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Yanchar, Stephen C.; Hawkley, Melissa N. – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
This qualitative study explored the nature of informal learning in professional instructional designers' everyday work activities. Based on intensive interviews with six full-time practitioners, and using a hermeneutic form of data analysis, this study produced seven themes concerning the practices, tensions, and ironies associated with this…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Informal Education, Educational Practices, Qualitative Research
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Bills, Andrew; Giles, David; Rogers, Bev – School Leadership & Management, 2017
Purpose: The research seeks to capture the "special character" of schools as seen through the eyes of the Principal and to introduce alternative understandings of ideological praxis' to challenge and unsettle the dominant ideology and logics of secondary schooling with consequent school design implications in South Australia.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Componential Analysis, Public Schools, Secondary Schools
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Bourgeois, Steven J.; Boberg, John Eric – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2016
A substantial body of research has shown that academic intrinsic motivation/cognitive engagement decreases from grades three through eight (Lepper, Corpus, & Iyengar, 2005). This phenomenon is troubling if education is to be viewed as a process through which learning goals become gradually internalized and connected with one's sense of self.…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Self Determination
Battistone, William A., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Problem: There is an existing cycle of questionable grading practices at the K-12 level. As a result, districts continue to search for innovative methods of evaluating and reporting student progress. One result of this effort has been the adoption of a standards-based grading approach. Research concerning standards-based grading implementation has…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Beginning Teachers, Teaching Experience, Elementary School Teachers
Tangunan Camota Contreras, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Research Topic: The majority of Christian schools in the United States exclude children who have disabilities from their learning communities. This study examines the practices of 11 Christian schools throughout the United States, through conversations with a top leader in each school, that provide access to and/or inclusion in their schools.…
Descriptors: Special Education, Children, Disabilities, Inclusion
Pane, Debra Mayes – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Exclusionary school discipline results in students being removed from classrooms as a consequence of their disruptive behavior and may lead to subsequent suspension and/or expulsion. Literature documents that nondominant students, particularly Black males, are disproportionately impacted by exclusionary discipline, to the point that researchers…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Nontraditional Education, Behavior Problems, Discipline