Social development : theory & practice / by 462730 Midgley, James

Rethinking social development : theory, research and practice / by Booth, David

Learning e-Learning by Gabriel ZAMFIR

“…The threshold term of this model is the concepts map; it is based on Bloom’ taxonomy for the cognitive domain and highlights the notion of software scaffolding which is grounded in Vygotsky’s Social Development Theory with its major theme, Zone of Proximal Development. …”
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Practicing your English writing skills in a community learning through an Edublog by Sarah Arseguet Crisol, María Luisa Renau

“…Through the blog we want to challenge the traditional teaching methods as Vygotsky’ social development theory and we propose a change of roles. …”
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Introducing the Social Presence Model to Explore Online and Blended Learning Experiences by Aimee L. Whiteside

“…This study explores the level of social presence or connectedness, in two iterations of a 13-month, graduate-level certificate program designed to help K-12 school leaders integrate technology in their districts. Vygotsky’s Social Development Theory serves as the theoretical lens for this programmatic research. …”
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The design and development of online authentic learning environment for knowledge construction in learning inferential statistics by Lau, U. H., Tasir, Z.

“…Therefore this paper looked into an innovative and cost effective approach to incorporate the nine critical characteristics of Authentic Learning Model by Herrington and Oliver (2000), underpinned by Vygotsky (1978) Social Development Theory and Lave and Wenger (1991) Situated Learning Theory to develop an online authentic learning environment (OnALE) that foster students' knowledge construction in learning inferential statistics among non-statistics major undergraduates. …”
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Becoming a teenager in children infected through HIV vertical transmission: implications of nursing care by Thaís Silva de Souza, Ivone Evangelista Cabral, Cristiane Cardoso de Paula

“…Conclusion: Face becoming a teenager, Erikson’s psycho-social development theory, is coherent to social demands, but it doesn’t address these children’s special health needs. …”
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Providing remedial support to primary school learners within their zone of proximal development by Simon G. Taukeni

“…The approach to provide remedial support was informed by Vygotsky’s social development theory. Aim: The objective of this study was to support primary school learners who failed with ungraded symbols in their first school term to obtain better passing symbols at the end of Term 2 and Term 3. …”
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Gratitude buffers the effects of stressful life events and deviant peer affiliation on adolescents’ non-suicidal self-injury by Chang Wei, Chang Wei, Yu Wang, Tao Ma, Qiang Zou, Qian Xu, Huixing Lu, Zhiyong Li, Chengfu Yu

“…Based on the social development theory and the organism-environment interaction model, we tested whether the link between stressful life events and adolescent NSSI was explained in part by deviant peer affiliation, and whether this process was buffered by gratitude. …”
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Festival tourism and socioeconomic development: case of Kwahu traditional areas of Ghana by Frederick Doe, Alexander Preko, Hellen Akroful, Effie Kwaaba Okai-Anderson

“…Design/methodology/approach – This study is guided by the social development theory. A quantitative cross-sectional survey utilizing convenience technique was used to gather data from a sample of 398 residents of the selected towns and the regression model was used to analyse the data. …”
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Effects of using project-based activities on oral communicative competence of tertiary ESL learners from technical and vocational education and training by Abu Bakar, Noor Idayu

“…Grounded in the concept of Zone of Proximal Development in the Social Development Theory, the Communicative Competence Theory and the Gold Standard PBL model, the current study looks into the effects of using projectbased learning (PjBL) activities as a teaching strategy on the oral communicative competence of ESL learners from a Malaysian TVET higher learning institution. …”
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Enhancing students' problem solving skills using problem-based learning as an instructional communication approach by Abdul Kadir, Zulida

“…Furthermore, in examining PBL efficacy, this study used Social Development Theory by Vygotsky and The Toulmin Model of Argumentation. …”
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Systematic review of the effects of schools and school environment interventions on health: evidence mapping and synthesis by C Bonell, F Jamal, A Harden, H Wells, W Parry, A Fletcher, M Petticrew, J Thomas, M Whitehead, R Campbell, S Murphy, L Moore

“…The human functioning and school organisation, social capital and social development theories were judged most useful. Ten outcome evaluations were included (RQ2). …”
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