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Student Retention and Learning, Current Research and Practice: Fourth Annual Graduate Student Conference, 4 June, 2013
Get PDFProceedings and abstracts of the 4th. annual graduate student conference, 4 June, 2013 held in DIT, Aungier Street, Dublin
Getting Your Research Published, from Student to School: Third Annual Graduate Student Conference, 12 June, 2012
Get PDFProceedings and abstracts of the 3rd. annual graduate student conference held in DIT, Aungier Street, 12 June, 2012
Doing More with Less, Making Research Informed Decisions about your Teaching:Fifth Annual Graduate Student Conference
Get PDFProceedings and abstracts of the 5th. annual graduate student conference, 17 June, 2014, in DIT, Aungier Street, Dublin
Seeing What is Questionable, How to Begin Research: Proceedings and Abstracts of the Second Annual Graduate Student Conference, 14 June, 2011
Get PDFProceedings and abstracts of the 2nd. Graduate Student Conference, 14 June, 2011 held in DIT, Aungier Street, Dublin
Genesis of Educational Research: Proceedings and Abstracts of the First Annual Graduate Student Conference, 15 June, 2010
Get PDFProceedings and abstracts of the first annual graduate student conference held in DIT, Aungier Street, 15 June, 201
Dorchester: The Community Teaches, A Resource Book of Information and Activities
Get PDFWe have prepared this manual of resources and activities so that Dorchester teachers and children can explore their community. We have done so in the belief that community studies can be a valuable addition to the curriculum. They involve children in thinking about and taking part in the affairs of their community. Through community studies, children in the process of becoming citizens can learn how to participate in and have an impact on their community. In this time of widespread apathy, despair, and resignation about community problems, education for citizenship is a top priority.
When children are learning about their community, they are learning about themselves. As a result, they are motivated and involved. They learn new skills and practice previously-learned ones with more enthusiasm and energy. Many activities in this manual provide opportunities to practice basic skills of the social scientist—mapping, interviewing, observing, interpreting, comparing, contrasting, and others
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