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Ó, Cathalláin Seán. "Early literacy in all-Irish immersion primary schools : a micro-ethnographic case study of storybook reading events in Irish and English." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/6509.
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This thesis examines ways in which literacy practices are shaped by local norms in all-Irish immersion schools, as evidenced in storybook reading events in Irish and English. Within a sociocultural framing, the thesis takes as presuppositions that (i) reading is not a set of autonomous, transferable skills but is embedded in social settings; (ii) contexts and literacy practices co-emerge; (iii) children learn ways of being readers through participation in classroom literacy events; and (iv) language, literacy and identity are inextricably linked in all-Irish immersion programmes. In a classroom the teacher and pupils co-construct their own particular models, understandings, and definitions of literacy through their actions and the events they engage in. In the present study literacy is theorized as a performative accomplishment co-constructed by the participants in the event including those not directly present such as authors and illustrators. A micro-ethnographic case study approach was used to examine literacy practices in infant classes in all-Irish schools. Taking a phenomenological approach data were gathered using video-recording, observation, and pupil and teacher interviews and data were analysed using inductive analysis and interpretive discourse analysis. Key findings from the study are that (1) local norms, filtered through teachers' intentions and motivations, shaped the storybook reading events; (2) classroom literacy practices constructed during the Irish events were being transferred to the English events; and (3) children selected from their first and second language linguistic resources during storybook reading events to support their reading development. These three processes together were part of how children negotiated their socially situated identities as bilinguals and bilingual readers. Parental support for speaking Irish as well as social proximity to the Gaeltacht community, were factors closely associated with positive attitudes to speaking Irish and to reading in Irish. One implication of the findings is that teachers in all-Irish schools will need to make explicit their views of knowledge and of what it means to be a reader in an all-Irish school as they consider young children's agency in constructing their interpretations of texts.
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Scullion, P. A. "Quality of school life and the Irish medium primary school." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.403205.
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Ó, Cuanacháin Colm. "Human rights education in an Irish primary school." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/27726.
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This thesis reports on an action research study conducted with teachers and pupils in one Irish primary school. It focuses on human rights education as a framework for a whole-school approach to participative learning that promotes citizenship, justice, and equality, in the classroom. As the principal teacher in the school, the author sought to develop a more effective, inclusive and democratic learning environment for children. The study was a response to opportunities presented for human rights education both in international human rights law, and in the Irish primary school curriculum. The needs analysis generated research aims that focused on developing a human rights school, monitoring its impact, and evaluating the outcomes. The process included the development of policies, programmes, and methodologies to achieve the identified aims. The change process ran over the course of one year, during which the children were engaged in participative learning about, in and for human rights. The praxis based implementation model involved a series of cumulative stages of action and reflection. Monitoring and evaluation methodologies included questionnaire based longitudinal cohort studies, formal and semi-formal meetings, and the use of teachers' diaries. The resultant data was analysed and interpreted with the participants, and resulted in findings across four areas: • The role and function of the school leadership in facilitating, and implementing a whole-school approach to human rights education. • Aspects of the curriculum, and the hidden curriculum, including participation, time, and evaluation. • Professional development, including pre-service, and in-service training. • Behaviour, and the framework for accountability, decision-making, transparency, and responsibility in the school. The resultant recommendations point to the need for the school partners to consolidate the human rights approach through the ongoing provision of resources and time to participative methodologies, and the responsibility on the Department of Education and Science to facilitate and support schools seeking to encourage democratic education.
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Ryan, Aine. "The road to democracy in Irish primary school education." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/7777/.
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This thesis explores the extent to which democratic values and ideals have informed Irish primary school education since independence in 1922. The examination reveals how undemocratic structures, principles and practices have been maintained in primary education by denying equality and freedom of conscience to those not of the majority Catholic faith. It describes how the unique predicament of religious hegemony has persisted because of legislative machinery which, by guaranteeing protection of religious ethos, allows discrimination in enrolment policies, employment practices of primary school teachers, indoctrination across the curriculum and religious control of all teacher training colleges. The social, cultural and political factors which have produced this anomaly of a democratic State having an undemocratic education system are examined, as well as why this situation persists. The possibility for evolution of the democratic discourse within education as well as the forces currently obstructing change is also considered. The arguments presented emerge from a critical policy analysis which draws on democratic theories. In particular, a historical account of Irish primary education is outlined which is informed by Dewey’s philosophy of education, theories referencing participatory democracy and those contemporary sociological concepts which emphasise the role of education in the process of social reproduction and transformation. Gramsci’s ideas on hegemony are applied to analyse the power structures controlling education and theories of selective knowledge, as propounded by Williams and Apple, are applied to the Irish context to highlight the political nature of the curriculum and how it is manipulated to exercise power. Contemporary schooling as a site of conflict and contest is analysed in the light of the potential of counter-hegemonic groups to challenge existing patterns and tradition. The main findings are that the grip which hegemonic forces have had on Irish society has produced a conservative culture contributing to a democratic deficit in terms of social reform and civic participation. Although the Irish social order has changed significantly there is still a mismatch between society’s expectations and the ideology and practice which defines primary schooling today. Education is not keeping pace with the requirements of contemporary Irish culture.
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O'Sullivan-Dwyer, Helen. "Facilitating in-school collaborative learning for teachers' professional practice in an Irish primary school." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2010. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10019951/.
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The focus of this self-study action research is the facilitation of teachers' engagement in collaborative inquiry to improve practice. The purpose of the inquiry was two-fold: primarily to improve the quality of teaching and learning of writing, within the English curriculum, in a primary school in Ireland; secondly, it was to improve my understanding of the issues and practices involved in leading school-based professional learning. In year one of the research, I worked with the school's staff to develop structures and processes supporting participants' action learning about collaborative inquiry. Following a multi-level model of intervention, teacher learning teams became the foundation stone of the intervention. While pedagogical content knowledge was the focus of much of the inquiry at base team level, critical examination of cultural norms of practice through collective reflection typified the professional dialogue at whole school level. The moral dimension of teacher professionalism anchored the intervention and was mediated through an unwavering commitment to dialogic action and inquiry. Data gathering and analysis served to assess the impact of the strategies on improving professional as well as student learning. Findings highlighted the significance of teacher-to-teacher discourse in shaping teacher learning; and teachers' commitment to adopting an incremental approach to learning illustrated in a co-created model of staged development. In year two the teachers pushed out the boundaries of current norms, by observing peer practice. The findings from data gathering in phase two, informed by discourse analysis of videoed post-observation conferences, led to the creation of conceptual models of practice for peer professional dialogue. The findings emphasise the need to create system-wide structures in Ireland to support embedded professional learning and suggest that teacher collaboration, rooted in professional values and supported by purposeful capacity building has the potential to replace autonomy as valued practice in Irish schools.
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Papastamatis, Adamantios. "Teaching styles of Greek primary school teachers." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.278909.
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Sigel, Deena. "Teaching Midrash explicity in the primary school." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020576/.
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Midrash (classic rabbinic interpretation of Hebrew Scripture) is taught alongside Scripture in Bible classes throughout the Jewish world in the primary school. Because Jewish tradition holds that rabbinic interpretation of Scripture should always be taught together with Scripture the teaching of midrash is viewed as part of the initiation of the student into Jewish sacred texts and into Jewish literacy. Traditionally children encounter midrash commentary when it is quoted or paraphrased by Rashi, Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac of the eleventh century, whose commentary on the Pentateuch is the most widely read. But since midrash is based on the theology ofthe ancient rabbis and was the rabbis' medium for conveying their understandings of Scripture, of God, of righteousness and man's place in this world to their followers, these texts are naturally complex and their content is often abstract. Current pedagogical practice does not address midrash as a discrete subject and does not, therefore, address these underlying characteristics of midrash. It has been my professional experience, as well as that of other Bible teachers, that a lack of explicit pedagogy for midrash can cause problems of understanding for the young student which may negatively influence her view of Scripture. This paper describes an educational innovation (for year six students) that was developed and tested by the author in the format of a design experiment. The strategy for teaching midrash explicitly builds upon academic scholarship on midrash content; on scholarship on the way that children form religious understandings and on scholarship that relates to the way that children make sense of texts. The research was conducted on an international scale, in one school each in Israel, England and the U.S. The findings reflect the challenges faced and the successes that were achieved in teaching midrash explicitly in the primary school.
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Nolan, Sean. "An exploration of the primary to secondary school transition in an Irish context." Thesis, University of East London, 2012. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/1793/.
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Each year in Ireland, over 50,000 young people make the transition from primary to secondary school. This journey, although regarded with importance, has not been researched to any great degree in the Irish context. International research has tended to be mainly quantitative in its focus. Relatively little attention, in transition related research, has been paid to the ‘voice’ of the young people or the teachers who strive to support them along the way. This research, through a three phase mixed methods research design, explored the transition experiences of a group of young people who had made the transition from 13 small primary schools into a single large secondary school, in a rural setting in Ireland. The views of some of their primary school and secondary school teachers were also gathered. The overall aim of the research was to establish a rich picture of the lived reality of the primary to secondary school transition process. In order to achieve this, Phase 1, by means of a comparison of a pre and post transition standardised questionnaire measure, sought to investigate the effects of the transition on each young person’s self-esteem. Phase 2, through the use of a transition questionnaire with all of the young people, sought to investigate the experiences of all of the young people. It then focused more specifically, through the use of a semi-structured interview, on some who had been identified as experiencing either a decline or an increase in their self-esteem levels. Phase 3, through the use of semi-structured interviews with primary school teachers and focus groups with secondary school teachers, investigated what they had to say about the transition process they observe and experience each year. Building on the reported findings of what the young people and their teachers had to say, this research provides a number of recommendations. The unique contribution of this research is that it offers the “Transition Corridor” as a framework for action for the future.
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Macknight, Vicki Sandra. "Teaching imagination." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/7035.
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This thesis is about the teaching imagination. By this term I refer to three things. First, the teaching imagination is how teachers define and practice imagination in their classrooms. Second, it is the imagination that teachers themselves use as they teach. And thirdly, it is the imagination I am taught to identify and enact for doing social science research.The thesis is based upon participant-observation research conducted in grade four (and some composite grade three/four) classrooms in primary schools in Melbourne, a city in the Australian state of Victoria. The research took me to five schools of different types: independent (or fee-paying); government (or state); Steiner (or Waldorf); special (for low IQ students); and Catholic. These five classrooms provide a range, not a sample: they suggest some ways of doing imagination. I do not claim a necessary link between school type and practices of imagination. In addition I conducted semi-structured interviews with each classroom’s teacher and asked that children do two tasks (to draw and to write about ‘a time you used your imagination’).
From this research I write a thesis in two sections. In the first I work to re-imagine certain concepts central to studies of education and imagination. These include curriculum, classrooms, and ways of theorizing and defining imagination. In this section I develop a key theoretical idea: that the most recent Victorian curriculum is, and social science should be, governed by what I call a logic of realization. Key to this idea is that knowers must always be understood as participants in, not only observers of, the world.
In the second section I write accounts of five case studies, each learning from a different classroom teacher about one way to understand and practice imagination. We meet imagination as creative transformation; imagination as thinking into other perspectives; imagination as representation; imagination as the ability to relate oneself to the people and materials one is surrounded by; and imagination as making connections and separations in thought. In each of these chapters I work to re-enact that imagination in my own writing. Using the concept of the ‘relational teacher’, one who flexibly responds to changing student needs and interests, I suggest that some of these imaginations are more suitable to a logic of realization than others.
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Wills, Robin C. "Teaching primary school children in single-gendered classes." Access electronically, 2003. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20041103.152651/index.html.
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Liu, Chun-lung. "Implementing ICT into teaching in a primary school." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B40039869.
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Liu, Chun-lung, and 廖進龍. "Implementing ICT into teaching in a primary school." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B40039869.
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Corcoran, D. C. "Developing mathematical knowledge for teaching : a three-tiered study of Irish pre-service primary teachers." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597996.
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This study addresses the mathematics that student teachers bring to primary teacher education and examines how their mathematics might be developed. The study is conducted in three tiers. Tier One examines the mathematical knowledge for teaching of a cohort of second year B.Ed students using a self-audit designed for the purpose in the UK. Tier Two studies the actual teaching of mathematics of a sample of second year student teachers during their spring teaching placement. Tier Three describes a mathematics teacher development intervention in which six students chose to participate during their final year B.Ed programme. The intervention consisted of forming a Community of Practice dedicated to learning how to teach primary mathematics well. The Community of Practice adopted Japanese Lesson Study as a model for teacher development and three cycles of lesson study were pursued over the course of the study. In each cycle, student teacher participants prepared mathematics lessons collaboratively. Then, two students each taught a research lesson in different schools, observed by other students who studied children’s mathematical response to the research lesson. This experience was followed by a reflective meeting to analyse the lessons using the Knowledge Quartet framework as a means of focusing on different dimensions of the mathematical content of the lesson. I was party to the lesson study process as researcher and as Knowledgeable Other. Community members also interrogated their previous, possibly negative relationships with mathematics and engaged in doing mathematics as part of the lesson study enterprise. Indications are that participants in a community of practice where the members engage in lesson study results in enhanced mathematical content knowledge for teaching and the development of a mathematics teacher identity. To engage in Lesson Study is to learn mathematics for teaching.
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Chung, Shuk-fan, and 鍾淑芬. "Teaching of rhyming skills in poems for primary school." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31962907.
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Brown, Barrington. "Primary school teachers' teaching in classrooms with Internet capability." Thesis, London South Bank University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416238.
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Tam, To-kuk. "ICT implementation in teaching different subjects in a primary school /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B39838134.
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Teixeira, Adla Betsaida Martins. "The domestication of primary school teaching : a Brazilian study case." Thesis, UCL Institute of Education (IOE), 1998. http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/21964/.
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This thesis explores the ways in which the work of women teachers in primary schools in one region of Brazil has been re-defined by agents within the school itself. The investigation was pursued through semi-structured interviews with 48 women teachers and 14 school managers working mainly in poor communities. It reflects the experiences of teachers from Municipal schools in one of the developed cities: Belo Horizonte. Informal talks with teachers involved in activities outside classroom, other school staff such as secretaries and door-keepers, and parents encountered at the school entrance (some parents agreed to participate in tape-recorded interviews) also provided useful information for the study. Among the secondary• material collected during the field work were visual and written didactic texts used inside schools, the school files relating to discipline problems between pupils/parents and teachers, and the school files of "Colegiado" meetings. Also inside schools, observations were made of school meetings with parents; pedagogical meetings and a extraschool activities such as paren& and pupils' preparation for a party and showing of a school video. A search of written material from local newspapers archived by the Teachers' Union related to teachers was conducted. Visits to, and contacts with, the Municipal Secretary of Education provided material on extra-school administration. Study at the local University, with its extensive archive of recent studies on the history and conditions of work of women teachers in Brazil, in the State of Minas Gerais and specifically in the Municipal schools of Belo Horizonte,was a rich source of academic material for this study. It is suggested that the domestication of teachers' roles has been promoted within schools by teachers, the school managers and others involved in school life (parents, pupils and other school staff). This has led to a considerable increase in the number of roles schools and teachers are required to fulfil in communities with serious economic and social limitations. In a society where state social support is insufficient, schools provide palliative solutions for a range of needs. However, as schools become increasingly involved in business other than formal education, teachers' roles have changed and thus are judged through a gendered filter iii which stresses femininity over professionalism. Women's acceptance of poor working conditions and their involvement in the immediate social problems of pupils and local communities has been beneficial for the Brazilian and State governments, as well as for the local community. However, there have been negative consequences for the development of better ways to teach children from these communities and the status and socio-economic position of teachers themselves. The domestication of the roles of women in teaching has thus had long-term negative consequences for the education of the poor.
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McSorley, Julie A. F. "Primary school teachers' conceptions of the teaching of art criticism." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1993. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36691/1/36691_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
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Hayes, Michael. "A study of the perceptions among Irish primary teachers of the development of their teaching identity after their first year in teaching." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/13969.
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This thesis reports the findings of research conducted with Irish primary teachers who had recently completed probation. The study employed semi-structured interviews to examine the teachers’ perceptions of beneficial influences on the development of their teaching identity. The principals of the two schools involved were also interviewed. The interviews were designed to allow me to explore influences that had been identified in the literature as important in the formation of teacher identity. In the interviews, themes that have been identified in the literature on teacher identity were explored with participants. The teachers identified incidents and persons whom they perceived as having inspired them to become teachers. Their perceptions of how their interactions with pupils and parents had influenced their identities were examined, as were their experiences of school cultures and of working in collaboration with colleagues. Finally, their awareness of theoretical literature as a tool to help their further development was examined. The findings of the study confirm that teachers’ identities are formed by a combination of factors and add a more detailed understanding of those factors in the Irish context. Beginning teachers are influenced strongly by their own biographies, and by their experiences as students prior to and during their pre-service teacher education. They are sensitive to the perceptions of them by parents and pupils. Their willingness to engage collaboratively with other colleagues, including their principals and mentors, features strongly in their own perceptions of how their identities have been formed. The importance of the school culture in helping to shape the teacher’s identity is highlighted as a phenomenon which both shapes and is reshaped in turn by teachers and their colleagues. Literature is generally not considered relevant by the Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) in this study, although the principals’ responses indicate their familiarity with themes common in the literature concerning teacher induction, and with concepts of teachers as reflective practitioners who need to continuously examine their practice and experience in order to promote the ongoing shaping of their identity as teachers. The thesis argues for a conception of teacher professionalism which respects the identity of teachers and the agency of teachers as individuals in a world of individuals who are engaged in the constructionist creation of knowledge. This understanding prioritises practical wisdom, phronesis, over the technical knowledge, techne, and knowledge of subject, episteme, which teachers also require. This is at odds with widespread competency-based conceptions of teacher professionalism. The findings of the research indicate that the development of teacher identity is complex and is affected by a broader range of influences than the imperative to develop competencies. It calls for an alternative approach to teacher induction which acknowledges the importance of these factors.
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Bamford, Anne Kathleen. "The qualities of primary art teachers /." Electronic version, 2002. http://adt.lib.uts.edu.au/public/adt-NTSM20041011.182559/index.html.
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Crowley, Michael. "School leadership : an examination of the role of the Irish primary school principal in a period of change and rationalisation." Thesis, University of Hull, 2006. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5673.
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This thesis is set against a backdrop of major rationalisation in primary education in the Republic of Ireland which has heralded unprecedented change in the working lives of primary school principals. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the role of the primary principal, framed as it currently is in a historical context that, arguably, limits its potential, is becoming an unattractive one due to sustained societal, curricular and educational expectations. Principals may be coping with change, but, it is clearly not managed change and increasingly their frustrations at not being able to achieve professional selfactualisation in their careers are becoming evident. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to gather evidence in support of better working conditions for the Irish primary principal and, it remains the opinion of the researcher that, unless proper training and supports are offered, the latent leadership potential within our schools will remain untapped. This would be unfortunate as leadership may well be the single most important element in school effectiveness in the future. In this thesis, which adopts a quantitative approach with supporting qualitative and statistical triangulation, the perceptions of the principals with regard to some of the core skills and competencies of their work are analysed. In particular emphasis is placed on their skill levels, the source of these skills and their training needs. Arguments are subsequently developed in support of the need for planned systematic support for all primary principals. This would, ideally, replace the current ad hoc arrangements, which put all of the responsibility on individual principals in an educational environment where they are seen as 'first amongst equals' and where the autonomy of the individual teacher is traditionally guarded. The thesis is divided into six chapters. Chapter one gives a brief overview of the Irish primary school system and looks at the historical development of the role of the primary principal which still underpins their working lives. In Chapter two relevant literature is reviewed which explores aspects of leadership theory with the intention of facilitating the framing of any emergent theory within a relevant theoretical context and supporting the broad hypotheses of the research. Chapter three outlines the methodology involved in this research and explains the rationale behind the particular research approach in this thesis, i.e. quantitative analysis supported by qualitative and statistical triangulation methods. Chapter four presents the principal findings of the quantitative research which were analysed using SPSS and these results are discussed in the context of the literature as well as emerging theory in Chapter five of the thesis. In addition results are triangulated using qualitative follow-up group interviews and statistical reporting procedures. In Chapter six, which is the concluding chapter of the thesis, results are discussed in the context of optimum working conditions for the primary principal and suggestions are offered as to how the leadership potential of the current cohort of primary principals might be harnessed for the benefit of their schools.
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Gillan, Kevin P. "Teaching principals : Educational restructuring and transformational leadership." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1997. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/879.
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The restructuring of. the Education Department of Western Australia (EDWA) since 1987 has seen the devolution and decentralisation of administrative responsibilities from the central education authority to schools. The onset of an era of educational restructuring has significantly changed the work of primary school principals. They have become responsible for the transformation of schools from a bureaucratic form of organisation to ones that are characterised by school based decision-making and management. The new form of organisation is intended to sustain a process of continuous school improvement. As well as managing change there has also been an expectation for principals to provide educational leadership. School decision-making and management appears to have intensified the work of the principal. The schools of EDWA offer a special opportunity to study the way in which principals who have increased responsibility for managing change and establishing school based decision making and management have responded to the challenge of leadership. In the research literature theories of transformational leadership have been viewed by several researchers and perhaps education authorities as a desirable form of leadership. According to this view transformational leadership may enhance school based decision-making and management during a period of educational restructuring. This study considers the case of the teaching principal in EDWA primary schools. The focus of the research is to establish the extent to which principals who are successful in managing school improvement during a period of educational restructuring are using transformational leadership practices. Leithwood's (1994) synthesis of transformational leadership practices is used to conceptualise the way.in which principals attempt to do their work. The qualitative study used a sample of three teaching principals who were reported as being successful in managing change. The study focussed on whether teaching principals had been able to make use of opportunities to demonstrate any or all of the dimensions of transformational leadership. This research comprised a pilot study followed by the main study. The participants in both studies were selected using a purposive sampling technique to maximise variation. The pilot study involved three teaching principals from country and city schools. Three teaching principals and two teachers from each of their schools in both city and country areas participated in the main study. In each study data were collected using a semi - structured interview schedule. Principals and teachers in the main study were asked the same questions as a means of obtaining data triangulation. The findings of the study suggested that educational restructuring had compressed the amount of time in which teaching principals had to complete their educationalleadership1 administrative and teaching work. This resulted from an intensification of the principals' work. The findings indicated that many of the practices in Leithwood's (1994) synthesis of transformational leadership are being used and are relevant to the leadership of teaching principals during an era of restructuring. However, the study found some limitations of the model as it applied to the Western Australian context. These appeared in the dimension of developing a widely shared vision. It was found that in the Western Australian context the operationalisation of developing a widely shared vision in a school was obstructed due to a centralised. focus on objectives and outcomes.
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Scarfe, Jill. "Primary school music : the case of British Punjabi Muslims." Thesis, University of Derby, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10545/304839.
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Chiang, Oi-kit Kezia, and 蔣愛潔. "Dictation in a local primary school." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31962865.
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Zulaiha, Siti. "Primary school foreign language learning, teaching, and assessment : perceptions and challenges /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18958.pdf.
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Rooney, Barbara A., and n/a. "The teaching of science in a primary school : a case study." University of Canberra. Education, 1995. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061107.155337.
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The 'Discipline Review of Teacher Education in Mathematics and Science' (Department
of Employment, Education and Training, 1989, p 81) concludes that science in primary
schools is in a state of crisis. This finding is not new as there have been concerns about
primary school science for many years. It is likely that one of the reasons why the
problem remains could relate to the attitudes and beliefs that teachers hold about the
subject and its importance in the primary school curriculum.
Another reason put forward relates to the limited background experiences in science of
many primary school teachers. In particular, their knowledge of content matter and
strategies for teaching the subject is limited. As a consequence, many primary teachers
do not feel confident to teach science so they avoid it or teach only units with which they
are familiar. This leads to inconsistent science teaching and an ineffective science
curriculum in many primary schools.
The research question, What factors influence the teaching of science in a primary
school?' is investigated through a case study of a primary school. Teachers' attitudes to,
and beliefs about, the subject are explored in relation to their background experiences,
teacher education and knowledge of science. How these factors influence their
classroom teaching is explored through the context of the physical environment and
culture of the school, the culture of teaching and the instructional leadership of the
principal.
The case study is based on information obtained from teacher surveys and interviews,
journal entries and school documents. A typology which helps clarify factors influencing
the teaching of science is developed. It provides insight into the problems of teaching
the subject and how they may be addressed. A case study of the principal adds to the
typology by providing the principal's perspective of science in the school.
It is likely that the school featured in the case study is representative of many primary
schools. The findings and recommendations may therefore have wider implications and
may contribute to more effective teaching of science in many primary schools.
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Li, Sau-fun Ocean, and 李秀芬. "The implementation of ICT in teaching English in a primary school." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3040325x.
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Smith, Jennifer Ann. "Rethinking homework for foreign language teaching and learning in primary school." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/132305/1/Jennifer_Smith_Thesis.pdf.
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Homework attracts much debate in schooling, especially in terms of its processes, outcomes and benefits for primary school learners. This study investigated the implementation and accomplishment of foreign language homework in a Year 4, 5 and 6 Japanese as a Foreign Language program. Utilising Activity theory and understandings of Second Language Acquisition, the case study involved video, interview and document data from students, Japanese language teachers and parents. Key findings include the students' use of self-talk to regulate their accomplishment of foreign language tasks; the teaching needed to scaffold students' understanding of task demands; and parents' gradual reduction of assistance in homework.
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Corser, Kristy L. "Teaching and learning with cloud platforms in the primary school classroom." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/157473/1/Kristy_Corser_Thesis.pdf.
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This research investigated teaching and learning with Chromebook computers and Google's G Suite for Education in a Queensland year 5 primary school classroom. The research used Actor Network Theory and Communities of Practice theory to explore the material aspects of using technologies in the classroom, and how cloud-based technologies promote collaborative learning. Analysis of classroom practice revealed the potential advantages of using cloud platforms in education, while analysis of technology policies from the Federal government level to the classroom revealed misalignments in expectation for students' learning. The findings inform recommendations for technology policy development, curriculum planning and teachers' pedagogical practices.
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Stakelum, Mary Catherine Ann. "Transmission, replication and transformation in music education : case studies in practice in an Irish primary school context." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020498/.
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This study investigates how generalist primary teachers conceive of music, how they make sense of a prescribed music curriculum and how they teach it in the course of their professional practice in an institutional setting. Following an overview of the study in chapter one, the literature review is presented. Chapter two describes the framing of music education in the Irish primary school context. In chapter three, factors influencing teacher practice are identified as official policy, the ethos of the school and teacher beliefs. In addition, and taking a multi-faceted view of knowledge, the relationship between formative experiences and practice is examined. It is argued that teacher knowledge cannot be separated from the context in which it is learned and used. A synthesis of key points is presented in chapter four. The design and methodology are outlined in chapter five. A qualitative approach was adopted where interview and observation methods were used to gain access to the orientation to practice and to the curriculum emphasis of five respondents. Data from the fieldwork were organised into categories from which, in the case of each respondent, an interpretative account of their practice was compiled and is presented in chapter six. Analysis of the data is presented in chapter seven. In the case of the five primary teachers, the study has confirmed that, whilst there are commonalities among the respondents regarding transmission of aspects of performance and music literacy, there are differences too. It is suggested that differences in teacher practice can be defined in terms of the values teachers attribute to music in their own lives and in the lives of their pupils. In chapter eight, conclusions and implications for further research are presented. Significantly, the study has provided a framework for research on practice in which commonalities and differences may be examined.
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Conneely, Suzanne. "Children's right to be heard during whole-school evaluation in Irish primary schools : student's and teachers' perspectives." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680495.
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This study, by a practising inspector, considers the implementation of the principle enshrined In article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) in respect of whole-school evaluation (WSE), model of school inspection, in Irish primary schools, Article 12 relates to the child's right to e)(press his or her views freely and to have such views given due weight. The research was undertaken in one primary school in the west of Ireland and Involved senior-grade students (aged 10-12 years) and their teachers. It explores, from the perspectives of the participants, how Inspectors could better engage with children's views during WSE. The data set, from focus-group interviews and draw-and-write activities, was analysed qualitatively. A children's rights-based approach was employed: two distinctive elements of this approach include the deliberate steps taken to build the participants' capacity in understanding I WSE and children's right to be heard; and the Involvement of a children's research advisory group (CRAG). The CRAG took part in various stages of the research including the choosing and preparing of data collection methods, analysing data, and disseminating findings. The study found that children have views about inspection and want to express them. This thesis makes a strong argument for the importance of facilitating children to e)(press their views freely during inspection and to have their views given due weight not merely as a data source for accountability and performativity but as part of an : empowering, emancipatory process benefitting students, schools and the Inspectorate. The study proved to be successful on a number of levels, notably in the development of a methodology that allowed children to contribute fully as research participants and to present their perspectlves on inspector-student consultation. Furthermore, it contributes to the existing knowledge base regarding children's rights In education focusing in this instance on their right to be heard during school inspection.
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Finlayson, Helen M. "LOGO, mathematics and upper primary school children." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6629.
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This study was set up to assess the contribution that a computer modelling approach using the language LOGO could make to the quality of mathematics learning in primary school children. Following a constructivist theory of mathematical learning it is argued that many problems children have with their mathematics results from instrumental learning without understanding, rather than relational learning. LOGO was developed, in part, to provide a learning environment for children to investigate mathematical ideas and thus develop their own understanding. Previous research has not provided much evidence that this happens, nor specified what mathematical learning could be expected to take place and what pedagogic approach could bring it about. Other questions relating to the maturity of the children and their aptitude for programming have similarly been neglected. This study was set up to identify the mathematical ideas intrinsic to Turtle Geometry and to explore the conditions under which this learning could best be fostered. The study was carried out in three phases. The first phase considered the constraints of maturity and the need to program on the learning of 9 and 11 year old children. The second phase of the study followed up the programming of the older children, to see what mathematics they were encountering, and what sort of activities encouraged them to think mathematically. Pre and post tests were used to identify the mathematical learning which was taking place. In Phase III a control group was used to identify the particular mathematical learning which could be attributed to LOGO experience, and to assess the transfer of mathematical learning from the LOGO context to novel problem solving. The first two phases revealed considerable mathematical activity intrinsic to Turtle Geometry. The need to learn some simple programming apparently did not present a barrier to mathematical investigation. The test results in the third phase showed that the children had deepened their understanding of angles, variables and general process aspects of mathematics through using LOGO. The performance of the children on the computers was monitored and was found to be revealing of their current mathematical understanding.
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Hughes, M. "Sensitising primary school teachers to discourse relations in children's writing." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.233407.
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Siu, Shun-mei, and 蕭舜美. "Primary school teachers' perceptions of project learning." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30294113.
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Kalumba, Evaristo. "Improving the quality and relevance of environmental learning through the use of a wider range of preferred teaching methods: a case of primary schools in Mufulira District in the Copperbelt Province in Zambia." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003453.
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The study was conducted to investigate whether the use of a wider range of teaching methods can improve the quality of environmental learning in five Zambian primary schools. Nine teachers from five schools were involved in the preliminary stage of answering of questionnaires, interviews and focus group discussions about the use of dominant teaching methods and new teaching methods; while only four were involved in the observations of four lessons. The study is a contribution to the on‐going debate on the investigation of whether teaching methods used by teachers can be one of the factors that can influence the quality of education. Definitions of quality and educational quality in particular, are not easy to establish and no agreed upon framework for educational quality exists at present. This study reviews the debates on educational quality, and identifies three major paradigms or discourses on educational quality; and considers the human rights, social justice and capabilities approaches and educational quality frameworks as being relevant to environmental learning and education for sustainable development in the Southern African Development Community context. This, together with a review of research on teaching methods in environmental education, provides the theoretical framework for this study. Using action research and an interpretative methodological framework, a series of research activities were undertaken to generate research data because the study was investigating the teachers’ practice with a view to probe change and to analyse the findings. Nine teachers participated in the preliminary stage of answering questionnaires and focus group interviews reflecting on existing teaching methods. In stage two of this study, teachers went through a planning workshop during which they planned lessons using new preferred teaching methods. The third stage was lesson observations of planned lessons. The final stage was the reflection workshop during which the teachers shared their experiences with the use of new teaching methods. The teaching practices of teachers using the new teaching methods were the subject of further analysis. In order to find out how the use of a wide range of teaching methods can improve quality of environmental learning in primary schools nine teachers were observed teaching lessons with new teaching methods. The Nikel and Lowe (2010) fabric of dimensions of educational quality was adapted and used to find out if teachers included dimensions of quality in the teaching process. Additional socio‐cultural and structural quality dimensions, identified through a review of southern African research, were used to find out if teachers included contextualized regional dimensions of educational quality. This was done to investigate whether the process of teaching and learning was relevant to the learners. Teachers involved in the research reflected that when they used a wider range of teaching methods the result was that the learning opportunities for learners were enhanced and that the methods added value to their teaching, improving the quality of their teaching. The use of a wider range of teaching methods showed the presence of several indicators of dimensions of educational quality, as reflected in the quality analysis tool. Teachers indicated that the use of a wider range of teaching methods led them to include the socio‐cultural dimensions such as the use of local languages and structural dimensions such as informal seating arrangements or group work that they would otherwise neglect if they used the traditional narrow range of teaching methods. A wider range of teaching methods provided learners with an enjoyable learning atmosphere during the lesson. The research also identified that this study can be taken further through broader observations, and that the educational quality dimensions tool is useful for different levels of the education system, and that it has potentially productive uses in teacher education, particularly for observations during teaching practice.
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Tan, Li-hua, and 陳麗華. "Primary school students' thinking processes when posing mathematical word problems." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31962592.
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Chambers, Fiona C. "Irish physical education teacher education students and their professional learning : the teaching practice experience." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2008. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/8119.
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In Ireland, formal mentoring as a mechanism for supporting student learning in the Teaching Practice (TP) phase of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) is at a developmental stage. The Irish Government appears to support mentoring initiatives in ITE, however, there is little evidence of a clear policy on student teacher learning, and the role of mentoring within it. This study investigates physical education teacher education (PETE) student learning on TP within a community of practice framework. Currently, the process of informal mentoring of PETE students during TP is undertaken by untrained cooperating teachers (CTs) as an unacknowledged gesture of goodwill. This has implications for the quality of PETE student learning during TP and became the subject of this research. Employing a range of qualitative data collection methods, this study focused on one umbrella case study (Greendale University, schools and PETE students) and five individual case studies: tetrads of PETE student, CT, university tutor (UT) and school principal (SP) during one academic year. PETE student learning was investigated from the perspectives of each member of the tetrad and data collected were analysed using grounded theory. Findings from this research concluded that (a) untrained CTs were unsuitable mentors and (b) untrained UTs were inappropriate tutors for PETE students as they both needed teaching expertise, a positive disposition and adequate training to embrace their respective roles. The study also found that within TP, there was a perceived lack of parity between the schools and university, with SPs feeling excluded and taken for granted by the university. This often led to open hostility between CTs and UTs, who were unclear about their respective TP roles. The combination of these factors resulted in PETE students learning the powerful hidden curriculum of TP which encouraged them to learn pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in an unsupported and often isolated manner.
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Lockhart, Domeño Edward Alvar. "English as a Foreign Language through Whole Brain Teaching in Primary School." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/401558.
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Aquesta tesi explora la utilització de la metodologia generalista denominada "Whole Brain Teaching" a l'àmbit de l'ensenyament de l'anglès com a llengua estrangera a l'educació primària.
La tesi mira de demostrar que les diverses tècniques i elements d'aquesta metodologia poden afavorir el procés d'adquisició de la llengua estrangera pel que fa al domini general de la llengua (comprensió oral, comprensió escrita, expressió oral i expressió escrita) i d'adquisició del vocabulari així com la motivació de l'alumnat (factor clau en el procés d'adquisició de llengües estrangeres).
Per verificar aquestes hipòtesis, s'utilitza un disseny amb un grup control i un grup experimental, així com un mètode mixt de recerca combinant una part quantitativa que mesura les diferències entre els grups i les variacions dins d'aquests, amb una part qualitativa que intenta explicar perquè hi ha aquestes diferències i intenta explorar altres possibles variacions no trobades a la part quantitativa.
La tesi demostra que molts dels factors abans esmentats es veuen beneficiats per l'aplicació d'aquesta metodologia.Esta tesis explora la utilización de la metodología generalista denominada "Whole Brain Teaching" en el ámbito de la enseñanza del inglés como lengua extranjera en la educación primaria. La tesis intenta demostrar que las diversas técnicas y elementos en esta metodología pueden favorecer el proceso de adquisición de la lengua extranjera en lo que respecta al dominio general de la lengua (comprensión oral, comprensión escrita, expresión oral y expresión escrita) y de adquisicón del vocabulario así como la motivación del alumado (factor clave en el proceso de adquisición de lenguas extranjeras). Para verificar estas hipótesis se aplica un diseño con un grupo control y un grupo experimental, junto con un método mixto de investigación que combina una parte cuantitativa para medir las diferencias entre los grupos y las variaciones dentro de los mismos, con una parte cualitativa que intenta explicar porqué hay estas diferencias e intenta explorar otras posibles variaciones que no hayan aparecido en la parte cuantitativa. La tesis demuestra que muchos de los factores antes mencionados se ven beneficiados por la aplicación de esta metodología.
This thesis explores how the generalist methodology known as Whole Brain Teaching affects the teaching of English as a foreign language in primary education. It intends to prove that the several techniques and elements in this methodology can improve the process of acquisition of the foreign language regarding the general command of the language (oral and written comprehension and oral and written expresion) and the vocabulary acquisition, as well as the motivation of the learners (a key factor in the process of foreign language acquisition). To test these hypotheses, a design was applied with a control and an experimental group. This was combined with a mixed method that had a quantitative part to measure the differences between both groups and the variations within them, and a qualitative part to explore the reasons for those differences and to find other possible variations that the quantitative part might not show. The thesis proves that many of the previously mentioned factors were benefitted by the application of this methodology.
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Currie, Laura-Ann. "A metacognitive approach to teaching reading comprehension in the primary school classroom." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1998. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21536.
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The following thesis considers the relevance of motacognitive theory to the development of children's reading comprehension. It does so by evaluating the effects of a metacomprehension training programme on children's reading comprehension. In so doing the thesis draws together the three strands of theory, teaching practice, and educational policy (i. e., 5-14 English Language Guidelines, SOED, 1991) within the context of a Scottish primary school classroom. A pilot study was designed to investigate whether or not children were currently being taught metacomprehension strategies. The pilot study therefore, looked at children's metacomprehension development using two different teaching media: one where a novel was used as the vehicle for improving children's reading comprehension and another where a mainstream reading scheme was used for the same purpose. No differences were found between the two teaching conditions and it was inferred that children were not currently being taught metacomprehension strategies. As a consequence of the results from the pilot study, the main research programme was designed to address two main research questions: 1. Can children be taught metacomprehension strategies by teachers? 2. Are there greater benefits for poor, as compared with good, readers? To investigate these questions a four stage research programme was undertaken comprising: I. the development of a metacomprehension teaching programme (Mr. Homunculus the Reading Detective). II. the instruction of teachers in metacomprehension theory, and in Mr. Homunculus the Reading Detective Ill. the application of the intervention programme by teachers to a group of Primary 5 children (mean age 9yrs 6mths), using a randomised controlled pre/post test design. IV. the evolution and refinement of appropriate metacomprehension measures Results were encouraging, suggesting that children could be taught to self-monitor and to regulate their reading behaviour. What was not clear was whether or not the children had improved their inferential comprehension as a result. A model of metacomprehension development based on the data obtained from the study was presented. Further elucidation of metacomprehension development, the specific effects of such development on reading comprehension for readers of different ages and reading ability, and better measures which tap the process, rather than the product of metacomprehension, were considered as worthy of further research.
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Yung, Chi-ming, and 翁子明. "School self-evaluation of teaching and learning in Hong Kong primary schools." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30262756.
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McPhee, Alastair D. "Policy, curriculum and the teaching of English language in the primary school." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1996. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/931/.
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This thesis sets out to examine the ways in which changes in political thinking affect policy in respect of the teaching of English language in the primary school. In particular, there is examination of the impact of liberal/progressive and New Right thinking in this area. It also examines how and to what extent these views appear in curricular documentation at national level in both Scotland and in England and Wales. In order to accomplish these tasks, the study is dependent on data and methods of investigation from a number of different disciplines. Firstly, there is the consideration of the historical dimension, in which there is examination of the ways in which curricular policy in primary English language (within the context of broader issues affecting primary education in general) has evolved in the two macrosystems under discussion. Secondly, there is investigation of the linguistic dimension - the ways in which changes and developments in language theory have permeated - or perhaps just as revealingly - have not permeated national guidelines. Thirdly, the ideologies and philosophies which have proven to be powerful drivers in the formulation of policy with respect to this field are examined. Lastly, there is the empirical dimension, in which key players in the formulation of the 5-14 national guidelines in English language in Scotland are interviewed, using an open ended interview format. (DXN 006, 358).
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Abou, Hassana R. H. "Using e-learning to improve the effectiveness of teaching primary school ICT." Thesis, Coventry University, 2008. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/c24990e3-e0d7-3dbd-c3e1-b520a3146c41/1.
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Economic, social, technological and educational factors have led to an increase in the use of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in education at all levels. Most research concerning this has focused on the way in which e-learning can be used to improve teaching and learning across the curriculum and has neglected the teaching of ICT as a subject (Hammond, 2004). In a 1999 Ofsted inspection, ICT was found to be the least well taught subject in primary schools. The present research considers how the teaching of ICT could be better supported in the UK and Saudi Arabia. In the first stage, an investigation was made of the teaching of ICT in UK primary schools to understand why its teaching had been rated unfavourably. It was discovered that teaching focused on technical aspects (i.e. how to use specific applications) whilst ignoring the communication and information parts. Although it has been argued widely that e-learning improves teaching and learning across the curriculum, observations showed that e-learning was not, in itself, used to support teaching of the ICT curriculum. Hence, this research explored the ways in which the teaching of the ICT curriculum (to 9-11 year olds) could be made more effective, particularly through the incorporation of e-learning material. It was hypothesized that the experience of teaching and learning could be enhanced if e-learning material was designed which specifically addressed the needs of the teachers and young learners. Evidence collected in the course of the research suggested that little material existed to support the ICT curriculum, and that e-learning material produced to support other subjects does not always suit the teachers’ needs. Therefore in the second stage of the research, a design approach that engaged end users (teachers and young students) was proposed which was tested and refined during the design of e-learning material to support the teaching of the Multimedia Unit of the ICT National Curriculum. The resulting e-learning material was evaluated in UK schools to determine the extent to which it satisfied user needs and its effectiveness in teaching the intended learning outcomes. The results in both cases were positive implying that such a method could lead to the production of useful supportive material. As a former Saudi Arabian computer teacher, one of my personal goals was to provide opportunities to improve the experience of teachers and children in my own country. As such I have been interested in how I can transfer my understanding of the UK educational system to my home country. Following the successful evaluation of the elearning material in the UK, a demonstration of how a child centred design approach can be used to design effective educational material. Unfortunately although such a process might produce more effective learning outcomes and pleasurable material, I also found that such an approach is considered incompatible with commercial design environments. In the last stage of the thesis strategies are discussed which could be used (particularly in Saudi Arabia) to encourage the producers of educational materials to engage in the design of more effective teaching and learning experiences, especially in relation to the primary ICT curriculum. One such strategy would be to train undergraduates in applying a more user centred design approach as an integral part of their practice. The resultant design approach has now been approved by the Director of the Graphic Design Department in Dar Al Hekma Collage (Jeddah – Saudi Arabia) to be taught as a design approach for designing e-learning material for children on the Information Design Course. Additionally, a set of recommendations was developed for the Saudi Ministry of Education addressing the sort of revisions needed to improve the ICT curriculum in Saudi Arabia.
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Chau, Tat-sing, and 鄒達成. "A forgiveness education programme with primary school students." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30247767.
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Ekiz, Durmus. "Exploring primary school teachers' preactive teaching and practical theories of teaching science : multiple case studies from Turkey." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366474.
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Chen, Yung Ching. "A drama project teaching model in English language teaching : an action research at a Taiwanese primary school." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439863.
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Yasar, Seda. "Classroom Management Approaches Of Primary School Teachers." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610051/index.pdf.
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This study aimed at investigating classroom management approaches of primary school teachers and exploring if their management approaches are consistent with the
constructivist curriculum. The sample consisted of 265 primary school teachers working in Kastamonu. Data were gathered from the participants via Classroom
Management Inventory developed by the researcher. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were utilized to analyze the data. Mixed Design ANOVA (within subjects
and between subjects) was employed to investigate the dominant classroom management approach that teachers use and to explore the effect of some variables
on classroom management approaches of teachers.
Results of the study indicated that primary school teachers prefer to use studentcentered management approach rather than teacher-centered approach. That is teachers&rsquomanagement approaches are consistent with the constructivist instruction. Furthermore, some background variables were found to affect the classroom management approaches of teachers. A significant difference was found in classroom management approaches of teachers with respect to teaching experience, branch, type of certification and average number of students teachers have in their classes while no significant difference was found with respect to gender variable.
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Sijula, Thembekile Faith. "Nurturing democratic virtues: a case study of a primary school in Khayelitsha." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
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The study sought to explore the priorities and practices of educators with regard to the mediation of moral qualities/democratic virtues related to education for citizenship by means of a case study in one school. In South Africa educators are regarded as among the stakeholders responsible for the mediation of values and morals in children and youth so that they will be effective citizens of democracy. Hence the school is seen as an important context in which this could take place. Citizenship education usually contains a moral element. Practices of moral development generally draw on the work of Kohlberg, which is linked to a Piagetian understanding of development. Vygotsky&rsquos approach focuses on the contribution that the context has on cognitive
development and suggests that this may also be important for moral development. However there is little evidence available concerning the effectiveness of specific interventions. Two groups of educators and one group of learners were interviewed.
Educators were asked what moral qualities/democratic virtues they regarded as important to nurture in the learners at this school and what they did to nurture these virtues. Learners were also asked the same question and what they saw their educators doing in order to mediate these moral qualities/democratic virtues. Any constraints and successes were explored together with what educators thought could be done to improve the situation. The theoretical understanding of the research was constructivist and it followed a qualitative case study approach. Data were collected using semistructured interviews and were analysed using a thematic analysis approach. Before the research was undertaken permission was sought from the Western Cape Education Department and the study was conducted following the guidelines for ethical research set by the American Psychological Association. The main priorities that emerged as moral qualities/ democratic virtues that educators thought were important to nurture, were accountability, respect, and commitment to &ldquo
being good.&rdquo
Socially desirable behaviours that were highlighted were the following: economic initiative, citizenship, and politeness and consideration. Cognitive qualities that they thought were important to nurture were the following: open mindedness, literacy, and numeracy. There were also skills that the educators thought were important to nurture in their learners which did not seem to have a moral dimension. The main practices mentioned were: modelling, active instruction and discussion, and discipline. Educators highlighted the importance of consistency throughout the school. Constraints mentioned were the following: lack of discipline, socio-economic factors, and lack of parental involvement. Supportive factors mentioned were parental support, and consistency and collaboration.
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Reynolds, Nicholas J. "Primary school creativity and composition in a professional level music software environment." Connect to thesis, 2001. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/1238.
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This paper provides an investigation into the use of professional level music software as a learning tool for creativity and composition in primary school children. The researcher believed that music and sound editing was under-used in schools and that children could: -work successfully with that type of software -work creatively with the software -benefit from its use. A small case study was used to expose the participants (eight children from Grades 3-6) to two professional level music software applications: Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 and Cool Edit 2000. The children explored the software and completed set tasks over a ten-week period. Data, in the form of the students’ work, taped copies of all sessions, interviews and researcher reflections, were analysed to present an understanding of the creative and compositional processes and products. In addition, all student pieces were recorded onto CD. The analysis of data suggests competent use of both software applications as well as satisfactory completion of set tasks. The data also indicate that the participants were able to operate at compositional levels beyond their age and musical skills and knowledge. Conclusions are drawn to suggest that, in this case, the use of this software has assisted the creative process and has allowed these children the opportunity to compose and construct pieces that could not have been constructed without the software. (For complete abstract open document)
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Don, Jan-li, and 董建利. "On Teaching Geometry at Primary School." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78097403857279366482.
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Liu, Wan-Shan, and 劉宛姍. "Design Idiom Teaching App for Primary School." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25419528041844220950.
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Due to the rapid development of information technology, information technology into the teaching has become one of the most important changes in recent years. This thesis designed an idiom teaching App. With this App, the teachers could teach the idioms systematically, and the students could learn idioms in more interesting way. Thereby this App can enhance the students' ability to use idiom and interest in learning. This study aims to design an idiom teaching App for the fourth grade language courses in primary school to let the students learn idiom in more lively and interesting way. The content of this App is divided into learning, exercises, games, and links. The students can understand the idioms more clearly and apply effectively. After the App-assisted idiom Curriculum, we take the satisfaction survey with the students. The experimental results have shown that this idiom teaching App can help the user to understand and memory the idioms. It also can enhance students' ability of the use of idioms; and raise the students’ motivation. More than 70% of the students will use the self-learning session after class, and 80% of the students take advantage to practice exercises part or play the idiom games after class. This App can stimulate to raise the learning enthusiasm and active learning attitude of students. The students can also get a sense of accomplishment from the exercises part.