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Melissa Feiger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Through the use of the Program for International Student Assessment's (PISA) Global Competence results, the Economic Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Democracy Index ratings, and centralization-decentralization spectrum rubrics, this dissertation shows the association between level of democracy and education system, and the association of these variables…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Centralization, Educational Practices, Educational Development
Angela M. Labistre Champion – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Focus on multiracially-identified college students has continued to gain momentum in contemporary educational research, along with public and academic awareness of this burgeoning population--which has given needed voice to the unique and nuanced experiences and needs central to multiracial students' lives. However, most recent scholarship has…
Descriptors: Multiracial Persons, Student Empowerment, Higher Education, Educational Development
Mark Boonshoft – ProQuest LLC, 2015
From the very founding of the United States, education's actual influence on American society has not measured up to Americans' belief in education as a vehicle of meritocracy. Shortly after the American Revolution, the lexicographer, editor, and would-be education reformer, Noah Webster noted that in the United States "The constitutions are…
Descriptors: Religion, Social Capital, United States History, Educational History
Bradshaw, Elizabeth A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The paper explores if systemic implementation of collaborative practices impacts the educational culture of a school. Using the fundamental principles of Professional Learning Communities, the research analyzed what collaborative practices were implemented and if they were successful as cultural change agents. Section one discusses the different…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Public Schools, Program Implementation, School Culture
Wood, Phillip R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Quality teacher training and continued learning is essential to providing the high quality education that yields adequate levels of student success. Though called by many different names, academic coaches appear to be the answer to the continuing problem of creating a positive learning environment that meets the challenges of educating students…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Teacher Attitudes, Educational Development, Teacher Surveys
Galligan, Mark N. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This paper presents the research design, rationale, and the results of a historical document-based research project to answer the following two-part question: How do popular and dominant political, social, and economic forces affect the creation and delivery of American history curriculum in public schools between 1890 and 1920 and how is this…
Descriptors: Historical Interpretation, Educational History, United States History, History Instruction
Francis, B. Mark – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Technology-based education is learning primarily based in constructivist styled pedagogies. It is neither good nor bad; its value is inherent to the user and environment where it is placed. While some churches place a high value on the benefits gleaned from its use, others abhor it in religious education. Why churches incorporate or reject…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Technology Uses in Education, Theological Education, Religious Education
Humphrey, Jordan R. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines the experiences of four private, liberal arts colleges--Dartmouth College, Earlham College, Franklin & Marshall College, and Swarthmore College--before, during, and after World War II to identify the adaptive policies implemented to meet the challenges that accompanied the war and its aftermath. Identification of these…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, War, Liberal Arts, Enrollment
Schwirzke, Kelly Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2011
California educators and policymakers have limited availability of data related to online and blended learning. Through the use of an electronic survey, incorporating closed- and open-ended questions, the study examined the nature, extent, and barriers of online and blended learning in California public schools from the perspective of the district…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Blended Learning
Gencheva, Yuliyana – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This project offers a close look into the meaning-making practices of the Bulgarian socialist state with regard to the conception and enactment of childhood. Held for the first time in 1979, on occasion of the UN declared "International Year of the Child", the International Children's Assembly "Banner of Peace" emerges as a…
Descriptors: Exhibits, Foreign Countries, Children, Educational Practices
Wright, Sandra K. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This historical research will provide school leaders with a broad conception of the conditions, forces and processes behind the development of Economics Education. It serves as a case study of past and current practices and approaches to advocacy in economics education. Since it began in 1885, economics education has experienced many obstacles and…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Program Effectiveness, Secondary Education, Doctoral Dissertations
Lubeski, Nancy J. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This doctoral research work explores the quality of educational experiences and access to opportunities for girls with disabilities in selected rural primary schools in Malawi. The context for this study lies within four of the six goals contained within the World Declaration on Education for All doctrine, a document which lays out a framework for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Special Education Teachers, Elementary School Students