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Di Wilmot; Clare Brooks – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2024
A key responsibility of academic scholarship is to further develop the field under investigation and to critically evaluate how it is responding to challenges from both inside and outside of the field of enquiry. This article offers an overview of whether the scholarship published in geography education (GE) from the perspective of the Commission…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Geographic Concepts, Conservation Education, Global Approach
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Muhammad Imran; Norah Almusharraf – Cogent Education, 2024
This study, which investigates the pursuit of sustainable development through teachers' perspectives on environmental education awareness, has a global impact. In formal education, teachers play a critical role in delivering sustainable development content and fostering necessary skills to achieve Sustainable development Agendas (SGDs).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Siyam, Nur; Hussain, Malak – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
Curriculum mapping is a method in which teachers record the operational curriculum to be used for ongoing curriculum review and development. Therefore, schools aim to establish a fluid system for maintaining and updating the curriculum. As teachers are the main practitioners of curriculum mapping, this study aimed to investigate the factors that…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Curriculum Development, Educational Development, Concept Mapping
Deborah D. Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
An estimated 30% of the incarcerated population does not participate in the educational programs offered within the target state penal education system. The purpose of this study was to understand the perceptions of parolees towards the prison's education system and the problem of low participation by using a qualitative approach and conceptual…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation, Self Efficacy, Institutionalized Persons
Brewer, Dominic J.; Augustine, Catherine H.; Zellman, Gail L.; Ryan, Gery; Goldman, Charles A.; Stasz, Cathleen; Constant, Louay – RAND Corporation, 2007
The leadership of Qatar has a social and political vision that calls for improving the outcomes of the Qatari K-12 education system. With this vision in mind, the leadership asked RAND to examine Qatar's K-12 education system, to recommend options for building a world-class system, and, subsequently, to develop the chosen option and support its…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Foreign Countries, Leadership, Elementary Secondary Education
Lewin, Keith M. – Online Submission, 2007
This paper makes the case for managed expansion of secondary schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa. The great majority of secondary age African children remain excluded from access to good quality secondary schooling. Increasing numbers are graduating from primary schools where enrolments are rapidly growing as a result of successful Education for All…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Long Range Planning, Secondary Schools, Educational Change
Jerald, Craig D. – Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2006
A 2003 survey of principals found that middle and high schools were more likely to increase social studies and science instruction than decrease it. This suggests that districts are not cutting social studies and sciences entirely but merely "deferring" those subjects until the secondary grades. This strategy provides more time for reading…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Thinking Skills, Reading Comprehension, Science Instruction