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Quotes useful for methodology

Paper:  Teachers’ Beliefs on the Benefit of Collaboration in  Lesson Study (2016) -  Madihah  Khalid, Nor Azura  Hj  Abdullah,  Abdulhameed   Kamoludeen In fact, most of the current major educational reforms call for extensive, meaningful teacher collaboration (Inger, 1993). It was noted that although they might collaborate in performing some duties ( e.g  in extra- curricular activities and school functions), they work individually when it comes to planning and preparing their lessons and materials, and struggle on their own to solve their instructional and curricular problems (Ade  Shahren , 2010). The complexities introduced by a new curriculum or by the need to refine an existing curriculum are challenging. Teacher teamwork stimulates new ideas, promotes coherence in a school's curriculum and instruction and makes these complex tasks more manageable (Khalid et al, 2016) Through collaborative work, teachers’ knowledge (especially peda...

Curriculum models notes IDCnet etc

  Teach Access   WebAim/W3C   IAAP CPACC   Others I’d found   Review learning objectives and structure of what I covered and conclude what comes first and last   Researching Pedagogy in Digital Accessibility Education | ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing Full article: Methods that teach: developing pedagogic research methods, developing pedagogy Useful for cross referencing to survey findings  ERIC - EJ1301723 - Faculty Perceptions on Accessibility in Online Learning: Knowledge, Practice and Professional Development, Online Learning, 2021-Jun Hands-on Accessibility Teaching Training for Computer Science Instructors | Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2  – New?     EJ1246240.pdf https://sid.usal.es/idocs/F8/ART10675/Lazar.pdf Proceedings Template - WORD Accessibility in Web Development Courses: A Case Study Accessibility in introductory computer science | ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Accessibil...

Pragmatism and Dewey book quotes

  Book: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fwc0EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA95&source= gbs_toc_r&cad =1#v= onepage&q&f =false When adopting a pragmatic approach, rather than starting from a particular philosophical position, the choice of using a mixed methods approach and the mixture of methods and procedures used is seen as being driven by works best for answering the research question ( Taskakkori  and  Teddie , 2021; Johnson and Onwuegbuzie, 2004).  Taskakkori  and  Teddie , 1998) further argue that pragmatism itself can instead be employed as the philosophical underpinning for using mixed methods, similarly echoed by others (Johnson and Onwuegbuzie, 2004; Morgan, 2007 The ambitions of interpretive research is to generate understanding through an articulation of the intentions and reasons for action (p.104) Research provides practitioners with different ways of seeing and understanding their practice, referred to as the cultural role of research (...

Add to ENABLED study

  Beyond HCI: The need for accessibility across the CS curriculum In a more recent move to define a curriculum Teach Access (Teach Access ref) have put together a framework of topics to be able to teach digital and web accessibility. This framework was developed through synthesizing computing education and accessible computing literature, alongside discussions with subject matter experts in both computing education and accessibility (HCI paper ref). They too order the main principles and learning concepts as defining disability and the barriers people face, the legal frameworks and guidelines for design, followed by implementation and evaluation. As this is predominantly framed around the needs of university level courses they also include a final unit on the accessibility profession and continuous learning, as highlighted by others who have similarly explored learning objectives in higher education contexts (refs). They recognise that it is equally important for teachers to receiv...

Findings writing style

As already established through the literature review, teachers are not aware of or raise concerns about the lack of teaching resources or text books (ref), the findings from this study within the school environment echo the same challenges with (numbers %) saying they are not aware of any materials, and blah blah. Findings are also consistent with research into prior educational knowledge, for example WebAIM found that ??% developers had not had any prior educational input during their time in school (WebAIM, 2021; 2023) with blah upholding similar statistics. Findings from this survey indicated the same, with ??% of upper KS2 teachers similarly not covering this with their own educational experience, although ?participants said this was covered in their university education and a further ? selecting this had been part of their schooling. THESE TEACHERS WERE NEW TO TEACHING suggesting that the topic has been more recently acknowledged within a curriculum context.

Gym

5 min row/  Lunges /  Squats/  Shoulder taps Bar bell: Russian below knees with bar bells  Above head lifts Bicep curls bar bell Bar bell: Lift lying down bar bell Bent over row Waist to chin lift Behind shoulder lunge/squats Disks: 2 disks round the world 2.5 Tricep extension behind shoulders 5 Halo both ways 5 Waist stretch left/right Core: Knee to elbow core Weighted sit ups/crunches Leg raises Core: Side to side with weight Cycling elbow to knee  Kettlebell swings/butterfly kicks Leg machines: Bench press Hip both/  Top leg/  Bottom leg (Additional) Lat draw down (Additional) Walking - incline (20 mins 3.5 incline)

Interpretivism

  Arguing for Interpretivism as the Philosophical Foundation of a Mixed Methods Study Interpretivism , as a philosophical paradigm, foregrounds the significance of meaning-making in human contexts, seeking to understand how individuals interpret and construct their social worlds. This orientation is particularly appropriate for educational research where the focus lies in uncovering how teachers and learners  experience, interpret, and act upon  curricular innovations, such as the integration of digital accessibility awareness into the classroom. Although mixed methods designs are often associated with  pragmatism , this does not preclude an interpretivist foundation; rather,  interpretivism can meaningfully guide the qualitative dimensions of a sequential mixed methods design , ensuring that the complexity of individual perspectives is retained and understood within their social and cultural contexts (Creswell & Plano Clark, 2018; Hammersley, 2013). Interpr...