Search Results - "comprehensive school"
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How can pupils who have negotiated transition successfully be utilised to improve transition periods for all?
Published 2014“…Abstract This research study examines one tutor group’s experiences of transition in a high- achieving, comprehensive school in the East Midlands. Drawing upon action research principals it delves into pupils’ recollections and perceptions of the transition process and first year at secondary school. …”
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Becoming citizens: Dialogical document work in the classroom of the People’s Home
Published 2015“…Firstly, to analyse how a particular reading activity in a post-war Swedish comprehensive school, was part of the larger social and political project of the welfare state, and tied to the notion of good citizenship. …”
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Stakeholder perceptions of a school food policy ten years on
Published 2018“…CONCLUSIONS: The study results indicate that comprehensive school food policies can favourably influence the foods and drinks provided on school premises and can be highly acceptable to key stakeholders, without adversely affecting profitability. …”
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Aesthetic reading as a problem in mid-20th century Swedish educational policy
Published 2020“…The empirical material consists of reports from three school commissions, laying the foundation for the new compulsory and comprehensive school that was introduced in 1962. The reports have been analysed using a discursive methodological framework, focussing on problematisations of aesthetic reading. …”
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Raising the profile of oral language use in Modern Foreign Languages to enhance student engagement in speaking activities
Published 2016“…The purpose of this research project was to seek to enhance the value that students in a mainstream comprehensive school give to oral activities to develop their engagement and progression. …”
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Understanding the impact of climate change on Bhutanese school communities: Challenges and responses
Published 2024“…The data sources included interviews with school principals, teachers, and district education officers, as well as observations, and document analysis. The global comprehensive school safety framework, along with a whole school approach to climate action framed the results of this study. …”
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Factors influencing the consumption of seafood among young children in Perth
Published 2005“…Findings from this qualitative study form the first phase in a proposed longitudinal research project that aims to develop, implement and evaluate a comprehensive school-based resource package encouraging regular, seafood consumption (particularly fish) in primary school-aged children.…”
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Exploring teachers' experiences of educational technology: a critical study of tools and systems
Published 2012“…In this project I explore two teachers’ experiences, as ‘key informants’, of educational technology in a UK inner-city comprehensive school. I examine the meditational role of technology in these teachers’ activities and suggest that such an examination can improve what we understand about educational technology at the school. …”
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An internet-supported school physical activity intervention in low socioeconomic status communities: results from the Activity and Motivation in Physical Education (AMPED) cluster...
Published 2017“…Objective: Quality physical education (PE) is the cornerstone of comprehensive school physical activity (PA) promotion programmes. …”
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Evaluation of the implementation of a relationship and sexuality education project in Western Australian schools: Protocol of a multiple, embedded case study
Published 2019“…The Curtin RSE Project provides training for teachers and preservice teachers and supports schools through training and advice to implement comprehensive school health promotion (CSHP) focusing on RSE allowing schools to develop programmes relevant to their school community. …”
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Study on health and behavioural problems of adolescents - a school based intervention program
Published 2000“…This project has been developed to identify adolescents with health and behavioural problems or are at high risk of such problems and to carry out comprehensive school- based prevention strategies starting from as early age as possible.…”
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School stress in children
Published 1997“…The research was conducted over a two year period (1993-1994), at the eleven to sixteen comprehensive school where the author is employed. The data were collected by means of questionnaire, semi-structured interview and pupils' own personal writing and 'stress diaries'. …”
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Revolution from above in English schools: neoliberalism, the democratic commons and education
Published 2015“…Especially significant in this respect has been the labelling of comprehensive schools as ‘failures’ and the explicit imposition of more authoritarian understandings of pedagogy. …”
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Using digital technology to enhance formative assessment in mathematics classrooms
Published 2018“…In this paper, which is based on research from the EU-funded project Improving Progress through Formative Assessment in Science and Mathematics Education (FASMEd), we explore how iPads are used within formative assessment processes by six mathematics teachers and their classes in two secondary comprehensive schools in the Midlands of England. A design research approach is first used to develop and trial six lessons in which iPads are used in different ways within formative assessment processes. …”
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Adolescent voices speak out: if only they would - if only they could : a case study : the interplay between linguistic and strategic competence in classrooms where modern languages...
Published 1999“…This thesis focuses on groups of adolescent learners in two comprehensive schools. It explores the interplay between linguistic and strategic competence in classrooms where a foreign language is used i e. in French or Spanish lessons and in geography classes where the foreign language is also used as a medium for instruction. …”
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