access to mathematics through friendship networks which provide more or less help from peers that might sustain (or curtail)…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Social Capital, Mathematics Instruction, Classroom Techniques
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Foote, Kathleen; Knaub, Alexis; Henderson, Charles; Dancy, Melissa; Beichner, Robert J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
While many innovative teaching strategies exist, integration into undergraduate science teaching has been frustratingly slow. This study aims to understand the low uptake of research-based instructional innovations by studying 21 successful implementations of the Student Centered Active Learning with Upside-down Pedagogies (SCALE-UP) instructional…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Instructional Innovation, Science Instruction, Student Centered Learning
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Wells, Rebecca; Gifford, Elizabeth; Bai, Yu; Corra, Ashley – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2015
Purpose: This exploratory case study examines how school systems and other local organizations have been working within two major U.S. cities to improve high school graduation rates. Systematically assessing active interorganizational dropout prevention networks may reveal characteristics affecting communities' capacity to support school…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Graduation Rate, Academic Persistence, Interviews
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Baker-Doyle, Kira J. – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2013
This article describes a study from the Linking Instructors Networks of Knowledge in Science Education project, which aims to examine the informal science curriculum support networks of teachers in a school-university curriculum reform partnership. We used social network analysis and qualitative methods to reveal characteristics of the informal…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Science Curriculum, Partnerships in Education, Universities
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Heydon, Rachel; Crocker, Wendy; Zhang, Zheng – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2014
In a bid to identify and gain analytic insight into the make-up and dynamics of kindergarten literacy curricula in an era of early childhood education and care reform, this study was designed to trace how classroom literacy curricula were produced in a kindergarten in a childcare centre in Ontario, Canada. Drawing on actor-network theory's (ANT)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Emergent Literacy, Ethnography
Velastegui, Pamela J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This hypothesis-generating case study investigates the naturally emerging roles of technology brokers and technology leaders in three independent schools in New York involving 92 school educators. A multiple and mixed method design utilizing Social Network Analysis (SNA) and fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (FSQCA) involved gathering…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Private Schools, Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis
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