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Debbie Ging; Jessica Ringrose; Betsy Milne; Tanya Horeck; Kaitlynn Mendes; Ricardo Castellini da Silva – Gender and Education, 2024
Increasing rates of gender-based and sexual abuse, coupled with a rise in misogynistic influencers online, have become a growing issue in UK and Irish schools. This paper reports on the findings of a post lockdown study in England and Ireland that piloted workshops on gender-based and sexual violence. While most student responses were positive, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexual Abuse, Gender Bias, Workshops
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Simon Vurayai – Educational Practice and Theory, 2024
This study employed the Systematic Review (SR) methodology to examine the content and reasons for resisting the implementation of Continuous Assessment Learning Activities (CALA) in Zimbabwean Secondary schools. The Overcoming Resistance to Change (ORC) model was exploited as the analytical lenses. The study found that factors such as education,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Program Implementation, Resistance to Change
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Georgiou, Yiannis; Ioannou, Andri – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2019
Technology-enhanced embodied learning is argued to have the potential to revolutionize K-12 education. Despite the affordances of technology-enhanced embodied learning, its integration in mainstream education is currently at slow pace. Slow adoption of technological innovation is not a new issue in the education arena. Several factors are…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Adoption (Ideas), Technology Integration, Faculty Development
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Tai, Mei Kin; Abdull Kareem, Omar – Professional Development in Education, 2020
The main aim of the study was to examine whether headteachers in Malaysian primary schools were equipped with the relevant competencies to execute school change, in the light of increasing demands for educational excellence and ensuing school reforms. A comparison was made between the National School (NS) and National-Type Chinese School (NTCS).…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Effectiveness, Elementary Schools, Foreign Countries
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Bani-Salameh, Hisham N. – Physics Education, 2017
The purpose of this work is to study the effectiveness of our introductory mechanics instructions in changing students' misconceptions about Newtonian concepts. We gave the force concept inventory (FCI) test to 341 of our students twice, before and after instructions. The data were analyzed using a method first reported by Martín-Blas "et…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Mechanics (Physics), Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions
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Draaisma, Aniek; Meijers, Frans; Kuijpers, Marinka – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2017
To prepare students for the flexible labour market of nowadays, schools are increasingly acknowledging their responsibility to guide students in their career development. The project "Career Orientation and Guidance in Secondary Vocational Education" was developed to encourage Dutch schools to initiate and/or continue the creation of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Education, Longitudinal Studies, Secondary Education
Hoyt-Parrish, Valerie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
New policy at LHP (pseudonym) requires all teachers to implement the Danish Forest School approach and integrate the natural outdoor areas surrounding the campus in their curriculum and pedagogy. The purposes of the present study are to identify the cognitive, affective and psychomotor impact of the Danish Forest School approach on students and to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outdoor Education, Natural Resources, Teaching Methods
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Okifo, Joseph; Igbunu, Richard – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The crux of this study is on the adoption of E-payment system in Nigeria: Its economic benefits and challenges. The arrival of the internet has taken electronic payments and transactions to an exponential growth level. Consumers could purchase goods and services from the internet and send unencrypted credit card numbers across the network, which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Systems, Economic Impact, Financial Services
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Aksit, Fisun; Niemi, Hannele; Nevgi, Anne – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
This article aims to report how teacher education may promote active learning which is demanded by the current educational reform of Turkish teacher education (TE). This article also examines the effectiveness of the recent reforms in Turkey from a student's perspective, and provides an understanding of the concept of active learning, how it is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Teacher Education, Educational Change
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Albaqami, Saud – Higher Education Studies, 2015
Quality assurance in higher education remains to be one of the most prominent fields of research at the present. In the Saudi Arabian higher education institutions (HEIs), quality assurance is a relatively new concept and Saudi universities seem not to effectively implement quality assurance caused by the certain obstacles. As such, there are two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Program Implementation, Higher Education
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Billingham, Craig; Gragg, Monica; Bentley, Guy – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2013
Higher education is in a phase of rapid internationalization, with practices and impacts ranging from curriculum reform to satellite campuses to affiliated partner institutions. Internationally, higher education institutions are increasingly engaged with issues pertaining to technology integration. The primary reason for this is a growing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Higher Education, Case Studies
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Ravet, Jackie – Professional Development in Education, 2012
Research repeatedly suggests that a lack of autism awareness, plus poor interprofessional working, is undermining the development of effective autism provision across Scottish services. In response, the University of Aberdeen developed an interprofessional education (IPE) programme in Autism and Learning designed to address these problems. This…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interprofessional Relationship, Professional Education
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Underwood, Jean; Dillon, Gayle – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2011
The teaching profession's response to the inexorable march of new technology into education has been a focus of research for some 30 years. Linked with the impact of ICT on measurable performance outcomes, teacher attitudes to technology and the impact on pedagogic practice have been central to that research, a research that has often seen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Attitudes, Educational Research
Nditi, Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Organizations have become more dependent on information technology (IT) in the 21st century. But IT implementation and use is resisted in certain sectors of Tanzania, particularly in government-run enterprises. The purpose of this study was to investigate the causes and consequences of resistance to IT development and implementation in the…
Descriptors: Job Performance, Program Effectiveness, Social Change, Information Technology
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Latchem, Colin; Jung, Insung; Aoki, Kumiko; Ozkul, Ali Ekrem – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
Japan and Korea have highly developed information and communications technology infrastructures and have recently reformed their higher education systems and encouraged e-transformation. However, Japanese universities have not embraced e-learning as wholeheartedly as their Korean counterparts. The paper concludes that this is due to governmental…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development
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