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The role of literacy in the daily lives of adult learners with hearing impairments in the Khomas, Ohangwena, Omusati and Oshana regions in Namibia
01 Jan 2013-
Abstract: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment for the requirements for the Degree of Master of Education.
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TL;DR: Henning and van Rensburg as mentioned in this paper describe the frustration and confusion often faced by 'novice' qualitative researchers when conducting qualitative research, comparing it to navigating a dangerous, and mainly uncharted raging river, full of hidden currents and submerged rocks.
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Title: Finding your way in qualitative research
Authors: E. Henning, W. van Rensburg and B. Smit
Year: 2004
Publisher: Van Schaik
ISBN: 0-627-02545-5 (paperback, 179 pages)
'It's like trying to navigate a dangerous, and mainly uncharted raging river, full of hidden currents and submerged rocks, only no-one will give you a boat that doesn't leak.' This quote, taken from the diary of a postgraduate student attempting to conduct qualitative research for the first time, succinctly and trenchantly summarises the frustration and confusion often faced by 'novice' qualitative researchers.
Whilst the use of qualitative methods in conducting research within ..
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TL;DR: This reflection identifies education as the primary domestic priority for both major political parties as discussed by the authors, and it is the number one issue on which most Americans believe more federal dollars should be spent.
Abstract: This reflection identifies education as the primary domestic priority for both major political parties Her commentary opens our conversation about education with an important question: How do you fundamentally change public education in a way that is not intrusive and over-reaching but, in the short-term, turns education around? Having learned his lesson from the senior President Bush, whose poll numbers plummeted when he vowed to abolish the US Department of Education in the 1992 presidential race, Senator Bob Dole (R-KS) vowed instead to "overhaul" it when he ran for president against Bill Clinton President Clinton, you may remember, actually ran as the "education president" He had been the "education governor" in Arkansas, after all, and championed policies that raised test scores and helped more disadvantaged kids get to college In the 2000 presidential election year, both candidates ranked education among their highest priorities George W Bush called himself the "real" education presidential candidate, and now President Bush still calls education his top domestic priority None of this is surprising Previous presidential election cycles have seen education emerge as the number one issue on which most Americans believe more federal dollars should be spent A 2000 survey by the University of Chicago revealed that over the preceding ten years, support for education had risen to the top of America's priority list, surpassing concerns about crime September 11, 2001, has likely skewed those conclusions for the upcoming presidential election, but, unquestionably, a presidential candidate's view of and plan for education is one of the issues voters prioritize in evaluating and picking their national leader President Bush has already begun to run on the issue Unlike in other presidential cycles, however, Bush faces opposition to his own education policies from within his party and from Democrats For the first time anyone I know in education can remember, state governors, legislators, and administrators are actually considering not taking Bush's federal education funds Imagine it The federal government offers hundreds of millions of education dollars to a budget-strapped state, and the state says, "Naaaaaaaaah--you keep it" It's extraordinary, particularly at a time when almost every state in the union has a budget deficit Ms Thornton, Patton Boggs partner, was chief of staff to the United States Secretary of Education, deputy advisor to President Clinton for the 1996 presidential debates, and associate counsel in the 1992 presidential transition She has written numerous articles in publications including Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, American Lawyer, Boston Globe, and Legal Times So, what's going on? In 2002, President Bush enacted No Child Left Behind, the signature piece of education legislation that he promised voters in his 2000 campaign and the bill he expected to propel him through a 2004 reelection Indeed, the fact that he--by his own admission--has not actually read the bill aside, President Bush has been traveling the country talking about the bill's importance and its early success The new law requires annual testing of students in grades three through eight and requires schools whose students do not meet the bill's standards for "adequate yearly progress" to take remedial action The schools could be designated as failing, and they are exposed to penalties, including forced transfer of students and being taken over by the state The complicated new law is more than one thousand pages long and attaches the availability of federal funding to successfully meeting the bill's stringent, high-consequence requirements …
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01 Jan 1974
TL;DR: This paper presents a meta-analysis of the literature on comparative qualitative and quantitative approaches to quantitative qualitative research and concludes with a call for further research into these techniques.
Abstract: Brief Contents PART I THE FUNDAMENTALS Chapter 1 THE NATURE AND TOOLS OF RESEARCH PART II FOCUSING YOUR RESEARCH EFFORTS Chapter 2 THE PROBLEM: THE HEART OF THE RESEARCH PROCESS Chapter 3 REVIEW OF THE RELATED LITERATURE Chapter 4 PLANNING YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT Chapter 5 WRITING THE RESEARCH PROPOSAL PART III QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH Chapter 6 DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH Chapter 7 EXPERIMENTAL, QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL, AND EX POST FACTO DESIGNS Chapter 8 ANALYZING QUANTITATIVE DATA PART IV QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Chapter 9 QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS Chapter 10 HISTORICAL RESEARCH Chapter 11 ANALYZING QUALITATIVE DATA PART V MIXED-METHODS RESEARCH Chapter 12 MIXED-METHODS DESIGNS PART VI RESEARCH REPORTS Chapter 13 PLANNING AND PREPARING A FINAL RESEARCH REPORT APPENDICES Appendix A USING A SPREADSHEET: MICROSOFT EXCEL Appendix B USING SPSS
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"The role of literacy in the daily l..." refers methods in this paper
...A phenomenological design was used in order to aid the researcher to understand the adult with hearing impairments‟ perceptions/perspectives and understanding on the role of literacy in their daily lives (Creswell, 2009)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the reasons why teaching adults is so different than teaching children, and present a self-diagnostic tool (photocopiable) for determining the competency of trainers, guidelines for learning contracts and ideas on how to switch from being a teacher to being a facilitator of learning.
Abstract: This edition reflects the latest work and advances in adult learning theory. Readers learn to develop meaningful programmes and use new techniques for effectively teaching adults. After examining the various theories of learning, the book presents the reasons why teaching adults is so different than teaching children. The book contains 13 appendices (100 pages) which give an overview of brain dominance technology and whole-brain thinking. There is also a self-diagnostic tool (photocopiable) for determining the competency of trainers, guidelines for learning contracts and ideas on how to switch from being a teacher to being a "facilitator of learning".
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01 May 1990
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the mechanics of structural qualitative analysis, how to deal with a computer, and how to read the descriptions of qualitative analysis programs.
Abstract: History of qualitative research qualitative research in sociology types of qualitative research qualitative research in education qualitative research in philosophy types of qualitative analysis organizing systems and how to develop them the mechanics of structural qualitative analysis the mechanics of interpretational qualitative analysis qualitative analysis programs (MS-DOS) - basic structures and functions how to deal with a computer how to read the descriptions of qualitative analysis programs.
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...Instead, there may be multiple perspectives held by different individuals, with each of these perspectives having equal validity or truth (Creswell, 1998; Guba and Lincoln, 1988; Hatch, 2002)....
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...Qualitative researchers believe that the researcher‟s ability to interpret and makes sense of what he or she sees is critical for understanding any social phenomenon, in this sense the researcher is an instrument (Hatch, 2002)....
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