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Rachel L. Juergensen; Amy Pleet-Odle; Meg Knapp – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
Inclusion has become the focus of a significant body of research, advocacy, and committed action in communities, businesses, and schools across the United States and beyond. Professional development focused on inclusion is part of a program called "Joyful Inclusion." Evaluating the impact a professional development program has on…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Faculty Development, Middle School Teachers, Inclusion
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Nhan, Thi Thuy; Nguyen, Huu Cuong – Issues in Educational Research, 2018
Among educational practices in the era of globalisation, developing countries are emerging with diverse representations of transnational collaboration. This paper investigates the operation and regulation of joint programs in Vietnam as a case study of higher education under the impact of profit-driven motives. It first reviews the trends,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Global Approach, Higher Education
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Tsakeni, Maria – Issues in Educational Research, 2018
Physical sciences education comes with high expectations for learners to be successfully placed in tertiary institutions in related fields, and developing countries' aspirations to develop advanced and specialised skills to drive economies. However, some of the prevailing instructional strategies in science classrooms work to marginalise learners.…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Access to Education, Active Learning, Inquiry
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Blackley, Susan; Walker, Rebecca – Issues in Educational Research, 2015
There is a body of research around the uptake of digital technologies in secondary schools, and a growing body of research specifically designed to investigate the use of one-to-one laptop programs. However this research focused on the initial uptake of the digital technology or initial implementation of a one-to-one (1:1) laptop policy. Given the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Access to Computers, Laptop Computers, Middle School Students
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Murphy, Brooke; Dionigi, Rylee A.; Litchfield, Chelsea – Issues in Educational Research, 2014
We argue that gender issues in physical education (PE) remain in some schools, despite advances in PE research and curricula aimed at engaging females in PE. We interviewed five Australian PE teachers (1 male and 4 females) at a co-educational, regional high school about the factors affecting female participation in PE and the strategies they used…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Females, Case Studies, Teacher Attitudes
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Boland, Josephine – Issues in Educational Research, 2010
This paper considers the prospects for sustainable service/community based learning as an element of a civic engagement strategy within the context of teacher education. It draws on findings of a study of the policy, process and practice of embedding civic engagement in the higher education curriculum in Ireland and the author's experience…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Curriculum Development, Service Learning, Foreign Countries