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Sloman-Gower, Anna. "Re-conceptualising student-centred learning." Thesis, University of Kent, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322152.
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Brown, Norman Leslie. "How lecturers experience student-centred teaching." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2003. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/54004/.
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This thesis reports the findings of an essentially phenomenographic research study into nurse teachers’ Conceptions of Student-Centred Teaching and Student-Centred Approaches to Teaching. The focus on the experience of student-centred aspects of teaching is a departure from previous research from this perspective in Higher Education that has focused upon teachers’ experience of teaching. The approach and focus of this study is also a departure from research into student-centred teaching in nurse education. Previous research in Higher Education has identified and reported qualitative variation in conceptions of teaching and qualitative variation in approaches to teaching and these have been categorised as either teacher-centred or student-centred. However, the interpretation and separation of conceptions of teaching and approaches to teaching has been largely as a result of the researchers’ interpretation of what it means to be teacher-centred or student-centred in teaching. This study aimed at identifying the qualitative variation that exists in conceptions of student-centred teaching and student-centred approaches to teaching from the perspectives of those nurse teachers who claimed to adopt student-centred methods in their teaching practice. The findings of this study indicate that there are significant qualitative differences in nurse teachers’ conceptions of student-centred teaching and their approaches to student-centred teaching than has hitherto been identified. In both cases a limited number of qualitatively different categories of description were identified (5 in each case) ranging from approaches to teaching that result in the reproduction of expert knowledge and skills to students developing their professional attitudes and values (affective components), and acquisition of disciplinary concepts and skills to student self-empowerment conceptions of student-centred teaching. This study also reports that the relations between conceptions of student-centred teaching and student-centred approaches to teaching are significantly different from previous research in this area, and suggests that some teachers holding student development conceptions of student- centred teaching adopt a similar sophisticated approach to student-centred teaching despite the existence of qualitative variation in their conceptions of student-centred teaching. This research extends our awareness of the experience of student-centred teaching. Finally, the implications of these findings for teacher development are discussed.
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Sidwell, Danny K. "Great Expectations: An Exploration of Student Academic Learning Expectations." Thesis, Griffith University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/394723.
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Student-centred learning (SCL) within nursing higher education represents a deliberate move away from historically utilised, traditional, behaviourist teaching approaches. The use of SCL is considered beneficial within higher education, with more meaningful, whole-person, and lifelong learning being created. Specifically, within nursing, SCL is positively viewed due to its apparent congruence to patient-centred care. The term is, however, ambiguous, lacking in clarity and definition, thus resulting in confusion about principles and how it is to be accomplished. Yet, there is general agreement that SCL and teaching methods should promote student activity and involvement and take student interests and expectations into account. This study focuses on one aspect of SCL – student expectations of learning – in the context of the teaching of a higher education nursing program that espouses SCL.
The aim of this study is to investigate and explore the expectations of students toward their academic learning at the beginning of the first year of an undergraduate university nursing degree. More specifically, two research questions have been asked:
1. What are the expectations of first-year undergraduate nursing students toward their academic learning?
2. Do the expectations of first-year undergraduate nursing students include a preference for SCL?
In order to answer these questions, a sequential qualitative-dominant explanatory mixed-method design was utilised, in which the quantitative research phase was used to develop the qualitative phase. A convenience sample of 300 (N = 300) first-year undergraduate nursing students were invited to engage in the project, with 32.66% (n = 98) completing the questionnaire and 3.67% (n = 11) participating in individual face-to-face semi-structured interviews.
Questionnaire data were analysed through the latest edition of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), with qualitative questionnaire data analysed using Leximancer software. Findings from this analysis, combined with information from the literature review, were used to develop a semi-structured interview schedule. The interviews were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analysed based on the six phases of analysis as developed by Braun and Clarke.
From the findings of the qualitative data, five key expectations were discovered in relation to students’ university study and academic learning: (1) less support would be provided at university, (2) there would be didactic teaching in tertiary education, (3) personal changes and learning freedom would be required, (4) learning preferences would be catered for by the university, and (5) an occupation-specific degree should include occupation-specific assessment. A sixth expectation was seemingly aligned with SCL (student involvement); however, it was not something explicitly expected or preferred. From these expectations, inferences are made concerning a preference by the students for some level of SCL; however, no explicit mention was made of any forms of pedagogical SCL by the participants within the study.
With the university made aware of students’ expectations, educational changes could be made that incorporate these expectations and thus better meet the needs of the incoming first-year cohort. With the embedding of student expectations into a university’s educational focus, SCL may be able to move from the current rhetoric and penetrate education practice. Tailoring of teaching and resources that integrate these expectations and preferences would likely be a clear and practical way in which the university could deliver a model of SCL as indicated within curriculum documentation.Thesis (Masters)
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Barnes, Naomi Joy. "Facebook Status Updates about the First Year at University: How Student Experience Informs a Learner Centred Transition Curriculum." Thesis, Griffith University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365933.
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A learner centred first year transition curriculum is central to a university adapting to global shifts in higher education. Universities are under pressure to graduate highly skilled workers to cope with the demands of a highly technological society. Over the past fifty years, higher education practitioners have: identified the first year of higher education (FYHE) as being critical to the successful completion of undergraduate degrees; implemented programs for improving the co-curricular and curricular experiences of first year university students; and articulated pedagogical practices that should inform the design of institution-wide transition curricula. While there is a rich tradition of research that concentrates on how the experiences of first year students can be improved, only a small portion of the research centralises student voices.
Political and cultural forces are demanding a shift in the conceptualisation of university in the twenty-first century. Recent research suggests that to address the shift, pedagogy should be the focus of academic professional development. This thesis argues that the shift should not be to pedagogy but to learning, and this study conceptualises ways in which this shift can be achieved. This thesis acknowledges the necessity for creating a transition curriculum that helps a university reach these goals, but argues that while past research is highly valuable, building on ideas that were developed in a different communicative, technological and social context will only provide a partial understanding of the needs of contemporary first year students.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Education and Professional Practice
Arts, Education and Law
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Timucin, Metin. "Teaching literature in a Turkish EFL context : empirical exploration of activity-based and process-oriented approaches." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325685.
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Cheng, Shih-Ping. "Using corpora with Taiwanese college students in a student-centred, corpus-assisted translation curriculum." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.673793.
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Previous studies show that corpora are helpful to translation teaching and learning in numerous ways; however, the students' use of and attitudes towards corpus-assisted translation are seldom discussed. This research addresses the following two issues regarding the implementation of a student-centred corpus-assisted translation approach with Taiwanese university students. Firstly, how do students use corpora to learn translation, and what are students' perceived benefits and difficulties in this process? Secondly, is the approach helpful to the students' learning attitudes towards translation? A case study of the approach was conducted to investigate how the designed curriculum was taught and how students responded to it. Questionnaires, student group interviews, students' online feedback pre-test and post-test, and query log analysis were adopted as instruments to verify the results.
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Poyatos, Matas Cristina. "Exploring grammar learning and teaching as a student-centred process /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18762.pdf.
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Karlsson, David. "Multiple methodology use in student centred tailor-made language education." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Education, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-2219.
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Much of the content of modern day language didactics can accomplish a lot when it comes to details and specific areas of learning, but rather seldom does it give a larger picture that can serve as a base to explore new territory and develop another way of teaching and learning.
The aim of this thesis is to develop a practical concept that enfolds some of these theories and ideas.
Instead of a focus on methodology this thesis attracts attention to the roles of both teachers and students as well as the use of multiple methodology use because of the goal which is individualised education.
Another issue is the mentality of the learner with the polyglot as the model for an efficient language learner. These ideas affect the content of the tool for investigation, documentation and guidance of the students that is presented.
Key words: learner styles, multiple methodology use, coach, human character, polyglot, individualisation and artificial language environment.
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Chalkley, Simon Timothy. "Student-centred quality improvement systems in manufacturing engineering higher education." Thesis, Brunel University, 1996. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5435.
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Recent changes within British higher education have led to a refocus as to the purpose of such education. This movement has been particularly noticeable in the engineering disciplines. These changes have involved a move towards a more 'transformational' objective, where the emphasis is on the development of the full range of learning abilities within a student coupled with an external, or 'real world', orientation. To develop such learning abilities requires specific educational approaches that are based on student-centred processes and the preparation for lifelong learning. This new purpose, and its inherent educational methods, has implications for the type of quality improvement systems adopted. Robust approaches developed in manufacturing industries have been identified, and the thesis argues that quality systems based on developments in these industries can be used in higher education to create a culture that engenders this positive learning approach. This involves a move away from passive, quantitative quality monitoring systems that focus on the 'product' of learning, and move towards more qualitative, active and dynamic department-wide quality improvement systems that focus on the developmental 'process'. Traditional methods of addressing quality in higher education departments can be seen to focus on rudimentary control mechanisms, where action is post-process and reactive, and where the feedback loop often not closed, i.e. preventative and corrective actions, when identified, are not initiated. Such approaches add very little to the purpose of higher education (i.e. developing the range of 'transformational' learning abilities), as there is an overemphasis on evaluation and not enough emphasis on enhancement, development and preparation for continuous learning. The main thesis, therefore, links learning theory to quality theory, via the concepts of development cycles, lifelong learning and continuous improvement. To ascertain the validity of the theses required a research methodology that was based on an in-depth longitudinal action/applied research case study. The research involved a three and a half year study of the quality improvement systems of a manufacturing engineering department of a British university. The research introduced and investigated a strategy that would result in a move from the 'post-process/passive' student involvement to 'in-process/ active'. The case study found that the thesis was valid, in that particular students and members of staff adopted the quality improvement system (i.e. a change in observable behaviour). The contribution to knowledge involves the examination of the interaction between departmental culture and systems, where a 'cultural shift' is necessary involving (i) a change in the role of the undergraduate student (i.e. from passive members in the process, to central participants in the creation and improvement of quality), and (ii) a change in the focus of quality (i.e. from checking that learning was taken place, to promoting and preparing students for lifelong learning).
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Clafferty, Elaine Margaret. "An academically centred paradigm for optimum student retention and success." Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2017. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.743895.
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Griffiths, Rhian. "Person centred annual reviews : a vehicle to foster student engagement? : an exploration into students', parents/carers' and school staff's perspectives of person centred annual reviews and their impact upon student engagement." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2015. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/74538/.
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This exploratory study examines the views and experiences of students, parents/carers and school staff of person centred annual reviews (PCARs). Furthermore, the impact of this process is explored in terms of student engagement. Focus groups were held with students to elicit their views. Parents'/carers' and school staff's views were obtained through semi-structured interviews. The data demonstrated positive attitudes towards the PCARs across all participant groups and the themes identified were applicable to Appleton et al's (2006) construct and model of student engagement. Findings suggests that PCARs can foster student engagement. The relevance of the findings and research areas are discussed with regards to the role of the educational psychologist and professional practice.
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Jasper, Melanie Ann. "The development of reflective writing strategies in nursing education." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297359.
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Doige, Lynda Ann Curwen. "Canadian aboriginal children's literature : an analytical study of literacy and instruction as a basis for intercultural and interpersonal development." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366361.
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RAMPOLDI, GIULIA. "DIDATTICA INNOVATIVA E PERCEZIONE DEI DOCENTI: IL COLT PROJECT NELLE SCUOLE DI MEDICINA." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/305232.
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Nell’era dello sviluppo tecnologico, della globalizzazione e di contesti lavorativi sempre più interdisciplinari diviene importante, se non necessario, recuperare e approfondire quei modelli educativi che fanno della relazione il centro del processo di apprendimento al fine di formare studenti che siano in grado di dare un senso agli strumenti acquisiti piuttosto che esserne agenti passivi.
Alla luce di questa necessità, il presente elaborato intende concentrarsi sull’innovazione della formazione universitaria nel particolare contesto della medical education italiana. Al fine di accompagnare i lettori nel progressivo avvicinamento a questo tema, l’articolazione dei capitoli procede dal generale al particolare. I lettori inizieranno il loro viaggio con la scoperta delle nuove teorie dell’apprendimento a cui sono associati innovativi metodi didattici, per poi incontrare le specifiche della nuova formazione universitaria influenzata da queste innovazioni ed infine il particolare mondo della formazione medica universitaria. Dopo aver acquisito una conoscenza del contesto innovativo all’interno del quale si sta muovendo la nuova formazione universitaria nel contesto medico, i lettori potranno procedere alla consultazione di due ricerche svolte all’interno di questo panorama pratico-teorico. Le ricerche sono presentate seguendo la struttura di articoli scientifici così da essere auto-consistenti. Alla luce della letteratura di riferimento gli obiettivi del primo studio sono: 1) tradurre, adattare e validare in italiano il Conceptions of Learning and Teaching (COLT) così che possa diventare uno strumento di promozione e monitoraggio in merito all’ implementazione di una didattica maggiormente student-centred nei diversi Atenei italiani ed 2) acquisire una prima rappresentazione campionaria in merito allo stato dell’arte dell’atteggiamento didattico dei docenti di diverse università italiane così da poter eventualmente implementare percorsi di formazione specifici rivolti ai docenti. Dal primo studio emerge che: 1) la versione italiana del questionario (COLT-IT) è composta da due sotto-scale (Teacher Centredness e Appreciation of Active Leraning) ciascuna di 5 items e 2) i docenti delle scuole di medicina italiane mostrano un atteggiamento maggiormente centrato sullo studente piuttosto che sul docente. In diretta continuità con il primo studio, la seconda ricerca ha lo scopo di 1) valutare la patient-centredness dei docenti di diverse scuole di medicina italiane e la presenza di eventuali differenze di genere e 2) la relazione statistica quantitativa tra le concezioni dei docenti sull’apprendimento/insegnamento (student-centred o teacher-centred) e la loro attitudine all’essere patient-centred o doctor-centred così da acquisire informazioni in merito alle variabili che potrebbero sostenere lo sviluppo di un atteggiamento centrato sul paziente degli studenti di medicina. Dal secondo studio emergono 1) delle differenze di genere nella patient centredness dei docenti, 2) un’associazione negativa tra l’atteggiamento centrato sul docente e le scale di Caring e Sharing e 3) un’associazione positiva tra l’atteggiamento centrato sullo studente e la scala del Caring. In conclusione, il presente elaborato permette di acquisire ulteriori evidenze scientifiche a sostegno dello sforzo nella promozione ed implementazione della didattica centrata sullo studente nelle scuole di medicina italiane.In the era of technological development, globalization and increasingly interdisciplinary work contexts, it becomes important, if not necessary, to recover and deepen those educational models that make relationships the centre of the learning process in order to train students who are able to give a sense of the tools acquired rather than being passive agents. Considering this need, this paper intends to focus on the innovation of university education in the context of Italian medical education. In order to accompany readers in the progressive approach to this theme, the articulation of the chapters proceeds from the general to the particular. Readers will begin their journey with the discovery of new learning theories associated with innovative teaching methods, to then meet the specifics of the new university education influenced by these innovations and finally the specific world of university medical education. After acquiring a knowledge of the innovative context within which the new university training in the medical context is moving, readers will be able to consult two research studies carried out within this practical-theoretical panorama. Research is presented following the structure of scientific articles. In light of the relevant literature, the objectives of the first study are: 1) to translate, adapt and validate the Conceptions of Learning and Teaching (COLT) in Italian so that it can become a tool for promoting and monitoring the implementation of a more student-centered approach in the Italian universities and 2) to acquire a first representation of the state of the art of the teaching attitude of the teachers of different Italian universities so as to be able to eventually implement specific training courses aimed at teachers. The first study shows that: 1) the Italian version of the questionnaire (COLT-IT) is composed of two sub-scales (Teacher Centredness and Appreciation of Active Leraning) each of 5 items and 2) the teachers of the Italian medical schools show more student-centered rather than teacher-centered approach. In direct continuity with the first study, the second research aims to 1) evaluate the patient-centeredness of teachers from different Italian medical schools and the presence of any gender differences and 2) the quantitative statistical relationship between teachers' conceptions on learning / teaching (student-centered or teacher-centered) and their aptitude to be patient-centered or doctor-centered so as to acquire information about the variables that could support the development of medical students’ patient-centeredness. The second study reveals 1) gender differences in teachers' patient centeredness, 2) a negative association between teacher-centeredness and the Caring and Sharing scales, and 3) a positive association between student-centeredness and the Caring scale. In conclusion, this thesis allows to provide further scientific evidence to support the effort in the promotion and implementation of student-centered teaching in Italian medical schools.
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Saunders, Daniel M. "Developing student-centred learning within higher education through simulation gaming and innovation." Thesis, University of South Wales, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284892.
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McMahon, Tim. "Using self- and peer-assessment in post-sixteen education in order to promote autonomy and deep learning : and through this, helping to engender in students the skills essential to political literacy and make the curriculum more concordant with democratic." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389535.
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Msonde, Charles Enock. "Enhancing teachers' competencies on learner-centred approaches throughlearning study in Tanzanian schools." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47229858.
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Despite being exposed to the Learner-Centred Approach (LCA) through
traditional teacher professional development since 2000, teachers in Tanzania have
generally failed to implement LCA in secondary schools. However, previous studies
on the learning study in different parts of the world have shown encouraging results
in developing teachers’ competencies. This study investigates how the learning study
guided by the variation theory can enhance teachers’ competencies using the LCA in
Tanzania secondary schools. It addresses two questions: what are the changes of
teachers’ understanding of LCA through learning study rounds in a Tanzanian
secondary school? And, what are the changes of teachers’ capability of
implementing LCA through learning study rounds in bringing about student learning
in a Tanzanian secondary school?
A group of three teachers (John, Benja & Peter) in a school implemented
learning studies for a period of one year. All forms two (N= 255) and three (N=240)
students took part in three research lessons. The study adopted case study and
phenomenographic research approaches. It used teachers’ interview protocols, lesson video recordings, lesson preparatory meetings, teacher’s journals, and students’ tests
as research instruments. The teachers’ experiences and implemention of the LCA
were studied before and during the three rounds of learning studies. Data were
analysed using variation framework and SPSS version 16.0 for students’ tests.
The study has two main findings. First, teachers involved in the three
learning study rounds changed their understanding of LCA. They changed from
seeing LCA as methodological (before the learning study) to treating it as subject
content and even as far as seeing it as object of learning (during the learning studies)
orientations. These changes were gradual and differed slightly, depending on the
particular aspect(s) (the method, the content or the object of learning) a teacher
focused more on than other aspects at a given time.
Second, guided by the variation theory through learning studies, teachers’
capability to implement LCA improved progressively in slightly different ways,
which in turn improved student learning. The teachers changed from simply making
classroom pedagogical arrangements before the learning study to engaging the
learners in either the content or the object of learning and enabling them to discern
critical aspects of the objects of learning in terms of variation and invariance of those
aspects during the learning studies.
The study concludes that implementing learning study - guided by the
variation theory - may be effective in enhancing teachers’ ways of conceiving and
practicing LCA with a primary focus on student learning. In addition, as teachers
increase their understanding of learning study and the use of variation theory they
may advance their understandings in designing and teaching LCA lessons, thereby
increasing possibilities for student learning. Such a conclusion lends credence to
the variation theory which purports that powerful ways of acting originates from
powerful ways of seeing. It also extends this theory to teacher learning of the LCA
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Kavari, Jackson-Hain Jakavaza Katjiuanjo. "Examining the knowledge and practices of selected Namibian accounting teachers about learner-centred methods of teaching." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1009428.
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Learner-centred education has been in force in all schools in the Republic of Namibia since 1996. Progress towards adoption of learner-centred methods of teaching by teachers has been slow. The main purpose of this study is to examine how teachers understand the principles of learner-centred education in selected Secondary Schools in Omaheke Education Region. The secondary purpose of this study is to determine how teachers could be helped to improve the implementation of learner-centred education (LCE). The study used a qualitative approach. Data were collected from a purposively selected sample of Grade 10 accounting teachers in a specific region in Namibia by means of interviews, classroom observations and a qualitative questionnaire. Data were analysed thematically. The results indicated that, although the teachers had a positive attitude towards learner-centred education, they did not have the skills to adapt their teaching in an appropriate way to cope with the learner‟s lack of English literacy. The teachers possessed basic knowledge of learner-centred education practices, but found it very difficult to implement them in resource-poor environments. In addition, factors that hindered the effective implementation of learner-centred education in the classroom were identified. The study suggests ways to improve the knowledge and practices of teachers with regard to learner-centred teaching practices.
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Sproston, Carlyn, and res cand@acu edu au. "When Students Negotiate: an action research case study of a year 8 English class in a Catholic secondary college in regional Victoria." Australian Catholic University. School of Education, 2005. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp88.09042006.
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This action research study examines the learning experiences of Year 8 students and their teacher as they negotiate aspects of their English classes. The study takes place in a regional Catholic co-educational secondary college in Victoria, Australia. The question of understanding the lived experience of ourselves and other is fundamental to this study, which is situated within an holistic, enactivist view of the world. From this perspective learning is a shared activity in which students participate in creating their own interpretation as they interact with others to bring forth understanding. The study focuses on classroom practice which aims to include all participants, through negotiation, in the actions that take place in the classroom. I have used a narrative approach to describe the way in which three action research cycles were implemented in the English classroom during one academic year. A variety of data gathering techniques was used and these included: classroom questionnaires, classroom meetings, journals, partnership observation and interviews. The main sources of data were the interviews that I undertook with each of the twenty five students in the class. The three action research cycles allowed both the students and me to reflect upon classroom activities and make appropriate changes as the cycles progressed. In addition, negotiating in this English class has helped me to better understand my students and, through reflection, to improve my teaching practice. Analysis of the data suggests that students experience greater commitment and motivation when they are given opportunities to be actively involved in contributing to their own learning. The data also supports research that recognises the importance of collaboration, positive relationships within the classroom, the importance of metacognitive skills and student voice. In addition, the findings point to the value of action research as a method of improving teaching practice.
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Linde, M. (Merlin). "Knowledge construction and psychological need support in student-centred learning contexts: an experiment with Estonian 6th grade students." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201706022427.
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The present study analysed the learning outcomes and psychological need support of Estonian 6th grade students (N = 43) in collaborative, peer-supported and individual learning contexts. The study compared the three learning contexts in terms of knowledge construction and psychological need support as well as analysed the relationship between knowledge construction, work performance and psychological need support across the learning contexts. The study was experimental and was designed as a problem-based history lesson, where students were asked to complete a problem-based worksheet either collaboratively (N = 23), individually (N = 9) or with peer support (N = 10). Students were also asked to fill in a pre-test and post-test questionnaire to measure their knowledge and self-reported psychological need support or thwarting. The findings of this study suggest that students’ psychological needs are most supported in peer learning contexts. It was also found that learning outcomes are connected to psychological need support and good work performance does not necessarily predict high quality knowledge construction. The study found collaborative learning to be the learning context where students create best-quality products and peer learning to result in the highest quality of constructed knowledge. While the empirical findings of this study supported the theory and the posed hypotheses, additional research could confirm and elaborate these results. Implications for teaching practice and future research were discussed.
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Ndlovu, Wonderful Modo. "Exploring student-centred approaches in lecturing music education at Molepolole College of Education." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65591.
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This study explored how music education pedagogies in Botswana colleges of education can be enhanced and broadened through the adoption of student-centred teaching approaches. A constructivist theoretical framework was used to guide the study. This theory describes various ways in which people acquire knowledge and learn, and promote active engagement of learners during the learning process. A qualitative research approach was adopted and Molepolole College of Education was used as a case study. Data was collected using three methods: semi-structured interviews with music education lecturers; evaluation of lessons by students; and a lesson observation by an independent assessor. Two qualitative data analysis techniques – the constant comparative analysis method and the narrative analysis method – were used to analyse the data, and the specific objectives of the study were adopted as the analytical and presentation framework of the study results. The overall results revealed that while music lecturers were aware of the key tenets of student-centred teaching approaches, most of them continued to use lecture-centred approaches in their teaching of music. Based on the findings of the study, the researcher recommends that: student-centred approaches are adopted as the methodology of choice in music departments, and that music lecturers should be capacitated in the form of short refresher courses and workshops on student-centred lecturing approaches. Another recommendation is that music education should be introduced at all levels of education to ensure that all students have some basic music background by the time they reach tertiary education level, and that further research should be undertaken to explore other factors that the study could not go into in detail.Mini Dissertation (MMus)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Khaled, Mélissa. "Learning styles, Personalization, and Learning Management Systems : Towards a Student-Centred LMS Approach." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-447989.
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This study investigates existing learning management systems practices, in this case Canvas and Moodle in relation to user personalization and students’ learning styles as both factors are closely contribute to the design of a meaningful learning experience for learners. With the expansion of these teaching tools and methods, it seems crucial to determine to what extent they actually serve the learner and what role is really given to the student using these online platforms. Factors such as instructors’ feedback, peer communication, learning objects and follow-up will be examined. This study is anchored in a Swedish academic setting, and aims to provide a comprehensive overview of learners' needs, expectations, and preferences to benefit educational institutions as well as LMS developers. The goal is to assess how such factors play an essential role in the personalization of learning tools and to suggest that their consideration can lead to the development of more intuitive LMS platforms that do not solely rely on content uploaded by teachers, but that can in turn potentially offer relevant content tailored to each user.Den här uppsatsen undersöker befintliga praxis för lärande hanteringssystem, i detta fall Canvas och Moodle, i förhållande till användaranpassning och studenternas inlärningsstilar, eftersom båda faktorerna bidrar till utformningen av en meningsfull inlärningsupplevelse för studenterna. På grund av expansionen av dessa undervisningsverktyg verkar det avgörande att bestämma i vilken utsträckning de faktiskt tjänar inläraren och vilken roll studenten verkligen får när hen använder dessa plattformar. Faktorer som lärarnas återkoppling, kommunikation med andra elever, lärandeobjekt och uppföljning kommer att undersökas noggrant. Studien är förankrad i en svensk akademisk miljö och syftar att ge en heltäckande översikt av inlärarnas behov, förväntningar och preferenser. Målet är att förstå hur dessa faktorer spelar en väsentlig roll i personaliseringen av lärverktyg och att föreslå att deras beaktande kan leda till utveckling av mer intuitiva LMS-plattformar som inte enbart förlitar sig på innehåll som laddas upp av lärare, utan som i sin tur potentiellt kan erbjuda relevant innehåll som är skräddarsytt för varje användare.
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Morrissey, Dorothy. "A performance-centred narrative inquiry into the gender narratives of postgraduate student teachers." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.686415.
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This dissertation represents an inquiry into the narratives of gender embedded in the narratives of experience of a cohort of postgraduate student teachers, in the first semester of a three-semester initial (primary) teacher education programme in Ireland. The inquiry involved an attempt to explore gender narratives (using an inquiry based approach to aesthetic education) on a drama education course. The aims of the inquiry were 1) to make visible the extent to which gender, as a cultural construction, is taken for granted, 2) to interrupt culturally dominant narratives of gender with narratives that reveal their effects and the power structures upholding them, and 3) to create possibilities for the students to generate alternative constructions of gender and alternative narratives of experience. The focus was, therefore, a pedagogical as well as a research/inquiry one. The teaching/inquiry process was guided by the notion that people make sense of their experiences and shape their identities by making and sharing (or performing) stories. Guided thus, narrative and arts-based approaches were used as research/inquiry methods, as pedagogical approaches and as representational tools. Engagement with theoretical literature was integral to both the teaching/inquiry process and the subsequent representation/inquiry process. Among the theoretical narratives engaged with are feminist post-structuralism and performance studies. In these narratives, identity, knowledge and truth are constructed as provisional, in process, multiple, interconnected and embedded in larger systems of power. So, as a performance-centred narrative inquiry, this inquiry does not focus on structures or products but on the stories, tensions and performances that are produced by these structures and products. The dissertation text represents but one possible account of the teaching/inquiry process in which the students and the researcher (co)performed their narratives in the making. And, in its employment of multiple forms of representation, the dissertation text is constructed to open spaces for readers to engage with it in multiple ways.
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Ismail, Nashwa. "Egyptian higher education tutors' perceptions of student-centred learning in the online environment." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2017. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/405525/.
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It is widely acknowledged that student-centred learning (SCL) gives learners feelings of being appreciated and respected, and thus helps students to be engaged and motivated to learn. SCL is an approach implemented in online learning (OL). This study investigates the role of the tutor, in implementing and facilitating SCL as a positive learning environment in the specific context of OL in Egyptian Higher Education (HE). The study examines tutors’ perceptions of SCL in OL as a concept and the factors that influence these perceptions, the pedagogical approaches they need to successfully implement SCL, and the affordances and challenges of this implementation in the specific context of Egyptian HE. Data for this study was collected from 20 online tutors at two major Egyptian universities in Northern Egypt both in focus groups and in individual semi-structured interviews. This study contributes to the area of research into SCL on matters such as definition of SCL, tutors’ approaches to understanding the concept, and its practical application in OL. The study investigates the pedagogical repertoire tutors need to implement SCL, describes approaches and strategies applied in SCL, and highlights results which can be used to offer support and guidance to tutors in order to facilitate their students' ongoing learning processes, leading to individually tailored and flexible education paths. The study findings indicate that online tutors approach the issue of SCL in OL with reference to four main aspects: prerequisites, challenges, concerns and solutions. The main research findings are that student control and independence are not widely practised in online Egyptian HE. There are many concerns for online tutors when empowering students such as: losing control, losing tutors’ respect and the invisibility of online students for monitoring them. Moreover, the research found that student trust is an issue that needs to be resolved. For tutors, tutor-student trust is a process that requires students’ early preparation to learn how to be responsible. The study found that social collaboration in OL offers promising opportunities for educational reform in Egyptian HE, particularly with respect to problems such as overcrowded classes. Furthermore, tutors acknowledged the importance of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in gaining the professional and experiential skills that they need to develop their teaching practices. Another finding of this study, referring to the low wages for tutors in Egypt, is that financial incentives have a significant impact on tutors’ feelings that they are invested in and acknowledged by their academic institutions. Consequently, tutors are getting engaged with the learning community and using the utmost abilities to pursue their work.
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Taylor, Sandra. "The reciprocal influence of person centred counselling students and trainers." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-reciprocal-influence-of-person-centred-counselling-students-and-trainers(3ed01336-39d3-432e-b522-e8f9fdbdde40).html.
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The University of ManchesterSandra TaylorDoctor of PhilosophyThe Reciprocal Influence Of Person Centred Counselling Students And Trainers2013This research has explored the reciprocal influence of counselling students and trainers in the UK, through the researcher’s lens of being a Person Centred trainer. The methodology evolved into relational heuristic research, an adaptation of heuristic research which is itself a contribution to knowledge. It is a qualitative approach that holds the researcher/trainer’s heuristic experience as its core whilst including and valuing the experience of others. Six pairs of former counselling students and trainers were interviewed together, followed by eight interviews between the researcher and her former students. The interviews provided the opportunity for the co-creation of a coherent story of their reciprocal influence and enabled clarification, corroboration, disagreement, memory jogging, and the emergence of surprises. Participants in the six interviews were gained through the researcher’s professional networks and so were convenience sampling. The eight former students were from the 22 invited whom the researcher had worked with two years previously. As is typical of heuristic research the analysis was a long, iterative and creative process of incubation and illumination.The main finding, available only because of the former students and trainers being interviewed together, is the uniqueness, complexity and richness of counselling student-trainer relationships. The three other substantial findings are: the huge impact of the transferential/countertransferential relationship between students and trainers; the nuances of liking and favouritism between students and trainers; and an invaluable insight into challenges and difficulties within the student-trainer relationship and their impact.In addition to the findings and discussion the researcher also offers a creative synthesis and a summary of learning, not to be turned into general principles and procedures but for each reader to resonate with their own experiences and see what does and doesn’t fit. This is in keeping with the complexity and uniqueness of experience found in the research. Specific contributions of this research for past, present and future counselling students and trainers as well as for course development are also discussed.
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Tangney, Susan Jean. "An interpretive study of student-centred learning through constructivist, humanist and socio-cultural lenses." Thesis, Open University, 2011. http://oro.open.ac.uk/49153/.
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The notion of student-centred learning is ubiquitous in the pedagogic literature, in learning and teaching statements of universities, and within course documentation. However it is not often defined, and an informal investigation of university staff revealed a variety of conflicting Interpretations. This ambiguity Is problematic for academic developers, and so warranted further Investigation through literature review and interviews with academic staff from the researcher's university. The literature review revealed diversity in understanding, and on examination, ideas were underpinned by a range of perspectives on learning per se. Three different perspectives, namely constructivism, humanism and socio-culturalism were examined for their respective alignment and value in thinking about student-centred learning. Many interpretations were within a constructivist framework, others more aligned with humanist or socio-cultural perspectives. The term student-centred learning was also used in association with contemporary ideas such as employability, widening participation and social justice. A constructivist grounded approach was used to collect data through interviews with lecturers teaching in art and design, and transcripts considered from the three perspectives above. It is argued in the findings that although constructivist interpretations of student-centred learning dominate the literature, other perspectives are also evident in the conceptions and practice of the group interviewed, and incorporation of these offered a more appropriate approach to contemporary issues in higher education, especially in building a partnership approach between lecturers and students. It is suggested that technicist approaches, though often based within constructivism, may have caused the proliferation of a 'slogan' approach to the student-centred learning discourse.
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Mohamed, Hana. "Student centred intercultural interactive processing model of reading EFL fiction in the Libyan context." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2017. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=232406.
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Using literary texts in the EFL classroom has been widely practised in the field of EFL teaching and learning. Many scholars ascertain that English literary texts provide language learners with a kind of authentic language used by native speakers in real contexts. Research studies in the EFL field illustrate that EFL learners' problems in reading English literary texts are due to two main reasons. Firstly, the complex structure of literary texts. Secondly, lack of familiarity with the cultural content of English literary texts. However, the present study sets out to suggest that collaborative work in the classroom can bridge learners' difficulties in constructing the meaning of literary texts. In Libyan universities, learners in the Department of English Language and Linguistics study literature for a considerable period of their university program. The present research suggests a new model to improve the teaching of literary short fiction in one of the English departments in Libyan universities. The new model emphasizes three main tenets: 1. The role of background knowledge in processing literary short fiction. The background knowledge includes not only knowledge of English language but also familiarity with cultural content of the literary text as well as the formal organization of the literary texts. 2. Since language and culture are intertwined, the approach focuses on developing Libyan learners' cultural and intercultural awareness. 3. The approach suggests the use of Learning Conversations as a scaffolding procedure that allows more interaction and negotiation for co-constructing the meaning of the text. The study adopts a qualitative research approach. The investigation is carried out across three phases. Phase 1 focuses on the assessment of the Libyan EFL participant problems in reading literary texts by interviewing the ten participants and using a diagnostic test. The second phase is interventional. It seeks to investigate learners' development in constructing the meaning of literary text through the suggested scaffolding procedure (i.e. Learning Conversations). The third phase of the investigation explores learners' reflections on the effectiveness of interactive work in reading literature. The study aims at providing evidence of Libyan EFL learners' perspective of the new model and the development of their understanding.
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Law, Barry Alan, and n/a. "Experiential Education as a Best Practice Pedagogy for Environmental Education in Teacher Education." Griffith University. Australian School of Environmental Studies, 2003. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20031117.090529.
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This thesis examines the potential of experiential education as a 'best practice' pedagogy for pre-service teacher education in environmental education. The study involves forty pre-service teachers working collaboratively with the researcher in 1998 to test the assumptions of two previous groups of beginning teachers (1996 and 1997) who indicated in their course evaluations that experiential education may provide an effective teaching and learning approach for environmental education. This study combines two approaches to participative inquiry: action inquiry and cooperative inquiry. Both research approaches promote reflection-in-action and involve groups of individuals working collaboratively together as reflective practitioners. The data sources included reflective journals, a researcher diary, pre and post course questionnaires, individual interviews and group interviews. The environmental education course is a single case study and reflects the experience of three groups of students. The first group completed a 20 hour course in experiential education before starting the environmental education course, the second group completed both courses concurrently, while the third group only completed the environmental education course. The purpose of the literature review in experiential education and environmental education in teacher education is to provide a rationale for using a transformative teaching and learning approach in pre-service teacher education for environmental education. Contemporary best practice pedagogical approaches for environmental education are supported by many of the core principles of experiential education highlighting compatibility between theory and practice. The findings show that a transformative teaching and learning approach in environmental education was achieved by combining four key characteristics of experiential education in a holistic process. The four characteristics included reflection, connection to personal experience, emotionally engaged learning and student-centred teaching and learning. The impact of combining these four characteristics resulted in higher interest, motivation and enthusiasm for achieving the social action outcomes of environmental education. Thus, the pre-service teachers confirmed a synergy emerged between the outcomes of environmental education and the pedagogical process of experiential education. The experiential approach allowed the pre-service teachers to engage in the role of the critical reflective practitioner. Consequently, the pre-service teachers were able to identify the potential and possibilities for implementing experiential education strategies in environmental education and also recognise and challenge the barriers that confine and constrain its use in teacher education and formal schooling. As a consequence the pre-service teachers identified that working in collaborative groups of reflective practitioners was essential to continue developing effective facilitation skills and also to help them challenge traditional practice that limited their professional development. They also identified significant changes to the pre-service environmental education course to ensure a higher quality experience for subsequent groups of beginning teachers. The study highlights the need for more research into how well beginning teacher implementing environmental education function as reflective practitioners in their first few years in teaching and are able to challenge the barriers that limit transformative pedagogical approaches in schools.
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Law, Barry Alan. "Experiential Education as a Best Practice Pedagogy for Environmental Education in Teacher Education." Thesis, Griffith University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365587.
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This thesis examines the potential of experiential education as a 'best practice' pedagogy for pre-service teacher education in environmental education. The study involves forty pre-service teachers working collaboratively with the researcher in 1998 to test the assumptions of two previous groups of beginning teachers (1996 and 1997) who indicated in their course evaluations that experiential education may provide an effective teaching and learning approach for environmental education. This study combines two approaches to participative inquiry: action inquiry and cooperative inquiry. Both research approaches promote reflection-in-action and involve groups of individuals working collaboratively together as reflective practitioners. The data sources included reflective journals, a researcher diary, pre and post course questionnaires, individual interviews and group interviews. The environmental education course is a single case study and reflects the experience of three groups of students. The first group completed a 20 hour course in experiential education before starting the environmental education course, the second group completed both courses concurrently, while the third group only completed the environmental education course. The purpose of the literature review in experiential education and environmental education in teacher education is to provide a rationale for using a transformative teaching and learning approach in pre-service teacher education for environmental education. Contemporary best practice pedagogical approaches for environmental education are supported by many of the core principles of experiential education highlighting compatibility between theory and practice. The findings show that a transformative teaching and learning approach in environmental education was achieved by combining four key characteristics of experiential education in a holistic process. The four characteristics included reflection, connection to personal experience, emotionally engaged learning and student-centred teaching and learning. The impact of combining these four characteristics resulted in higher interest, motivation and enthusiasm for achieving the social action outcomes of environmental education. Thus, the pre-service teachers confirmed a synergy emerged between the outcomes of environmental education and the pedagogical process of experiential education. The experiential approach allowed the pre-service teachers to engage in the role of the critical reflective practitioner. Consequently, the pre-service teachers were able to identify the potential and possibilities for implementing experiential education strategies in environmental education and also recognise and challenge the barriers that confine and constrain its use in teacher education and formal schooling. As a consequence the pre-service teachers identified that working in collaborative groups of reflective practitioners was essential to continue developing effective facilitation skills and also to help them challenge traditional practice that limited their professional development. They also identified significant changes to the pre-service environmental education course to ensure a higher quality experience for subsequent groups of beginning teachers. The study highlights the need for more research into how well beginning teacher implementing environmental education function as reflective practitioners in their first few years in teaching and are able to challenge the barriers that limit transformative pedagogical approaches in schools.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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Australian School of Environmental Studies
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Гнаповська, Людмила Вадимівна, Людмила Вадимовна Гнаповская, and Liudmyla Vadymivna Hnapovska. "Learner-centred Language Teaching: Teacher-Learner interaction Formats." Thesis, ХНУ ім. В.Н. Каразіна, 2015. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/60131.
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The abstract dwells on the key issues related to the necessity of changing teacher-student partnership formats in the context of learner-centred approach to teaching foreign languages. The interpretation of "learner-centredness" as a concept is put into the humanistic perspective, the perspective of practical necessity, and the curriculum design perspective.Тези розглядають основні питання взаємодії викладача та студента у контексті студентоцентричного підходу до викладання іноземних мов. "Студентоцентризм" як концепт інтерпретується з точки зору гуманістичної перспективи, практичної необхідності зміни форматів співробітництва викладача та студента та перспектив розробки навчальних робочих програм з іноземних мов.
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Angula, Adelheid. "nvestigating grade 10 geography teachers' implementation of a learner-centred approach in selected Namibian schools." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004459.
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Geography, more than other subjects in the curriculum, plays a central role in general education in equipping learners with skills and competencies needed for modern living and global citizenship. A learner-centred education in Namibia was adopted to provide more opportunities for learners to develop the required skills and competencies irrespective of their different cultural background. This small-scale case study investigated three Grade 10 geography teachers' understanding and implementation ofa learner-centred approach to gain insights into how leamer-centred education is being implemented in the context of Geography. The research design adopted a qualitative approach within an interpretative orientation. Data were collected through interviews, classroom observations and documentary analysis. The research was conducted at three selected schools in Oshikoto Region with three Grade 10 geography teachers The findings revealed, firstly, that teachers have a limited understanding of the key ideas ofLCE, such as, prior knowledge, role of questioning, and social interaction in learning; use of resources and the types of assessment activities which comply with the aims of LCE. Seconclly, the findings revealed that the policy documents, such as syllabuses, that are being used by the participants are not in line with the tenets ofLCE. Thirdly, teachers appeared to have limited subject knowledge, as revealed by their lack of understanding of how to translate the aims and assessment objectives into their daily lessons. The study therefore raises some possibilities for improving the implementation of LCE in the selected schools if the gaps as identified by this study are reduced.
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Zhong, Hua. "The effectiveness of student-centred learning in the development of a new communication curriculum in China." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2010. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/9102/.
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This study examines the introduction of a new communications key skills course in Chinese vocational education colleges, using a student-centred learning approach. This was established in response to the changing demands of employers in China’s new environment of economic growth and competition. The research explores teachers’ and students’ understanding of key skills and their attitudes to student centred learning, an approach very different to China’s traditional didactic methods. The effects of the new course are examined and barriers to effective implementation are analysed. The research was based on five higher education institutions. Both quantitative and qualitative techniques were used. Three questionnaires were employed, and three of the institutions were singled out for more detailed qualitative analysis. Through a series of case studies, focus groups, interviews and class observations data was gathered to reveal underlying attitudes towards the experiences of the new course. Both teachers and students welcomed the new approach. It was found to facilitate the development of complex communication ‘key skills’, as students were actively involved, working in groups and learning from each other. The role of the teacher changed significantly, from ‘provider of information’ to facilitator of learning. Designing activities and resources to motivate students and meet their learning needs was a new experience for Chinese teachers, as curriculum development and course textbooks had always been provided centrally. Teachers encountered a number of barriers to successful course implementation; these included difficulties in adjusting to the new methods; lack of suitable resources; poor staff development and lack of support from college management. However, both teachers and students noted an increase in students’ confidence and self-awareness resulting from the new course. Students particularly appreciated the benefits that this might bring in terms of their employability as well as their social capabilities. Recommendations are made for the further development of a student-centred learning model for communication course in Chinese vocational colleges.
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Hsu, Yun-Teng. "The effects of applying student-centred approaches on EFL undergraduates conducting business English writing in Taiwan." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.676523.
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This study aims to examine the effects of applying corpus driven learning, language learning strategies, English writing strategies, online collaborative writing, and peer feedback on how EFL undergraduates conduct business writing. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods were applied to analysing relevant data collected from 80 undergraduates studying at a university in southern Taiwan. They were allocated into two classes: the control group and the experimental group. Over the 2012/2013 academic semesters, the following four major treatments: (a) corpus linguistic features and techniques, (b) language learning strategies, (c) English writing strategies, and (d) online collaborative writing and peer feedback, were implemented in the experimental group and after-hours online learning platforms. The grades of pre-test and post-test were analysed from various respects, so the effects of applying these treatments on business writing were assessed. Most participants from experimental group highly evaluated the effectiveness of applying the blended four-treatment approaches to facilitating them in making significant progress in business English writing. In this experimental research, as no difference between the mean pre-test scores of the experimental group and the control group was found, those participants who attended the experimental blended four-treatment course for one academic year would, on average, achieve a post-test score 22.321 points higher than those undergraduates from the control group during the same period of time. The blended four-treatment approaches did not deny the value of the traditional teacher-centred pedagogy; instead, the teacher's intervention was still functioning in the whole project. However, the blended student-centred approaches prevailed over the teacher-centred pedagogy, aiming·to stimulate EFL undergraduates to reinforce their independent and autonomous learning ability and boost their potential within the ZPD framework. Most participants claimed that they could explore the appropriate word choices, grammatical and semantic patterns, and styles of business writing by using DOL and online resources.
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Cook, Neal Francis. "Co-creating person-centred learning and development experiences with student nurses in practice through action research." Thesis, Ulster University, 2017. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.707824.
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BACKGROUND This action research study focused on crafting the practice learning element of a preregistration nursing curriculum in implementing a portfolio as a tool to support learning and development within a person-centred context. METHODOLOGY An emancipatory action research methodology was used over three annual cycles with one cohort of pre-registration nursing students, academics and practice partners. The research questions were: 1. How can the portfolio be enhanced to be an effective tool that enables students to learn and develop in practice? 2. How can the portfolio be enhanced to support the development of person-centred nurses? Data collection occurred annually using the Caring Dimension Inventory (CDI-35), the Portfolios in Nursing Education (PNE) questionnaire and focus groups. Descriptive and comparative statistics were calculated on quantitative data and qualitative data were prepared into verbatim reports as preparatory steps for critical creative hermeneutics analysis. RESULTS Sixty five actions were implemented to improve the portfolio as a successful learning tool. These related to sign-posting learning, supporting the identification of learning needs, accessing learning opportunities, and engaging students in authentic critical reflection. Improving the nature and consistency of support was a strong feature of these actions. Perceptions of caring attributes were sustained and developed further by the point of registration. DISCUSSION In unfolding solutions to improving the portfolio and support in its use, the findings revealed conditions for this to take place within a person-centred context. These were central to creating a culture that enabled transformative learning for human flourishing. Students self-actualised in terms of their concepts of caring and person-centredness in achieving the standards for registration. Authentic collaboration between stakeholders in the curricular approach were core to the success of the project. Theorisation of findings led to a conceptual Framework for Practice Learning (FPL), enabling findings to be applied in curricula in pursuit of person-centredness.
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Awases, Cherly Lydia. "Secondary school Geography teachers' understanding and implementation learner-centred eof ducation and enquiry-based teaching in Namibia." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97002.
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Thesis (MEd)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the understanding of and experiences in the implementation of learner-centred education (LCE) and enquiry-based teaching of Grade 10 Geography teachers against the backdrop of curriculum reform in Namibia. The Namibian curriculum is premised on the view that there is a need for the holistic development and preparation of learners for a knowledge-based society. Globally, LCE, with its potential for broadening access to quality education, has been a recurring theme of national reform policies and has been promoted as an innovative way of teaching. The usefulness of the LCE approach and associated enquiry-based teaching is embedded in constructivism and is introduced with the promise that it will enable learners to develop investigative and critical thinking skills that will put them at the centre of learning. This interpretative study employed a case study approach that utilised qualitative methods to gather information on the experiences of the three Geography teachers at the sampled schools as they implement LCE and enquiry-based teaching. The main data-gathering techniques in phases 1 and 2 of the research respectively were semi-structured interviews and classroom observations. The findings revealed that the teachers have different understandings of what LCE and enquiry-based teaching approaches are, although their teaching employs some elements of it. The research also indicated that there is one big factor that impinges on their implementation of LCE and enquiry-based teaching approaches. The teachers admitted that, due to the pressure of learner success in the end-of-year Grade 10 examination, they rather teach to the test. This diverts their teaching from focusing on implementing approaches that actively involve learners in the learning process and nurture enquiry skills when these skills are not formally assessed in examinations. Consequently, teachers fail to implement the syllabus as intended by policy makers and curriculum developers. Even though the findings of this study may be specific to the sampled schools and the participating teachers, it can be assumed that similar situations exist in schools with comparable contexts. It is therefore important that education policy makers and relevant stakeholders strive to allocate sufficient support and resources for teachers to implement LCE and enquiry-based teaching effectively in schools.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek die verstaan van en ervarings met die implementering van leerder-gesentreerde en ondersoek-gebaseerde onderrig van Graad 10 Geografie-onderwysers teen die agtergrond van kurrikulumhervorming in Namibië. Die Namibiese leerplan berus op die siening dat daar „n behoefte is aan die holistiese ontwikkeling en voorbereiding van leerders vir „n kennis-gebaseerde samelewing. Leerder-gesentreerde onderrig met sy potensiaal om toegang tot gehalte onderwys te verbreed, is „n tema wat wêreldwyd herhaaldelik in nasionale hervormingsbeleid voorkom en as „n innoverende wyse van onderrig bevorder word. Die nut van die leerder-gesentreerde benadering en gepaardgaande ondersoek-gebaseerde onderrig is in konstruktivisme gebaseer en word voorgestel met die belofte dat dit leerders in staat sal stel om ondersoekende en kritiese denkvaardighede te ontwikkel, wat hulle sentraal in die leerproses sal plaas. Hierdie interpretatiewe studie het 'n gevallestudie-benadering gevolg en kwalitatiewe metodes gebruik om inligting in te samel oor die ervarings van drie Geografie-onderwysers se implementering van leerder-gesentreerde en ondersoek-gebaseerde onderrig by skole wat as steekproef gekies is. Die belangrikste onderskeidelike data-insamelingstegnieke in fases 1 en 2 van die navorsing was semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude en klaskamerwaarneming. Die bevindinge toon dat die onderwysers verskillende begrippe handhaaf van wat leerder-gesentreerde en ondersoek-gebaseerde onderrigbenaderings behels, hoewel hulle onderrig sommige elemente daarvan toon. Die navorsing het ook aangedui dat een belangrike faktor inbreuk doen op hul implementering van leerder-gesentreerde en ondersoek-gebaseerde onderrigbenaderings. Die onderwysers het erken dat die druk van leerdersukses in die graad 10-eksamen aan die einde van die jaar hulle eerder met die oog op die toets laat onderrig gee. Dit verplaas die fokus van hul onderrig weg van die implementering van benaderings wat leerders aktief by die leerproses betrek en die koestering van ondersoekvaardighede, veral ook omdat hierdie vaardighede nie formeel in eksamens beoordeel word nie. Onderwysers slaag gevolglik nie daarin om die leerplan soos beleidmakers en kurrikulum-ontwikkelaars dit bedoel, te implementeer nie. Selfs al sou die bevindinge van hierdie studie slegs spesifiek op die betrokke skole en die deelnemende onderwysers betrekking hê, kan aanvaar word dat soortgelyke situasies in skole in vergelykbare kontekste bestaan. Dit is dus belangrik dat onderwysbeleidmakers en relevante rolspelers daarna moet streef om voldoende ondersteuning en hulpbronne vir onderwysers beskikbaar te stel om leerder-gesentreerde en ondersoek-gebaseerde onderrig effektief in skole te implementeer.
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Bremner, Nicholas James. "The evolution of Mexican EFL teachers' beliefs about student-centred learning in relation to their teaching practices." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/17539/.
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This study analysed the educational life histories of five EFL teachers at a Mexican university. The aims of the study were: 1) to explore how these teachers’ beliefs about student-centred learning had evolved over the course of their lives; and 2) to examine the relationships between their beliefs and teaching practices at different points in time. In order to achieve these aims, a life history approach was adopted, which incorporated a series of extended interviews as well as an innovative timeline activity. Classroom observations and student focus groups were also included, mainly for triangulation purposes. The four main findings which emerged from the study were as follows. Firstly, all five teachers’ felt their early beliefs about teaching were predominately teacher-centred, which appeared to be linked to their immersion in the generally teacher-centred Mexican educational culture. Secondly, all five teachers felt that their beliefs eventually became more student-centred over the course of their educational life histories. These changes towards more student-centred beliefs were attributed to a number of experiences the teachers had over the course of their lives, and in particular, the characteristics of certain training courses. Thirdly, despite all the teachers eventually starting to believe in more student-centred approaches, they reported that they were rarely able to fully put these beliefs into practices. These mismatches between beliefs and practices seem to have been linked to a number of contextual constraints which they encountered within their working contexts. Finally, all five teachers started to believe in more “hybrid” approaches to teaching by the ends of their educational life histories. This implied using a combination of teacher- and student-centred practices, depending on how appropriate they were perceived to be within their specific contexts. The emergence of this more “hybrid” approach raises important questions about what we should realistically expect from educational changes and whether student-centred learning should still be considered the undisputed “gold standard” of education.
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Bessoondyal, Hemant. "Gender and other factors impacting on mathematics achievement at the secondary level in Mauritius." Thesis, Curtin University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2249.
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Mathematics has been seen to act as a ‘critical filter’ in the social, economic and professional development of individuals. The Island of Mauritius relies to a great extent on its human resource power to meet the challenges of recent technological developments, and a substantial core of mathematics is needed to prepare students for their involvements in these challenges. After an analysis of the School Certificate examination results for the past ten years in Mauritius, it was found that boys were out-performing girls in mathematics at that level. This study aimed to examine this gender difference in mathematics performance at the secondary level by exploring factors affecting mathematics teaching and learning, and by identifying and implementing strategies to enhance positive factors. The study was conducted using a mixed quantitative and qualitative methodology in three phases. A survey approach was used in the Phase One of the study to analyse the performance of selected students from seventeen schools across Mauritius in a specially designed mathematics test. The attitudes of these students were also analysed through administration of the Modified Fennema-Sherman Mathematics Attitude Scale questionnaire. In Phase Two a case study method was employed, involving selected students from four Mauritian secondary schools. After the administration of the two instruments used in Phase One to these selected students, qualitative techniques were introduced. These included classroom observations and interviews of students, teachers, parents and key informants. Data from these interviews assisted in analysing and interpreting the influence of these individuals on students, and the influence of the students’ own attitudes towards mathematics on their learning of mathematics.The results of Phases One and Two provided further evidence that boys were outperforming girls in mathematics at the secondary level in Mauritius. It was noted that students rated teachers highly in influencing their learning of mathematics. However, the teaching methods usually employed in the mathematics classrooms were found to be teacher-centered, and it was apparent that there existed a lack of opportunity for students to be involved in their own learning. It was also determined that parents and peers played a significant role in students’ learning of mathematics. After having analysed the difficulties students encountered in their mathematical studies, a package was designed with a view to enhance the teaching and learning of the subject at the secondary level. The package was designed to promote student-centred practices, where students would be actively involved in their own learning, and to foster appropriate use of collaborative learning. It was anticipated that the package would motivate students towards learning mathematics and would enhance their conceptual understanding of the subject. The efficacy of the package was examined in Phase Three of the study when students from a number of Mauritian secondary schools engaged with the package over a period of three months. Pre- and post-tests were used to measure students’ achievement gains. The What Is Happening in This Class (WIHIC) questionnaire also was used to analyse issues related to the affective domains of the students. An overall appreciation of the approaches used in the teaching and learning package was provided by students in the form of self-reports.The outcomes of the Third Phase demonstrated an improvement in the achievement of students in the areas of mathematics which were tested. The students’ perceptions of the classroom learning environment were also found to be positive. Through their self-reports, students demonstrated an appreciation for the package’s strategies used in motivating them to learn mathematics and in helping them gain a better understanding of the mathematical concepts introduced.
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Michie, Frances. "A student centred approach to the roots of psychological wellbeing and academic self-concept : the impact of the luggage or baggage of past experience." Thesis, Roehampton University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267848.
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Draper, Fiona J. "Development of a Student-Centred Evaluation Framework for Environmental Vocational Education and Training Courses. Development and validation of a Student-Centred Evaluation Framework for Environmental Vocational Education and Training Courses derived from Biggs' 3P Model and Kirkpatrick's Four Levels Evaluation Model." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5496.
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Individuals and organisations need to do much more if sustainable
development is to be achieved. Appropriate environmental vocational
education and training (EVET) is essential for current decision makers.
Crucial decisions need to be made before the present generation of school
and college students achieve significant positions of authority. An increasing
range of EVET courses and course providers are available within the UK.
However, availability is not synonymous with suitability for either the attendee
and/or his/her (future) employer. Previous research indicates that, as a
component of lifelong learning, EVET courses should and the methods used
to evaluate them should be student-centred.
This thesis describes the development and validation of a new studentcentred
evaluation framework. Preliminary literature reviews identified six
fundamental issues which needed to be addressed. Existing academically
productive evaluation models were examined and critically appraised in the
context of these problems. The output from this process was used to develop
a bespoke research methodology. Empirical research on four commercial
EVET programmes revealed distinct personal, teaching and work-based
presage factors which influenced course attendance, individual learning and
subsequent organisational learning. Modified versions of Biggs' 3P model
and Kirkpatrick's Four level Evaluation Model were shown to provide an
effective student-centred evaluation framework for EVET courses. Additional
critical elements pertaining course utility and the student's long(er) term
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retention of knowledge/skill were derived from previous research by Alliger et
al (1997). Work-based presage factors and the student¿s return on
expectation were added as a direct consequence of this research. The
resultant new framework, the Presage-Product Evaluation Framework, was
positively received during an independent validation. This confirmed inter alia
that the framework should also be capable of adaption for use with other VET
courses. Recommendations for additional research focus on the need to
demonstrate this through further empirical studies.
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Draper, Fiona Jane. "Development of a student-centred evaluation framework for environmental vocational education and training courses : development and validation of a student-centred evaluation framework for environmental vocational education and training courses derived from Biggs' 3P Model and Kirkpatrick's Four Levels Evaluation Model." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5496.
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Individuals and organisations need to do much more if sustainable development is to be achieved. Appropriate environmental vocational education and training (EVET) is essential for current decision makers. Crucial decisions need to be made before the present generation of school and college students achieve significant positions of authority. An increasing range of EVET courses and course providers are available within the UK. However, availability is not synonymous with suitability for either the attendee and/or his/her (future) employer. Previous research indicates that, as a component of lifelong learning, EVET courses should and the methods used to evaluate them should be student-centred. This thesis describes the development and validation of a new studentcentred evaluation framework. Preliminary literature reviews identified six fundamental issues which needed to be addressed. Existing academically productive evaluation models were examined and critically appraised in the context of these problems. The output from this process was used to develop a bespoke research methodology. Empirical research on four commercial EVET programmes revealed distinct personal, teaching and work-based presage factors which influenced course attendance, individual learning and subsequent organisational learning. Modified versions of Biggs¿ 3P model and Kirkpatrick¿s Four level Evaluation Model were shown to provide an effective student-centred evaluation framework for EVET courses. Additional critical elements pertaining course utility and the student¿s long(er) term ii retention of knowledge/skill were derived from previous research by Alliger et al (1997). Work-based presage factors and the student¿s return on expectation were added as a direct consequence of this research. The resultant new framework, the Presage-Product Evaluation Framework, was positively received during an independent validation. This confirmed inter alia that the framework should also be capable of adaption for use with other VET courses. Recommendations for additional research focus on the need to demonstrate this through further empirical studies.
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Abdullah, Teo Siti Noor Naasirah Syahiirah. "Young people's relation to academic study : a theoretical and empirical study of sixth form students to inform student-centred teaching in Brunei Darussalam." Thesis, University of Bath, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.687340.
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Whilst there are numerous studies on young people’s engagement in academic study, the internal relationship between young people and academic study is still unclear. This thesis seeks to explain the relation of young people to their academic study, in the context of Brunei Darussalam, through analysing young people’s motive hierarchy. The research is based on the understanding that young people are faced with multiple contradicting demands from the society, which evolve with their developmental age. The contradicting demands generate conflicts for young people as they participate across the different institutional practices in their everyday lives. The research entailed a semi-participatory research approach, which emphasised young people’s lived experiences, from a first-person perspective. Eight (8) young people aged 16-18 years who are studying for their GCE A Level examinations, played roles as both trained Student Researchers, as well as participants in this research. Data were collected from focus group discussions, annotated photo albums (MyAlbum) and a ‘participant self-generated’ questionnaire (MyQuestionnaire). The focus of the data collection was on the young people’s experiences of conflicts with respect to their academic study and the different agendas in their everyday lives. Intermediary tools were developed to focus the data analysis to identify motive-orientations and their relative importance in the construct of the motive hierarchy of a young person. An initial general model of motive hierarchy was developed from this study too. It is a societal demand for young people in late adolescence to be vocational and career oriented. However this study shows the eight (8) young people are also oriented towards other objects, apart from being future oriented. They can still have a dominant motive-orientation towards intimate personal relations, which usually prevails for early adolescence. Two other motive-orientations have also emerged from this study, i.e. the societal value system and self-comfort related. These different motive-orientations of the young people contradict the societal demands and create conflicts for the young people as they participate in and across the practices. These findings are important in informing intervention programmes to improve young people’s engagement in academic study.
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Nonkukhetkhong, Kittiporn. "Teachers' perceptions and implementation of the learner-centred approach in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) in Thai secondary school contexts /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19545.pdf.
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Magaji, Adewale. "Classroom discourse with both student-led questions and feedback : enhancing engagement and attainment of students in a learner-centred Key Stage 3 science classroom." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 2015. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/18155/.
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This study focuses on the use of student-led questions and feedback to improve students’ engagement and attainment in Key Stage 3 science. My interest in Assessment for Learning has arisen from working as a science teacher for over 9 years in several secondary schools in London and Kent. My aim has been to support Key Stage 3 science students to improve their engagement and attainment by means other than the use of science practical. The purpose of this study is to find out how students’ awareness of questions and feedback can be used to improve their engagement. This includes examining students’ contribution to the classroom discourse through developing their own questions and giving peer feedback, and assessing how this has improved their attainment. This study also sought teachers’ perceptions on the role of questions and feedback in engaging students in science lessons. This mixed methods study was inspired by a constructivist paradigm approach to learning (Creswell 2011; Savasci and Berlin, 2012). The study used six techniques of enquiry for data collection to support triangulation of my data. The students were involved in problem solving activities which led to developing their own questions using Bloom’s taxonomy question prompts and giving feedback to other students. The interaction was audio recorded to examine the quality of questions and feedback in order to ascertain how this has led to an improvement in their engagement and attainment, in addition to other data collection methods used. This study found that students were capable of developing high level questions and giving constructive feedback that will move other students’ learning forward just like their teachers aim to do. There was an improvement in the high level questions developed which influenced the quality of feedback given to other students. 98% of the students were engaged in the questions and feedback which contributed to over 92% of the students achieving their target levels in the end of unit science test. These outcomes are contributions to knowledge. Other contributions to knowledge include the new model of discourse presented in this thesis, and two factors that constitute engagement in learning. Pupil voice was a dominant factor as students were in charge of the classroom discourse which was encouraged by the questions and feedback. Some recommendations are made for professional practice and further research.
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Copping, Warren. "Middle schooling and scientific literacy : bringing the students to science." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/63597/1/Warren_Copping_Thesis.pdf.
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This study is about young adolescents' engagement in learning science. The middle years of schooling are critical in the development of students' interest and engagement with learning. Successful school experiences enhance dispositions towards a career related to those experiences. Poor experiences lead to negative attitudes and rejection of certain career pathways. At a time when students are becoming more aware, more independent and focused on peer relationships and social status, the high school environment in some circumstances offers more a content-centred curriculum that is less personally relevant to their lives than the social melee surrounding them. Science education can further exacerbate the situation by presenting abstract concepts that have limited contextual relevance and a seemingly difficult vocabulary that further alienates adolescents from the curriculum. In an attempt to reverse a perceived growing disinterest by students to science (Goodrum, Druhan & Abbs, 2011), a study was initiated based on a student-centred unit designed to enhance and sustain adolescent engagement in science. The premise of the study was that adolescent students are more responsive toward learning if they are given an appropriate learning environment that helps connect their learning with life beyond the school.
The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of young adolescents with the aim of transforming school learning in science into meaningful experiences that connected with their lives. Two areas were specifically canvassed and subsumed within the study to strengthen the design base. One area that of the middle schooling ideology, offered specific pedagogical approaches and a philosophical framework that could provide opportunities for reform. The other area, the construct of scientific literacy (OECD, 2007) as defined by Holbrook and Rannikmae, (2009) appeared to provide a sense of purpose for students to aim toward and value for becoming active citizens.
The study reported here is a self-reflection of a teacher/researcher exploring practice and challenging existing approaches to the teaching of science in the middle years of schooling. The case study approach (Yin, 2003) was adopted to guide the design of the study. Over a 6-month period, the researcher, an experienced secondary-science teacher, designed, implemented and documented a range of student-centred pedagogical practices with a Year-7 secondary science class. Data for this case study included video recordings, journals, interviews and surveys of students. Both quantitative and qualitative data sources were employed in a partially mixed methods research approach (Leech & Onwuegbuzie, 2009) dominated by qualitative data with the concurrent collection of quantitative data to corroborate interpretations as a means of analysing and developing a model of the dynamic learning environment.
The findings from the case study identified five propositions that became the basis for a model of a student-centred learning environment that was able to sustain student participation and thus engagement in science. The study suggested that adolescent student engagement can be promoted and sustained by providing a classroom climate that encourages and strengthens social interaction. Engagement in science can be enhanced by presenting developmentally appropriate challenges that require rigorous exploration of contextually relevant learning environments; supporting students to develop connections with a curriculum that aligns with their own experiences. By setting an environment empathetic to adolescent needs and understandings, students were able to actively explore phenomena collaboratively through developmentally appropriate experiences. A significant outcome of this study was the transformative experiences of an insider, the teacher as researcher, whose reflections provide an authentic model for reforming pedagogy. The model and theory presented became an adjunct to my repertoire for science teaching in the middle years of schooling.
The study was rewarding in that it helped address a void in my understanding of middle years of schooling by prompting me to re-think the notion of adolescence in the context of the science classroom. This study is timely given the report "The Status and Quality of Year 11 and 12 Science in Australian Schools" (Goodrum, Druhan & Abbs, 2011) and national curricular changes that are being proposed for science (ACARA, 2009).
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van, Gelderen Ingrid. "Investigating supervisors’ experiences of veterinary intern placements." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12928.
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Investigating supervisors’ experiences of veterinary intern placements Abstract Work-based learning (WBL) experiences are a valuable and increasingly essential component of many professional education programmes. These experiences are designed to be closely aligned to a student centred approach to teaching and learning and are seen to be well suited to supporting students in their transition towards ‘being’ the professional. It is expected that universities will continue if not increase their reliance on alternative and innovative educational practices of which WBL is a part. As such it is incumbent on universities to consider how WBL environments are managed and how teaching and learning activities are supported, monitored and sustained. Supervisors of veterinary interns play a key role in teaching and guiding students in their transition from the theoretical world of university academia to the world of veterinary professional practice. The way in which supervisors conceive of their role and approach their supervision will likely impact the way that students approach their learning in a WBL environment. This in turn will likely influence the quality of student learning. The main aim of this study was to first identify and describe the variation in supervisors’ experiences of supervision in a WBL environment and secondly identify those types of supervisor experiences that are more likely to encourage quality learning outcomes. Phenomenography was the qualitative research method selected for this study as it describes the limited number of categorically different ways that a group of individuals experience a phenomenon. Quantitative analysis was subsequently conducted to examine the relationship between supervisors’ conceptions and approaches to supervision. This study validates the hypothesis that there is variation in supervisors’ experiences in a veterinary WBL environment. Supervisors’ conceptions of supervision varied; in what they intended students to learn and what they conceived supervision to be about. Variation was also found in the way that supervisors approach supervision; in what they did, the way they went about doing it and why they did it that way. The investigations reported in this thesis consisted of two stages. A broad, large scale investigation of supervisors’ experiences was prefaced by a preliminary phenomenographic analysis of surveys collected for a teaching evaluation activity. In both the preliminary teaching evaluation activity (n = 39) and the subsequent broader investigation of supervisors’ experiences (n = 117) four distinct hierarchical categories of description for supervisors’ conceptions and their approach to supervision were described. Increasing in complexity a qualitative difference was identified between categories B and C for both conceptions and approaches. Quantitative analysis of this qualitative data revealed that in the teaching evaluation activity over half of the supervisors (59%) reported less complete, fragmented conceptions of learning outcomes and a slightly lower proportion (51%) reported using transmission / supervisor focused approaches. The subsequent larger scale study revealed a similar distribution with 55% of supervisors reporting a less complete, fragmented conception of what supervision is about and 51.5% reporting a transmission / supervisor focused approach. Further to this, in both stages of the research a strong relationship was found between supervisors’ conceptions and their approach (n = 39, p < 0.001, 2 = 16.36, = 0.65; n = 117, p < 0.001, 2 = 45.66, = 0.624). In short those supervisors who conceive of supervision in a fragmented, multistructural and less complete way were more likely to adopt transmission, supervisor centred approaches to supervision. Those supervisors with cohesive, relational and more complete conceptions were more likely to use an engagement, student centred approach to supervision. The effective and ongoing provision of WBL experiences needs to ensure that targeted and credible support is provided for the professionals that supervise students during these placements. Strategies employed by universities and faculties should be designed to expand conceptions of what supervision is about and encourage methods of delivery that are more likely to be aligned with a student centred approach to supervision.
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Thornhill, Rosetta. "'Be in our shoes!' : an exploration of the need for a student-centred ethos within Maltese higher vocational education." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2016. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/63692/.
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Students’ dropout rates in Malta remain significantly high despite national and institutional efforts to address this issue. The purpose of this thesis is to give voice to critical student perspectives on a diverse set of issues that is typical of contemporary student life. Through their voices, I examine students’ experiences within Maltese Higher Vocational Institutions. This thesis uses a mixed methods approach (questionnaire, focus group and observational field notes) within an ethnographic case study framework, located within the two main Maltese Higher Vocational institutions - Malta College of Arts, Sciences and Technology and the Institute of Tourism Studies. The implications of the researcher’s insider status within one of these institutions is also discussed. The empirical research starts with an exploration of the current provision of student support services and moves onto an in-depth and wide ranging documentation of the myriad challenges that students currently face - academic, institutional, financial and emotional. By evidencing the volume and range of critique, the thesis aims to show, that these are not isolated or unique concerns and that they go to the heart of relationships between students, staff, administrators and management within any educational institution. It substantiates some of the students’ critique by drawing upon recent external audit reports for both institutions. It situates the findings within the critical literature calling for greater student participation in the design and delivery of education and related services. In doing so, it makes the case of transforming Maltese Higher Vocational Education into a student-centred educational enterprise which has the ability and willingness to view students as parents in education. The thesis therefore, also considers key concepts of student voice, student-centredness, personalised education and student partnership in education and problematises them.
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Makwinya, Noel Mark. "Managing science teachers’ adoption of the 2005 Tanzanian Inquiry and Student-Centred Curriculum: Revealing schoolbased leaders’ practices and achievements." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2020. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2289.
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Many countries have made considerable changes to their education systems in response to the forces of globalisation. Tanzania is no exception. The most recent educational change attempt in Tanzania relates to the introduction of the 2005 Tanzanian Inquiry and Student- Centred Curriculum.
Sound change-leadership is a necessary condition for the realisation of change, particularly in influencing its adoption. Within the descriptive qualitative research paradigm, this study employed a Type IV (embedded and multiple) case-study design to examine and describe science teachers’ lived experiences in dealing with this latest Tanzanian curriculum and the role played by school-based leaders in influencing such experiences. The study was carried out in three case-study schools. Data regarding change leadership were collected from both teachers and school leaders by means of personal interviews, observations, and document reviews. Data regarding science teachers’ levels of adoption of this curriculum and related concerns, all of which helped to gauge the effectiveness of change-adoption leadership provided by School-Based Leaders, were collected using semi-structured interviews and a Stage of Concern Questionnaire and were triangulated through document reviews and inclass observations.
The findings show that school-based leaders in all case-study schools guided adoption of change primarily using authoritarian strategies. Nevertheless, there was some evidence to suggest that school-based leaders in the high performing and the medium performing casestudy schools tended to employ additional strategies that inclined towards collective and empowering leadership approaches. This difference appeared to covary with the science teachers’ levels of use of this curriculum and their concerns about it in the three case-study schools. Adoption challenges and those affecting leadership of change are also detailed.
These findings extend the ongoing academic discussion about the leadership of adoption of educational changes in schools. The understanding of pedagogical change gained through this study has implications for both policy and practice, and these are discussed in the last chapter. Leaders of these and other schools in equivalent contexts may use findings of this study to reflect upon their change-leadership practices in schools and improve the way they enhance pedagogical transformations and the professional development of their teachers.
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Harris, Lisa, and Lisa Harris@rmit edu au. "Electronic Classroom, Electronic Community: Virtual Social Networks and Student Learning." RMIT University. Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, 2008. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080717.144715.
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The capacity for online learning environments to provide quality learning experiences for students has been the focus of much speculation and debate in the higher education sector from the late 1990s to the present day. In this area, 'quality' has become synonymous with engaging students in a learning community. This study reports on a qualitative research project designed to explore the significance of community for students when they study in online learning environments. This project used three case studies to explore tertiary students' thoughts and expectations about community in the online environment. The research was constructed iteratively. Data from the initial case suggested the need to explore the relationship between the constructed online learning environment and the development of learning communities or what I have termed Social Learning Support Networks (SLSN). To explore this issue further, the project was expanded and subsequent cases were chosen that included fundamentally different types of online learning environments. The project had two significant results. Firstly, students not only confirmed popular educational theories on the value of learning communities, but also described how this form of social connection might practically benefit their learning. Secondly, the project found that certain forms of synchronous online environments provided enhanced opportunities for students to form social connections that supported their learning. This project provides new evidence of the benefit of community for students studying online and argues that future online learning environments should be shaped by five key principles designed to foster a sense of social connection between students.
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Ismail, Annafatmawaty B. "We are different : a case study of entrepreneurship education in Malaysia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/102894/1/Annafatmawaty%20Binti_Ismail_Thesis.pdf.
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In this thesis the aim is to question the extent to which different pedagogies used in teaching entrepreneurship education influence individual skill development, and how this translates into a likelihood of entrepreneurial intention. A quasi-experimental design and analysis of interview data, shows that although a student-centered approach is widely accepted practice in western education, a teacher-centered approach is more effective in Malaysia due to the system of collective culturally based education.
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Oyewole, Abi'odun Oyelola. "An exploratory study of stakeholders' views and the context realities of implementing student-centred instruction within secondary schools in Nigeria." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2017. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730857.
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