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Ulvenblad, Pia; Cederholm Björklund, Jennie – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2018
Purpose: This article describes the five-phase process of a leadership development programme conducted with agricultural entrepreneurs who own and manage dairy farms in Sweden. The programme primarily focused on leadership of employees and on self-leadership. The article's purpose is to present a template for leadership development programmes that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Training, Agricultural Occupations, Entrepreneurship
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Hansen, Bjørn Gunnar; Straete, Egil Petter; Kvam, Gunn-Turid – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2018
Purpose: The aim of the paper is to explore how advisors' relational and professional competence influences inter-subjectivity and farmers' perceptions of farm visits in a setting where advisors have formal power. Methodology: Advisors from the dairy company Tine, which is owned by farmers in collaboration, visit farmers at least once a year. The…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Animals, Farm Management, Agricultural Production
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Ramdhany, Viren; Venkat, Hamsa; Christiansen, Iben Maj – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2018
The education and professional development of pre-service mathematics teachers occur across different contexts. Key contexts of mathematics learning and learning to teach are school, university undergraduate mathematics and mathematics teaching-related learning in teacher education courses. International literature suggests that each of these…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Secondary School Mathematics
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Odenbring, Ylva – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2018
Today, an increasing number of students are suffering from different kinds of mental health problems. Still, we know little about how professionals in secondary school and other professionals in society handle and collaborate around these issues. The findings from the present study make an important contribution to the research field regarding…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Student Needs, Urban Schools, Police
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Unlu, Melihan; Horzum, Tugba – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2018
This study aims to analyze how the Mathematics Teacher Candidates (MTCs) define the "prism" and "pyramid" concepts in geometry. The research was carried out in 2017-2018 academic year with 92 MTCs. This test consists of 3 open-ended questions that MTCs can answer conceptually. The first openended question was as "Define a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Geometry, Mathematics Instruction
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Graves, Susan; Moore, Alexis – School Leadership & Management, 2018
Improving performance is a high stakes undertaking for schools who are operating within highly prescriptive testing and inspection regimes and a dynamic policy environment requiring Senior Leaders to be innovative and well-informed regarding best practice both nationally and internationally. In this context there can be a tendency to fall back on…
Descriptors: Research Utilization, Evidence Based Practice, Elementary Secondary Education, Semi Structured Interviews
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Kasstan, Jonathan Richard – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
This paper explores the notion of speaker authenticity in the context of obsolescent 'Francoprovençal': a highly fragmented grouping of Romance varieties spoken in parts of France, Italy, and Switzerland by less than 1% of the total regional population. While Francoprovençal has long been losing ground to the dominant language(s) with which it is…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, French, Dialects, Interference (Language)
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Akpinar, Mehmet – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This study tried to define the feedback strategies of social sciences teachers and their opinions about the content of the feedback. The study was carried out with phenomenological design which is one of the ways of qualitative research methods. The data that was collected by semi-structured interview form for the research was provided through…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Social Sciences, Teacher Student Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Liu, Wei; Yuan, Rui; Zhang, Hong – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2018
This brief report describes an investigation into the motivational changes of two school counselling teachers in two rural schools in the Chinese context. The findings revealed the mixed motivations of the participants in joining school counselling and how their motivations transformed through their professional engagement and social interactions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Counseling, School Counselors, Faculty Advisers
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Stefaniak, Jill E. – Journal of Faculty Development, 2018
This case study examines how a cognitive apprenticeship was utilized as a faculty development tool to improve instructional design practices in the classroom. Three instructors participated in a cognitive apprenticeship where they were taught how to implement learner-centered instructional strategies into their coursework. The cognitive…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Apprenticeships, Faculty Development, Instructional Design
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Desai, Farzanah; Seaholme, Tim – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2018
The aim of this study was to evaluate undergraduate exercise and sport science students' learning experiences in a strength and conditioning internship. There was a special emphasis on the interns' personal development, the influence of supervision (academic supervisor functioning as a dual professional) and feedback on their development as a…
Descriptors: Muscular Strength, Physical Fitness, Internship Programs, Exercise
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McKenzie, Brenda L. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2018
This grounded theory study aimed to understand the process of leadership identity development experienced by traditional-aged female undergraduate college students. The findings led to a model for leadership identity development consisting of four phases. Students' leadership identity development progressed from views of leadership as external to…
Descriptors: Social Change, Gender Differences, Race, Grounded Theory
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Maguire, Kate; Prodi, Elena; Gibbs, Paul – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
Doctoral supervision has attracted significant attention from higher education bodies over the last 15 years, stimulated by shifts in educational and socio-political contexts including what supports the knowledge economy and the stakeholdership of students. This paper conceptualises work worlds through Heideggerian discourse and presents…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Supervision, Communities of Practice
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Braund, Heather; DeLuca, Christopher – Australian Educational Researcher, 2018
This study explored how elementary teachers leveraged and structured student-involved formative assessment to promote metacognition and self-regulation. Research has suggested a connection between formative assessment practices (e.g., self-assessment and peer-assessment) and metacognition. However, this connection has limited empirical support,…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Elementary School Students, Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes
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Carter, Kimberly; Swanke, Jayme; Stonich, Jessica; Taylor, Stephanie; Witzke, Morgan; Binetsch, Michael – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2018
The use of simulated instruction is a growing trend in social work education. This study examined the effectiveness of simulated instruction with undergraduate social work students. In this mixed methods study, the extent to which simulated instruction improved self-efficacy and practice readiness was assessed. Results of the study suggest that…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Readiness, Undergraduate Students, Social Work
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