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The Impact of National Culture in Predicting Informal Learning Behaviors
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Flávia Lucena Barbosa; Jairo Eduardo Borges-Andrade – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the impact of Hofstede's six national cultural dimensions on informal learning behaviors (ILBs) and how they moderate the prediction of these behaviors by workplace interaction (WI), autonomy (WA) and readiness to learn (RtL). Design/methodology/approach: Cultural scores were extracted from The Culture…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Cultural Context, Nationalism, Learning Processes
"In the Land of Our Birth": A Regional Case Study of Higher Education, Settler Colonial Space, and Epistemological Resistance in Palestinian Bethlehem
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Benjamin E. Norquist – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This project is a regional case study of higher education institutions, employees, and students in the occupied Palestinian town of Bethlehem. A three-article format, this project employs autoethnography to explore the ways the author's religious community conceived of the holy land; mapping and photo documentation to explore the infrastructures…
Descriptors: Land Settlement, Teaching Methods, Ethnography, Autobiographies
Tensions in Policy and Practice: Influences on Play in Abu Dhabi's New School Model KG Framework
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Baker, Fiona S. – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
This article reports on three salient socio-cultural and systemic factors that are influential in play in Abu Dhabi Education Council's (ADEC's) kindergarten (KG) framework from the teacher perspective. Anecdotal evidence suggests that during ADEC's progressive educational reform, emphasis has reverted to academic performance outcomes rather than…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Conflict
Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) (15th, Budapest, Hungary, October 21-23, 2018)
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
A Culture in Transition: Poor Reading and Writing Ability among Children in South African Townships.
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Pretorius, E.; Naude, H. – Early Child Development and Care, 2002
This study examined factors contributing to poor literacy and numeracy development among black South African children ages 5.5 to 7 years. Findings pointed to a conglomerate of factors, namely inadequate visual-motor integration, poor visual analysis and synthesis, poor fine motor development, and inadequate exposure to mediated reading and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Children, Cultural Influences, Educationally Disadvantaged
Mathematics in the Early Years.
Copley, Juanita V., Ed. – 1999
Noting that young children are capable of surprisingly complex forms of mathematical thinking and learning, this book presents a collection of articles depicting children discovering mathematical ideas, teachers fostering students' informal mathematical knowledge, adults asking questions and listening to answers, and researchers examining…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Arithmetic, Books, Childrens Literature