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Young, R.; Dagnan, D.; Jahoda, A. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2016
Background: Leaving school is an important time for adolescents, with increasing autonomy and developing adult identities. The present study sought to shed light on the content and emotional impact of worries amongst adolescents with and without intellectual disabilities (IDs) at this time of change. Methods: Twenty-five adolescents with mild to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Emotional Response, Anxiety, Mild Intellectual Disability
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Cooper, Joseph N. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine and contrast the experiences of Black male scholar athletes at a Division I historically Black college/university (HBCU) and historically White university (HWU) and identify key contributors to their positive transitional experiences (academic, athletic, and social) in college. Two focus groups, 8…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, College Athletics, Athletes, Interviews
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Ma, Yongjun; Wan, Yanlan – Science & Education, 2017
Based on previous international studies, a content analysis scheme has been designed and used from the perspective of culture to study the history of science (HOS) in science textbooks. Nineteen sets of Chinese science textbooks have been analyzed. It has been found that there are noticeable changes in the quantity, content, layout, presentation,…
Descriptors: Science History, Science Instruction, Content Analysis, Textbooks
Dogan, Midrabi Cihangir; Vatansever Bayraktar, Hatice; Kadioglu Ates, Hatice – Online Submission, 2019
This study aims at analyzing primary school teachers' opinions on cursive writing and their metaphorical perceptions. The study is a qualitative research. Semistructured interview method was employed to identify opinions of the teachers more clearly. The study group of the research study consisted of primary school teachers who worked at public…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Handwriting, Figurative Language
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Özdas, Faysal – Journal of Education and Learning, 2018
Teaching-learning process has a great important medium where pre-service teachers develop experiences and competences. Pre-service teachers are introduced to this process in a professional sense through the school experience course in teacher training. In this process, it is crucial to identify the encountered difficulties and matters. For this…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Qualitative Research, Learning Processes
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Deering, Darren; Sá, Creso – Tertiary Education and Management, 2018
The use of corporate management tools in universities has been widely critiqued in recent decades, as it is viewed as undermining academic goals and promoting marketization and corporatization. Responsibility center budgeting (RCB) is one popular management tool that has been decried as promoting market logics, internal competition and…
Descriptors: Administration, Corporations, Colleges, Educational Administration
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Leal Filho, Walter; Brandli, Luciana Londero; Becker, Deisi; Skanavis, Constantina; Kounani, Aristea; Sardi, Chrysoula; Papaioannidou, Dimitra; Paço, Arminda; Azeiteiro, Ulisses; de Sousa, Luiza Olim; Raath, Schalk; Pretorius, Rudi Wessel; Shiel, Christine; Vargas, Valeria; Trencher, Gregory; Marans, Robert W. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: There is a widely held belief that sustainable development (SD) policies are essential for universities to successfully engage in matters related to sustainability, and are an indicator of the extent to which they are active in this field. This paper aims to examine the evidence which currently exists to support this assumption. It…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Universities, School Policy
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Sadik, Fatma; Yalcin, Onur – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
This research is a qualitative study comparatively examining the views of high school teachers and students related to discipline perception and discipline problems. The study has been realized at a vocational school during the 2014/2015 school term. Maximum diversity and criterion sampling methods have been followed for the formation of the study…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers, Discipline, Qualitative Research
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Maroy, Christian; Pons, Xavier; Dupuy, Claire – Journal of Education Policy, 2017
The article argues that there is no single globalisation of education systems, but rather multiple globalisations of each system taken in its individual context. We propose three explanatory factors to account for these vernacular globalisation processes, that is, for individual policy trajectories in each national context: path dependence on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Educational Policy, Global Approach
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Choo, Suzanne S. – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2017
Countering the drive to erect walls between nations and communities, the burden is increasingly on educators to develop in students essential skills and dispositions for a more hospitable future. Global education is essentially aimed at addressing the realities of increasingly networked societies and porous exchanges of knowledge, capital, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Education, Case Studies, Conflict
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Hareket, Erdem; Gülhan, Meryem – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
This research was performed with the purpose of comparative investigation of perceptions which are related to child rights of the prospective primary school teachers' and pre-school teachers'. The research was designed properly to qualitative research approach. This research was performed with 80 the prospective primary school teachers and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Childrens Rights, Elementary Education
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Levin, John S.; Martin, Marie C.; López Damián, Ariadna Isabel; Hoggatt, Michael J. – Community College Review, 2018
Objective: With both policy pressures from state governments, including states' funding behaviors, and the logic of the institution deeply ingrained over decades, community colleges face considerable challenge in reconciling conflicting values and requirements. Yet, as organizations they adapt to survive, and outcomes of adaptation may lead to an…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Policy, State Policy, Educational Change
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Timotheou, Maria Mama – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2017
This paper presents the main findings of a UK study exploring graduate students' perceptions of web-based education, with a specific focus on their change over time, throughout an asynchronous course. Data were collected through online messages and interviews, and analyzed qualitatively, following content and thematic analyses. Participant pre-…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Web Based Instruction, Asynchronous Communication
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Miloševic Zupancic, Vesna – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2018
Research from the field of non-formal education (NFE) in youth work emphasises the central role of experiential learning and learning in groups. The present paper aims to research teaching methods and teaching forms in NFE in youth work. The research sought to answer the following research questions: 'What teaching forms can be found in NFE for…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Teaching Methods, Nonformal Education, Youth
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Cheng, Nellie S. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2015
Despite the widespread adoption of accreditation processes and the belief in their effectiveness for improving educational quality, the search for good accreditation practices remains a critical issue. This article recounts one university's experiences when simultaneously undergoing the accreditation processes of both the Middle States Commission…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accreditation (Institutions), Universities, Comparative Analysis
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