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Fergusson, Lee; Harmes, Marcus; Hayes, Fiona; Rahmann, Christopher – Work Based Learning e-Journal International, 2019
There is synergy between the investigative practices of police detectives and social scientists, including work-based researchers. They both develop lines-of-inquiry and draw on multiple sources of evidence in order to make inferences about people, trends and phenomena. However, the principles associated with lines-of-inquiry and sources of…
Descriptors: Research, Inquiry, Evidence, Foreign Countries
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Sirek, Danielle – International Journal of Music Education, 2018
In this article I explore the relationships between identities and musicking in Grenada, West Indies, taking into account the understandings of community and nationhood that foreground and inform identity discourse in the Grenadian context. Through the dual lenses of music education and ethnomusicology, I analyze musicking and music education…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries
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Sezgin Memnun, Dilek; Aydin, Bünyamin; Özbilen, Ömer; Erdogan, Günes – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2017
The RBC+C abstraction model is an effective model in mathematics education because it gives the opportunity to analyze research data through cognitive actions. For this reason, we aim to examine the abstraction process of the limit knowledge of two volunteer participant students using the RBC+C abstraction model. With this aim, the students'…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Models, Mathematics Education, Recognition (Psychology)
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Smith, Paul H. – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2017
This paper discusses a piece of qualitative research that examined the narratives that a group of learners articulated when they discussed their experiences of studying on a relatively low-status, vocationally related higher education programme. These students were school-based teaching assistants who were undertaking foundation degree study at a…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Semi Structured Interviews, College Students, Observation
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Rempe-Gillen, Emma – Professional Development in Education, 2018
Teacher collaboration, and teacher professional development within this context, has become an area of interest in recent years. In particular, teacher education has seen the rise of collaboration as an effective school-based professional development activity, where in-service teachers plan, observe and reflect on lessons together. The most common…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Teacher Collaboration
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Viana, Rebeca V. R.; Scatena, Vera L.; Eichemberg, Mayra T.; Sano, Paulo T. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2018
Considering that both Western Science and Local Knowledge Systems share a common ground--observations of the natural world--the dialogue between them should not only be possible, but fruitful. Local communities whose livelihoods depend on traditional uses of the local biodiversity not only develop knowledge about nature, making several uses of…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Semi Structured Interviews, Diaries, Participant Observation
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Kilskar, Stine Skaufel; Ingvaldsen, Jonas A.; Valle, Nina – Learning Organization, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the relationship between the contemporary forms of manufacturing rationalization and the reproduction of communities of practice (CoPs) centred on tasks and craft. Building on critical literature highlighting the tensions between CoPs and rationalization, this paper aims to develop a nuanced account of how CoPs…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Manufacturing Industry, Motor Vehicles, Qualitative Research
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Gündogdu, Cemal; Aygün, Yalin – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
This research evinces the value of the multidimensional perceptions of the metaphors towards swimming discipline and its relevant certain contexts according to swimming coach candidates. In this article, we used qualitative research paradigm away from positivist approaches to describe and interpret stories and personal experiences of the…
Descriptors: Aquatic Sports, Athletic Coaches, Figurative Language, Qualitative Research
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Li, V.; Carter, S. M.; Rychetnik, L. – Health Education Research, 2015
The use of evidence has become a foundational part of health promotion practice. Although there is a general consensus that adopting an evidence-based approach is necessary for practice, disagreement remains about what types of evidence practitioners should use to guide their work. An empirical understanding of how practitioners conceptualize and…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Grounded Theory, Semi Structured Interviews, Foreign Countries
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Connolly, Daniel J.; Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn; Evans, Adam B. – Sport, Education and Society, 2016
There is currently a distinct dearth of research into how sports students' career aspirations are formed during their post-compulsory education. This article, based on an ethnographic study of sport students in tertiary education, draws on data collected from two first-year cohorts (n = 34) on two different courses at a further education college…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Occupational Aspiration, Ethnography, Observation
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Quinn, Rand; Nguyen, Chi – American Educational Research Journal, 2017
Adequately preparing youth to enter the civic spheres of adulthood has emerged as an issue of concern in recent years due to widening civic empowerment gaps that track along race and class lines. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Homeward Bound (pseudonym), a program for Vietnamese youth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, we show how immigrant youth…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Youth, Ethnography, Youth Programs
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Shimojimai, Yasuko – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2017
This paper discusses how teachers explore teaching controversial issues in the Japanese language classroom to Japanese language learner (JLL) or culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students who have different cultural and political backgrounds. Assuring educational opportunities with consideration of JLLs' background is important…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Japanese, Second Language Instruction
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Oh, Hyun Joo S. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2018
This paper interrogates how upper-class South Korean locals attending a newly established international school in the Songdo International Business District in South Korea, are socialized to both envisage and escape obsolescence. The stagnation of Songdo's population growth in the wake of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, which altered many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Schools, Global Education, Adolescents
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Webber, Martin; Reidy, Hannah; Ansari, David; Stevens, Martin; Morris, David – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Objectives: Modeling the processes involved in complex social interventions is important in social work practice, as it facilitates their implementation and translation into different contexts. This article reports the process of developing and modeling the connecting people intervention (CPI), a model of practice that supports people with mental…
Descriptors: Intervention, Social Work, Counseling Techniques, Mental Disorders
Gil, Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative case study utilizing ethnographic methods was to understand how family members' participation in Digital Home, a community-based technology program in an urban mid-sized Midwestern city, built on and fostered Latino immigrant families' community cultural wealth (Yosso, 2005) in order to increase their abilities to…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Case Studies, Qualitative Research, Observation
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