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Cone, Neporcha; Buxton, Cory; Lee, Okhee; Mahotiere, Margarette – Urban Education, 2014
As part of a larger investigation into the educational experiences of Haitians in South Florida, this study explores factors that influence the identity development and academic success of Haitian students. Individual and focus group interviews with Haitian students, parents, and teachers provide the context for studying how pressures from both…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Urban Schools, Haitians, Immigrants
Neyman, Vera L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
To improve students academic outcomes this auto-ethnographic dissertation examines my teaching practice in the Ukraine and in the United States, and the similarities and differences between the two educational systems. This study, designed in the form of auto-ethnographic vignettes, explores the effect of my personal and professional metamorphosis…
Descriptors: Well Being, Foreign Countries, Ethics, Teaching Methods
Skillen, Jan; Merten, Margaret; Trivett, Neil; Percy, Alisa – 1998
A model of assisting students in the transition to university education is presented that takes a developmental approach. This Integrated Development of English Language and Academic Literacy and Learning (IDEALL) model recognizes that all students need to develop new or more sophisticated academic skills for the new environment and that the most…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Zhang, Li-Fang; Watkins, David – Higher Education, 2001
Studied the relationship between student approaches to learning and stages of cognitive development, also considering the validity of the theory of development of W. Perry (1970). Results for 67 U.S. and 193 Mainland Chinese students suggest a relationship between cognitive development and student learning approaches with different patterns for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, College Students, Educational Theories
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Mok, Yan Fung – Research in Education, 2005
This article examines teaching concerns at successive life stages among teachers with up to twenty years' or more teaching experience. Three concern stages are discerned. Nine common concern factors were found from factor-analysing thirty-three concern items. Results show that student discipline, relations with students, and students' learning and…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Discipline, Teacher Student Relationship, Learning
Murphy, Debra M.; Toomey, Fran – 1993
An abstract is presented for an interactive workshop in which participants solve problems in groups to learn, practice, and integrate the Learnership/Leadership Model. Learning and leading are critical for future success in educational and industrial organizations as many have expressed, including, but not limited to, C. Argyris, W. Bennis, M.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society)