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Al-asqah, Amnah – Education & Training, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the students' attitudes towards private sector work during study. Design/methodology/approach: This study used a comprehensive social survey (including questionnaire and interviewing) distributed to experts in departments and colleges in King Saud University and Princess Nora University. Findings:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Private Sector, Work Study Programs
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Parker, Melissa; Patton, Kevin; Sinclair, Christina – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2016
Background: Achieving teacher change and the lofty goals of educational reform initiatives necessitates professional development (PD) designed to help teachers rethink their practice. A key implication for physical education, therefore, is that PD must be organized in ways that utilize teachers' voice, providing opportunities for teachers to build…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Change, Physical Education, Faculty Development
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Muller, Lars; Divitini, Monica; Mora, Simone; Rivera-Pelayo, Veronica; Stork, Wilhelm – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2015
Wearable devices and ambient sensors can monitor a growing number of aspects of daily life and work. We propose to use this context data as content for learning applications in workplace settings to enable employees to reflect on experiences from their work. Learning by reflection is essential for today's dynamic work environments, as employees…
Descriptors: Electronic Equipment, Reflection, Work Environment, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Erten, Sinan; Kiray, S. Ahmet; Sen-Gümüs, Betül – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2013
This study was conducted to determine whether a lesson, in which context-based learning approach and scientific stories were used, changed students' (aged 11-12) stereotypical images of science and scientists. Data was collected from two separate sources: Interviews conducted with six students and Draw a Scientist Test (DAST) document that was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientists, Work Environment, Elementary School Students
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Mizzi, Robert – Journal of Peace Education, 2010
Expressions of homo/transphobia continue to rupture and sometimes even erase the lives of persons with sexual/gender identity-difference across the globe. Despite this, experiences with violence of this nature largely go unexamined in peace education scholarship. In order to begin a discussion about sexuality/gender identity-difference within a…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Peace, Organizational Change, Sexuality
Young, Ruth C.; John, Bruce M. – 1979
Interviews conducted with 36 farmers and 175 migrant farmworkers in western New York showed a substantial change in the role of the crew leader during the period from 1951, when no federal or state laws regulated crew leader-migrant relations, to 1978, when a complex set of regulations interceded in the relationship. Farmer interviews showed that…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Attitude Change, Crew Leaders, Economic Change