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Investigating The Role Of Geospatial Technologies As A Supplement To Environmental Education: Development Of An Environmental Data Collection Application And Its Implementation In The Classroom, Evan James Norton
Masters Theses
Informal STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education refers to science learning that takes place in a non-traditional setting, such as a museum, a library, and outside a classroom, based on the methods different from the traditional pen-to-paper style of classroom learning. A critical component of Informal STEM education is to ensure student understanding and using available technologies to better analyze and convey scientific data, particularly for the data that are spatial in nature. Combining mobile technologies with geographic information systems (GIS) in field data collection provides unique opportunities for students to feel stimulated and engaged in what they are …
High Stakes Education: The Business Of Reform, Grassroots Organizing, And The Community School Alternative, William Vaughan Taylor
High Stakes Education: The Business Of Reform, Grassroots Organizing, And The Community School Alternative, William Vaughan Taylor
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation describes a period rapid reform in a local school district, the emergence of an oppositional grassroots political coalition, and the community school model as an alternative reform trajectory. To give children the skills they need to compete in a high stakes economy, the district placed its faith in the power of performance metrics and the private sector to improve public schools. Metrics showed improvement. But rising scores belied a system in crisis. A business approach to teaching and learning proved deeply unpopular. A grassroots coalition emerged, challenged authority, and advanced a more democratic vision of education. The community …
The Greater Germanic Reich: Education, Nazification, And The Creation Of A New Dutch Identity In The Nazi-Occupied Netherlands, Joshua Robert Sander
The Greater Germanic Reich: Education, Nazification, And The Creation Of A New Dutch Identity In The Nazi-Occupied Netherlands, Joshua Robert Sander
Doctoral Dissertations
During the German occupation of the Netherlands during the Second World War, the Nazi occupiers attempted to use education as one part of their larger project to create a new, Germanic identity in the Netherlands. This effort was supported by the highest echelons of the German leadership in the Netherlands and the leadership of the Dutch Education Department. Together, the Nazis and their Dutch helpers began a series of changes to Dutch education aimed at bringing Dutch youth closer to the German Reich, with the ultimate aim of divorcing the Dutch from their previous, independent national identity and winning them …
Temporary Clusters And Knowledge Exchange: Trade Fair Educational Programs And Access To Remote Knowledge, Jonathan David German
Temporary Clusters And Knowledge Exchange: Trade Fair Educational Programs And Access To Remote Knowledge, Jonathan David German
Masters Theses
Knowledge is one of the most desirable commodities within any industry. Due to a continually globalizing marketplace, firms seek new venues to access pertinent information that will aid in their success. Significant sources of knowledge for industrial markets can be found in the temporary agglomerations that have been around for years: international trade fairs. The goal of this paper is to explore how firms in the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry use educational programs during trade fairs. Specifically, how firms use these programs to access remote knowledge (i.e. tacit information unavailable in local context) in these temporary, localized environments. Analysis of …
Spiritual Practices And Education Of End-Of-Life Care Professionals, Olivia C. Seay 7391550
Spiritual Practices And Education Of End-Of-Life Care Professionals, Olivia C. Seay 7391550
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
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