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Participatory Scenario Generation: Communicating Usability Issues in Product Design through User Involvement in Scenario Generation\ud [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Scenarios have proven to be a valuable tool in evaluating and communicating usability issues in consumer product design. Scenarios are explicit descriptions of hypothetical use situations. Realistic scenarios can serve as a valuable frame of reference to
Bijl-Brouwer, Mieke van der   +1 more
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Guardian angels and teachers from hell: using metaphor as a measure of schools' experiences and expectations of General National Vocational Qualifications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In this paper the author examines some claims about the nature of metaphor, its possible significance in illuminating cultural, institutional, and personal constructs, and some ways in which this has been applied in educational research.
Wallace, S
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Adapting the ‘Push-Pull’ ‘Farmer Teacher’ Concept to Agricultural Technology Transfer in Nigeria

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Extension, 2006
Evaluative survey of the Nigerian extension service reveals that there has been a consistent perennial constraint to effective agricultural extension practice.
A Solomon Valerie   +2 more
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‘Economics with training wheels’: Using blogs in teaching and assessing introductory economics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Blogs provide a dynamic interactive medium for online discussion, consistent with communal constructivist pedagogy. This paper explores the use of blogs in the teaching and assessment of a small (40-60 students) introductory economics paper.
Cameron, Michael Patrick
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Teaching Students with Special Needs in School-Based, Agricultural Education: A Historical Inquiry

open access: yes, 2020
The purpose of this historical study was to investigate the inclusion of students with special needs in school-based, agricultural education as reported by The Agricultural Education Magazine and the Journal of Agricultural Education over a time period ...
Edwards, M. Craig, Teixeira, Kathryn L
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Community-based tourism and networking: Viscri, Romania [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper raises questions concerning the complexity of the term “community” when dealing with community-based tourism initiatives. It highlights the difficulty of translating into practice the paradigm of “community-based tourism”. Through a case study
Corsale, Andrea, Iorio, Monica
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The Wow Factor? A Comparative Study of the Development of Student Music Teachers' Talents in Scotland and Australia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
For some time there has been debate about differing perspectives on musical gift and musical intelligence. One view is that musical gift is innate: that it is present in certain individuals from birth and that the task of the teacher is to develop the ...
Alastair Mcphee   +24 more
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Reasons to teach music: establishing a place in the contemporary curriculum [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Studies in the history of music education reveal much about the place and purpose of music in the changing curriculum. In this article, the ideas of some significant British music educators of the twentieth century are considered, in an evaluation of the
Pitts, S.
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Alternative versus conventional attitudes in higher agricultural education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
From radical positions it is argued that it will take paradigmatic transformations to develop a sustainable agriculture and that values and attitudes have to be changed.
Kaltoft, Pernille, Rasmussen, Jesper
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