Dissertations / Theses: 'Educaton'

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au, Editech@iinet net, and Pamela-Anne Shanks. "A critical policy analysis of the Crossroads Review: Implications for higher education in regional Western Australia." Murdoch University, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20061019.134304.

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This work is a critical policy analysis of the Crossroads Review, especially those aspects of it that are most likely to have a significant impact on higher education in regional Western Australia. It aims to understand the place of higher education in regional Western Australia historically with a view to critiquing current policy directions and the potential consequences of Crossroads. The thesis argues that the ideologies of marketisation and corporatisation are driving current higher education policy and this may significantly damage the long-term viability of regional campuses and learning centres as well as public and private funding allocations. The implications for the dismantling of the social contract (or social democratic settlement) in the knowledge economy is an important issue for regional populations for their continued growth, health, education and welfare. The issues examined here are relevant to regional higher education in this State. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the potential policy effects with regard to accessibility of higher education in regional Western Australia. The thesis analyses the advantages and disadvantages of studying in regional WA in the current policy environment where there has been a dramatic shift in ideology from the welfare state to economic rationalism. Factors that impact on higher education in regional Western Australia include the provision of telecommunications services for access to and participation in the knowledge economy. The thesis considers the evolution of higher education in Australia in general and more particularly in Western Australia, as it has evolved since its foundations in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. In this time there have been radical changes in higher education in Australia in line with changes to our society and its place in an increasingly globalised environment. The thesis concludes by considering some possible options for the future such as the development of learning communities and branch campuses. In discussing such possible alternative forms of delivery of higher education to regional Western Australia, this thesis seeks to raise awareness in relevant government bodies and in rural and remote communities of their particular higher education needs. It is hoped also to encourage regional communities to become more confident and pro-active in their own endeavours to gain greater access and equity in higher education.

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SCHUMMACHER, ROGER. "Bilinguisme et interculturalite : la problematique de l'interculturalite franco-allemande dans les structures scolaires : le cas de l'alsace." Mulhouse, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997MULH0459.

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La problematique de l'interculturalite franco-allemande dans les structures scolaires et notamment la relation entre le bilinguisme et l'interculturalite constituent l'axe de reflexion de cette etude. L'analyse est centree sur le cas de l'alsace parce que la situation geographique, l'histoire et les caracteristiques linguistiques de cette region en font un lieu ou les langues et les cultures francaises et allemandes se rencontrent. La specificite alsacienne bilingue et biculturelle a ete diversement reconnue au cours de l'histoire et l'institution scolaire en a ete le reflet. L'alsace, ou le francais et l'allemand devaient cohabiter naturellement, connut souvent l'in- terdit ou l'intolerance linguistique dont les consequences ont ete severes. Neanmoins, la societe alsacienne a pris conscience progressivement de ses atouts et a conduit l'institution scolaire a accepter d'evoluer en generalisant l'enseignement precoce de l'allemand et en introduisant un enseignement bilingue a parite horaire du francais et de l'allemand qui se developpe rapidement. L'apprentissage de l'allemand, langue regionale d'alsace, est devenu une des missions de l'institution scolaire. Mais le bilinguisme scolaire risquerait d'etre artificiel s'il n'etait pas simultanement un vecteur d'interculturalite. Le sujet bilingue est, en fait, un in- dividu nouveau anime d'une psychologie interculturelle. Il appartient donc a l'ecole de donner les impulsions pour que le bilinguisme et l'interculturalite soient associes et puissent viser une extension europeenne en vue de construire le devenir commun dans un esprit d'ouverture et de comprehension
The analysis of franco-germanic intercultural relations as observed in the educational system as currently practised in alsace is focused on the situation in this region because of its unique geographical location, its history and its atypical linguistic characteristics which have contributed to a predetermined region where both french an german languages and cultures fuse together to form a cohesive entity. This specific alsatian identity has been widely accepted by those in power and thus has been consistently reflected in the system of education. This region, in which it would seem possible for both french and german languages to have the right to co- exist, has regulary suffered from linguistic persecution and prohibition, and as a result, the consequences have been particulary grove. Nevertheless, it is evident that alsatian society has gradually become aware of its particular strong points and that those responsible for the progressive introduction of the teaching of german to younger children have put into practice the principle of equal teaching time in both french and german. A bilingual pupil is an individual with a new perspective on life enriched by intercultural psychology. It is the school's responsability to promote links between bilinguism and intercultural relations and to encourage such developments throughout europe, in anticipation of a clear way ahead for all nationalities to share in a tolerant and open society

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Fleming, Gerard Patrick. "An analysis of Religious Educaton Coordinators' perceptions of their role in Catholic Secondary Schools in the Archdiocese of Melbourne." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2002. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/98ea641381f2f539248ecfeeb973d7df4c2f4bb2845e4bfce905fe0da1d0f282/2517436/64867_downloaded_stream_92.pdf.

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This thesis analysed Religious Education Coordinators' perceptions of their role in Catholic secondary schools of the Archdiocese of Melbourne from 1970 - 2000. The theoretical framework for the study, which was reported on in this thesis, was drawn from Catholic Church documents on religious education at both international and national levels, and from the work of researchers within the field of religious education. In particular the study investigated the diversity of language used to describe religious education and religious education theory and analysed the significance that this has had in the development of an understanding of the role of the Religious Education Coordinator. It was argued that there were significant factors in the development of the role of the Religious Education Coordinator that included changes in the understanding of the nature and purpose of religious education during the second half of the twentieth century. In addition there were historical factors peculiar to the Archdiocese of Melbourne that played an important part in the understanding of the RECs role. Quantitative data in the form of annual survey material (1988-1999) from the Catholic Education Office Melbourne provided a framework for the empirical component of the research. The empirical component involved the interviewing of Religious Education Coordinators from a deliberately selected sample that covered the range of skills and experiences deemed necessary in the research. The purpose was to ascertain from the perspective of the Religious Education Coordinators themselves how they analysed their role. Grounded theory methodology was used as the basis for the inductive analysis of the data that emerged from the in-depth interviews. Theory that was generated on the role of the Religious Education Coordinator includes: the importance of an understanding of the theoretical dimensions of religious education and the role of the Religious Education Coordinator; an elaboration of the role of the Religious Education Coordinator in the school context and the necessary skills and attributes that are required to meet the challenges in the role; and the complexity of the challenges that are faced by the Religious Education Coordinator.

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Penna, Juliana Pereira. "Nas veredas de um corpo poético = dança e transcriação da vida." [s.n.], 2011. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/251122.

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Orientador: Áurea Maria Guimarães
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Resumo: O intuito deste estudo é fazer um recorte literário e filosófico sobre a dança contemporânea e suas potências na educação do sensível através do corpo. Todo este recorte é feito a partir do método de história de vida oral e temática de uma educadora proponente de um projeto social em uma escola particular de dança em Uberlândia-MG. A transcriação foi a principal ferramenta metodológica para discutir e estudar as possíveis relações entre corpo, vida, dança, educação e sociabilidades a fim de ampliar e identificar potencialidades da dança contemporânea na educação como parte significativa nos processos de subjetivação da contemporaneidade. Conceitos como o de "amor fati" em Nietzsche e "dobra" em Deleuze estão presentes na discussão do corpo que dança e afirma a vida.
Abstract: The aim of this study is to make a literary and philosophic cutting on contemporary dance as well as its potentialities regarding the education of the sensible through the body. This entire cutting is performed through the method of life history, both oral and thematic, of an educator who is the proponent of a social project in a private school of dance in Uberlândia, M.G. The transcreation was the main methodological tool utilized to discuss and study the possible relationships amongst body, dance, education and sociability in order to expand and to identify the potentialities of contemporary dance in education as a significant share in the process of subjectification of the contemporaneity. Notions of concepts such as Nietzsche's "amor fati" and Deleuze's "fold" are present in the discussion of body dancing and life-reassurance and its meaning.
Mestrado
Ensino e Práticas Culturais
Mestre em Educação

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Klein, Jayne A. "Swimming Against the Tide: A Study of a Youth Enrichment Program Seeking to Empower Inner-City Black Youth." FIU Digital Commons, 2011. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/488.

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Serious inequities in our K-12 public education system, particularly in regard to the quality of education in predominately Black inner-city schools, are well-documented in the literature (Freeman, 1998; Ross, 1998). Moreover, there is general agreement that the most effective means of ameliorating that situation is through well-thought-out after-school programs and partnership initiatives (Beck, 1993; Gardner et al., 2001). The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the programmatic interventions of a youth enrichment program for inner-city Black youth currently in place at the Overtown Youth Center (OYC) in Miami, Florida, in order to: (a) discern those factors that support its claim that it is making a difference in students’ lives, (b) explore how any such factors are implemented, and (c) determine whether its interventions have served to equalize the playing field for these youth. Two primary methods of data collection were used for this study. The first was participant observation conducted over the course of two years through a partnership initiative established and led by this author. The second was through in-depth interviews of the Center’s founder, staff, and students. Secondary methods used were the recording of informal conversations and the analysis of written documents. Analysis of the data yielded four features of the Center that are indispensible to the students’ growth. The center provides the youth with (a) physical and psychological safety, (b) supportive relationships, (c) exposure to cultural and educational opportunities, and (d) assistance in building self-esteem. The most significant finding of the study was that OYC has been successful at making a difference in students’ lives and at increasing their aspirations to attend college. By addressing the full spectrum of their needs, the Center has given them many of the necessary tools with which to compete and thereby helped equalize their opportunities to succeed in school and in life. The study also noted a number of challenges for the Center to examine. The main issues that need to be addressed more seriously are staff turnover, staff indifference, nepotism, inconsistent student attendance, and insufficient focus on racial issues and African-American-centered education. Meeting those challenges would engender even greater positive outcomes.

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Duthie, Jennifer. "Physiotherapy student practice education : students' perspectives through cultural-historical activity theory." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/25656.

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Physiotherapy student practice education, the focus of this thesis, is a highly valued, yet scarcely researched component of pre-registration physiotherapy education. Moreover, the student voice is largely absent from existing research. In this study, 14 physiotherapy students’ perspectives of practice education were gained through email communications (n=13) and face-to-face interviews (n=12). To provide an in-depth and provocative view, physiotherapy student practice education was analysed as a type of activity system, employing concepts borrowed from cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT). Interacting activity systems, objects, players, rules, norms, divisions of labour, mediating artefacts, intra- and inter-systemic contradictions were explored and identified. The findings show that assessment skewed students’ object motives. Practice educators were positioned as powerful gatekeeper/assessor gift-holders. Physiotherapy students enacted ‘learning practice’ norms, such as extensive reading, and adopted the position of practice educator-pleaser. Students sometimes refrained from speaking when they wanted to, for example, to challenge unprofessional staff behaviour. Students were reluctant to show themselves as learners, feeling instead that they needed to present themselves as knowledgeable, able practitioners. However, students did not easily recognise themselves as able contributors to practice. For students, knowledge for practice was focussed on patient assessment and treatment, but the level, depth and volume of knowledge required was perceived differently across distinctive practice areas. Intra- and inter-systemic contradictions, such as the skewing of student object motives towards assessment, and away from whole-patient-centred care, are highlighted. The study findings therefore have implications for patient care as well as for the object of physiotherapy student practice education, student learning and assessment and workplace learning. A cross-profession review of the object of physiotherapy student practice education, to include the voice of service users, students, practice educators, HEIs and service providers, is recommended. A review of physiotherapy student practice-placement assessment, which seemed to be at the core of PSPE dynamics and conditions, is recommended, to take account of the extent to which assessment can influence students’ PSPE object motives, PE/student dynamics and student/patient interactions. Developmental Work Research is proposed as a way forward for future research in this area.

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Clifford, Mary. "Implications of an all BSN Workforce Policy." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4844.

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Discussion continues about requiring a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) as the minimum requirement for entry into registered nursing practice. A Magnet-® recognized hospital located in the Northeast United States is requiring all registered nurses without a BSN (n=284 or 28%) to obtain their BSN by 2022 as a condition for employment. The purpose of this project was to quantify the potential number and rationale of nurses who are not planning to return to school. The 2 practice focused questions are (a) What is the rationale for nurses who do not plan to pursue their BSN degree and (b) What is the potential cost to the organization due to projected gaps in the workforce by 2022. The theory of reasoned action was utilized as a model of decision making. A total of 29% of non-BSN nurses responded to a questionnaire, with 54.55% replying that they plan to obtain their BSN by 2022. The primary barriers for not planning to return for a BSN were a perceived lack of the degree's value and financial issues. More than 1/3 of those respondents not planning to obtain the BSN are planning to retire, which is consistent with national trends. An extrapolation of data showed the nursing turnover rate rising to 10.62% as 2022 approaches, significantly higher than the normal rate of 5.3%. The turnover rate may increase recruiting and orientation costs for the hospital facility over both the short and long term in a state where nearly 38% of graduates have either a diploma or an associate degree in nursing. The social change implication is a need for a re-examination of roles for various levels of registered nursing or a consensus on the BSN for nursing licensure.

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Nkenge, Nefertari A. "Educate to Liberate| Exploring Educator Narratives to Examine the Mis-education of Black Students." Thesis, Concordia University (Oregon), 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10747779.

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It is not known why the chronic mis-education of Black students has neither been adequately investigated nor treated as the most significant, widespread phenomenon of twenty-first century pedagogy. To attempt to understand this quandary, it was urgent to ask: How do Black educators understand the education of Black students? Are they able to incorporate the tensions and varied experiences they have had as students into their professional repertoire? This study described how Black educators’ unique cultural perspectives might enable increased insight into the problem of mis-education. Critical race theory framed this study with an emphasis on narrative inquiry and transformative learning. I interweaved narrative/counter-narrative and critical event research methods as both theoretical and methodological frameworks. I engaged in multi-part interviews and observations of 5 educators to explore their unique biographical narratives and analyze how their lives and teaching practices might better inform the success of Black students. Findings indicated (a) educators uniquely experienced the vestiges of mis-education as they faced insidious forms of racism during the course of their academic journey, (b) educators sought to interrupt the racism that their White teachers’ and peers exhibited, (c) educators encouraged students to use their voices and various platforms to effectively counteract their oppression, and (d) educators engaged transformative pedagogies in overt and covert ways depending on both the social and the teaching context(s). Based on the findings of this study, a liberation-based pedagogy is recommended to ensure the empowerment, increased performance, and well-rounded education of Black students.

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September, Sean Christian. "Educator training and support for inclusive education." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1144.

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When the implementation of inclusive education was announced by government, it did not come without shared concerns by many parents, educators, lecturers, specialists and learners about the future of the educational system in South Africa. Research needs to be done in order to address these concerns. The present study aims to address some of those concerns as well as to investigate what is provided to mainstream educators in terms of training, support and skills in three schools in the Cape Winelands district of the Western Cape Education Department. These educators have all previously received training in inclusive education. The researcher embarked research to establish whether the educators believed the training and support they received was effective. Previous studies, local as well as abroad, indicate the importance of effective training and support for mainstream educators when it comes to the successful implementation of inclusive education. Aspects the researcher attempted to highlight are pre-service and in-service training of educators. A closer look is taken at classroom support, collaboration among all parties involved and peer support in order to get a clear understanding of what is needed, with special reference to the issue of support. The researcher also took a closer look at the types of skills that are required for the successful implementation of inclusive education-Data was collected through the administration of a questionnaire. The main findings revealed that the majority of educators believe that the training, support and skills they received from the Western Cape Education Department were effective. These results were interesting, given the fact that most educators, both locally and abroad, still raise concerns about training and support. Some key focus areas the researcher identified for the successful implementation of inclusive education are the integration of pre-service and in-service training programmes, parental involvement and collaboration between special and mainstream schools.

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Moore, Laurence James, and res cand@acu edu au. "Sing to the Lord a New Song: a Study of changing musical practices in the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, 1861-1901." Australian Catholic University. School of Arts and Sciences, 2004. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp49.29082005.

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The latter half of the 19th century was a time of immense change in Presbyterianism worldwide in respect of the role of music in worship. Within this period the long tradition of unaccompanied congregational psalmody gave way to the introduction of hymnody, instrumental music (initially provided by harmoniums and later by pipe organs) and choral music in the form of anthems. The Presbyterian Church of Victoria, formed in 1859 as a union of the Church of Scotland and the majority of the Free Presbyterian and the United Presbyterian churches and numerically the strongest branch of Presbyterianism in Australia, was to the forefront in embracing this tide of change. Beginning in 1861with the proposal for the compilation of a colonial hymnbook, issues associated with musical repertoire and practice occupied a prominent place in discussions and decision making over the next 30 years. Between 1861 and 1901 hymnody was successfully introduced into church worship with the adoption of three hymnals in 1867, 1883 and 1898. Programs of music education were devised for the teaching of the new repertoire and for improving the standard of congregational singing. A hallmark tradition of Presbyterianism was overturned with the introduction of instruments into worship, initially as a support for congregational singing but in time as providers of purely instrumental music also. The profile of the choir changed dramatically. Making extensive use of primary sources, this study aims to document the process of change in Victoria between 1861 and 1901, exploring the rationales underlying decisions taken and historical factors facilitating change. Musical developments in Victoria are viewed in the context of those elsewhere, especially Scotland and of general changes in aesthetic taste. The study concludes that the process of musical change shows the Presbyterian Church of Victoria to have been a forwardlooking and well-endowed institution with the confidence to take initiatives independent of Scottish control. It is also concluded that changes in musical practice within the worship of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria reflect developments taking place in other denominations and the changing aesthetic tastes of the Victorian era.

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Hale, Travis L. "Becoming an educator: identity, music education, and privilege." Diss., Kansas State University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/38794.

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Doctor of Philosophy
Curriculum and Instruction Programs
Frederick Burrack
This study is an intertwined critical autoethnography through which my experiences, my stories, are woven together with memories of family, students, and teaching career. Together, the telling of these stories will explore how I negotiated my identity development throughout my middle and high school experiences at a time when I could have been labeled as an at-risk student. The development into my professional career and personal life all influenced strongly by my participation in music education. Filtering these stories and memories through the lens of critical whiteness theory, this study interrogates the social assumptions that may be placed on at-risk students, exploring how these assumptions function within the context of access within our current music education structures, and investigates the ways in which social support systems allow opportunities for access of white male students and privilege in music education. An overarching question guiding this research is: How does the interrogation of such white privileges inform how one develops their identity as a music educator, a researcher, an academic, a husband, a father, a human, as well as, the curricular structures in place guiding access within music education?

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Madden, Ellen J. "Place-based Education| Educator Perspectives on a Critical Pedagogy." Thesis, Prescott College, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10110427.

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As education evolves in the 21st century and students learn to develop knowledge from the ground up, educators step into the role of facilitator. Critical to this paradigm shift is a connection with places that develops knowledge from local experiences into broad global understanding. This thesis explores the literature on how people develop a connection with place, the importance of learning about the world through appropriate developmental stages, and the relevance of place-based education as part of learning in the 21st century. Through qualitative research methods—including surveys, interviews, and focus groups—this thesis demonstrates the ways in which educators in an elementary school in Albuquerque, New Mexico develop a personal sense of place. It also asks how an educator’s understanding of place is integrated into her or his teaching practices and addresses where there is room for place-based education principles in a wide range of classrooms. The findings of this study suggest that through relationships to place and people, young learners can develop a sense of belonging that drives a love of and responsibility for places on both local and global scales.

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Farouki, Dala Taji. "UAE student, staff and educator attitudes towards character education." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/24091.

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This study aimed to answer the research question: “What role do stakeholders believe character education might play in strengthening UAE university students’ local knowledge?” Implementing character education was explored in terms of its potential influence on national identity and local knowledge in UAE education. The literature review covers several studies that inform a relevant research design. The literature review determines the best-fit term to use in this study by comparing and contrasting suitability of related pedagogical fields to character education, such as citizenship, civic, moral, and ethics education. Additionally, studies that serve as useful examples, such as the Crick Report, Lee’s Taiwan study, and regionally relevant articles such as Al Kharusi and Atweh, are discussed to inform the reader of the study’s design for the Dubai context. A mixed methods methodological design was used with a two-phased approach, a quantitative questionnaire survey and a qualitative series of interviews using an interview schedule. With a relativist, constructivist interpretive viewpoint, three groups were assessed with more than 300 participants: students and administrators at a Dubai case study university were assessed, as well as a group of external education leaders. Findings generally supported the idea of strengthening local knowledge learning both in and outside of educational institutions, with a focus on culture and language familiarity. Also, stakeholders strongly felt the need for choice in how and where learning takes place. Findings that inform the current status quo include that there is already a sentiment of citizenship within the UAE by expatriate residents. Many residents allude to the ‘third culture’ phenomenon, and thus feel belonging to several societies. Thus, results show that character education has potential to influence local knowledge and national identity within the UAE, and be directed at all students, both national and non-national.

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Eastman, Michael G. "The Journey from Engineering Educator to Engineering Education Researcher." Thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10279363.

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Abstract Despite favorable job-growth predictions for many engineering occupations(NSB, 2010), researchers and government agencies have described a crisis in education in the United States. Several simultaneous events have conspired to sound this alarm. First, when compared to other countries, the United States is losing ground in educational rankings, and research and development output and expenditures (NSB, 2014). Second, within the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) the ranks of engineering education have been identified as one of the most unwelcoming, inequitable, and homogeneous (Johri & Olds, 2014). Third, engineering educators at the university level has historically been select individuals from the dominant culture considered to be content experts in their fields, but having little or no background in educational theory (Froyd & Lohmann, 2014). Researchers and government agencies have recently claimed the changing demographics and need for more engineers in the United States signal a need for revolutionary changes in the way engineers are prepared and the need for a more welcoming and collaborative environment in engineering education (Jamieson & Lohmann, 2012; NSF, 2014). Understanding how to improve the culture of engineering education is an important and necessary ingredient for addressing national concerns with engineering and innovation.

My study seeks to explore the manifestation of the culture of engineering education in the experiences of five long-time engineering professors, who enrolled as part of a STEM PhD cohort, in a School of Education at a large research university in the northeastern United States. The overarching problem I will address is the persistent culture of engineering education that, despite decades of rhetoric about reform aimed at increasing the number of those historically underrepresented in engineering, continues to promote a hegemonic culture and has failed to take the necessary systemic steps to become more welcoming and more effective for all learners. This research involves the story, and the history, of an engineering education culture quick to identify the haves and the have-nots and dismissive of those individuals “not cut out” to become engineers.

My study is driven by the following research questions: (1) What are engineering educators’ perceptions of teaching and learning? (2) In what ways, if any, have participant experiences with constructivism and social constructivism influenced espoused beliefs, perceptions, and enactments of teaching? (3) What may be potential strategies for shifting the culture of veteran engineering educators toward reflective teaching practices and equitable access to engineering education?

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Ousley, Lisa, Retha Gentry, and Candice Short. "Educators Impact Education Through Innovative Dermatology Models." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7358.

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Evans, Holmes Kimberly. "Educators' Attitudes Towards Implementation of Inclusive Education." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/613.

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The purpose of this study is to understand educators’ attitudes toward implementation of inclusive education. The survey study investigated the collaborative efforts, responsibility, accommodations, and training these educators are working towards teaching students in an inclusive environment. This study adopted a descriptive survey design, where 59 educators completed the online survey regarding their attitudes towards implementation of inclusive education. The opinions regarding necessary accommodations for students with IEPs were extremely supportive; whereby 98% of educators feel that they are willing to make necessary accommodations for students. Overwhelmingly, the educators disagree that they are not provided with sufficient training opportunities in order to teach students with disabilities. The educators agree that they need more training in order to appropriately plan and advocate effectively for students. The major findings on research questions reveal that 53% of educators in this district strongly agree that they feel comfortable in working collaboratively with each other regarding students with IEPs. Also, 22% of educators strongly disagree that the regular education teachers should only be responsible for teaching students who are not identified as having special needs. In spite of the small sample which was a school district in Southern California that was used for this survey, the findings of the study were valuable for several reasons. First, the educators’ attitudes towards inclusive education were more positive than negative; and second, both special and general educators like to collaborate, display responsibility, and accommodate services to students with disabilities.

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Danner, Sarah E. "Creative Leadership in Art Education: Perspectives of an Art Educator." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1217001351.

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Patrick, Andrew P. "Educator Evaluation and Bilingual Education Policy| A Three Article Dissertation." Thesis, Manhattanville College, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10642032.

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The time between the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and its replacement, the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015, marked a period of unprecedented policy-driven education reform. Unfortunately, the major objectives of the policy were not achieved, and the very problems it sought to fix still exist. One reason for this was an overreliance on testing and test scores as a lever for change. This study’s purpose was to explore the ways in which an educational leader could bring the tools of the practitioner-scholar to bear on public policy problems worth solving. This research question was addressed through three distinct, but interconnected, articles that utilized different methodologies. The first demonstrated the application of the tools of public policy analysis to bilingual education policy at the federal, state, and local levels. The second critiqued New York State’s student growth model used in the Annual Professional Performance Review (APPR) using quantitative methods. The third analyzed the broader APPR policy and sought to address its many shortcomings by proposing a new, viable policy alternative for consideration by policymakers. The major implications of this study include a strong caution against the use of standardized tests of student achievement to measure progress toward policy goals, a demonstration of the importance of identifying and applying criteria to assess public education policies, and a recognition of educational leaders as important actors in the policy making process.

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Darden, Vicki. "Educator Perspectives on Incorporating Digital Citizenship Skills in Interpreter Education." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7627.

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Appropriate digital citizenship skills are considered essential for modern professionals, including signed language interpreters. However, little is known about the experiences and practices of interpreter educators regarding digital citizenship. This exploratory qualitative interview study was conducted to examine the experiences and practices of interpreter educators related to incorporating opportunities for digital citizenship skill-building in their teaching practice. A conceptual framework based on digital citizenship theory guided development of this study. Data were collected from interviews of 6 interpreter educators in bachelor-degree programs in American Sign Language/English interpreting across the United States. Data sets were analyzed through open and axial coding and assessed for themes and patterns. Findings of the study indicated that interpreter educators were aware of elements of digital citizenship but were not knowledgeable about institutional or other policies, that they prioritized the soft skills of digital citizenship, and that they assumed their students acquired the technical skills of digital citizenship elsewhere. Findings may lead to better informed pedagogical decisions about incorporating digital citizenship into instruction, better prepared new professionals, and can contribute to positive social change for practitioners and the consumers they serve.

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Percipalle, Delphine, and Naiyya Westberg. "Bilingual Education: the view of pupils and educators." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Barn- och ungdomsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-87642.

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This study is about how children of early school age, specifically children who have both English and Swedish at home, experience a bilingual school system in Sweden. The study on the early student’s viewpoint of a bilingual instruction was narrowed down to an elementary school in Stockholm which proposes an English-Swedish bilingual education. This research revolved around information obtained from interviews with children and educators. The “field-work” approach provided a set of data which were analyzed and summarized in bars diagrams to have a clearer idea about the student’s experience and perspective of an English-Swedish bilingual education from a very early age. We have also studied how adults- educators, experience this Bilingual education. Our results show that English-Swedish bilingual children even at a very young age, experience English as an international language and are proud to have English as one of their languages. Our results also show that educational pedagogues experience that English-Swedish bilingual children generally are more flexible with language development and are more open to the world. From the children’s point of view, these results altogether suggest that bilingualism is influenced at a very early stage by the institutional language spoken in school, by the social arena and by the input parents have provided prior to school. From the educator’s point of view, the findings reported in the present study indicate a requirement for extra competence needed by the school personnel to support children with a bilingual background. The findings were collectively placed in the context of known literature in the field of bilingualism. Based on the above, the main conclusion is that bilingualism is an asset for children and a major advantage that allows a higher degree of flexibility in the learning process but requires close guidance by the school system.

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Leung, Yee-hang, and 梁以恆. "Educators' perceptions of character education in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/198859.

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The present study aims at investigating into educators’ perceptions of character education in Hong Kong. It will focus mainly into educators’ perceptions towards character education as well as towards themselves as the role of implementation. In order to dig deeper into certain study, it will also explore about factors for effective implementation of character education. Through this study, a qualitative research is conducted in the form of case study of a secondary school of Hong Kong. Five interviews of teaching staff were conducted as the main way of data collection. The result was shown that educators usually perceive character education as important but yet there is much limitations to breakthrough in order to implement it. Factors for effective implementation and implications have also been discussed.
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Bailey, Robert Wayne. "Curriculum Gatekeeping in Global Education: Global Educators' Perspectives." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4632.

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Teaching social studies from a global perspective has been resisted by many since its inception (Kirkwood, 2009). Critics have labeled the theory anti-American and unpatriotic (Schlafly, 1986; Burack, 2001). Others are concerned with its shifting perspectives and apparent lack of core facts (Finn, 1988). Over time, some critics have changed their stance on global teaching and now endorse the idea (Ravitch, 2010). This qualitative case study sought to identify the barriers seven self-proclaimed global educators faced while teaching global themes and to identify the effective gatekeeping strategies for circumventing such obstacles. The goal was to provide a rich, compelling account of committed global educators efforts to the global education paradigm so that others interested in teaching globally could successfully navigate similar conditions. The data was gathered by the use of a survey and a face to face interview. Analysis of the five research questions resulted in a comprehensive overview of effective and practical gatekeeping strategies endorsed by self-proclaimed global educators. The participants, purposefully selected after training with a global education project over a six year period, employed a variety of teaching methods for infusing the theory into their lessons however favored merging global themes into the existing mandated curriculum. Participants found use for each of the eight global dimensions identified, but were guided by personal preference and practicality. Data analysis identified six primary barriers to teaching from a global perspective including 1. a teacher's disposition; 2. the mandated curriculum; 3. the availability of global training and resources; 4. the degree to which a school emphasizes authentic learning as opposed to preparation for standardized testing; 5. the risk and liability involved of teaching controversial topics; and 6. the insight necessary to be able to draw connections throughout time and across a wide variety of content. While the participants were unable to identify a method for circumventing the current climate of standardized testing, they did recommend six gatekeeping strategies that they believed would prove effective including: 1. discouraging non-global educators from entering the teaching profession; 2. officially amending existing curriculum to make room for global teaching; 3. empower teachers to have authority over their curriculum; 4. enhance global education training; 5. teach from a centrist position; and 6. make practical decisions and fragment content when time becomes problematic. Two unanticipated findings presented themselves as participants reflected on their time training with the Global Schools Project. The participants declared that the congenial learning environment and exposure to like-minded colleagues improved their overall teaching ability and confidence as each found the support that can be lacking when teaching in isolation. Participants advised new global educators become committed to personal and professional growth through conferences, trainings, and mentors. They recommended new teachers merge global themes into existing lessons, be persistent when lessons fail, and employ a variety of methods. Finally, they commanded new teachers to develop a passion for their content and empathy for humanity. The participants' perspectives have implications for both teacher education programs and future research. The implications involve potential changes to teacher education programs. Future research should attempt to reveal the purpose that exists, if any, behind the barriers global educators face. Future research should seek to expose how training programs similar to the GSP impact participating teachers. Finally, additional research is needed regarding the purpose of global education as either advocacy oriented teaching or as a neutral method for increasing critical thinking.

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Ousley, Lisa, Retha D. Gentry, and Candice N. Short. "Nurse Educators Impact Education through Innovative Dermatology Models." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7143.

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Montgomery, Jeffrey Michael. "Educating citizens : George Washington's proposals for national education /." Required Adobe Acrobat Reader, 2000. http://stinet.dtic.mil/str/tr4%5Ffields.html.

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Michael, Nisha Jacintha. "Educators’ Attitudes towards Inclusive Education in Bangalore, India." Thesis, Griffith University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367160.

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Advocacy of inclusive education is a key part of the United Nations’ broader effort to encourage countries across the world to commit to the provision of 'education for all'. This United Nations educational policy is directed towards promoting social justice and equality and erasing the invisible and tangible barriers that segregate the marginalized sections of society from quality education. The Government of India has endorsed this broad objective and recognized the urgent need to provide equal opportunities to all learners. This commitment becomes complicated when considered within a political and social context that has simultaneously endorsed the significance of education for social development while limiting access to education for various groups, including students with disabilities. In this complex situation teachers’ attitudes towards the implementation of the inclusive education have a major impact upon how students with disabilities actually experience education. Yet relatively little is known about Indian teachers’ attitudes to inclusive education principles and practices and/or how they believe they are able to take up the United Nations’ and the government of India’s apparent commitment to meeting the needs of students with disabilities. In response to this gap in literature and policy, the aim of this mixed method study was to investigate pre-service teachers’ and in-service teachers’ attitudes towards the implementation of inclusive education in the city of Bangalore within Karnataka State, India. The project involved the use of a 30 items questionnaire followed by semi-structured interviews with participants from several groups: pre-service teachers with a special education focus; pre-service, generalist teachers; in-service teachers working in general education settings; and in-service teachers working in special education. This data set was analysed by drawing upon the Theory of Planned Behavior advocated by Ajzen (1991). This analysis highlighted teachers’ beliefs and how these shape their attitudes towards, and actions regarding, inclusive education.
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Turner, Kristin. "Northeast Tennessee Educators’ Perception of STEM Education Implementation." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1202.

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A quantitative nonexperimental survey study was developed to investigate Northeast Tennessee K-8 educators’ perceptions of STEM education. This study was an examination of current perceptions of STEM education. Perceived need, current implementation practices, access to STEM resources, definition of STEM, and the current condition of STEM in Northeast Tennessee were also examined. The participating school districts are located in the Northeast Region of Tennessee: Bristol City Schools, Hamblen County Schools, Johnson City Schools, Johnson County Schools, Kingsport City Schools, Sullivan County Schools, and Washington County Schools. Educational professionals including both administrators and teachers in the elementary and/or middle school setting were surveyed. The closed and open form survey consisted of 20 research items grouped by 5 core research questions. Quantitative data were analyzed using single sample t tests. A 4 point Likert scale was used to measure responses with a 2.5 point of neutrality rating. The open-ended question was summarized and recorded for frequency. Research indicated that Northeast Tennessee K-8 educators perceive a need for STEM education to a significant extent. However, many do not feel prepared for implementation. Lack of professional development opportunities and STEM assets were reported as areas of need. Teachers reported implementation of inquiry-based, problem solving activities in their classrooms. The majority of participants reported that the current condition of STEM education in Northeast Tennessee is not meeting the needs of 21st century learners. Challenges facing STEM instruction include: funding designated for STEM is too low, professional development for STEM teacher is insufficient, and STEM Education in K-8 is lacking or inadequate.

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Dempster, Monica. "Teacher Educators' Perception of Character Education in Jamaica." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/501109.

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This was a multi-case qualitative study, designed to investigate teacher educators’ perception of character education in Jamaica and how they enact character education in their classrooms. The study provided a localized version to the vast amount of research that has been conducted on character education in developed countries. Against the background of the significant role of teacher education, the study provided important insights regarding how teacher educators perceived, and enacted character education. Given the abstract nature of character education, a seven-point Likert scale questionnaire and two short cases were used to guide the interviews with the fifteen teacher educators’ who were purposively selected to take part in the study. Artifacts provided by the teacher educators, provided additional data for study. The responses on the questionnaire ranged from strongly agree through to strongly disagree. The data were analysed using the thematic approach. The data generated from the instruments were collated and attributed to the themes and major research questions to which they were aligned. The findings revealed that teacher educators’ perception of character education was closely aligned to the authoritative perception. The commonly shared view among participants was that character education is a means of instilling in children and young people the traditional values of the society and teaching them good manners. It was found that the older participants hold that character education is the process of teaching young people to be respectful, caring and to have good manners, especially to their elders. The younger participants hold that character education should focus on teaching young people the values and attitudes that will help them to live successfully in community, where there is mutual respect between all members of that community. They explained that the goal of character education should therefore be to equip young people with the ability to make right decisions and excel at what they do, rather than become obedient, subservient members of the society. All fifteen respondents strongly agreed with the authoritative perception, that people do not naturally develop good character and are therefore in need of correction. Twelve of the fifteen participants also revealed that their belief that human beings do not naturally develop good character is further supported by the experiences they have gained observing and relating to other human beings. The findings also revealed that except for Guidance Counselors, teacher educators did not formally teach character education. The teacher educators described their character education activities as informal and reactive. Informal because they did not usually go to their classes with a plan to teach character education, and reactive because many of their explicit character education actions were in response to the undesirable or inappropriate behaviours of their students. Their character education actions included correcting undesirable behaviours and modeling appropriate behaviours. Most of the teacher educators supported the direct didactic approach as the more effective approach to the teaching of character education and believed that pre service teachers are inadequately prepared for the task of character education.
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Vella, Anthony. "Educate or punish : the case for prison education." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2005. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3076/.

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This study attempts to make the case for prison education. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a number of theories of punishment were produced. Some of these, namely, those of Emile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Rusche and Kirchheimer and Norbert Elias are reviewed in this study. It is argued that these theories should lead one to conclude that a sound educational programme is indispensable if we want to realise the benefits claimed on behalf of imprisonment or avoid the ills attributed to it. The initial, rudimentary idea of an education for prisoners goes back to the end of the eighteenth century. A cursory historical review is included to highlight the lack of substantial development in prison education. In order for prison teachers and educators to know what they are really about in their work, they need to know and understand their students, the prisoners, and the context in which they have to teach, the prison. Drawing on a spectrum of scholarship and research this study offers an analysis of these two aspects which, one hopes, will shed some light on why prison fails, with some exceptions, to reform prisoners. The last section reviewsthe content of education `programmes' provided in prisons in the United Kingdom and North America during the last two centuries and makes proposals concerning the kind of regime that is needed to ensure a greater measure of success and the pedagogical approach that fits today's world.

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Khedama, Pakiso Elias. "The influence of educator absenteeism on effective education / Pakiso Elias Khedama." Thesis, North-West University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/2439.

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Brown, Tamara D. "Education Through Meaning-Making: An Artist’s Journey from Quarterlifer to Educator." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2011. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/32.

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Meaning-making is an important process to the personal and professional development of students in higher education. Today’s educators need to acknowledge and encourage the meaning-making process in order for these quarter-life students to enjoy an enriched life of meaning, as well as excel in academia. I challenge educators to apply meaning-making to their own lives in order to gain a deeper understanding of their personal purpose in their lives and as educators on college campuses. Written within a Scholarly Personal Narrative methodology, my thesis proposes that, through the deep and personal meaning-making process, students and educators can create a more meaningful experience in the classroom on today’s higher education campuses.

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Roberts, Robert. "Educators' perception of school remedial education services rendered to pupils in the mainstream of education." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17279.

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Bibliography: pages 252-280.
Special Education encompasses a wide field. It is an expensive form of education and is often criticized for its shortcomings. One part of Special Education is remedial teaching for children with learning disabilities. In order to provide good quality services, it is necessary to evaluate what is currently being offered and what is envisaged as desirable for the future. This study focusses on those two factors by examining the perceptions of remedial teaching as held by educators (principals, regular class teachers and remedial teachers themselves) in fifty-two schools of the Department of Education and Culture - House of Representatives (DEC-HR). Current service provisions and the desired role of the remedial teacher are thus examined to determine whether educators perceive these as adequate and desirable. A study of the literature was undertaken and guided by those insights a questionnaire was drawn up. This was distributed to educators and the information was verified and augmented by personal interviews with remedial educators. Three hundred and twenty questionnaires were distributed. The views of principals, regular class teachers and remedial teachers were surveyed in those primary schools served by a remedial teacher. Descriptive statistical analyses were used to arrive at both quantitative and qualitative assessments of the position of Remedial Services in the Department of Education (House of Representatives). The study revealed a strong correspondence between the three groups of educators regarding their perception of remedial services. The author endeavours to illustrate that the lack of consensus about criteria for definition and classification of Learning Disability and consequently Remedial Education, leads to confusion of the role(s) remedial teachers are expected to fulfil. This affects the provision of adequate and effective remedial services to pupils in need of such specialised educational facilities. Results from this study led the author to draw up a proposed structure for Specialised Education, in particular, Remedial Education, in a unitary Education System in South Africa.

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Mulvaugh, Lucas Wyman. "The Native Education Equity Project : educating for the future." Thesis, Montana State University, 2004. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2004/mulvaugh/MulvaughL1204.pdf.

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From the boarding school era to the current high drop-out rates, western-based education systems have a 50% failure rate in its service to the American Indian students of Montana. This thesis takes a critical look at the historical ramifications of Western based education on the Native Peoples of Montana, and the contemporary response from the state to improve Indian Education. The purpose of this thesis is to research current pedagogies being used within public schools with high Indian student populations, to provide recommendations to improve those pedagogies, and to create professional development strategies for teachers who work with Indian students. This thesis uses a collaborative, action-based research model and will provide solutions to current problems involving public Indian Education within Montana. The implementation of The Native Education Equity Project is just one step towards the further development of Indian Education within Montana.

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Clothier, Tamara Leigh. "Accountability and Aboriginal education : an exploration of educators’ experiences." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42187.

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The government mandates accountability mechanisms, such as standardized testing, to ensure educational quality; however, more research is needed to determine how such measures affect educational equality. In Canada, differential achievement outcomes between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students has stimulated a public discourse on the need for educational change. This study investigates how accountability policies mandated by the British Columbia government affect elementary educators who have worked in schools with high Aboriginal students populations. Through narrative inquiry, the study explored how such policies influence classroom curriculum, practices and pedagogy; moreover, it explored how mandates from controlling forces shape educators’ professional identity. Poetic transcription was employed; in which participants’ words were used to create poetic compositions reflective of their experiences. This analysis technique provides the reader with a vast and rich exposure to the study data, which is intended to raise awareness of how such policies influence teachers’ and students’ lives. Through this process, educators’ experiences with competing job demands, limited professional autonomy, narrowed curriculum, and surveillance are shared; as well as, the marginalization of Aboriginal students within the current educational system. Educators express and understand these issues by constructing two chief guiding narratives that of the attentive teacher and the objective professional. These competing narratives bring about frustrations and create resistance to such accountability mechanisms and a demand for reform.

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Couton, Philippe. "Cultural congruence in education : Haitian educators in Quebec schools." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23327.

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A growing body of both substantive and theoretical literature suggests that educational underachievement among certain ethnic groups is due to the cultural discontinuity between mainstream education and minority students. A pedagogy that both uses and reinforces the culture of ethnic minority students, implemented by ethnically similar teachers, is therefore thought to contribute to a more constructive school experience and strengthen the social and political status of the ethnic community as a whole. For this thesis, a group of Haitian educators working in Montreal area schools was interviewed to investigate the extent to which this approach is viewed as a potential solution to the low academic achievement of numerous Haitian students. Some evidence was found that culturally congruent education is, according to the experiences of some of the respondents, a potentially beneficial strategy to curtail educational inequality. In was generally argued, however, that this should be a limited, remedial strategy with little bearing on the communal survival of the Haitian community.

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Westraadt, Georina. "Mentoring educators to facilitate quality and meaningful art education." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1984.

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Thesis Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Doctor Educationis in the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences at the CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, 2012
Quality and meaningful art education is a very important vehicle for learning and knowledge acquisition which is within the reach of all children in schools. Unfortunately, due to a variety of reasons such as the fact that generalist trained teachers, with no specialised training in art, are responsible for the teaching of art in schools in South Africa, as well as recurring educational change and subsequent uncertainty, lead to the situation that art lessons currently taught at many schools do not answer to the requirements for quality art education. There is a great need for in-service training to address the shortfalls in the teaching of art in schools. When skills building workshops in art education were offered, teachers requested personal interventions on a one-to-one basis with a focus on their own particular strengths and shortcomings. Mentoring the educators seems to be a means of addressing their needs to improve the quality of their teaching of art. In response to a plea from teachers this research project was designed during which inexperienced and insufficiently trained teachers who are responsible for art education were mentored. Four sites were selected at which the teachers were mentored. There were marked differences in the circumstances and conditions at the four schools, however, from all the sites there was an outcry for assistance in the planning and presentation of quality art lessons and for lesson ideas. The one similarity in all the cases was the fact that they were all generalist trained teachers who are responsible for the teaching of art in their own class and some other classes as well. The mentoring followed a cyclical process and was adapted for art education. The process comprised the establishment of a relationship in which the mentor and mentee played equally important roles, needs analysis, the mentoring process, which iv consisted of joint planning of lessons, model teaching, discussions and coaching sessions, reflection and then to return to the beginning of the cycle. The process concluded with a workshop. The entire process was recorded, reported on and assessed upon termination. Data that was collected at the four sites was analysed according to themes that were developed from the literature on mentoring in education as well as the literature on quality and meaningful art education. Themes that have emerged are the mentoring relationship, the role of the mentor, the role of the mentee, the purpose and goals of the mentoring, the mentoring process and the mentoring outcomes. The thesis concludes with recommendations for the mentoring of educators in the teaching of quality and meaningful art and suggests that no child should be deprived of the learning opportunities through art that can form part of their primary school experience.

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Gentry, Retha D., Lisa Ousley, and Candice N. Short. "Educators Impact Nurse Practitioner Education through Innovative Dermatology Models." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7146.

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Zuiderhof, Louise. "Response to intervention in the classroom educating the educator /." Online version, 2008. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2008/2008zuiderhofl.pdf.

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Malemute, Charlene Louise. "Goal setting education and counseling practices of diabetes educators." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Fall2009/c_malemute_121509.pdf.

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Title from PDF title page (viewed on Feb. 11, 2010). "Program in Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism." Includes bibliographical references.

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Martyn, Katharine. "Brokering : how nurse educators manage inclusion within nurse education." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2014. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/558dee98-47a4-445d-9963-df1635c5299e.

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This thesis explores how nurse educators managed inclusion of disabled students within educational programs that lead to registration as a nurse with the professional body, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, England. Nurse education within the United Kingdom is based within Higher Education Institutions and in common with other undergraduate programs, has seen an increase in the number of applications from people who disclose a disability. Most commonly applicants have a specific learning disability, but applicants may also have, amongst others, physical, sensory impairments, mental illness, physical illness, and autistic spectrum disorders. Nurse Education has traditionally had a broad entry gate, welcoming students from diverse educational backgrounds and places no restriction on disabled people from applying to become nurses. The professional guidance simply requires that a student on completion of a program is able to work effectively in clinical practice without supervision.

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Murray, Anthony G. "Strerss on Educators at a Discipline Alternative Education Program." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7106.

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Interaction with their students during classroom instruction is often a source of stress among many teachers. The academic setting of Disciplinary Alternative Educational Programs (DAEP) poses a risk factor for teachers to experience stress, given that student disruptive behavior has been associated with higher stress levels among teachers. The problem underlying this study was that most studies on DAEP have focused on the experiences of students, with limited information available about the experiences of teachers in this type of academic setting. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the role of job-related stress and coping on the job performance of DAEP teachers, from a transactional theory of stress and coping approach. This exploration was grounded in the theoretical lens of the transactional theory of stress and coping, which served as the link between the importance of the psychological health of teachers and the successful administration of public programs. The geographical setting of the study was a single DAEP campus. Data were collected using 20 individual, face-to-face semi structured interviews. Data were analyzed using the modified van Kaam method of phenomenological analysis, which involves the systematic analysis of data through the process of dividing large quantities of qualitative data into smaller units of meaning. The results produced significant thematic themes. The findings from this study could help scholars and practitioners gain important insight about job-related stressors in DAEP, which could facilitate the improvement of administration and development policies in order to promote a positive work environment in DAEP settings.

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Russo, Sharon. "Early childhood educators' attitudes to science and science education." Thesis, Curtin University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2035.

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It has long been acknowledged that pre-service Early Childhood teachers enter university with a notable lack of confidence, high levels of anxiety and an aversion to science and mathematics. Unless redressed during their time spent at university, such negative attitudes may ultimately influence the quality of science education these teachers offer to young children. This study considers the affective attitudes to science and science education of those people considered to be central to the education of young children.Specifically the study investigates the attitudes and backgrounds in science/ science education, of academics, pre-service and in-service teachers together with their attitudes towards teaching science to young children. The attitudes to science of a group of young children, aged between 4 and 8 years, were also investigated in the study. The potential links between the attitudes held by each group was of great interest to the researcher who considered the ways that academics promoted the teaching of science to young children, the factors influencing the willingness of pre-service and in-service teachers to present science to young children and the effect that teachers have on the responses of young children to science.The findings suggest that in contrast to the attitudes towards science of pre- and in-service teacher groups in the study, the young children and academics displayed attitudes such as interest, curiosity, confidence and enjoyment towards their experiences in science. There was a strong link between the memory of prior experiences in science and the present attitudes to science of the adult participants. The implications of the study are that science education in the early years will be enhanced if ways can be found to provide more positive science related experiences for pre-service and in-service teachers.

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Russo, Sharon. "Early childhood educators' attitudes to science and science education." Curtin University of Technology, Science and Mathematics Education Centre, 1999. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=12079.

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It has long been acknowledged that pre-service Early Childhood teachers enter university with a notable lack of confidence, high levels of anxiety and an aversion to science and mathematics. Unless redressed during their time spent at university, such negative attitudes may ultimately influence the quality of science education these teachers offer to young children. This study considers the affective attitudes to science and science education of those people considered to be central to the education of young children.Specifically the study investigates the attitudes and backgrounds in science/ science education, of academics, pre-service and in-service teachers together with their attitudes towards teaching science to young children. The attitudes to science of a group of young children, aged between 4 and 8 years, were also investigated in the study. The potential links between the attitudes held by each group was of great interest to the researcher who considered the ways that academics promoted the teaching of science to young children, the factors influencing the willingness of pre-service and in-service teachers to present science to young children and the effect that teachers have on the responses of young children to science.The findings suggest that in contrast to the attitudes towards science of pre- and in-service teacher groups in the study, the young children and academics displayed attitudes such as interest, curiosity, confidence and enjoyment towards their experiences in science. There was a strong link between the memory of prior experiences in science and the present attitudes to science of the adult participants. The implications of the study are that science education in the early years will be enhanced if ways can be found to provide more positive science related experiences for pre-service and in-service teachers.

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Preston, Randall. "Educating Youth in Foster Care: Educators’ Perspectives." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2010. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/186.

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This dissertation explores the education of foster care children through the perspectives of classroom teachers. Numerous studies have found that foster youth experience depressed educational outcomes relative to their peers. A meta-analysis of such studies reported depressed educational outcomes in terms of standardized test scores, grade averages, retention rates, and suspension and expulsion rates (Scherr, 2007). Foster care is most often associated with maltreatment, which in turn has been linked to depressed educational outcomes (Runyan, 1985) and to insecure attachment (Howe, 1999). Attachment theory, which emphasizes the impact of relationships in early childhood on future relationships, informed this study. Purposeful sampling was used to identify classroom teachers in a rural Vermont high school that serves a large number of foster youth relative to its size. Participants were selected based on their high degree of experience with and perceived success in supporting students in foster care. In interviews, teachers were asked to describe distinguishing characteristics of foster youth as well as their relationships with peers and adults while at school. Teachers described several characteristics of foster youth, including the perceived impact of trauma on foster youth‟s ability to attend to school and school related tasks. Teachers also characterized intense relationships between foster youth and their peers, and between foster youth and adults at school. Participants also identified several strategies they believed to be effective in supporting this population, each of which emphasized the development of caring relationships between teachers and foster youth. Teachers shared concerns about the impact of frequent placement changes on the educational experiences of foster youth. Interviewees also noted that their support of foster youth was hampered by insufficient information about changes in students‟ status. Intersections between the characteristics of foster youth and selected literature on attachment theory and traumatic stress are explored in the interpretation of the findings. Finally, this study utilizes a feminist ethic of care to contextualize relationships between foster youth in schools and effective teacher strategies.

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Swortzel, Kirk A. "Agriculture Teacher Education: A Profile of Preservice Teacher Education Students, Teacher Educators, and Departments and Programs that Prepare Agricultural Education Teachers /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487935125880847.

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Liwane-Mazengwe, Ntombentsha. "Teacher unions and educator professionalism : an education law perspective / Liwane–Mazengwe N." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8229.

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Despite the transformation that the education system has been undergoing, unionism at school level is still characterised by controversies that adversely affect education delivery. Teacher unions have neglected the significant meaning of their partnership with the national Department of Education in the sense that their activities are contrary to what their partner expects and; in most cases contravene the law and policies. From the transformation process and the legislative framework utilised to transform and democratise education, the South African education system should have yielded good results by now. However, professionalisation of education has been badly neglected as well as regulating unionism to adapt to progressive mechanisms and democracy. The character of South African education has not changed much except for registration with the South African Council for Educators (SACE) which is a legislated prerequisite for entrance into the teaching profession. To improve and to alter the education system, the Department of Basic Education should venture into adopting legal measures like writing board examinations just like the other major professions do to prospective practitioners. The character of trade unionism in general, has not improved as the country transformed. Unionism in South Africa has kept the vanguard status it had during the apartheid era as well as the militancy that characterised it then. The inappropriate involvement of teacher unions in politics and the interference during the filling of promotion posts attest to this. This may further de–professionalise education if it goes unchecked and unchallenged by the Department of Basic Education and parents. Teacher unions have a responsibility to ensure that educators are not victimised in any way. However, this study has confirmed that educators who democratically choose not to strike during public servants strikes and remain teaching in their posts are victimised. If teacher unions abdicate their responsibility to protect and pursue the careerrelated interests of their members, they might cease to be effective as unions. Deeper understanding of Education Law might assist the daunting position in which the Department of. Basic Education finds itself. This kind of understanding could be enhanced through training and development of principals as leaders in schools where professionalism and unionism phenomena are practicably visible. The government could channel funds towards this, as well as the South African Council of Educators. Conclusions drawn from this study suggest that despite the plethora of good legislation that the South African government has invested in, educators professional and labour activities are inadequately regulated. A few amendments and reinforcement of certain legislation that impacts on education could turn the South African schools into places of excellence.
Thesis (MEd (Education Law))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012.

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Callen, Ann Deirdre. "Social Work Field Education: Field Educator as Travel Guide between Two Worlds: Integrating theory and practice in field education." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18485.

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Notwithstanding the importance attributed to teaching students to integrate theory and practice in field education, little is published of how Field Educators undertake this task. This thesis explores how Field Educators worked with students to teach them how to integrate theory and practice. The research adopted a social constructionist perspective and used a qualitative methodology to analyse a series of case studies undertaken with six Field Educators as they supervised students. The participants were experienced Field Educators working in diverse contexts of practice with students from a range of universities and social work programmes in Australia. The method incorporated two steps. First, a supervision session was videotaped as it occurred between Field Educator and student, followed by a review of the session with the Field Educator to further elucidate the reasoning behind the strategies and processes used in their session with the student. This process resulted in three groups of data—one from the video-tapes, another from the session review and a third from the observational data which consisted of the researcher’s analysis. The findings were investigated using thematic analysis. The results were analysed first within cases and then across cases, building a picture of common themes in the processes used to teach students. The results showed that, while Field Educators developed linkages between theories and practices with students, they did not focus primarily on this. Nor did they use the concept of integration. The findings also indicated that Field Educators did not use models, competency-based teaching or evidence-based practice. Rather, they developed their own epistemology for supervision. They employed a fluid process of discussion and reflection as they co-produced theoretical concepts with students. This discussion moved between facilitative and didactic processes, according to the Field Educator’s considered assessment of the student’s abilities in the context of practice issues which students raised. They viewed this aspect of supervision as one part of their role of assisting students to achieve their learning goals as they progressed along a pathway to becoming competent practitioners. They saw themselves as practitioners, rather than educators. They appeared to know little about what the universities were teaching, and made few references to the supervision requirements of the Australian Association of Social Workers. Overall, they appeared to take the context of their practice for granted and did not discuss the discourses at play in their work. These supervisors seemed to work largely in isolation, raising questions about the adequacy of preparation for social work in an Australian environment which is hostile to the values of the profession.

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Stock, David M. "Educating for Democracy: Reviving Rhetoric in the General Education Curriculum." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd985.pdf.

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Metzger, Nancy. "Educating for Belonging| Place-based Education for Middle School Students." Thesis, Prescott College, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1538942.

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This case study examines the effect of a yearlong place-based educational project on a single class of middle school students aged 11-14 at a public charter school in Santa Rosa, California. Of particular interest in this case study was the development of the concepts of belonging and place through the perceptual lens of the middle school student and through the vehicle of place-based education. This study utilizes qualitative methods including participant observation, interviews and pre and post surveys. The findings of this study suggest that the outdoor environment was very engaging for learning. Students reported that the development of a sense of place spurred from repeated visits to the nature preserve over long periods of time. These students indicated that a sense of belonging emerged to the preserve because of the stewardship aspect of the place-based educational project. Students felt a sense of stewardship toward the land after the project, and that sense of stewardship characterized a feeling of belonging. Cosmology was also a factor in understanding how these young adults came to define what it means to feel a sense of belonging to their local natural place.

Keywords: place-based education, sense of belonging, sense of place, stewardship, cosmology or new cosmology, community action, alienation or isolation, ecopsychology, biophilia hypothesis, placelessness, and constructivist curriculum-culture model.

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Choi, Won S. "The technology that current physical educators use in physical education." Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1355600.

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As teachers and society become more comfortable with various technologies, it is likely that technology will be implemented in all areas of the educational curriculum as well as physical education. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which individual physical education teachers in public schools were using technology as a tool for their students' education. Individuals who were currently teaching physical education in public schools in Indiana completed the Computer Usage Survey on the web (N = 400). To determine types of technology used, potential uses for technology, difference in the implementation of technology by gender and teaching experience, usage of the Internet, and physical educators' attitudes toward technology, statistics including descriptive statistics, Chi-square (X ), and One-way ANOVA were used (p < .05). The results of this study show that physical educators were more likely to use PC computers (both desktop and laptop) over Apple computers. Participant responses demonstrated a high usage of hardware devices such as Printers, hard drives, and CD drives, however, 5.25 floppy drives, external hard drives, Hand-held computers (i.e. Pocket PC or Companion PC), Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), and smart boards were rarely used by physical educators. A significant positive relationship resulted between use of technology at school and at home. Significant differences were observed between male and female physical educators in types of technology used and purposes for using technology. Use of technology was significantly lower in the experienced physical educators group. Most of the physical educators use the Internet and they usually use it for research and teaching/assessment ideas. Physical educators in Indiana believed that technology has an important role and can enhance their teaching with implementation of technology. The findings of the present study demonstrated that use of technology among physical educators in Indiana has been changed dramatically within 10 years; however, the result emphasized importance of technology training programs for pre-service and in-service physical educators.
School of Physical Education, Sport, and Exercise Science

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Lawson, Helen Sarah. "Educators' responses to key top-down citizenship education related initiatives." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2014. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/332147/.

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Introduction: In 2001, the year before citizenship education became a statutory subject in England there were disturbances and violence ‘involving large numbers of people from different cultural backgrounds’ (The Cantle Report, 2001). That same year the attacks on the Twin Towers rocked the world and in 2005 so-called ‘home-grown’ extremists bombed London killing 52 people. Reports were commissioned to explore the reasons behind these events and to suggest recommended ways forward. Concerns were raised about intuitional racism, internal security, a lack of a sense of Britishness and extremism. All prompted an education response. From 2002 teachers had to cope with more and more education initiatives and directives which addressed key issues and concerns, with citizenship education in particular being seen as playing a key role in bringing about the necessary societal change. The aims of this research are to show how teachers, student teachers and tutors say they are responding to the many top-down initiatives related to citizenship education, and reveal the mechanisms that impact on the ways in which educators say they are responding to the top-down initiatives related to citizenship education. Methodology: The research uses a qualitative research design which is underpinned by critical realism. Critical realism helped to provide the necessary methodological framework to reveal the generative mechanisms which might be working to influence educators’ responses (tendencies) to top-down initiatives; and how and why these tendencies occur in some settings but not others. The empirical research has been generated over a ten year period and I employed a variety of data collection tools including questionnaires; semi-structured interview; focus group and participant observation. Findings: The number of top-down initiatives that have been introduced by the government has seen some very different responses from educators. Some educators are able to interlace different agendas and weave varied themes together in creative ways as a means of addressing different demands. For others the initiatives seem to be source of pressure which sets up a tendency to interpret the initiatives as something more, something additional that has to be managed, particularly in the case where educators are having to address different priorities such as raising or maintaining results. This in turn helps to create further sets of tendencies and tensions with some educators employing teaching and learning processes which are incompatible with citizenship education. Conclusion: While there are a number of mechanisms which seem to be particularly significant to tendency generation including school context and appropriate training, highly significant mechanisms for generating educators’ responses are personal commitment and motivation, and the ability to think creatively. It is possible that, through appropriate training, educators can acquire skills in creative and critical thinking. However the passion and motivation to teach citizenship education is much harder to impart. The majority of educators who were committed to citizenship, and in particular those committed to teaching for diversity and dialogue, had had some kind of personal experience which had not only provoked commitment but also provided a personal resource for educators to draw on in the classroom, which in turn helped to increase educators’ confidence to address potentially highly controversial issues. The potential for innovative educator training to capture and transmit the feelings that personal experience can inspire is thus an area that would benefit from further research.

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