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Mesker, Peter; Wassink, Hartger; Bakker, Cok – Professional Development in Education, 2018
This two-year longitudinal study explores how an earlier international teaching experience influences the way six newly qualified teachers perceive their current teaching practice and professional self-understanding during personally significant experiences. The concept of an experiential continuum, a key concept in these findings, suggests that…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teaching Experience, Longitudinal Studies, Educational Practices
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Szelényi, Katalin; Bresonis, Kate; Mars, Matthew M. – Review of Higher Education, 2016
This article explores the science identities of 21 women STEM Ph.D. students at three research universities in the United States. Following a narrative approach, the findings depict five salient science identities, including those of a) academic, b) entrepreneurial, c) industrial, and d) policy scientist and e) scientist as community educator. Our…
Descriptors: Females, Graduate Students, STEM Education, Research Universities
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Nguyen, Chinh Duc – Research Papers in Education, 2017
The discourse on construction of practice and identity in language teaching has been situated in transnational contexts. However, not all teachers are provided with access to transnational spaces for professional development. Drawing on the concept of "multimembership" in "multicommunities", this study explores how Vietnamese…
Descriptors: Self Concept, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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McGee, Ebony O.; Pearman, F. Alvin, II – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2015
The gendered and racialized narrative of Black male adolescents in urban spaces is one often fraught with deficit-based assumptions and presuppositions about their abilities, competencies, and proclivities with regard to schooling in general and mathematics in particular. Yet despite these conventional beliefs, compounded by the dearth of Black…
Descriptors: Risk, Males, High School Students, Semi Structured Interviews
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Vandeyar, Saloshna; Swart, Ronel – Education as Change, 2016
This paper sets out to advance the concept of an "epistemology of compassion" first proposed by Vandeyar (2013; 2016). Utilising a single embedded case study and the theoretical mooring of post-conflict pedagogy this paper attempts to find links between Jansen's perceptions of a post-conflict pedagogy and Freirean pedagogy and to argue a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Content Analysis, Semi Structured Interviews
Fuentes, Ronald – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
In response to growing linguistic diversity, many U.S. universities have implemented language policies that include procedures for English learner (EL) identification. Institutional labels such as "English learner" and "limited English proficiency" are regularly used to identify students who may need English language support;…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Immigrants, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Mudrak, Jiri; Zabrodska, Katerina – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2015
Although considerable research has addressed development from childhood giftedness to adult excellence, subjective perceptions of this development by gifted individuals themselves have remained largely unexplored. This multiple case study examined the ways in which young adults, who in the past had been identified as gifted, made sense of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted, Case Studies, Young Adults
Baldwin, Anna E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In 1999 the state of Montana included in its educational legal code a requirement that all Montanans learn about Montana's indigenous populations and that such knowledge be transmitted in a culturally sensitive manner. This law, called Indian Education for All (IEFA), has created challenges and rewards for educators. To learn to implement the law,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Structured Interviews, Role, Self Concept
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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
Gilbert, Craig – ProQuest LLC, 2012
High numbers of dropouts can be found throughout the country, but research has shown the problem to be most prevalent in minority communities. Although the majority of dropouts were Anglo, the highest event dropout rates were found among American Indians, Hispanics and African Americans. This descriptive study investigated how students negotiate…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Dropout Rate, Incidence, Minority Groups
Bell-Kligler, Roberta – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The role of Israel in the identity of North American Jews is of concern and interest to community leaders, philosophers of Jewish education, and most important, practitioners in the field. Although there is an awareness of the need to help emerging Jewish educators grapple with the complex questions surrounding Israel engagement, little research…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Jews, Religious Education, North Americans