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Pérez Cañado, María Luisa; Rascón Moreno, Diego; Cueva López, Valentina – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
This paper makes available to the broader educational community the instruments which have been originally designed and validated within the European project "CLIL for all: Attention to diversity in bilingual education" ("ADiBE") to determine how diversity is being catered to across a broad array of CLIL contexts in European…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Barriers, Best Practices, Diversity
Boontinand, Vachararutai; Petcharamesree, Sriprapha – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2018
After nearly a decade of political polarization and deepening conflicts, Thailand is embarking on yet another cycle of reform and democratization project. While one of the proposed reform and democratizing strategies is to strengthen civic education curriculum and value inculcation, there has been a limited critical understanding on how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democracy, Democratic Values, Barriers
Heimer, Carol A. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2019
This article examines the practices of ethnographers carrying out research in and, especially, on organizations. Ethnographers studying organizations, like other ethnographers, emphasize close observation and understanding the meaning of actions, words, and artifacts; they differ from other fieldworkers, though, in focusing on the organization…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Organizations (Groups), Interpersonal Relationship, Research Problems
Stirrup, Julie – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
Qualitative research is an inherently complex landscape which continually presents researchers with difficult, ethically challenging dilemmas. This paper foregrounds some of those challenges, experienced during a qualitative research study which focused on preschool children's opportunities to access different forms of play in early year education…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Preschool Children, Barriers, Research Methodology
Widyaningtyas, Harini; Winarni, Retno; Murwaningsih, Tri – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2018
This study is aimed at describing teachers' obstacles in applying Numbered Head Together learning model in social science learning. The type of research is qualitative descriptive. The subject of the research is the third-grade teacher of elementary school in Sukoharjo Sub-district. The findings of the research were analyzed using interactive…
Descriptors: Barriers, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
Developing and Modeling Complex Social Interventions: Introducing the Connecting People Intervention
Webber, Martin; Reidy, Hannah; Ansari, David; Stevens, Martin; Morris, David – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Objectives: Modeling the processes involved in complex social interventions is important in social work practice, as it facilitates their implementation and translation into different contexts. This article reports the process of developing and modeling the connecting people intervention (CPI), a model of practice that supports people with mental…
Descriptors: Intervention, Social Work, Counseling Techniques, Mental Disorders
Roll-Pettersson, Lise; Olsson, Ingrid; Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2016
The present study examined proximal and distal barriers and supports within the Swedish service system that may affect implementation of early and intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) for children with autism. A case study approach with roots in ethnography was chosen to explore this issue. Two preschools exemplifying "high quality…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Barriers, Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers
Williams, Gwendolyn M.; Case, Rod E.; Reinhart, Erik D. – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2018
This article describes a narrative study exploring the challenges that international teaching assistants (ITAs) encounter when using humor in North American university classrooms. Twenty participants were recruited from twelve teaching fields. Each ITA participated in two interviews and a videotaped teaching observation. The participants talked…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Humor, Higher Education, Interviews
Ndhlovu, Sithembile; Varea, Valeria – Education 3-13, 2018
The purpose of this study was to determine how the design and organisation of primary school playground spaces may result in the inclusion or exclusion of some groups of children. Two primary school playgrounds in rural New South Wales, Australia, were selected for this investigation. Data were collected through observations and unstructured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Playgrounds, Space Utilization
Gregory, Tracey T. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the lived experiences of two nontraditional (under 40 years of age) African American female principals who work in the Mississippi Delta. Specifically, I focused on the intersectionality of race, age, and gender as identity markers. I utilized purposeful sampling to select the two…
Descriptors: African Americans, Women Administrators, Females, Experience
Raimondo, John P. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study explored the journey of one administrative team in a Midwestern suburban high school in their efforts to provide equitable access to education for African American students. It examined the high school administrative processes, and the perceived impacts of these processes in identifying, addressing and removing the institutional…
Descriptors: Access to Education, African American Students, Secondary School Students, Grounded Theory
Soetanto, Danny; MacDonald, Matthew – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2017
It is through working in groups that students develop cooperative learning skills and experience. However, group work activity often leads students into a difficult experience, especially for first-year students who are not familiar with group work activities at university. This study explores obstacles faced by first-year students during their…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Group Structure, Cooperative Learning, Group Dynamics
Isaac, Elaine – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The effective delivery of interactive read-alouds to young children fosters language and literacy development. Such development is attainable only when students can read proficiently and on grade level, starting from pre-k and kindergarten. The effectiveness of read-alouds is highly dependent on how teachers interact with their students during the…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Barriers
Powell, Rebecca L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this interpretive, qualitative multi-case study (Merriam, 2001; Stake, 1995) was to describe the experiences of three elementary classroom teachers as they integrated literacy and social studies during their literacy instruction. This study was grounded in an interpretivist paradigm and a theoretical lens of symbolic interactionism.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Literacy Education, Social Studies, Interdisciplinary Approach
Peercy, Megan Madigan; Ditter, Margaret; Destefano, Megan – TESOL Journal, 2017
This study contributes to research on teacher collaboration, which has not adequately examined the supports and challenges to English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) specialists and mainstream classroom teachers sharing roles in a student-centered classroom. Using a sociocultural theoretical framework, this study highlights the importance…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English Language Learners, Teacher Collaboration, Specialists