Essays about: "contextual inquiry"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 essays containing the words contextual inquiry.

  1. 1. Exploring foreign language teachers’ professional agency in Romanian Public Secondary schools.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

    Author : Camelia Dragomir; [2023-10-31]
    Keywords : teacher agency; ecological theory; foreign language teaching; accountability; professional development;

    Abstract : Aim: This research aims to explore how seven foreign language teachers in a few urban public secondary schools in Romania understand and enact their professional agency and how contextual factors support or constrain its achievement. The purpose is to understand the ways in which the participants’ teaching philosophies and experiences inform their awareness and achievement of agency, what they perceive as the available contextual resources within contextual constraints, and how that reflects in their beliefs and professional aspirations. READ MORE

  3. 2. Enhanced Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments as an organisational learning bridge for resilience building? A case study of Red Cross National Societies in the Caribbean

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Gwenaëlle Delcourt; [2023]
    Keywords : Organisational learning; resilience; vulnerability and capacity assessments VCAs ; red cross red crescent; Disaster risk management; MMO; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Adaptive capacity based on organisational learning (OL) is at once a critical imperative facing humanitarian organisations in their mission to save lives and support communities most at risk; and inherently evidenced as an enduring weakness over the past decades. Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments (VCA) are community-based risk assessments established for their utility in supporting communities’ iterative learning. READ MORE

  4. 3. Understandings of musical interpretationamong tertiary percussion students andteachers in Sweden : A hermeneutic-phenomenological inquiry

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Musikhögskolan

    Author : Filip Korošec; [2023]
    Keywords : Musical interpretation; percussion; tertiary music education; individual tuition;

    Abstract : Musical interpretation is, despite being commonly discussed in practice, an under researchedarea. Additionally, most of the studies we have, concentrate on western classical piano players.The aim of this thesis is to contribute another perspective and investigate how tertiarypercussion students and teachers understand musical interpretation. READ MORE

  5. 4. Design suggestion for a Point of Sale system for the café industry

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Ottilia Lindblad; [2023]
    Keywords : interaction design; POS-system; usability;

    Abstract : An order at a café involves mainly the customer, the café worker, and the cash register. Today, cash registers use a system called a Point of Sale (POS) system that manages the registration of an order as well as the payment. Because of this it is crucial for the tradition of “fika” in Sweden. READ MORE

  6. 5. Designing Local Navigation for Chinese Populations : A qualitative study about how Chinese users’ local navigation preferences differ from the preferences of European users

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för informatik (IK)

    Author : Julia Anna Chen; Yousef Modar Oudeh; [2022]
    Keywords : User experience; Interaction design; User interface; Local Navigation; User-centered design;

    Abstract : The international communities of user interface, user experience and interaction designers are in an increasing need of considering Chinese users’ experiences when designing websites. China, along with other mandarin speaking populations, consists of a huge market. READ MORE