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Hillary, Anna – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Since 2008 high school students in Buenos Aires, Argentina have consistently occupied their schools to criticize budget cuts to public education, demand repairs to deteriorating buildings, slow the standardization of their curriculum, and foster their inclusion in the educational decision-making process. By 2012, over 30,000 students occupied more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Activism, Public Schools
Ivan K. Banov – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This work examines how social media users learn language alongside their progression of becoming active participants in online social spaces. Using an ecolinguistic view, it explores how the process of posting and commenting on Reddit (one of the world's most popular social sites) is both afforded and constrained by the unique sociocultural…
Descriptors: Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Social Media
Kaplan, Rebecca G. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The three articles in this dissertation explore in-service educator learning through participatory approaches, with an aim toward equity in education. Combining sociocultural theories of learning as increasing participation within social and cultural practices (Gutierrez, & Rogoff, 2003), and the political commitments of participatory action…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Equal Education, Teacher Collaboration, Social Justice
Jung, Yusun – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In today's networked environment, online forums emerge as a popular form of social structures that have greater opportunities for learning in various organizational contexts. A plethora of studies have investigated the phenomenon to identify antecedent of its success, such as individual characteristics and organizational structure. However,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Inquiry, Social Networks, Electronic Learning
Simpson, Jeff Jaret – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This naturalistic inquiry case study examined the experiences of five college men participating in a two-week, summer study abroad course administered by a Midwestern, public land-grant university. The short-term program model is popular with students and universities in the United States as an affordable and convenient way to increase the number…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, College Students, Males
Cheng, Shanjun – ProQuest LLC, 2012
It is crucial for embedded systems to adapt to the dynamics of open environments. This adaptation process becomes especially challenging in the context of multiagent systems because of scalability, partial information accessibility and complex interaction of agents. It is a challenge for agents to learn good policies, when they need to plan and…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Administrative Organization, Change Agents, Reinforcement