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Digital Social Media in Adolescents' Negotiating Real Virtual Romantic Relationships
Previous grounded theoretical analyses of rural adolescents' romantic relationship discussions identified media as critical conditions in negotiating gender expectations in intimate relations. More recent emergent fit analyses...
Published by: IGI Global
Potentials of Reflection for Better Practice
This chapter describes how adult learners in competency-based degree programs learn to reflect actively on their learning and performance. Vignettes of adult learners portray what they perceive as the benefits of reflective...
Published by: IGI Global
Singing and Song
Dianne Cameron
Aug 04, 2017
The periodicity of natural signals from our environment since the dawn of life on earth has provided the foundation for development of rhythmic responses innate to living organisms, ranging from ancient bacteria to modern...
Published by: The Singing Network
Citizenship and Social Studies Curricula in British Columbia, Canada
Catherine Broom
Jan 31, 2020
This chapter begins by reviewing the history of citizenship education in social studies curricula in British Columbia (BC), Canada, as a way of framing how the topic has been understood. It then discusses the latest curriculum...
Published by: IGI Global
Appoggio Demystified
Catherine Robbin
Jan 30, 2014
The semantics of vocal technique can be barriers to its comprehension and practice by singers as well as potential stumbling blocks for teachers of singing. Voice teachers use terms such as support, contract, extend, expand...
Published by: Faculty of Education
Does Age Matter?
Previous literature has suggested that age indirectly influences the intention to adopt an information technology, and notably a m-health application. However, few studies have investigated this link. Voluntarily proximity...
Published by: IGI Global
Listeners' Reactions to Four French Accents
This study examines two aspects of the role of gender in linguistic attitudes. First, it studies the issue of the dimensions which underlie linguistic attitudes, in particular whether features of masculinity and femininity play...
People Who Need Data People
UW-Madison has a thriving community of support around research data management and sharing, computational skills, and research reproducibility which are all building blocks for supporting campus data science needs. Support is...
Published by: IGI Global
Background One of the objectives of the Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, is to train medical practitioners to serve the population of Newfoundland and Labrador with an emphasis on rural practice. Since the first...
Self-Directed/Community-Supported Learning
MOOC designers seeking to address evolving ambitions of MOOCs to support workforce development confront a fundamental design dilemma: on the one hand, the self-paced nature of online learning is efficient for busy learners...
Published by: IGI Global
(Unsettling) White Queer Complicities
This article expands upon important and growing dialogue around how non-Indigenous peoples can work in solidarity with Indigenous peoples to support their nationhood and sovereignty in the wake of ongoing white settler...
Dialectic Exercise on ‘the General Bias’
The assembled text is Insight, Chapter 7, section 8, on the “general bias” of common sense. First, I attempt to identify key counterpositions that previously guided my thinking about general bias. Second, I identify a position...
Concept of Temporal Pretopology for the Analysis for Structural Changes
Pretopology is a mathematical model developed from a weakening of the topological axiomatic. It was initially used in economic, social and biological sciences and next in pattern recognition and image analysis. More recently, it...
Published by: IGI Global
Learning, Adults, and Competency-Based Education
Because competency-based education (CBE) programs ask students to demonstrate what they know and can do and because CBE students often work at their own pace, competence-based learners need to be able to articulate and to manage...
Published by: IGI Global

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