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Jones, Carmen Rose. "Examination of Online Community College Students| Community of Inquiry Theoretical Model." Thesis, McKendree University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10279238.

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<p> The purpose of this study was to examine online community college student completion and the effectiveness of student learning in online courses, which was measured through the anticipated final online course grade using the Community of Inquiry (CoI) theoretical framework. The researcher collected completion rate data for both online and face-to-face courses from the 10-day roster to the end of the semester. Surveys consisting of questions from the CoI survey, demographic questions, and the student’s anticipated final course grade were administered by the Illinois Easter Community C

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Robertson, Prudence Jane. "Research and teaching in a community of inquiry." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Educational Studies and Human Development, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2937.

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The interweaving of two strands of inquiry forms the backbone of this thesis. In the first strand (the 'what' of the thesis) I explore the qualitatively different ways in which academic staff at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand experience the relation between research and teaching and investigate the pedagogical implications of this variation. In the second strand (the 'how' of the thesis) I focus on the process of coming to know and to talk within the field of higher education. Here I chart my journey as a learner through the writing of the thesis. The two strands are linked through

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Wray, K. Brad. "The role of community in inquiry, a philosophical study." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ28530.pdf.

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Cassidy, Claire. "The concept of child and community of philosophical inquiry." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.433271.

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Sprod, Tim. "Philosophical discussion in moral education the community of ethical inquiry /." London : Routledge, 2001. http://www.myilibrary.com?id=7101.

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Hunter, Jodie Margaret Roberta. "Developing early algebraic reasoning in a mathematical community of inquiry." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2921.

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This study explores the development of early algebraic reasoning in mathematical communities of inquiry. Under consideration is the different pathways teachers take as they develop their own understanding of early algebra and then enact changes in their classroom to facilitate algebraic reasoning opportunities. Teachers participated in a professional development intervention which focused on understanding of early algebraic concepts, task development, modification, and enactment, and classroom and mathematical practices. Design research was employed to investigate both teaching and learning in

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Litchfield, John. "Care, play and art: Beginning a social inquiry into community." Thesis, Litchfield, John (1999) Care, play and art: Beginning a social inquiry into community. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1999. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/50273/.

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This dissertation focuses on the scope for social theories (and their research methodologies) in questioning how particular forms of art can furnish a beginning for social inquiry into community. It asks what constitutes an adequate foundation for the application and development of social theory and method. The dissertation places these issues clearly within the traditions of phenomenology and hermeneutics. A Husserlian phenomenological approach is crucial in the early stages of the discussion because of its focus on modern rational ways of understanding, creating and destroying the idea o

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Marchart, Oliver. "Politics and the political : an inquiry into post-foundational political thought." Thesis, University of Essex, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272571.

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McWhinnie, Susan B. "Using knowledge building to inspire community inquiry in an IB classroom." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B5017695X.

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This study examines a five‐month process in which students from an International Baccalaureate (IB) school were introduced to Knowledge Building. The study occurred throughout three of the six Units of Inquiry that students cover over one year in the IB program. The transition from independent inquiry in the IB system to collective inquiry using knowledge building was aided by the Knowledge Forum software. The participants were 26 students from an international school in Hong Kong. Findings indicate that students responded positively to the knowledge building process, and showed significant o

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White, Ariane. "Transformative School-Community-Based Restorative Justice| An Inquiry into Practitioners' Experiences." Thesis, Loyola Marymount University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13860772.

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<p> As restorative justice gained popularity in schools as a potential strategy for helping to reverse the deleterious effects of zero-tolerance policies, numerous misunderstandings and misapplications have emerged. This study focused on the experiences of school-based restorative justice practitioners and sought to foreground their voices and perspectives to highlight what is necessary for restorative justice work in schools to be effective. Critical narratives were used to elucidate participants’ perspectives and to allow their voices to serve as the focal point for the study. Findings

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Harvey, Jenna Ann Draud. "Deepening democratic capacity through collective inquiry : community-led research at PalmasLab." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105067.

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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2016.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-116).<br>In 2015, research and innovation group PalmasLab developed their inaugural research project: a "wealth and poverty map" meant to provide a multi-dimensional picture of community development. PalmasLab is located in, and serves Conjunto Palmeiras, a neighborhood on the periphery of Fortaleza, Brazil that is often stigmatized as being poor, marginal and violent. The team at PalmasLab, made up pri

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Stermer, Laura Louise Duncan. "The community of inquiry framework and academic advising: online student perceptions." Diss., Kansas State University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/38804.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Department of Educational Leadership<br>Sarah Jane Fishback<br>Perceptions of online undergraduate students on academic advising experiences were informed by the community of inquiry (COI) theoretical framework and categorized by a modified COI survey. The COI framework focused on students’ perceptions of their online learning environment, and acknowledged both the organizational (structural), transactional (collaborative view of teaching and learning), and social (isolation versus connected) challenges within online education. Indicators of COI included a decision-ma

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Peacock, Susi. "A constructive, conceptual analytical review of the Community of Inquiry Framework." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/22319.

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This thesis comprises a critical review and suggestions for enhancement of the Community of Inquiry Framework (CoIF), the frequently cited model of collaborative community-based online learning. It combines a systematic engagement of relevant literature and research, with the application of the CoIF thinking to six of my peer-reviewed publications. Although not initially conceived as forming part of a doctorate submission, these publications are drawn upon throughout this narrative, to assist my interrogation of the CoIF. They are also used to provide evidence of my continuing journey as an ed

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Welte, Leah G. "Orchestrating Classrooms: A Collaborative Inquiry Study of Novice Teacher Community Building." DigitalCommons@USU, 2011. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/862.

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Creating a community of learners with and among students in a collaborativeclassroom environment provides the keystone for developing the skills necessary forsuccess in the 21st century. Some preservice teachers envision that community building can enhance the learning experience for them and their students and want to learn and employ the necessary strategies. This study examined whether such a desirous group of novice teachers could identify the key factors they believed comprise community building and could successfully establish a community of learners during their first full year of teach

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Horsfall, Debbie. "The subalterns speak : a collaborative inquiry into community participation in health care /." View thesis, 1997. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20031126.150235/index.html.

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Horsfall, Debbie, of Western Sydney Hawkesbury University, Faculty of Social Inquiry, and School of Social Ecology. "The subalterns speak: a collaborative inquiry into community participation in health care." THESIS_FSI_SEL_Horsall_D.xml, 1997. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/636.

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This thesis is about change, community and the health system. It is about women. It is about challenging the status quo and advocating for and with the less powerful. It is about fore grounding previously silenced voices, valuing the subjugated knowledge of people other than those who make the decisions. Many voices are woven together, including those of the author, community health workers, non-government agency workers, people who use community health services, and members of the public. This is a narrative of a group of people researching the issue of community participating in community he

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Hauman, Kerri Elise. "Community-Sponsored Literate Activity and Technofeminism: Ethnographic Inquiry of Feministing." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1370279476.

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Besendorfer, Angela. "Building professional learning community in a rural school district an evaluative inquiry /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5508.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on June 2, 2009). Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Horsfall, Debbie. "The subalterns speak: a collaborative inquiry into community participation in health care." Thesis, View thesis, 1997. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/636.

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This thesis is about change, community and the health system. It is about women. It is about challenging the status quo and advocating for and with the less powerful. It is about fore grounding previously silenced voices, valuing the subjugated knowledge of people other than those who make the decisions. Many voices are woven together, including those of the author, community health workers, non-government agency workers, people who use community health services, and members of the public. This is a narrative of a group of people researching the issue of community participating in community he

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Jones, Willie J. III. "EXAMINING THE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL GRADUATES: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/958.

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Community day school graduates enter society with decisions about college, career, and work. Community day schools operate as a non-traditional education system that provides a separate and often unique education to many disenfranchised students, with lessened accountability protocols to assess whether these systems prepare graduates for life after high school. The number of community day schools and enrollment is declining, due in part to excessive changes within the law and stricter guidelines required to be met.

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Lazor, Susan. "Collaboration and Collective Inquiry Goals in an Elementary School Professional Learning Community." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7817.

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K-12 schools in the United States face challenges to close the achievement gap, improve student learning and teacher instruction, and increase students' and educators' accountability. A professional learning community (PLC) was implemented to improve instruction and student learning at a K-5 elementary school located in the Western region of the United States. A bounded qualitative case study was used to conduct a modified formative objectives-oriented program evaluation to determine whether the collaboration and collective inquiry goals were met. This study was guided by DuFour's PLC framewor

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Barnette, Kara, and Kara Barnette. "Necessary Error: Josiah Royce, Communal Inquiry, and Feminist Epistemology." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12323.

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Feminist epistemologists have often argued that our relationships with structures of power shape the content, expression, and social force of what we know. While feminist standpoint theorists have often maintained that experiences on the margins of social power can lead to better understandings of the roles of systems of oppression in society, more recent writings on epistemologies of ignorance examine the reverse, how experiences from positions of social power limit our understandings. In this project, I draw on the concept of epistemic privilege as it has been formulated by feminist standpo

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Harrison, Malou Chantal. "A Narrative Inquiry of Successful Black Male College Students." ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/145.

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Despite a growing enrollment of Black males in colleges and universities in the U.S., the nationwide college degree completion rate for Black males remains at disproportionately low numbers as compared to other ethnicities and to that of Black females. The purpose of this narrative inquiry study was to evoke and promote the voices of successful Black male students and to understand their perspectives on factors that contributed to their college success. Findings from this research provide insight into college experiences and interventions that have positive implications for Black male college

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Smith, Charles Raymond. "Continuous professional learning community of mathematics teachers in the Western Cape: developing a professional learning community through a school-university partnership." University of the Western Cape, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4943.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD<br>Ways of enacting effective professional development (PD) and professional learning (PL) of teachers are diverse and often contested and therefore needs sustained inquiry (Schuck, Aubussona, Kearney, & Burden, 2013). The “quick fix” mentality that is endemic to most including those aimed at educational systems leads to very superficial implementation of improvement strategies, including teacher development. These strategies are usually bureaucratically mandated and superficially implemented in a top-down manner. One of the critical drawbacks of such superficial impl

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Kovalainen, M. (Minna). "The social construction of learning and teaching in a classroom community of inquiry." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2013. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526202020.

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Abstract This thesis concentrates on investigating the social construction of learning and teaching in a classroom that was encultured into working and acting as a community of inquiry across the curriculum. The theoretical and methodological premises of the study draw on sociocultural and sociolinguistic views on learning and instruction. Through this framework, the study aims at investigating the development, implementation and evaluation of the processes and conditions for communal inquiry across different pedagogical situations and across the curriculum in the case study classroom. In addi

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Stickley, Theodore. "Promoting mental health through an inner city community arts programme : a narrative inquiry." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2008. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10542/.

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The focus of this study is a community arts programme, Art in Mind, which is based in an inner-city area of an East Midlands city in the UK and was funded by the government's New Deal for the Communities. The aim of the qualitative research study was to gain understanding of the human processes involved in setting up such a project and to ascertain the subsequent benefits to participants. The research was conducted in two stages: stage one involved semi-structured interviews with seven of the original Art in Mind Steering Group members and stage two comprised interviews with eleven participant

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Townsend, Beth Ann. "Perceptions of the Community of Inquiry in an Online RN to BSN Program." Thesis, Walden University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3730576.

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<p> Basic nursing education is no longer sufficient to meet the escalating demands of today’s complex healthcare environment. Recognizing the need for the advanced cognitive skills incurred by these demands, increasing numbers of registered nurses (RNs) have been enrolling in online Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) programs. The problem identified in the RN to BSN degree completion program at a large Midwestern university was the lack of information as to how online teaching and learning strategies were experienced by students. Research has demonstrated that the online community of i

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Vignare, Karen Kraus. "An Investigation of Traditionally-Aged College Students' Perceptions of the Community of Inquiry." NSUWorks, 2012. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/330.

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Online learning courses are taken by nearly 31% of college students (Allen & Seaman, 2011). The majority of those enrolled in online learning are graduate and non-traditional undergraduate students. Survey data from multiple sources show a growing number of traditional students enrolling in online courses or online only universities. There is a lack of information about younger college students enrolling in online courses and those attending online only institutions. Without more research on the perceptions of this population, it is difficult to design an effective online learning environment.

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Johnson, Timothy Lee. "The downtown Austin planning process as a community of inquiry : an exploratory study /." View online version, 2008. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/276.

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Kirkwood, Robert D. T. "Exploring participatory inquiry with young people to inform community-based occupational therapy practice." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2013. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/316fcaf7-4c4b-4294-8ace-359ecb6ebea3.

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Murrill, Leslie D. III. "Evolution Toward Democratic Community: A Teacher's Journey." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30437.

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This qualitative study followed the classroom practices of a second grade teacher across the course of a school year. Data collection methods used included interviews, fieldnotes, observations, various site artifacts and photographs. Informants were the classroom teacher, thirteen second grade students, the building principal, and several colleagues, family members and friends identified by the teacher. The study used literature in the fields of critical pedagogy and democratic educational practice to interpret the teacher's work. Analysis suggested that the second grade class

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Hulkko, Annelie, and Malin Jansson. "Education through instant messaging : A content analysis in an online coaching project." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för teknikvetenskap (SCI), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-126944.

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In this master’s thesis a model for transcription analysis for a one-to-one Relationship ofInquiry were constructed and presented. The model was modified from the model fortranscript analysis in Community of Inquiry. The original three presences from Community ofInquiry, teaching, cognitive and social presence, were chosen to be adapted to Relationship ofInquiry together with a fourth presence, emotional presence. In this study the online coachingproject Math coach were used for the construction and testing of the model.A total of 60 conversations ranging over more than 3000 message units were

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Buck, Janet. "Using Appreciative Inquiry to Improve RN Retention in a Clinical Float Pool." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1254.

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In an Idaho-based hospital, the registered nurse (RN) turnover rate in the float pool was excessively high. The purpose of this project was to examine the effect of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) on a RN's sense of community (SOC) in a float pool and an RN's intent to stay employed after attending an AI event. Although much had been written about nursing retention, AI, and SOC separately, there was nothing on how AI could be used to increase a RN's SOC or intent to stay employed. AI is a change management framework that has been used to engage employees in a meaningful way. The goal of this project

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Spiro, Deborah. "Examining Instructor and Student Perspectives of Online Interaction Through the Community of Inquiry Model." NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, 2012. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3492391.

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Willatt, Alice Matilda. "An inquiry into the ethics, politics and practices of care in a community kitchen." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2017. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.752804.

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Bober, Delia A. Bober. "Singled Out for Success: A Narrative Inquiry of Single Mothers in the Community College." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1499273274581437.

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Day, St John. "Managing water locally : an inquiry into community-based water resources management in fragile states." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2016. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/9849.

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Water resources in many parts of the world, but particularly in Africa, face multiple pressures. These growing pressures, along with rainfall variability, pose significant risks to water resources and livelihoods. Over the past two decades the concept of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been presented as a panacea, but subscription to this model has not delivered the results expected. Despite a massive endeavour there is extensive evidence that IWRM remains difficult to implement, particularly in fragile states. In contrast, at local level the responsibility of communities to m

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Ostrogorsky, Tanya Leigh. "An Exploratory Inquiry into Community Policing Using Focus Groups: Perspectives from Social Service Providers." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5151.

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate Portland, Oregon's community policing policy by using focus groups to discuss the development and effectiveness over one year, Spring 1994 to Spring 1995. The group discussed included management level social service providers and was one piece of a large scale program evaluation. The collected data developed into six major categories: 1) personnel policies and institutional memory; 2) training; 3) consistency; 4) community involvement and responsibility; 5) partnerships or relationships, and 6) change over time. The most highly discussed issue was the

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Singleton, Krista Kirby. "Reimagining the Community of Inquiry Model for a Workplace Learning Setting: A Program Evaluation." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7944.

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The purpose of this study was to conduct an evaluation on a workplace training program using the Community of Inquiry (COI) model as a guide for course construction. Given that online and blended learning programs have gained popularity in the past two decades, companies have struggled with how to prepare trainers in the areas of online teaching methods and instructional technology usage to create an effective and engaging learning environment. In this study, I utilized the COI model, created for use in higher ed settings, in a workplace setting as a curriculum framework to revamp an unsucce

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Jones, Nathan B. "Discovering perceptions of the essence of college-level writing| Transcendental phenomenological inquiry in a Midwestern community college." Thesis, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10141526.

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<p> The perceptions of six community college faculty members about the qualities of college-level writing were explored in a series of guided interviews conducted at Prairie Community College (a pseudonym) located in the central time zone of the United States. The study examined the perceptions of the six faculty members with regard to important characteristics of college-level writing, acceptable multiple discourses within college-level writing, and perceptions of faculty members from different academic disciplines about college-level writing. Interview data were analyzed through the lens of

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D'Adamo-Damery, Philip Carl. "Ontological Possibilities: Rhizoanalytic Explorations of Community Food Work in Central Appalachia." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51247.

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In the United States, the community food movement has been put forward as a potential solution for a global food system that fails to provide just and equitable access to nutritious food. This claim has been subject to the criticism of a variety of scholars and activists, some of whom contend that the alternative food movement is complicit in the re-production of neoliberalism and is therefore implicated in the making of the unjust system. In this dissertation I use theories of Deleuze (and Guatarri) and science and technology scholars to enter the middle of this dichotomy. I argue that both r

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Casciola, Vanessa. "Preservice Teachers Engaged in Professional Learning Community to Explore Critical Literacy." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6202.

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As demographics change, our school populations are ever changing. Preservice teachers (PSTs) need to be aware of how to meet the needs of all of their future students. Teacher education programs have been charged with the duty of preparing these PSTs for the diverse school population they will encounter. This qualitative multiple case study focused on the influence of specific work with PSTs in the inquiry process within a learning community to make sense of critical literacy. The following research questions guided this study: (1) How do elementary PSTs engaged in practitioner inquiry make me

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Landis, Rebecca Danielle. "Community Food Work as Critical Practice: A Faith-based Perspective." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/56581.

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Historically, many faith-based hunger relief efforts address food insecurity through the emergency food system, but they often do not challenge the systemic causes of the need, which according to some, are poverty and inequality. As a promising alternative, community food work is a radical approach to food system change that imbues values of justice, sustainability, and equity into the food system to reduce the pervasiveness of poverty and inequality in society. I used narrative inquiry as methodology in a faith-based context to explore the role of criticality in community food work. Additio

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Howard-Watkins, Demetria. "The African-American Quality of Life Initiative as a community of inquiry : an exploratory study /." View online, 2006. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/115/.

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Yang, Weijia, and 楊維嘉. "Understanding scholarship of teaching and learning : a narrative inquiry into a community of university teachers." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/211123.

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This thesis inquires narratively into the practice of scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and teachers’ personal practical knowing process in a self-initiated community of university teachers in China. Following a conception by Boyer (1990) that research should be incorporated into teaching as the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), Huber & Hutchings (2005) theorize SoTL in a four-core-practice framework of a linear process of individual expression for research and publication. However, not much attention has been given to the important dynamics of collaborative learning. Adop

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Tolu, Aylin Tekiner. "An Exploration of Synchronous Communication in an Online Preservice ESOL Course: Community of Inquiry Perspective." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3707.

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Based on a collaborative and socio-constructivist approach to online education, the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model emphasizes creating an effective learning environment where students feel a connection with other learners and the instructor and engage in well-designed collaborative learning activities. Following a naturalistic methodology, this qualitative case study investigated the use of synchronous communication for creating a community of inquiry and student satisfaction in an online ESOL (English Speakers of Other Languages) endorsement course for preservice teachers. Elluminate Live w

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Nwankwo, Chidebe. "Legitimation of the economic community of West African states (ECOWAS) : a normative and institutional inquiry." Thesis, Brunel University, 2014. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9387.

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This study is an attempt at determining the normative legitimacy of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). At its core, it scrutinizes the current mandate of the organization following the layering of economic integration objectives with human rights protection, sustenance of democracy, and the rule of law. The study discusses the elements of legitimacy across disciplines mainly, international law, international relations and political science. Legitimacy is eventually split along two divides, the normative and descriptive/sociological aspects. The study traces the normative c

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Choi, Ming-Fai. "Students' perceptions of, and performance in, online learning : an examination of the community inquiry model." Thesis, Durham University, 2007. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1303/.

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Maritz, Gerrit Ulrich. "An appreciative inquiry approach to community theatre on HIV and AIDS education for young people." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26490.

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This dissertation positions Community Theatre as an agency for development and education based on the educational principles of Freire and Boal’s Theatre for Development. The dissertation argues that Appreciative Inquiry can enrich the practice of Community Theatre by approaching HIV and AIDS education through an asset-based, participatory, inclusive, learner-centred approach. The dissertation further hypothesises that the infusion of the 4-D process of Appreciative Inquiry into Community Theatre processes aimed at HIV and AIDS education will enhance young people’s agency as active participant

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Fillers, Bethany. "Sensemaking in the Process of Inquiry: A Qualitative Case Study of a Networked Improvement Community." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3598.

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There are persistent and pervasive issues plaguing American education, and almost seventy years of educational reform efforts have failed to adequately improve educational outcomes for many of America’s children. Networked improvement communities (or NICs) are a type of social organization created to address such problems and are proposed as an effective and efficient way to organize improvement efforts. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the sensemaking experience of a newly-formed networked improvement community as members engaged in inquiry around a chosen problem of

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