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Poon-McBrayer, Kim Fong – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2018
With a focus on exemplary practices, this article described and analyzed a principal's understanding of the conceptual framework of the US-based response-to-intervention and his strategies to mobilize school staff to understand and practice the model to achieve effective inclusive education with the principles of whole schooling. This principal…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Leadership, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries
Schwenger, Bettina – Educational Action Research, 2018
Concerns about developing academic staff capability in literacy and numeracy development led members of the Academic Literacies Team in a New Zealand institution to research ways for achieving and sustaining educational change. The findings indicated that enquiry through action research could be beneficial for supporting the process of integrating…
Descriptors: Action Research, Literacy, Numeracy, Vocational Education
Turan, Mehmet; Caliskan, Emir Feridun – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2018
The purpose of this research is to identify the general opinions of the educators on the Organic School Model (education inspectors, academicians, school administrators, primary and preschool teachers). The research was designed within the framework of qualitative research approach and phenomenology method, which is one of the qualitative research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nontraditional Education, Educational Change, Qualitative Research
Kuzhabekova, Aliya; Soltanbekova, Arailym; Almukhambetova, Ainur – European Education, 2018
In this article we analyze a recent development in educational reform in Kazakhstan, which presents interest to researchers of policy transfer/borrowing. We argue not only that international policy transfer has become the main approach to educational reform, but also that the approach has been institutionalized by the establishment of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Experience, Foreign Policy, Educational Change
Vandeyar, Saloshna – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2017
This paper peers through the window to look at how a teacher brings about meaningful educational change in a diverse classroom. Utilizing three sets of arguments from the field of educational change, I traced educational change within a teacher during the course of an academic year. Data capture comprised a mix of semi-structured interviews and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Agents, Teacher Role, Semi Structured Interviews
Czerniewicz, Laura; Deacon, Andrew; Glover, Michael; Walji, Sukaina – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2017
MOOCs have been seen as holding promise for advancing Open Education. While the pedagogical design of the first MOOCs grew out of the Open Education Movement, the current trend has MOOCs exhibiting fewer of the original openness goals than anticipated. The aim of this study is to examine the practices and attitudes of MOOC educators at an African…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Open Education, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries
Hampson, Ian; Fraser, Doug – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2016
The training and licencing of aircraft maintenance engineers fulfils a crucial protective function since it is they who perform and supervise aircraft maintenance and certify that planes are safe afterwards. In Australia, prior to training reform, a trades-based system of aircraft maintenance engineer training existed in an orderly relation with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aviation Mechanics, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Training Methods
Van Twembeke, Ellen; Goeman, Katie – Educational Research, 2018
Background: Educational changes often face resistance as lecturers tend to stand by familiar methods of instruction. This reluctance presents a challenge for programme coordinators who wish to introduce other methods, such as flipped classrooms, and seek to motivate lecturers to embrace educational change. Research into lecturers' motivational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Blended Learning
Albareda-Tiana, Silvia; Vidal-Raméntol, Salvador; Fernández-Morilla, Mónica – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this case study is to explore the principles and practices of sustainable development (SD) in the university curriculum. Design/methodology/approach: To explore the principles linked with the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the learning and teaching practices in sustainability at the International University of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Sustainable Development, Universities
Sadownik, Alicja R.; Baraldsnes, Dziuginta; Kalgraf, Solveig – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This paper presents an analysis of how educators from Lithuania experienced the Norwegian ECEC during a short study trip. The research results are informed by the theory of Practice Architecture [7, 8] that describes educational practices using the concepts of "sayings," "doings," and "relatings." "Sayings"…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Semi Structured Interviews, Travel
Saito, Eisuke; Atencio, Matthew; Khong, Thi Diem Hang; Takasawa, Naomi; Murase, Masatsugu; Tsukui, Atsushi; Sato, Manabu – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2018
Neo-liberal educational policies that are being implemented globally work to foster competition among schools and teachers, as well as among children. In this situation, teachers must often come to accept the dominant representations of curricular policy developed by higher authorities. In this study, a case study design is used to describe how…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism
Dubois, Bryce; E. Krasny, Marianne – Journal of Environmental Education, 2016
How educators adapt their programs following a climate related disturbance can provide insights into potential climate education practices. Therefore, we used semi-structured interviews to explore changes in environmental education practice in NYC following Hurricane Sandy. Educators adopted new language to reflect funding opportunities and…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Climate, Natural Disasters, Educational Change
Wiley, Kathryn E.; Anyon, Yolanda; Yang, Jessica L.; Pauline, Malina E.; Rosch, Alyssa; Valladares, Giovana; Downing, Barbara J.; Pisciotta, Lisa – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2018
Purpose: School discipline reformers have presumed that such work is largely a technical task, emphasizing discrete changes to discipline policies and protocols. Yet prior theory and research suggest that emphasizing technical changes may overlook additional and important aspects of reform, namely, the normative and political dimensions within…
Descriptors: Discipline, Qualitative Research, Semi Structured Interviews, Focus Groups
Boontinand, Vachararutai; Petcharamesree, Sriprapha – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2018
After nearly a decade of political polarization and deepening conflicts, Thailand is embarking on yet another cycle of reform and democratization project. While one of the proposed reform and democratizing strategies is to strengthen civic education curriculum and value inculcation, there has been a limited critical understanding on how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democracy, Democratic Values, Barriers
Wei, Wei; Yanmei, Xie – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
This study investigated the changing feedback practices of teachers in an elite university in China. Drawing on teacher cognition theory and recent research developments in effective feedback practices, fourteen teachers were invited to reflect and explain their feedback practices in semi-structured interviews. Which identified three trends: their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Reflective Teaching