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Zahra Kemiche; Christian Beighton – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2024
This case study examines the challenges of researching one of the most sensitive topics in education contexts: racism. Based on a research project that critically examined the culture in a U.K. university, data were collected using participant observation and in-depth interviews with participants from an underrepresented group. The data were then…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racism, Educational Research, Research Projects
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Grimm, Frida; Norqvist, Lars; Roos, Katarina – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
This paper contributes to method development in educational leadership research. The focus is on a visual method and the inclusion of visual material in data collection and analysis. Core concepts in this paper are educational leadership, power and authority. The method was used in face-to-face interviews in a research project that studied the…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Research Methodology, Instructional Leadership, Power Structure
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Ho, Stephanie – LEARNing Landscapes, 2023
During a two-term observational study of my Secondary English Language Arts (ELA) class, I introduced "Surrealism" to the existing curriculum. Jot notes, personal interviews, and a self-study comprised my data strands. The COVID-19 pandemic struck shortly before my scheduled in-person interviews. This uncertainty disrupted my doctoral…
Descriptors: Interviews, COVID-19, Pandemics, Videoconferencing
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Mokuria, Vicki G.; Wandix-White, Diana – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2021
This paper provides an approach for social studies education that includes investigative research into an old school building that has traditionally served predominantly African American children, along with a narrative inquiry into the experiences of one of that school's former students. We offer a unique approach to experiential global…
Descriptors: African American Education, Social Studies, Citizenship Education, Student Research
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Brunila, Kristiina; Hannukainen, Kristiina – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
How knowledge capitalism retools the scope of academic research and researchers is an issue which this article ties to the project market in the ethos of knowledge capitalism. In Finland, academic research has been forced to apply for funding in project-based activities reflecting European Union policies. The project market, which in this article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Researchers, Financial Support, Research Projects
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Schneider, Oliver – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
Adaptive Learning Systems have been developed to improve learning success by increasing learner satisfaction, learning speed, and educational effectiveness. However, authoring adaptive eLearning structures is still a complicated task for lecturers, because they are unaccustomed to the way of thinking and to the workflows that are needed for the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Hypermedia, Research Projects, Interviews
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Leibowitz, Brenda; Naidoo, Kibashini – Education as Change, 2017
In the South African higher education context, which is fraught with inequities and where many feel uncomfortable, the focus on socially just pedagogies and the positioning of teachers in relation to this is not just timeous and relevant, but crucial. In this article we share what we believe a posthumanist view has to offer researchers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scholarship, Instruction, Learning
Sabine Gerhartz-Reiter – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
In the research project which formed part of my PhD study, I dealt with the topic of inequity in education. My main interest was to find out how (formal) educational careers can be fostered even if the starting position within the system is one which makes a successful educational career very difficult. Despite the fact that in the Austrian…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Research Projects, Research Design, Data Collection
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Mihut, Georgiana; Altbach, Philip G.; Salmi, Jamil – European Journal of Higher Education, 2016
This paper discusses the emergence of international advisory councils (IACs) at universities around the world and introduces the concept of internationalization of governance. Global trends in the field of higher education, such as the quest to create world-class universities and advance in global rankings, the rise of new public management, and…
Descriptors: Governance, Higher Education, Qualitative Research, Interviews
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Bakker, Arthur; Ben-Zvi, Dani; Makar, Katie – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2017
To understand how statistical and other types of reasoning are coordinated with actions to reduce uncertainty, we conducted a case study in vocational education that involved statistical hypothesis testing. We analyzed an intern's research project in a hospital laboratory in which reducing uncertainties was crucial to make a valid statistical…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Case Studies, Statistics, Hypothesis Testing
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Kontorovich, Igor'; Rouleau, Annette – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2018
This article is concerned with tensions that teachers who are studying for a graduate degree in mathematics education experience when conducting a research project. Specifically, we focused on the tensions that emerge in situations where teacher-researchers encounter the mathematical misconceptions and difficulties of their interviewees. The…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Mathematics Instruction, Decision Making, Learning Theories
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Queiroz, Tamires; Monteiro, Carlos; Carvalho, Liliane; François, Karen – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2017
In recent years, research on teaching and learning of statistics emphasized that the interpretation of data is a complex process that involves cognitive and technical aspects. However, it is a human activity that involves also contextual and affective aspects. This view is in line with research on affectivity and cognition. While the affective…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Affective Behavior, College Seniors, Student Research
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Millard, Debbie – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2018
This paper argues that links between academia and other economic sectors are increasing, especially through intersectoral mobility of university graduates. Murray [(2010). "The Oncomouse that Roared: Hybrid Exchange Strategies as a Source of Distinction at the Boundary of Overlapping Institutions." "American Journal of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Social Sciences, Humanities
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Hains-Wesson, Rachael; Young, Karen – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
The paper explores a collaborative self-study, autoethnography research project, which aided in informing practice for the teaching of reflective practice in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) at an Australian university. Self-report methods were used, because it enabled the collection of a variety of self-awareness data…
Descriptors: Ethnography, STEM Education, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
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Moyer, John C.; Robison, Victoria; Cai, Jinfa – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2018
This paper presents findings from a larger research project that provides insight into the attitudes of high-school students who were taught using different types of mathematics curricula when they were in middle school. A total of 44 12th-grade students from 10 high schools in the same urban school district were interviewed. Eighteen (41%) of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Student Attitudes, Research Projects
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