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Anamarie A. Whitaker; Margaret Burchinal; Jade M. Jenkins; Drew H. Bailey; Tyler W. Watts; Greg J. Duncan; Emma R. Hart; Ellen Peisner-Feinberg – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
High-quality preschool programs are heralded as an effective policy tool to promote the development and life-long wellbeing of children from low-income families. Yet evaluations of recent preschool programs produce puzzling findings, including negative impacts, and divergent, weaker results than were shown in demonstration programs implemented in…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Program Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Educational Research
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Wagaman, M. Alex; Alessi, Edward J.; Goffnett, Jacob; Watts, Keith J.; Iacono, Giovanni; Thomas, De'Shay; Paceley, Megan S.; Craig, Shelley L. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2021
The Council on Social Work Education mandates that students be prepared to work competently across lines of difference. Research suggests that social work programs have inadequate curricula for preparing students to work with LGBTQ+ people, and can be unsupportive of the needs of LGBTQ+ students. Little is understood about the experiences of…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Social Bias, LGBTQ People, Inclusion
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Pérez-Jiménez, Paul – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2018
Cooperative Learning's (CL) implementation has received an incredible amount of research attention from academics held in high esteem. However, the researcher claims that it is up to every new generation of educators to formulate their conclusions regarding CL's effectiveness in a contemporary classroom. Although the author begins by situating CL…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Program Implementation, Literature Reviews, Relevance (Education)
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Tarhan, Murat – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2021
It can be said that entrepreneurship education is effective in realizing career plans that will shape the lives of individuals. This situation causes people to give importance to entrepreneurship. The knowledge and skills gained in the entrepreneurship education process benefit people's lives. Entrepreneurship education has an undeniable effect on…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices
Esfandiyari, Yadolah; Nourabadi, Soolmaz – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2020
In recent years, the evolution plan in the educational system and curriculum has been one of the most important topics in educational circles. This implies that the programs implemented in higher educational system have not been fully achieved for various reasons. One of the most important reasons is "not paying attention to the localization…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Humanities
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Kuzu, Esat; Özkan, Yonca; Bada, Erdogan – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2021
English preparatory programs play a critical role in preparing students for their departments that offer English medium instruction. Therefore, investigating such programs has gained great significance as such an investigation provides us with critical information about how well the programs are functioning to achieve the desired outcomes. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Program Effectiveness
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Spence, Steven; MacNamara, Aine – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2018
The somewhat forever-changing landscape of education in England has recently challenged the post-16 sector in new ways, with funding and a knowledge-based curriculum just some of the new initiatives institutions must acclimatise to. Sport provision, a generic term used in this paper to encompass level three sport and physical education programmes,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Semi Structured Interviews, High Schools
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Brigham, Erin; Soltis, Kathryn Getek – Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 2018
In their efforts to engage faculty members in institutional mission and identity, a number of Catholic colleges and universities have given particular attention to the Catholic Social Tradition (CST). This paper examines a handful of exemplary programs on faculty engagement around CST, identifying specific outcomes facilitated by these…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Traditionalism, Catholics, Outcomes of Education
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Ssegantebuka, Julius – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2019
Different educational contexts or learning environments differently influence visual arts tutor's performance and pre-service teachers' learning. The purpose of this research was to examine the role the college context plays in the tutors' presentation of knowledge and the pre-service teachers' learning in visual arts in National Teacher Colleges…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Arts, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teachers
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Balodimas-Bartolomei, Angelyn – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2016
The present study examines Holocaust education and professional teacher development in Greece. It briefly reviews the history of Greek Jewry and the stance and significance of Holocaust education within the Greek education system from historical, political, and pedagogical dimensions. The study also compares various approaches, themes, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Seminars, Death, Faculty Development
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Ikonnikova, Maryna – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2018
The paper deals with professional training of future foreign language teachers in the USA based on the experience of Lewis University. As evidenced by research findings, the scope of foreign language education in the USA is rather broad, since they attempt to promote both traditional and critical languages in the context of developing translingual…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Second Language Learning
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Helenius, Ola; Johansson, Maria L.; Lange, Troels; Meaney, Tamsin; Wernberg, Anna – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2017
The use of freely-available web-based materials in professional development has rarely been investigated in mathematics education research. In this article, the responses to a survey by 267 preschool teachers about their use of online professional development materials are described. The web materials were based on a design model and the survey…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Faculty Development, Teacher Surveys
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Sengul, Ozge Aydin – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The purpose of the current study is to investigate the pre-service teachers' opinions about science within the context of the basic elements of the education program, such as objectives, content, learning-teaching process and evaluation. The study was designed as a case study, one of the qualitative research methods. The participants of the study…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Investigations
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Wilson, Amy B. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2015
Research examining the multicultural competence of leadership educators across a variety of institutions demonstrated variance based on leadership program structure, program elements, and the ways in which diversity was addressed in the program. The Multicultural Competence in Student Affairs-Preliminary 2 (MCSA-P2) scale was used to measure…
Descriptors: Program Design, Interpersonal Competence, Multicultural Education, Leadership
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Jarošová, Eva; Lorencová, Hana; Pubalová, Katerina; Šedivý, Lukáš – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2017
Teaching methods in MBA and Lifelong Learning Programmes (LLP) for managers should be topically relevant in terms of content as well as the teaching methods used. In terms of the content, the integral part of MBA and Lifelong Learning Programmes for managers should be the development of participants' leadership competencies and their understanding…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Business Administration Education, Masters Programs, Teaching Methods
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