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11	Unpaid Household Work: A Site of Learning for Women with Disabilities Matthews, Ann 28 February 2011 (has links) This thesis explores women's learning in unpaid household work through the lenses of impairment and disability. Informal learning from this standpoint is a perspective that is not yet integrated into the adult learning literature. The impetus for the study came from dissatisfaction with the social undervaluing of unpaid housework and carework, and the largely unrecognized learning behind the work, which is predominantly done by women. Disability and impairment provide unique lenses for making visible what people learn and how they learn in this context. Those who have or acquire impairment in adulthood need to learn how to do things differently. For this study I have taken a segment of data from a 4-year, 4-phase project on Unpaid Housework and Lifelong Learning in which I participated. The participants in this segment are women and men with disabilities who took part in 2 focus groups (11 women), an on-line focus group (20 women), and individual interviews (10 women and 5 men). Learning is explored through three different themes: first, learning related to self-care; second, learning to accept the impaired body; and third, strategies and resources used in the learning process. Analysis of the data shows that the learning that happens through unpaid household work is multidimensional, fluid, and diverse. Learning is accomplished through a complex 4-dimensional process involving a blend of the body, mind, emotions, and the spiritual self. Furthermore, what participants learned and how they learned is influenced by the sociocultural context in which it takes place. Learning, when seen as a 4-dimensional process, provides a framework for challenging traditional Western cultural beliefs about what counts as learning and knowledge. Such beliefs have cultivated the viewpoint that learning is individualistic, cognitive, and based on reason. I contest these beliefs by disrupting the binaries that support them (e.g., mind vs. body, reason vs. emotion). Participants used both sides of the binaries in their learning processes, negating the oppositional and hierarchical categories they establish. The concepts in the binaries still exist but the relationship between them is not oppositional, nor is one concept privileged over another, either within or across binaries. adult learning adult education informal learning women's learning lifelong learning holistic learning disability housework household work domestic labour self-care acceptance body emotions emotion work spirituality 0516
12	Dancing With Our Partners: An Exploration of Story and Resonance in the Literacy Environment Melville, Rebecca 29 November 2011 (has links) This thesis describes a study that was done with tutors and students in Frontier College’s Beat the Street: Literacy and Basic Skills program. Using a qualitative methodology, it focuses on stories of literacy, life and learning from tutors and students. The author’s own experiences, stories and reflections as a tutor are an important piece of the work. The thesis operates on and argues for the notion that people are made up of their stories, and that they interact with other people and the world through those stories. This research process revealed many ways in which tutor and student perceptions of literacy, learning, and each other were affected by their stories. It also revealed that in the overlaps between stories lies the potential for a moment of profound connection and learning the author describes as resonance. The thesis explores some of the ways resonance was perceived to enhance the literacy environment. story stories resonance adult education literacy literacies narrative learning Frontier College youth arts based learning adult literacy holistic learning literacy tutors critical pedagogy Beat the Street 0516
13	Dancing With Our Partners: An Exploration of Story and Resonance in the Literacy Environment Melville, Rebecca 29 November 2011 (has links) This thesis describes a study that was done with tutors and students in Frontier College’s Beat the Street: Literacy and Basic Skills program. Using a qualitative methodology, it focuses on stories of literacy, life and learning from tutors and students. The author’s own experiences, stories and reflections as a tutor are an important piece of the work. The thesis operates on and argues for the notion that people are made up of their stories, and that they interact with other people and the world through those stories. This research process revealed many ways in which tutor and student perceptions of literacy, learning, and each other were affected by their stories. It also revealed that in the overlaps between stories lies the potential for a moment of profound connection and learning the author describes as resonance. The thesis explores some of the ways resonance was perceived to enhance the literacy environment. story stories resonance adult education literacy literacies narrative learning Frontier College youth arts based learning adult literacy holistic learning literacy tutors critical pedagogy Beat the Street 0516
14	Jak se učit v přírodě a přírodou / How to study in the countryside and be tought by nature Šrámková, Monika Nikol January 2014 (has links) My diploma thesis is focused on specific topic called "How to be influenced by nature in a learning process - let the nature teach ourselves". In the first part of the thesis there are mentioned the first attempts trying to connect nature into the educational system and the history of this principle applied abroad and in our country. The main research is interested in activities undertaken in countryside during pre-school and school teaching as well as children's leisure time. The empirical part is casuistry capturing the main image of newly established school Zeměkvítek showing the way how children's learning and perceiving is affected by being in the nature during school and pre-school teaching. The results of the practical part shows that lessons in an outdoor environment contribute positively on development of children's learning. On the bases of SWOT analysis it can be stated that there is high possibility that ZŠ Zeměkvítek will develop and gain more members.
15	Dramatická výchova ve výuce anglického jazyka / Drama in English Language Teaching Fejfarová, Pavla January 2014 (has links) The dissertation focuses on the possibilities of drama in English language teaching in the second stage of basic education. The objective was to contribute to the development of ELT methodology in the Czech environment and to try to critically define the possibilities of drama education as an approach to instruction in this field. The starting points of this dissertation are based on social constructivism, accent the principle of holistic learning, and stem from the demands for changes in education in connection with the curricular reform of the education system that is currently underway. Apart from a terminological analysis, the theoretical part of the dissertation also contains a detailed introduction to the teaching strategies of drama education and their application in English language teaching. The goal of the empirical part was to find the beliefs of a cohort of teachers from primary schools and of English Studies students at the Faculty of Education regarding the possibility of using drama in English language teaching. The research design was mixed and the research investigation was conducted at two levels, through a questionnaire-based survey and through experimental instruction. The methods of data collection and analysis included a questionnaire-based survey, a pre-test and a post-test,...
16	Die Lerneffekte von Exkursionen im Rahmen eines Study-Abroad-Programms: Eine Fallstudie Donohue-Bergeler, Devon Johanna 27 July 2009 (has links) (PDF) Betreute kulturelle Exkursionen sind ein fester Bestandteil von vielen Study-Abroad-Programme. Sie werden allgemein positiv bewertet und bieten viele Chancen für fremdsprachliches und landeskundliches Lernen, sowie als „Handlungsfeld“ für das Gelernte. Es fehlen jedoch wissenschaftliche Begründungen sowie empirische Untersuchungen, die den Lernwert von Exkursionen bei Study-Abroad-Programmen nachweisen. Deshalb wurden folgenden Leitfragen untersucht: Welche Lerneffekte können Exkursionen bei Study-Abroad-Programmen haben? Welche Lerneffekte haben Exkursionen tatsächlich bei Study-Abroad-Programmen? Ziel dieser Masterarbeit ist es, die Lerneffekte von Exkursionen im Rahmen eines Study-Abroad-Programms theoretisch und empirisch zu untersuchen. / Supervised cultural excursions are often included in the offerings of foreign language immersion study abroad programs. Such excursions have the potential to achieve a depth beyond sightseeing. Under certain conditions, excursions can foster linguistic and intercultural learning and skill acquisition in a setting that has advantages not only over the traditional classroom, but also over daily unsupervised immersion. These conclusions can be intuitively inferred, but have never been supported by empirical evidence. Therefore, the questions which guided this outcomes assessment research were: What are the potential learning effects of immersion program excursions? What are the actual learning effects of immersion program excursions? This thesis attempts to answer the first question with a literature review of immersion programs, their excursions, and holistic/action-based foreign language acquisition; and the second question with an empirical study of excursions offered by an immersion program in Germany. Exkursion Study-Abroad Auslandsaufenthalt Austausch Lerneffekt Landeskunde interkulturell ganzheitliches Lernen Zweitspracherwerb Fremdspracherwerb Handlungsorientierung Internationalisierung Immersion excursion study abroad exchange learning effect culture intercultural holistic learning experiential learning second language acquisition foreign language acquisition action-based learning internationalization immersion ddc:430 rvk:GB 3060
17	Die Lerneffekte von Exkursionen im Rahmen eines Study-Abroad-Programms: Eine Fallstudie Donohue-Bergeler, Devon Johanna 01 March 2009 (has links) Betreute kulturelle Exkursionen sind ein fester Bestandteil von vielen Study-Abroad-Programme. Sie werden allgemein positiv bewertet und bieten viele Chancen für fremdsprachliches und landeskundliches Lernen, sowie als „Handlungsfeld“ für das Gelernte. Es fehlen jedoch wissenschaftliche Begründungen sowie empirische Untersuchungen, die den Lernwert von Exkursionen bei Study-Abroad-Programmen nachweisen. Deshalb wurden folgenden Leitfragen untersucht: Welche Lerneffekte können Exkursionen bei Study-Abroad-Programmen haben? Welche Lerneffekte haben Exkursionen tatsächlich bei Study-Abroad-Programmen? Ziel dieser Masterarbeit ist es, die Lerneffekte von Exkursionen im Rahmen eines Study-Abroad-Programms theoretisch und empirisch zu untersuchen. / Supervised cultural excursions are often included in the offerings of foreign language immersion study abroad programs. Such excursions have the potential to achieve a depth beyond sightseeing. Under certain conditions, excursions can foster linguistic and intercultural learning and skill acquisition in a setting that has advantages not only over the traditional classroom, but also over daily unsupervised immersion. These conclusions can be intuitively inferred, but have never been supported by empirical evidence. Therefore, the questions which guided this outcomes assessment research were: What are the potential learning effects of immersion program excursions? What are the actual learning effects of immersion program excursions? This thesis attempts to answer the first question with a literature review of immersion programs, their excursions, and holistic/action-based foreign language acquisition; and the second question with an empirical study of excursions offered by an immersion program in Germany. info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/430 ddc:430
18	Unsettling exhibition pedagogies: troubling stories of the nation with Miss Chief Johnson, Kay 11 September 2019 (has links) Museums as colonial institutions and agents in nation building have constructed, circulated and reinforced colonialist, patriarchal, heteronormative and cisnormative national narratives. Yet, these institutions can be subverted, resisted and transformed into sites of critical public pedagogy especially when they invite Indigenous artists and curators to intervene critically. They are thus becoming important spaces for Indigenous counter-narratives, self-representation and resistance—and for settler education. My study inquired into Cree artist Kent Monkman’s commissioned touring exhibition Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience which offers a critical response to Canada’s celebration of its sesquicentennial. Narrated by Monkman’s alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, the exhibition tells the story of the past 150 years from an Indigenous perspective. Seeking to work on unsettling my “settler within” (Regan, 2010, p. 13) and contribute to understandings of the education needed for transforming Indigenous-settler relations, I visited and studied the exhibition at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta and the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. My study brings together exhibition analysis, to examine how the exhibition’s elements work together to produce meaning and experience, with autoethnography as a means to distance myself from the stance of expert analyst and allow for settler reflexivity and vulnerability. I developed a three-lens framework (narrative, representational and relational/embodied) for exhibition analysis which itself became unsettled. What I experienced is an exhibition that has at its core a holism that brings together head, heart, body and spirit pulled together by the thread of the exhibition’s powerful storytelling. I therefore contend that Monkman and Miss Chief create a decolonizing, truth-telling space which not only invites a questioning of hegemonic narratives but also operates as a potentially unsettling site of experiential learning. As my self-discovery approach illustrates, exhibitions such as Monkman’s can profoundly disrupt the Euro-Western epistemological space of the museum with more holistic, relational, storied public pedagogies. For me, this led to deeply unsettling experiences and new ways of knowing and learning. As for if, to what extent, or how the exhibition will unsettle other visitors, I can only speak of its pedagogical possibilities. My own learning as a settler and adult educator suggests that when museums invite Indigenous intervention, they create important possibilities for unsettling settler histories, identities, relationships, epistemologies and pedagogies. This can inform public pedagogy and adult education discourses in ways that encourage interrogating, unsettling and reorienting Eurocentric theories, methodologies and practices, even those we characterize as critical and transformative. Using the lens of my own unsettling, and engaging in a close reading of Monkman’s exhibition, I expand my understandings of pedagogy and thus my capacities to contribute to understandings of public pedagogical mechanisms, specifically in relation to unsettling exhibition pedagogies and as part of a growing conversation between critical adult education and museum studies. / Graduate public pedagogy critical adult education unsettling settler education exhibitions Indigenous pedagogy Indigenous epistemologies museums decolonization reconciliation settler colonialism Kent Monkman Miss Chief Eagle Testickle Canada 150 Glenbow Museum Confederation Centre of the Arts national narratives autoethnography exhibition analysis narrative learning gender sexuality heteropatriarchy museum studies intersectionality artist interventions transformative learning Two Spirit LGBTQ embodied learning relationality holistic learning representation humour emotional learning decolonized sexuality narrative inquiry experiential learning counter-narrative critical visual methodology critical public pedagogy art galleries
19	A Holistic Approach to the Ontario Curriculum: Moving to a More Coherent Curriculum Neves, Ana Cristina Trindade 14 December 2009 (has links) This study is an interpretive form of qualitative research that is founded in educational connoisseurship and criticism, which uses the author’s personal experiences as a holistic educator in a public school to connect theory and practice. Key research questions include: How do I, as a teacher, work with the Ontario curriculum to make it more holistic? What strategies have I developed in order to teach a more holistic curriculum? What kinds of difficulties interfere with my practice as I attempt to implement my holistic philosophy of education? This dissertation seeks to articulate a methodology for developing holistic curriculum that is in conformity with Ontario Ministry guidelines and is also responsive to the multifaceted needs of the whole student. The research findings will serve to inform teachers who wish to engage in holistic education in public schools and adopt a curriculum that is transformative while still being adaptable within mainstream education. holistic education holistic learning holistic teacher holistic curriculum curriculum development Ontario curriculum transformative curriculum holistic philosophy of education developing mindfulness meditation in schools visualization as a learning tool yoga in schools journal writing Gulu walk An Inconvenient Truth Uganda Rising anti-bullying education human wholeness Whole Child School personal development professional development personal practical knowledge in teachers empowering students Math trail pedagogical approaches autobiography parents as partners in education EQAO testing student-led conferences self awareness balance in education limited vision of Ontario curriculum critical literacy ideology ommission on the Whole Child spirituality in education anecdotal reporting to parents social consciousness Roots of Empathy Who is Nobody spiritual growth ecological awareness wholeness of human experience creativity and intuition in education 0727 0524 0280 0998
20	A Holistic Approach to the Ontario Curriculum: Moving to a More Coherent Curriculum Neves, Ana Cristina Trindade 14 December 2009 (has links) This study is an interpretive form of qualitative research that is founded in educational connoisseurship and criticism, which uses the author’s personal experiences as a holistic educator in a public school to connect theory and practice. Key research questions include: How do I, as a teacher, work with the Ontario curriculum to make it more holistic? What strategies have I developed in order to teach a more holistic curriculum? What kinds of difficulties interfere with my practice as I attempt to implement my holistic philosophy of education? This dissertation seeks to articulate a methodology for developing holistic curriculum that is in conformity with Ontario Ministry guidelines and is also responsive to the multifaceted needs of the whole student. The research findings will serve to inform teachers who wish to engage in holistic education in public schools and adopt a curriculum that is transformative while still being adaptable within mainstream education. holistic education holistic learning holistic teacher holistic curriculum curriculum development Ontario curriculum transformative curriculum holistic philosophy of education developing mindfulness meditation in schools visualization as a learning tool yoga in schools journal writing Gulu walk An Inconvenient Truth Uganda Rising anti-bullying education human wholeness Whole Child School personal development professional development personal practical knowledge in teachers empowering students Math trail pedagogical approaches autobiography parents as partners in education EQAO testing student-led conferences self awareness balance in education limited vision of Ontario curriculum critical literacy ideology ommission on the Whole Child spirituality in education anecdotal reporting to parents social consciousness Roots of Empathy Who is Nobody spiritual growth ecological awareness wholeness of human experience creativity and intuition in education 0727 0524 0280 0998

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