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Godwell Nhamo; Lazarus Chapungu; Kaitano Dube – Cogent Education, 2024
The year 2024 marked nine of the 15-year timeline towards attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Consequently, questions arise regarding the progress made. Based on a survey (n=290), key informant interviews (n=31), and archival sources, this paper explored the role and perspectives of academic staff in localising the SDGs within…
Descriptors: Objectives, Sustainable Development, Universities, Foreign Countries
Htay, Swe Swe – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative multiple-case study uses the conceptual framework of Bourdieu's cultural capital theory. The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences of adult Burmese immigrants (ABIs) in applying to colleges and universities in the U.S. The scope of this study does not include international students. The study sample consisted of nine…
Descriptors: Barriers, Cultural Capital, Immigrants, Access to Education
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Güven, Ebru Gençtürk – International Education Studies, 2021
The study aims to determine the "Geography Literacy" levels of senior year pre-service teachers. To do so, the correlations between geo-literacy on the one hand, and the program the student is enrolled in, the type of settlement the student lived in during secondary education, the type of high school the student graduated from, the…
Descriptors: Geography, Literacy, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Castillo-Montoya, Milagros; Ives, Jillian – Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Drawing on students' prior knowledge can enhance learning, but we know little about how instructors learn to teach with this knowledge in mind. Through a two-year embedded case study, we sought to examine how 10 college instructors' teaching conceptions and practices relevant to minoritized students' prior knowledge shifted over the course of two…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Self Concept
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Da Silva, Nancy; Davis, Ashley R. – Review of Higher Education, 2011
The absorptive capacity construct has been examined across various country, interorganization, and organizational level phenomena. This paper presents a framework that adopts the absorptive capacity framework to explain the relationship between creative and innovative performance at the individual level. The framework is illustrated by predicting…
Descriptors: Creativity, Innovation, Correlation, College Faculty
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis