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Erss, Maria – Curriculum Journal, 2018
To examine different approaches to teacher autonomy in nation-states, three countries were selected for a comparative study: Estonia, Finland and Germany. The emphasis of the study lies on the subjective perceptions of upper secondary school teachers (n = 33 semi-structured interviews) regarding their curricular autonomy and experiences of being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Professional Autonomy
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Kyriakides, Leonidas; Georgiou, Maria P.; Creemers, Bert P. M.; Panayiotou, Anastasia; Reynolds, David – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2018
This paper investigates the impact of national policies for improving teaching and the school learning environment (SLE) on student achievement. In each participating country (i.e., Belgium/Flanders, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Ireland, and Slovenia), a sample of at least 50 schools was drawn and tests in mathematics and science were administered to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Educational Policy, Academic Achievement
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Sagner-Tapia, Johanna – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2018
This investigation contributes to understanding how teachers reflect on the other with a disability and on their own practices. Literature suggests that inclusion takes place when barriers are removed, allowing participation. However, scholars agree that teachers still struggle with pedagogical practices in inclusive classrooms. Hansen (Hansen,…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Educational Practices, Secondary School Teachers, Accessibility (for Disabled)
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Trautwein, Caroline; Bosse, Elke – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
While study success and completion rates are important issues in educational policy, research highlights the particular relevance of the first year in higher education (HE) for students' future academic performance and achievement. In Germany, the recent reform of degree programmes appears to have created new challenges related to students'…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Higher Education, Semi Structured Interviews, Student Attitudes
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Demski, Denise; Racherbäumer, Kathrin – International Journal of Educational Management, 2015
Purpose: In Germany, principals' working environments are data-rich for school improvement purposes in a rather low-stakes test-regime. An effective use of externally as well as internally generated data, also known as data wise leadership, is considered to be a key competence of successful principals. The purpose of this paper is to describe data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Questionnaires, Semi Structured Interviews
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Lauer, Sabine; Wilkesmann, Uwe – Learning Organization, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to link two modes of governance (transactional and transformational) to organizational learning by examining the example of academic teaching. Consequently, the "transformational" strategies of best practices that have been used by German universities to achieve teaching excellence are interpreted as…
Descriptors: Governance, Best Practices, Universities, College Faculty
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Wink, Rüdiger; Kirchner, Laura; Koch, Florian; Speda, Daniel – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2015
This paper links two strands of literature (collective learning and resilience) by looking at experiences with collective learning as precondition of regional economic resilience. Based on a qualitative empirical study, the emergence of collective learning structures in the Stuttgart region after a macroeconomic and structural crisis at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Resilience (Psychology), Geographic Regions
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Friedrichs, Henrike; von Gross, Friederike; Herde, Katharina; Sander, Uwe – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2015
This research project was conducted to explore parental attitudes towards and their mediation of video games. Qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 28 parents (14 couples) assessed their media-related habitus, their media-educational habitus and the interaction between the habitus. The results show that the media-related habitus has a…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Video Games, Semi Structured Interviews, Qualitative Research
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Weber, Peter C.; Kochem, Alexander J.; Weber-Hauser, Sylvie – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2016
Career paths, career development and participation in adult learning are to a large extent dependent on learning experiences and labour-market entrance in early life stages. However, within the group of people with relative weak educational and vocational background variance was found in terms of how people perceive their situation and how they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Development, Adults, Personal Narratives
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Strippel, C. G.; Sommer, K. – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
Learning about scientific inquiry (SI) is an important aspect of scientific literacy and there is a solid international consensus of what should be learned about it. Learning about SI comprises both the doing of science (process) and knowledge about the nature of scientific inquiry (NOSI). German reform documents promote inquiry generally but do…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Inquiry, Chemistry, Scientific Principles
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Wiener, Gerfried J.; Schmeling, Sascha M.; Hopf, Martin – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2017
This paper describes the second in a series of studies exploring the acceptance of the subatomic structure of matter by 12-year-olds. The studies focus on a novel learning unit introducing an atomic model from electrons down to quarks, which is aimed to be used at an early stage in the physics curriculum. Three features are fundamental to the…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Preadolescents, Nuclear Physics, Instructional Effectiveness
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Ramsteck, Carolin; Muslic, Barbara; Graf, Tanja; Maier, Uwe; Kuper, Harm – International Journal of Educational Management, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how principals and school supervisory authorities understand and use feedback from mandatory proficiency tests (VERA) in the low-stakes context of Germany. For the analysis, the authors refer to a theoretical model of schools that differentiates between Autonomous and Managed Professional…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Principals, Administrator Role, School Supervision
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Eberle, Julia; Stegmann, Karsten; Fischer, Frank – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2014
Participating in communities of practice (CoPs) is an important way of learning. For newcomers in such communities, the learning process can be described as legitimate peripheral participation (LPP). Although a body of knowledge on LPP has been accumulated from qualitative case studies, mostly focusing on the use of practices, the concrete…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Participation, Novices, Social Support Groups
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Grumm, Mandy; Hein, Sascha; Fingerle, Michael – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2012
Many programs to prevent aggressive behaviours have been implemented at German schools. One such program is "Faustlos," a German adaptation of Second Step. This study investigated the social validity of the Faustlos curriculum in a sample of German fourth graders. Social validity refers to the level of acceptance associated with a…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Aggression, Prevention, Foreign Countries
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Bilecen, Basak – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2013
Drawing on the literature on international student experiences and identities, this study discusses theories of identity from a social constructionist perspective. "Identification" is the preferred term to describe a dynamic process through which students negotiate the meaning of their identities in different societies and communities.…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Student Mobility, Foreign Students, Graduate Students
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