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Åkerlind, Gerlese; McAlpine, Lynn – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
International policy changes that have prioritised increasing growth in the numbers of doctoral students have led to wide-ranging debate about the changing purpose of the doctorate. However, there has been little research aimed at investigating doctoral supervisors' views of the purpose of the doctorate, despite the significant role supervisors…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Supervisory Methods, Supervision, Teacher Attitudes
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Tutkun, Erkut; Görgüt, Ilyas; Erdemir, Ibrahim – International Education Studies, 2017
The purpose of this study is to find out the views of teachers of physical education about how they define character education, whether they think national education curriculum and the curriculum of private schools are suitable for character education and whether they think character education can be applied in physical education lessons. Case…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Values Education, National Curriculum
Geisler, Thomas M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In the last thirty years childhood obesity and inactivity rates in the United States have increased at alarming rates (Ogden, Carroll, Kit, & Flegal, 2014). In response to this, physical education curriculum is shifting to focus more on health promotion rather than competitive team sports and game play. This focus is reflected in the recently…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Physical Education Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Preschool Education
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Ozkan, Hasan Huseyin – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This study analyses the opinions of school directors related to their levels of recognition, comprehension and explanation, along with their support and their supervisory duties in the process of the implementation of the curriculum. Although this study is designed appropriately to the qualitative research design, phenomenological research design…
Descriptors: Administrators, Administrator Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Curriculum Implementation
Haack, Darin Marcus – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to understand how teachers experience a stance toward inquiry through participation in Professional Learning Communities (PLCs). In order to meet this objective, the following questions framed this research: (1) How do individual teachers make meaning of the epistemological and dialogic aspects of…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Inquiry, Teacher Attitudes
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Hosgörür, Vural – Education, 2014
This study aims to define and explain the establishment, functioning and problems of school development management teams (SDMTs), similar to quality circles used in total quality management practices, for the purposes of continuous development and improvement of schools on the basis of the planned school development model. This is a qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Circles, Total Quality Management, Management Development
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Quinn, Brandy P. – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2016
Purpose in life is beneficial for adolescents and their communities. However, less is known about supports for purpose development during adolescence, particularly in the school setting. The study described here drew from theories about teacher beliefs and knowledge, and a multidimensional definition of purpose in life, in order to learn from…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Beliefs, Knowledge Level
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Al-Zahrani, Abdulrahman – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2015
The current study aims at understanding the place of technology integration in Saudi pre-service teacher education curriculum. To achieve this, a sequential qualitative approach was implemented in two main stages. First, national and curriculum policies were thematically analysed. Based on this, semi- structured interviews with three key…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Educational Practices
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Aktas, Bilge Cam; Guven, Meral – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
The current study has aimed to compare the objectives, content, teaching-learning process, and evaluation dimensions of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IBDP) Language A1 Course teaching program with those of the teaching programs of high school 12th grade Language and Expression and Turkish Literature courses in relation to…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Qualitative Research, Turkish, Foreign Countries
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Canbulat, Mehmet; Dilekçi, Atilla – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The objective of this research is to identify and suggest solutions to the problems experienced by students learning Turkish as a second language according to the opinions of both teachers and students evaluated. The research has been conducted among the classroom teachers, Turkish language teachers and the students attending the schools in…
Descriptors: Turkish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Content Analysis
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Muntinga, M. E.; Krajenbrink, V. Q.; Peerdeman, S. M.; Croiset, G.; Verdonk, P. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2016
Recent years have seen a rise in the efforts to implement diversity topics into medical education, using either a "narrow" or a "broad" definition of culture. These developments urge that outcomes of such efforts are systematically evaluated by mapping the curriculum for diversity-responsive content. This study was aimed at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Education, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism
Mueller, Lori – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine perceptions of state legislators regarding funding of public higher education in the State of Missouri. To this end, I sought to determine how Missouri legislators perceive the purpose of higher education and the role the state government should play in funding it. The concept that higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Funding Formulas, Educational Finance, Resource Allocation
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers