Dissertations / Theses: 'Experience of school inspectors'

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Lugemoi, Wilfred Bongomin. "Experience of primary school inspectors in ensuring quality teaching and learning in Northern Uganda." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80458.

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This is a qualitative study that investigated the experience of school inspectors in ensuring quality teaching and learning in primary schools in Northern Uganda, using hermeneutics phenomenological design. The study was underpinned by relative ontology, personal epistemology and accountability theory. In-depth interviews and document analysis were used to explore the understanding of the school inspectors on quality teaching and learning, techniques they use to ensure quality teaching and learning, their effectiveness and challenges. The study revealed that the inspectors understand quality teaching and learning as a multidimensional reality that entails attaining of literacy and numeracy; life skills; holistic development of learners; teachers’ competencies and professionalism; measure of learning achievement; broadness without ambiguity; collaborative; innovate; dynamic and contextual issue. The main techniques that the inspectors used to ensure quality teaching and learning in the primary schools are: assessment of quality of inputs into educational programs; assessment of educational processes; assessment of learning outcomes;psychosocial support; ensuring compliance with educational standards, laws and regulations; creating awareness on educational standards, laws and regulations; administration of rewards and sanctions. The study showed that the inspectors believe that they have been effective in supporting teachers; improving learning, learning environment and professional development of teachers; fighting corruption and malpractices among teachers. They however experienced insubordination of teachers; negative attitude of teachers towards the teaching profession; inadequate training of teachers; failure of teachers to adhere to educational laws; policies and regulations; excess work overload to the school inspectors; negative perception of some teachers on school inspection; corruption; lack of resources for school inspection; ineffectiveness of the head teachers; and difficulties in enforcing educational standards, rules, regulations and laws. They mainly use laws, policies and regulations and peer to peer support as the strategies to solve problems which they encounter in ensuring quality teaching and learning in the primary schools. The unique contribution of the study is that quality teaching and learning as understood by primary school inspectors is a multidimensional reality that can best be achieved using a logical, psychosocial legal approach. Policies, practices and future studies need to examine critically the dynamics and characteristics of these approaches to quality teaching and learning in primary schools.
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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Education Management and Policy Studies
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Raybin, Fagmieda. "Experience of work-life balance by female traffic inspectors within the Western Cape provincial traffic: Metro region." University of the Western Cape, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6819.

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Magister Commercii (Industrial Psychology) - MCom(IPS)
Twenty-first century organisations have become more conscious of implementing work-life balance practices due to the fusion of females into the labour market, the existence of double career couples with children and equality gender. Several studies around work-life balance has been embarked upon, however, the perception of female traffic officers within the South African environment has not yet been explored. The present study seeks to understand and provide female traffic inspectors with better insights about how they are currently experiencing work and home life through self-awareness. A phenomenological approach based on a research design of inquiry was used to engage with female traffic inspectors and to obtain their experience, as well as its impact. The sample used for this study consisted of six female traffic inspectors from the Western Cape Government, Department of Transport and Public Works: Metro Region. The current research used one research instrument namely in-depth interview to address the research question using semi-structured, audio-taped interviews. Recurring themes that emerged from the study indicate that female traffic inspectors’ experience of work-life balance challenges involved job stress, work support, organisational culture and the work environment. These challenges have impacted on their work life and family life which gave rise to inter-role conflict, work-to-family conflict and family-to-work conflict, which negatively impacted on their attitude in attempting to adapt to their work environment. It became evident that most of the participants were finding it difficult to balance work and family as they realise that “something had to give”.

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Kawana, Irene. "Inspectors of education's perceptions of female principalship in the Rundu region of Namibia." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015746.

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While women constitute more than 51% of the population and far outnumber men in teaching positions in Namibia, very few occupy positions of leadership. Male candidates are still favoured for top positions, thereby denying women the chance to gain entrance to these positions. One of the reasons for this imbalance seems to be that, in spite of conscious political effort and legislation, women may still be perceived as less effective leaders than men. This research focused on leadership in education, in particular school principals, and explored the perceptions of female principalship held by school inspectors. Three school inspectors from the Rundu Education Region were purposefully selected and interviewed. Inspectors were selected on the grounds of their considerable influence in the selection and appointment of school principals. The study found that these inspectors favour school principals who show commitment to their work, have good interpersonal working relationships, are caring, good listeners, visionary and produce good results. The inspectors attribute female principals’ success to their traditionally perceived characteristics, such as caring leadership and ability to develop good human relations. Instead of perceiving these qualities as professionally negative (as is sometimes argued in the literature) the inspectors see them as indisputable assets to leadership. The respondents acknowledge the cultural stereotyping that may have influenced male attitudes to women in the past, but argue that good leadership is not specific to gender, but part of the qualities a person possesses, regardless of sex. This study concludes that, contrary to what has been reported in many studies, these inspectors perceive women principals as effective – equal to their male counterparts or sometimes even more effective - because they are caring, well organized and good at communicating and establishing relations with others. Though these qualities are different from the traditional masculine qualities which include independence and emotional strength, the respondents recognize and legitimize them as preferred qualities in current effective leadership practice.

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Bagworth, Hazel Joy. "The role of agents, visitors and inspectors in the development of elementary education c.1826-c.1870." Thesis, Brunel University, 1998. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5470.

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This thesis is an analytical examination of the inspectorates established by the British and Foreign School Society and the Anglican National Society between c. 1826-1870. Its aim is to demonstrate the important role their officials played in the development of a nation-wide system of elementary education in England and Wales. The thesis is divided into six chapters. The Introductory Chapter places the study in context by considering the concept of inspection in the nineteenth century. It examines 'state' inspectorates other than those for education, school inspection abroad and the long tradition of visitation and inspection by the Established Church. Chapter Two considers the appointment and development of HMIs between 1840-1870, providing an essential foundation and context for the subsequent chapters. Chapter Three examines the BFSS system of inspection. All aspects of this branch of the Society's work are considered including the reasons for the establishment of an inspectorate, the social backgrounds of the men appointed, the work they carried out and their changing and developing roles during this period. It not only reveals their important contribution to the work of their Society but also to national educational developments. Chapter Four focuses on the National Society's system of inspection and visitation. It considers the development of a three tier system during the 1840s with centrally appointed Inspectors, Diocesan Inspectors and Organising Masters. The issues central to the National Society's Inspectors' reports are also considered in detail. Chapter Five assesses the contribution made by the BFSS and National Society officials to the establishment of other school inspectorates. It then offers final analysis in Chapter Six on the significance of the work of the Agents and Inspectors of the two major Societies, not only for their respective organisations, but also for the development of nineteenth century elementary education.

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Harris-Aran, Shai Sarah. "School inspectors in Israel : autonomy, levels and direction of effort in a context of multiple functions and expectations." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323026.

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Price, Suzanne Phillips. "The black student medical school experience /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1992. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/1106299x.

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Thesis (Ed.D)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1992.
Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Ellen Condliffe Lagemann. Dissertation Committee: Gary Natriello. Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-117).

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Tate, Monique. "Investigating How Families Experience School Criminalization." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2695.

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Public school students across the United States have been criminalized for minor youth behavior issues such as truancy, defiance, and minor fighting incidents. The presence of law enforcement is expanding in school spaces, increasing the likelihood of young students facing court systems for minor offenses. Criminalization of students is counterproductive considering schools are designed to promote student growth and development. Little is known about how students and parents experience school criminalization. The purpose of this multi-case study, based on Freire's conceptual framework of critical consciousness, was to investigate how a small group of families experienced school criminalization. Three families of youths who had been criminalized for minor school offences were recruited using community partners as referral sources. Interviews were conducted with parents using a semi-structured protocol, and data were also obtained from school and court records provided by parents. Data were triangulated, summarized as case descriptions, member checked, and then cross-theme analyzed based on Gibbs and Taylor's approach for emergent themes. Study results demonstrated that these families felt trapped between two institutions and experienced fear and frustration trying to deal with both systems. Participants also recommended ways parents and schools might improve discipline for minor offences. This study will influence social change by informing school and juvenile justice discipline policy reform about working with two systems in managing student behavior concerns. In addition, the interview protocol can be used by human services professionals to help improve understanding of clients faced with school criminalization issues.

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Trees, Sue. "Pre-school children s experience of place." Thesis, Durham University, 2007. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2428/.

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The experience of place has been the subject of attention by researchers from a variety of disciplines. However, despite a growing interest in the geographies of children there have been very few empirical studies investigating pre-school children’s experience of place. To address this issue, this thesis seeks to gather understandings of this phenomenon that may inform educational research. This study investigates the individual experiences of place of 12 pre-school children in 3 locations - Durham City, England; Drumlithie a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and Fraserburgh a town also in Aberdeenshire. The empirical work is set within an interpretive approach that is sensitive to the competencies of the children and which is in line with the author's philosophical assumptions. The strategies employed to generate data include an affective activity, research conversations, walking expeditions with cameras, semi-structured interviews and artwork. The theoretical framework for this research is based on an extensive inter-disciplinary review of the literature and is informed by ecological and developmental psychology theories and recent concepts of childhood. It assumes a holistic approach to understanding the complex, multifaceted concept of place as experienced by pre-school children who are themselves viewed as active learners and experts in their own lives. The analysis suggests that the pre-school children in this research experience place on highly personal and individual bases. It appears that the children employ the strategy of breaking a place down into component parts and use these components to structure their understandings. A tentative model is devised to show the workings of this process. The implications of the findings are discussed in relation to current understandings of pre-school children's learning, and suggestions are made for further research.

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stjernstrom, anna-karin. "Students´Experience of School Support in Dyslexia." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-29293.

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The purpose of this study was to research the experience of support in school for five students with dyslexia. Based on the above, the type of support the students received was examined, their individual experience with their learning difficulties, digital technology and their views about themselves and their individual learning. The study was based on a special educational and socio-cultural perspective.Support in the form of individualized teaching of special educators or specialist teachers has been the method that has historically been used the longest and all students testified to such support in the earlier years. Recently, digital tools have begun to be used more and the studies conducted in this field show that the effect is positive.The study was conducted using qualitative method based on personal interviews of five students in age 14 and 15. The results of this study showed that a majority of the students were positive about the support they received in school for their dyslexic difficulties. The teacher was an important factor in having the dyslexic student’s learning to be most effective. It appears that support for their dyslexic difficulties can contribute to the students feeling more involved in the school, which leads to increased motivation. However, detailed requirements for implementation and support are required for digital learning support to work most effectively. The teacher and their competencies are of great importance when working with students with dyslexia related to the use of digital technology.The school is facing a dilemma as special support can be perceived as a stigma and at the same time it is the prerequisite for the student’s experience of inclusion at the school. It also became clear that several students experienced the level of technology support inadequate.In a future study, the school should review the organizational structure and the specialist teacher’s role as the one who has the key responsibility and assists in the implementation of digital tools in the continuous support for their students.

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Leary, Riley. "Understanding the Hybrid High School Student Experience." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10792647.

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Hybrid High School education is a disruptive innovation that has begun to replace traditional brick and mortar schools for many students world-wide. In addition to a traditional school model are the traditional metrics by which schools are compared. These metrics have been achievement data, success rates, and funding analyses. These metrics do not account for the lived experience of the high school students, in the same way that the traditional model of education does not account for the changing methods available for learning. This study is a phenomenological analysis of the lived experience of high school students who have attended hybrid educational programs. These programs utilize the digital advances available for learning by offering at least half of their curriculum online, while maintaining face to face instruction during the rest of curricular time. The premise of this study is that high school provides an ethos, or manifested culture, for each student served. The questions used in nine interviews to understand this ethos were created using research in the area of adolescent life satisfaction. The research resulted in focus areas to be discussed: autonomy, engagement, social capital, and community connectedness. Participants in this study age 18–20 recently graduated from four years attending a hybrid program. The participants were introspective and detailed in their explanations of life experiences during their time in hybrid programs, and how their ethos was shaped by experiences in each of the areas of life satisfaction listed above. The interview analyses led to four conclusions regarding hybrid high school student life. First, the hybrid program graduates interviewed have a rich sense of community. These communities vary and most are members of multiple communities. All feel a sense of belonging and are connected to groups beyond family. Second, the hybrid program graduates are highly self-reliant. Participants pointed out that they have relationships with people who are supportive, but that they are independently responsible for overcoming life’s obstacles. Third, these conclusions are intended to influence design of future innovational programs. Finally, the hybrid high school did serve as a disruptive innovation which had clear benefits for the adolescents participating. This study, in combination with additional studies focusing on specific program elements, could result in quality innovative programs that meet the needs of a changing adolescent population.

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TEPEDINO, CRISTINA AZEREDO LOPES. "SCHOOL, SOCIO-CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION THE EXPERIENCE OF THE STELLA MARIS SCHOOL." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2007. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=10741@1.

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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
Inserida no contexto dos estudos sobre diversidade cultural e educação, esta pesquisa focaliza o processo de mudança que o Colégio Stella Maris passou nos últimos anos. Esta instituição de ensino, uma tradicional escola confessional da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, ao longo dos seus 65 anos atendeu às classes média e alta do Rio de Janeiro. No ano 2000, devido a diferentes circunstâncias e a uma opção da congregação religiosa responsável pela escola, passou a atender prioritariamente à população de seu entorno geográfico, os moradores da favela do Vidigal. O objetivo central da investigação foi identificar as implicações da mudança de clientela na instituição escolar e na prática cotidiana dos professores e professoras. As principais estratégias utilizadas na pesquisa de campo foram: análise documental, observação e entrevistas com os principais atores. Na análise dos dados, especial atenção foi dada às implicações das questões estudadas à diversidade sociocultural na dinâmica pedagógica da escola.
The present research is inserted in the context of Cultural Diversity and Education studies and intends to focus on the changing process which the Colégio Stella Maris, in Rio de Janeiro has been through these last years. This teaching institution, a traditional and confessional school, educated Rio de Janeiro´s high and middle classes for 65 years. In 2000, the school experienced a transforming process, due to different circumstances and also to a choice made by the religious congregation responsible for the school. It began to assist primarily the low class population living in the neighborhood, the inhabitants of the Vidigal favela. The main purpose of this investigation was to identify the implications of this clientele change to the school itself and the differences in the teachers´ behaviour and in their pedagogical practices, not only theoretically but also when facing daily life problems. The strategies used in the field research were: document analysis, observation and interviews with the main subjects. In the data analysis, special attention was given to the implications of the studied questions to the social and cultural diversity in the pedagogical dynamic of the educational institution.

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McFadzen, Kathryn, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Education. "What makes school a positive experience for 12 junior high school students?" Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 2001, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/135.

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This study examined the perceptions and needs of junior high school students considering the question, What makes school a positive experience for 12 junior high school students? Previous research indicates that many students view school negatively (Bibby & Posterski, 1992). This conclusion is an alarming statement considering the significant number of years students spend in school. Using student written responses and interviews, this study explored the peceptions of junior high school students in relation to school. Qualitative research method was used as it allowed the researcher to collect and document rich data that helped to shed light on students' views of junior high school. Twelve students, 2 males and 2 females, from each of the three junior high grades (7,8, and 9) participated in the study. The students were asked to respond, in writing, to five prompts: 1) Junior high school is...2) What do you think can make junior high a positvie place to be? 3) What do you think can make junior high a negative place to be? 4) The best thing about my school is...5) The worst thing about my school is... . Those same students then met in grade level groups for an interview used to clarify and expand upon the themes that emerged in their written responses. The final data-gathering technique was for the students to reflect upon what the ideal school might look like. Overall, the results of this study indicate that students value relationships with both teachers and peers and wish to belong to the safe and student-centered community of school. The insights of junior high school students about their schooling experience will assist in the organization of programs designed to meet the needs of adolescents within an educational setting.
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Crable, Timothy. "The Lived Experience of School Bus Drivers: Bullying Prevention on School Buses." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2476.

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U.S. school bus drivers witness bullying on their buses on a regular basis but are often not consulted on how to prevent bullying or how to maintain a safe environment. Over 24 million U.S. student passengers ride school buses daily, yet the voices of bus drivers have been inadequately represented in the development of school bullying policies. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine the lived experience of 12 active school bus drivers and their perceptions of bullying on the bus, driver training programs, school antibullying policies, and other mandated procedures developed for bus drivers. The conceptual framework combined Bandura's social learning theory and Bronfenbrenner's social ecological systems model. Data were sorted into 14 themes from semistructured interviews that were coded and analyzed using Moustakas's methodology of bracketing personal opinion, horizonalization, and privileging rich textural description in participants' language. Findings indicated that these bus drivers do feel supported by school administrators, but they lack continuous training, rely on experience over training, are subject to intimidation and threats by students and parents, and seek greater communication with student support groups. Positive social change implications include recommendations to school district administrators to develop driver antibullying training which takes into account all components of passenger safety. Findings support development of administrative policy mandating a direct, ongoing channel of communication between drivers and school administrators to assure antibullying policy implementation fidelity.

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Gardner, Kimberly D. "Investigating Secondary School Students' Experience of Learning Statistics." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/msit_diss/30.

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Although more students are taking courses in statistics before leaving high school, the research base on teaching and learning statistics at the high school level has not accumulated as rapidly (Garfield & Chance, 2000). Very little is known about how secondary school students learn statistics, how the misconceptions they bring to the subject impede their learning, and what should be taught or assessed (Watson & Callingham, 2003). Studies that have investigated these issues tend to focus on the K-5, undergraduate, and graduate levels of education (Groth, 2003). Therefore, more research is needed at the secondary level (Garfield & Chance, 2000). The purpose of this qualitative investigation is to examine how secondary school students' approaches to learning relate to how they assign meaning to statistics. Phenomenography (Marton & Booth, 1997) is the theoretical orientation that frames the study, and it examines the role human experience plays in learning, by reporting variations in the ways participants experience a phenomenon (Dall'Alba & Hasselgreen, 1996). The research questions for the study were: 1) What are the different ways high school students define statistics? 2) What are the different ways high school students learn statistics? 3) What are the different ways students experience learning statistics? The nine participants in the study were high school graduates who completed a course in Statistics or Advanced Placement Statistics while enrolled in high school in a suburban area in the southeast. Data sources were semi-structured interviews and journaling. Using phenomenographic methodology, students' descriptions of the experience of learning were analyzed and coded. An outcome space of the collective experiences was constructed. A hierarchical relationship between students' approach to learning and their learning strategies was found. Also, a hierarchical relationship between students' approaches to learning and the meaning they assigned to statistics was found.

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Lam, Wai-nam. "Learning for environmental sustainability : the green school experience /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B35081296.

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Gardner, Kimberly D. "Investigating secondary school students' experience of learning statistics." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-12032007-153308/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2007.
Title from file title page. Christine Thomas, committee chair; Stephen Harmon, Pier Junor-Clark, Lynn Stallings, committee members. Electronic text (122 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed August 11, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-115).

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Lam, Wai-nam, and 林蔚南. "Learning for environmental sustainability: the green school experience." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45014152.

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O'Connor, Patrick Paul. "The policy, process and impact of whole school inspection at primary level in the Republic of Ireland from the perspective of some inspectors and teachers." Thesis, n.p, 2001. http://dart.open.ac.uk/abstracts/page.php?thesisid=113.

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Ma, Li 1972. "Chinese immigrant parents' educational expectations and school participation experience." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98554.

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Recent years have witnessed the large number of Chinese immigrants in Canada. With the coming of those immigrants is the large number of school age children. Hence, immigrant families' educational expectations and parental participation in their children's schools become major educational concerns. This study focuses on recent Chinese immigrants' expectations of and concerns about their children's schooling.
Drawing from Bourdieu's cultural capital theory and Ogbu's social mobility theory, in this study, I used a qualitative interview methodology to explore the educational expectations and school involvement of five Chinese parents who had recently immigrated to Canada. The educational expectations for their children and school participation of these Chinese immigrants are deeply rooted in Chinese tradition and heritage and are also greatly shaped by their personal experiences in Canada. Their cultural values and beliefs and immigration experiences as visible minorities have had a great impact on their educational expectations. Language barriers and different cultural values between dominant mainstream and Chinese traditions are the two main factors that hinder immigrant parents' participation in school activities and hence in their children's schooling.

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Wang, Yan Toll Cathy Ann. "International students' educational experience in an American graduate school." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3064527.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 2002.
Title from title page screen, viewed February 14, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Cathy A. Toll (chair), Beatrice B. Smith, Thomas P. Crumpler. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 137-146) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Ighodaro, Macdonald. "Experience of Somali students in Metro-Toronto school system." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ27354.pdf.

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Richards, Carolee S. "Evaluation of the Marshall University School Psychology Internship experience." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2006. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=748.

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Parker, Jeanne D. "The African-American student experience in the independent school /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1991. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/11168262.

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Thesis (Ed.D.) -- Teachers College, Columbia University, 1991.
Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Pearl R. Kane. Dissertation Committee: Robert T. Carter. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-113).

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Ferguson, Daniel Bruce 1969. "The Escuela experience: The Tucson Indian School in perspective." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291911.

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This study has three primary, interrelated themes. First, this thesis will show that creating native Christian leadership was a fundamental goal of the Presbyterians who ran the Tucson Indian Training School (1888-1960). Second it will be shown that this pursuit by the Presbyterians, when combined with the motivations and goals of the students and their families, often times expressed itself in Escuela students who were adept at cooperation and cultural brokering. Finally this thesis will address the fundamental difference between federal Indian schools and mission schools to show that a goal of creating Christian leaders was more easily achieved in the mission school environment after the turn of the 20th century. Primary and secondary sources, as well as interviews with Tucson Indian School alumni are used to place this particular Indian boarding school in historical, cultural and personal perspective.

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Wright, Cecile Yvonne. "The school experience of pupils of West Indian background." Thesis, Keele University, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.276218.

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Li, Jen-Ying. "School experience in Taiwan : social class and gender differences." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10018167/.

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Educational attainment has been a central debate in the field of educational research for a long time. Moreover, regarding inequality in educational attainment, social research has been dominated by questioning the association between educational attainment and gender, ethnic and social class inequalities. When considering social class inequality, one universal conclusion can be drawn: the higher family social status, the better academic attainment. This is also true in Taiwan, as is the case elsewhere. However, I want to ask: does social status influence other educational outcomes in addition to academic attainment, and if so, how? With respect to this question, I argue that beside educational attainment, students’ school experiences can be considered as an important educational outcome; furthermore, it may be influenced by social status and gender. The aim of this research is to investigate the experiences of year 8 students in Taiwan: what are their perceptions of school experiences?, and more specifically, what extent family social status and gender are associated with different students’ perception of parents’ educative capital and their own educational habitus, which in turn influences pupils’ school experience. Indeed, this study intends to expand the relationship between social status/gender and education; moreover, to examine a dynamic structure between family social status/gender influence and personal perception. After the process of data analysis, many meaningful findings are examined. Family socioeconomic status did not make direct impact on students’ relationship with peers and teachers; and parents’ educative capital did not affect educational attainment directly either. In addition, surprisingly, gender difference made no difference on all measured aspects. By holding such information, it will be possible examine the phenomenon of youth development and secondary education in Taiwan.

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Richards, Eleni A. "An Exploration of School Counselors' Experience with Restorative Practices." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10839989.

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The main purpose of this qualitative study was to explore school counselors’ experience with restorative practices including their knowledge and skills, role, and how they incorporate restorative practices into their comprehensive school counseling program. The results of this research will contribute to the growing body of literature suggesting the negative effects of current zero tolerance discipline practices while suggesting the implementation of restorative practices as an alternative practice within the educational system because of the potential positive outcomes it has on student development and success. Five school counselors were interviewed with open-ended questions to gather data on the research questions presented. This data was analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Results of this research have the potential to inform future research, training needs, and best practices for school counselors working in schools where restorative practices are in place.

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Wood, Julie E. "Predicting School Success From A Disruption in Educational Experience." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1477645391441543.

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Gardner, Alison. "The experience of school belonging : an interpretative phenomenological analysis." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2011. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1994/.

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This thesis explored the lived experience of 'belongingness' with three boys identified with persistent literacy difficulties in mainstream education. Belongingness has been described as a fundamental human need (Baumeister & Leary, 1995), and this research takes a multiple perspective on the construct. Belongingness in school has been linked to many positive psychological and academic outcomes (Furrer & Skinner, 2003; Osterman, 2000), and also to many negative psychological, academic, and behavioural outcomes (Baumeister & Leary, 1995; Lee & Breen, 2007; Sargent et al. 2002). Thus a strong sense of belongingness may be especially important for pupils with literacy difficulties (Solomon et al. 1997). This study addressed the gap in the empirical research field, seeking to understand the 'lived experience' of belongingness in school. Data was collected from three semi-structured interviews and discussion during the drawing tasks, and the findings were analysed using interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) (Smith, 1996) Five super-ordinate themes were identified along with accompanying sub-themes; 1. 'interpersonal relationships', 2. 'teacher practices', 3. 'emotional equilibrium', 4. 'physical illness', and 5. 'self-exclusion and disengagement'. Descriptions are presented with corresponding subordinate themes. Physical illness emerged as an unexpected master theme, and the 'importance of personal leisure time' as a sub-theme to the 'emotional equilibrium' master theme, both as yet unexplored in the belongingness domain. Although the boys' experiences of belongingness had similarities, there were also very clear differences in their accounts. These results are discussed with relevance to previous literature, and the epistemological stance of the study. The implications are discussed and recommendations for researchers and professionals in the education field are outlined. An action plan for the site school is provided. The study provided a valuable insight into the personal experience of belonging, and makes an original contribution to the body of knowledge in this area.

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Penrose, Brown Judith. "An exploration of children's experience of work outside school." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404648.

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Taylor, Gail. "The experience of school age mothers : a psychoanalytic perspective." Thesis, University of Essex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.428894.

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Turner, Deborah Nackley. "An exploratory investigation of school counselors' experience in school reform: Interviews with ten counselors." W&M ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550154180.

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Thompson, Blake Barrett. "On What We Confront in Perceptual Experience: Old School Ontologies for New School Realists." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23102.

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The focus of this thesis is a certain family of ontological positions. These positions say that there is some class of objects and properties, to which both physical objects and properties reduce and which are the kinds of things we confront in perceptual experience. Though largely absent from contemporary discussions of ontology, there are various reasons to think they deserve consideration. Species of this family, and similar views, have a prominent role in early analytic philosophy. Though endorsement of these views has been systematically de-emphasized in historical work on the period, Ernst Mach, William James, and Bertrand Russell are among philosophers who endorse such views in their work. Their views were motivated by a number of different considerations.
Here, I set to the side the issue of what has motivated these views in the past. I bring them up only for the purpose of giving attribution. I make no claim to ontological novelty nor will I be giving them an all-out defense. Accordingly, many considerations relevant to choice of ontology are bracketed. Instead of an all-out defense, what I offer here is an explanation of how adopting such a view allows us to solve two related problems. This amounts to two related reasons for taking a view like this seriously. One is for those who think that intuitions of a certain sort are a guide to what we should believe is ontologically the case. The other is for those who find merit in a disjunctive theory of perception
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Yearout, Rebecca Lee. "The Experience of Co-teaching Elementary School Teachers in a Rural Public School District." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83390.

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As a result of recent federal legislative changes affecting educational policies, co-teaching, which requires general and special educators to work together to provide instruction to students in inclusion classrooms, has been on the rise and is considered by some educators as a method for meeting mandates required by law. While co-teaching is an idea that should work in practice, teachers who implement co-teaching find themselves facing complex issues regarding their roles and responsibilities within the context of program logistics. This qualitative study was designed to help co-teaching partners and others to understand how co-teaching partnerships are formed, develop, and work in classrooms. This understanding may be helpful to others as they seek to overcome barriers and form relationships that facilitate successful co-teaching partnerships. Elementary co-teachers in a rural school district were interviewed face-to-face, and a document analysis was conducted to examine how co-teachers experience co-teaching partnerships. Six general education co-teachers and six special education co-teachers were randomly selected for interviews, and they were asked to bring any literature that they had received on co-teaching to the interviews. Results indicate that co-teachers thought compatibility was important when working as co-teachers. They expressed the need for a mutual planning time during the school day, and both general and special education co-teachers were concerned about the amount of uninterrupted time special education teachers could spend in inclusion classrooms. When co-teachers thought they had a compatible partnership, they were willing to make alternative planning arrangements, and they were accepting of the time special education co-teachers could spend in the classroom.
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Wood, Nicole R. Lyman Linda L. "Principals under age 30 factors affecting the first year experience /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1251859851&SrchMode=1&sid=4&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1179157608&clientId=43838.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006.
Title from title page screen, viewed on May 14, 2007. Dissertation Committee: Linda Lyman (chair), Beth Hatt-Echeverria, Joe Pacha, Nancy Sherman. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 148-154) and abstract. Also available in print.

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PEREIRA, JULIANA E. SILVA. "THE SCHOOL-EXPERIENCE OF LOWER-CLASS STUDENTS: A RESEARCH AT A SCHOOL IN BAIXADA FLUMINENSE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=16706@1.

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Muito se fala sobre a crise da educação. Jornais, revistas, a mídia de forma geral vêm expondo os problemas pelos quais o sistema educacional vem passando. A quantidade de pesquisas envolvendo o tema é extensa, com estudiosos questionando a todo instante os motivos que levaram à crise, sua natureza, como superá-la. O processo de massificação e democratização da escola delineia-se como o ponto de viragem que marca o rompimento com o equilíbrio anteriormente estabelecido. Nesse processo, a escola passa a receber um contingente cada vez mais heterogêneo de alunos e, com eles, ambigüidades e paradoxos, permeados por uma diversidade de questões que desestabilizam a época das certezas. Sujeitos inseridos no contexto da crise da escola, professores e alunos não poderiam deixar de ser afetados por essas transformações. Autores como Bernard Charlot e Rui Canário afirmam que gradualmente foi ocorrendo um desencanto em relação à escola, que já não conseguia dar conta do prometido futuro profissional. Para os professores, os conflitos decorrentes dessa crise refletem-se diretamente em sala de aula, alterando suas condições de trabalho. Indisciplina, violência, dispersão seriam, certamente, sinais do desgaste, tanto para o professor quanto para os alunos. Diante desse contexto, o presente estudo buscou compreender qual seria o sentido da experiência escolar para jovens das camadas populares: qual a importância, qual papel a escola ocupa na vida desses jovens? Qual o significado da escola para seu futuro? Será que a escola ainda é percebida por esses jovens como esperança de mobilidade social? O que esses jovens esperam da escola? O objetivo maior dessa pesquisa foi justamente ouvir esses jovens, analisando quais seriam suas expectativas e angústias em relação à escola. Através de um estudo de inspiração etnográfica, de abordagem qualitativa - o trabalho de campo foi realizado em uma escola da Baixada Fluminense, periferia do Rio de Janeiro e baseou-se na observação das aulas, dos recreios e passeio pedagógico. Além disso, foi aplicado um questionário (buscando traçar um perfil socioeconômico dos jovens), e duas oficinas, em que os jovens relatavam e escreviam sua opinião sobre a experiência escolar – a presente pesquisa evidenciou que, mesmo diante de uma perda de legitimidade, a escola ainda representa para esses jovens oportunidade de ascensão social. A conquista de um diploma é o sentido da escola para eles. E é pensando no que esse diploma pode lhes proporcionar que vão à escola todos os dias. Para esses jovens a escola delineia-se como principal alternativa capaz de proporcionar uma sonhada mudança de vida. Dessa forma, o sentido da escola está associado ao futuro. No presente, o que mobiliza esses jovens a irem a escola seria a sociabilidade: o fazer amigos, o diálogo, as vivências. A escola seria o local de relacionamento com o outro, com a diversidade, lugar que possibilita troca de experiências, construção de identidade.
The education crisis has been an increasingly discussed current theme. Newspapers, magazines, all media, roughly speaking, has been exposing problems, which the education system has been going through. The amount of research on the topic is extensive - scholars have been incessantly questioning this crisis motives and its nature as well as possibilities to overpower it. The process of popularizing and democratizing school can be defined as the turning point, in which the rupture with the formely established equilibrium is characterised. It has been throughout this process that school started to admit a heterogeneous magnitude of students and, along with them, ambiguities and paradoxes loaded with a variety of issues that unsettled the age of certainties (reason). The ones inserted in the school crisis settings, for example teachers and students, are as a matter of course directly affected by such changes. According to authors like Bernard Charlot and Rui Canário, there has been a general gradual disenchantment concerning school - considering it does not account for the promisse of future professional success any longer. From the teacher‘s perspective, crisis-resulting conflicts are instantaneously reproduced in the classroom, thus altering their working condition. Presumably are indiscipline, violence and lack of concentrarion, signs of weariness from both teacher and student. Regarding the above depicted scenario, the present research implicates an attempt to the understanding of that what would be the meaning of schoolexperience to lower-class students. Namely, the answering of the following questions: Why does school matter? Which role does school play in these students lives? What does school mean to their futures? Do the students still perceive school as hope for social mobility? What do these students expect from school? The research main target involves listening to these students and then analysing their angst and expectations towards school. Inspired on ethnographics and with a qualitative approach, the fieldwork took place at a school located in one of the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro called Baixada Fluminense, where lessons, recreation as well as school excursions were attentively observed. In addition, the students have received an inquiry (for the drawing out of social-economic profile from the students) and took part in two workshops, where they were given the chance to write down and report their opinions on their own experiencing of school. The results evidence that, despite a certain loss of legitimacy, school still represents an opportunity of social assension to the students. Earning a school leaving certificate was revealed to be the meaning of school and it is with their thoughts on what this certificate could provide them in the future that they go to school everyday. All in all, school is portrayed as the major opportunity to reach a so desired “changing of life”. Therefore, the meaning of school is associated with the future. Presently, it is sociability that motivates students to keep going to school: making friends, conversations, experiences. Accordingly, school turns out to be the place where contact with others, with diversity - in other words, relationship - happens; the place where experiences are exchanged and identity constructed.

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Hickman, Lisa N. "Entry into kindergarten educational stratification at the beginning school experience /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1150314337.

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Ast, Richard. "Being in charge, understanding high school students' experience of engagement." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0010/MQ30439.pdf.

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Ashford, E. "Learning from experience : the case study of a primary school." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2012. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/12022/.

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This thesis is a case study about learning from experience in a primary school. The enquiry applies a psychoanalytic idea in an educational context. The focus arose from Bion’s idea: ‘Container-contained’ (Bion, 1962) which proposes that the capacity to think is emotionally rooted in our first relationship, which informs the qualities of our subsequent ‘learning relationships’ (Youell, 2006). Within a psychosocial, interpretivist framework, research questions ask: How does the learning that children bring to school affect their relationships and learning? How can school provide flexible-enough containment for thinking and learning from experience? What have I learnt about learning from experience? As a researcher/mentor, an interpretation of Bick’s (1964) clinical observational method was deployed to generate data, including written-up observations of four case study children who communicated their stories of everyday events in school during mentoring sessions. An auto/biographical approach complementarily composed part of the methodological bricolage. The inductive method supported evolution of a relational approach to mentoring, permitting reflexive interrogation of the observational texts. Interviews with teachers and parents added a biographical dimension. Mentoring took place during half-hour, weekly, individual mentoring sessions with children over two terms. Findings confirmed that children brought early experiences of learning to school which affected relationships and posed barriers to learning. The research method provided a subjective tool for making unconscious qualities of relationship in the transference and countertransference between researcher, children and adults at an institutional level, explicit. RefIexive interrogation illumined the interrelationship between researcher and children’s learning. Findings showed a need for flexible boundaries for supporting children’s self-efficacy and personal agency, and teacher’s learning about learning, when school is seen as a ‘container’. Findings confirmed the need for time and space for children and adults to reflect on experience in school, towards fostering emotional well-being and the capacity to think and learn.

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Bradford, Wendy Ann. "Assessing and enhancing the experience of boys in secondary school." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323775.

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Kinnvall, Johanna. "How does high school teachers experience students with mental illness?" Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för psykologi (PSY), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-39598.

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Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka hur lärare kunde identifiera och stötta elever med psykiska störnignar, med en särskild tonvikt på affektiva störningar. Studien utgjordes av semi – strukturerade intervjuer och innefattade fem lärare från gymnasium i södra Sverige samt Mellansverige. Intervjuerna analyserades utifrån en induktiv tematisk analys. Under analysen framkom tre teman; Att se eleverna, Förhållande till eleverna och Åtgärder. Dessa visade att lärare kunde identifiera elever som mår dåligt till viss mån, men att stora skolor kunde försvåra denna process. Studien visade även att huvudansvaret för en elev som mår dåligt ligger på mentorerna, samt att det finns en risk att dessa mentorer tog på sig en psykologroll. Slutligen visade resultatet att de åtgärder som görs för elever med psykisk ohälsa inbegriper att ändra examinationsform för att underlätta för eleven samt att hjälpa eleven till professionell hjälp, ofta i form av elevvårdsteam. Slutsatsen av studien visade att det behövs mer resurser inom elevhälsovården för att lärarna ska kunna få hjälp och stöd att handskas med psykiskt sköra elever, samt att mindre skolor som satsar på elevhälsan är det optimala för elever med psykiska störningar; dock kräver det senare ytterligare forskning.

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Hartline, Stephanie Kane. "The H.G.A. experience an overview of Holy Guardian Angels School /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1988. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1988.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2770. Abstract precedes thesis as [1] preliminary leaf. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 31).

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Murphy, Mary Louise. "Public school uniforms : a case study of one school's experience /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7678.

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Stahl, Garth. "White working-class boys' negotiations of school experience and engagement." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/290017.

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This thesis investigates how white working-class boys experience social and learner identities in three educational sites. It presents the findings of an in-depth sociological study of teenage boys from one locality in South London, focusing on the practices of ‘meaning-making’ and ‘identity work,’ the boys’ experience and the various disjunctures and commonalities between the social and learner identities. Working-class boys are often presented in homogeneous terms and this study explores the heterogeneity of being a working-class boy and the diversity of their experiences in education. The work is positioned within the debates regarding masculinity in schooling and working-class disadvantage; my focus is on how boys’ ‘lifeworlds’ are created in contrast and in relation to their schooling experience. How boys contend with neoliberal educational processes which are fundamentally about “continually changing the self, making informed choices, engaging in competition, and taking chances” (Phoenix 2004: 229) and the construction of what I call ‘egalitarianism’ was an important homogenous feature in the data. The methodological approach employed is integral to gaining this understanding. I draw on Bourdieu’s signature concepts and theoretical framework in order to understand the complexities and negotiations surrounding reconciling educational success with working-class values. To further my understanding, I also utilise elements of intersectionality questioning, in order to address the interplay between class, gender and ethnicity in the social and learner identities the boys constitute and reconstitute through the various discursive practices in which they participate.

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Bailey, Christopher James. "Investigating the lived experience of an after-school Minecraft club." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2017. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/15872/.

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This qualitative study seeks to explore and illuminate the lived experience of a group of ten and eleven year-old children, playing in and around the popular multiplayer, sandbox videogame, Minecraft, during a year-long after-school club. Drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari (1987) the research employs a playful and emergent methodology, referred to as ‘rhizomic ethnography’, which provides a suite of approaches as a means of exploring the complexity of the social world. This poststructuralist study also builds upon existing research around play, New Literacy Studies, new literacies, space and place, multimodality, multiliteracies and virtual worlds. The accounts that constitute this thesis draw from a pool of rich and varied data, generated using a number of participatory and visual methods, including child-produced video, audio, screencasts, photography, fieldnotes and virtual model-making discussion sessions. In response to this data, this thesis takes a novel approach to representation, drawing on a range of modes. This results in a hybrid text that includes comic strips, illustration and audio, as a means of transcribing and representing the complexity that is the children’s lived experience. Using different selections of data, I investigate the lived experience from three alternative but interconnected perspectives, employing the Deleuzian trope of the plateau. Firstly, I examine how the children’s play worked across the on and off-screen spaces in this complex hybrid site. With a particular focus on the children’s construction of the virtual community that they named ‘Banterbury’, I demonstrate how the game itself shaped the club. Secondly, I show how the children’s interactions regularly drew on aspects of their lives outside of the club, revealing the club as a social site of play, driven by a range of resources from children’s everyday experiences and wider culture. Thirdly, through a focus on the club’s soundscape, I reveal how the children’s play often had a mischievous and exuberant quality. Finally, reading across, between and beyond these three plateaus, I conclude by examining how the lived experience of the club was characterised by an emergent playfulness. Therefore, as well as contributing to the existing literature on virtual world play and demonstrating methodological potential for application in other contexts, this thesis also offers new insights into what constitutes the emergent dimension of play. This has implications for how we consider the kind of opportunities provided for children to interact and drive their own play experiences, with or without technology.

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Madasi, Vuyelwa. "Secondary school principals' perceptions and experience of management development programmes." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003648.

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Management development in educational contexts is a relatively recent development in South Africa. The Task Team Report on Education Management Development of 1996 drew pertinent attention to the need for education management development in South Africa, and set an agenda for such development. Since then many management development programmes have been launched by both National and Provincial government. However, very little research seems to have been conducted on these programmes, especially on how they have been received. This study seeks to address that need. The study is a qualitative phenomenological investigation of how four secondary school principals experienced and perceived the management development programmes they have attended. In line with a phenomenological approach, the study sets aside preconceived ideas and attempts to describe the phenomenon through the eyes of the participants. Findings suggest that management development programmes are perceived as having a big role to play in the development of school managers, but that the programmes on offer suffer from various shortcomings. These include poor planning, lack of organisational and facilitating skills in presenters, lack of commitment, monitoring and support from the bodies offering the courses, and especially the failure of training programmes to bring about increased confidence and self-awareness among participants. Increased selfawareness can help in personal and organisational renewal and growth, and help to minimise the dependency syndrome among principals. Particular needs highlighted by the findings include training in the new curriculum (Outcomes Based Education), holistic development by experts in all facets of school management, training of School Governing Bodies and development of all educators in management as future managers. These findings may prove helpful to education departments and other bodies in the planning and delivery of programmes for new and incumbent school managers.

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Amdahl-Mason, Ameena AnnaMaria. "The Lived Experience of High School Policy Debate in Oregon." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/531.

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This study seeks to explore the lived experience of competitors in high school level Oregon Style Cross-Examination Policy Debate in the state of Oregon. To elucidate this experience, between fifteen former competitors, graduating between 2003 and 2010, were interviewed in order to find common themes within the interviewees' experiences. The common themes that emerged from the interviews included establishing a knowledge base, the ability to research, effective use of communication skills, the development of confidence, and political awareness.

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Arvidsson, Sara, and Sewa Raza. "National test in school year 3 Students thoughts and experience." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-28405.

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Moore, David M. "How the Visually Impaired View and Experience Mathematics in School." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1396453258.

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Du, Plessis Alfred Haupt. "Exploring secondary school educator experiences of school violence." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25176.

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This study intends to explore the very relevant and current issue of violence at school level. Through this case study the experiences of an educator with regard to violence in a secondary school are explored. Data for this study was collected through observation and unstructured interviews with the participant. Data collected was analysed through several phases of establishing thematic categories. This analysis was done within the parameters of a scientific literature framework. The six main categories were discussed and interpreted in terms of literature to provide the findings portrayed by the study. To ensure the dependability and quality of the data the study incorporated member checking and literature control. An attempt was made to contribute to, and expand upon, the existing body of knowledge with regard to this very important phenomenon. The results of this study show that the educator experiences violence in school as a very serious reality. This study argues that the causes of school violence should be studied from an integrative perspective and it supports the Bio-Ecological Systems theory as a multi-dimensional approach to understanding school violence.
Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2008.
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