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Leal Filho, Walter; Brandli, Luciana Londero; Becker, Deisi; Skanavis, Constantina; Kounani, Aristea; Sardi, Chrysoula; Papaioannidou, Dimitra; Paço, Arminda; Azeiteiro, Ulisses; de Sousa, Luiza Olim; Raath, Schalk; Pretorius, Rudi Wessel; Shiel, Christine; Vargas, Valeria; Trencher, Gregory; Marans, Robert W. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: There is a widely held belief that sustainable development (SD) policies are essential for universities to successfully engage in matters related to sustainability, and are an indicator of the extent to which they are active in this field. This paper aims to examine the evidence which currently exists to support this assumption. It…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Universities, School Policy
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Nabaho, Lazarus; Oonyu, Joseph; Aguti, Jessica N. – Africa Education Review, 2019
There is a dearth of studies on academics' perceptions of good teaching in transitional economies such as Uganda and the degree of parity between academics' conceptions of good teaching and the items in the student evaluation of teaching (SET) questionnaires. Against this backdrop, the article reports on a study that explored how academics at…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Communication Skills, Student Evaluation
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Vinichenko, Mikhail V.; Kirillov, Andrey V.; Frolova, Elena V.; Kaurova, Olga V.; Makushkin, Sergey A. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The relevance of the research is conditioned by the need to win the competition struggle by certain organizations and area in general. Education has recently become very popular for the training of highly professional staff. However, achieving this goal is possible by means of creation of favorable working and learning conditions, maintaining…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Conditions, Educational Environment, Health
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Purdon, Anne – Education 3-13, 2018
This study aims to consider children's perspectives about free time activity choices. Through the use of drawings, favourite free time activities of third culture kids in Albania are compared with those of children in the UK. The sample comprises four boys and three girls from four to eight years from each country. Further conversations reveal…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Parents, Child Caregivers
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Williams, Gareth – School Leadership & Management, 2017
The aim of this paper was to analyse how teachers and government may differ in their views regarding the qualities required to be an effective middle manager with responsibility for Physical Education (PE). Lines of inquiry were based upon the practices associated with a performative work culture and how this has affected teacher language. There…
Descriptors: Accountability, Content Analysis, Middle Management, Leadership Qualities
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Roman, Tiffany A.; Ottenbreit-Leftwich, Anne T. – Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2016
Within the United States, there has been a call for timely, effective, and targeted communication between home and school environments to increase student achievement and engage parents (Project Tomorrow, 2011a). Although teachers can use websites as a means of communication to connect with parents online (Dunn, 2011; Janicki &…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Web Sites, Elementary School Teachers
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Boccio, Dana E. – Cogent Education, 2017
The promotion of students' welfare is one of the central professional and ethical responsibilities of school psychology practitioners. However, some practitioners are subjected to pressure from administrators to engage in behavior that runs counter to ethical mandates and may be detrimental to students' well-being. The phenomenon of administrative…
Descriptors: Ethics, Administrator Behavior, Philosophy, School Psychologists
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zareie, Mohammad Hossein; Nasr, Ahmad Reza; Mirshahjafari, Seyyed Ebrahim; Liaghatdar, Mohammad Javad – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
Professional development of educators, especially in preschool years has been neglected in Iran. The purpose of this study was to investigate the viewpoints of experts and teachers about the purposes and content of the professional development plan for preschool teachers. This research is a descriptive-analytic study conducted through both…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Preschool Teachers, Foreign Countries, Semi Structured Interviews
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Cooper, Joseph N. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine and contrast the experiences of Black male scholar athletes at a Division I historically Black college/university (HBCU) and historically White university (HWU) and identify key contributors to their positive transitional experiences (academic, athletic, and social) in college. Two focus groups, 8…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, College Athletics, Athletes, Interviews
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Cydis, Susan; Galantino, MaryLou; Hood, Carra Leah; Padden, Mary; Richard, Marc – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2017
This article describes the results of a follow-up investigation to a study in which researchers proposed a model for implementing a college-wide initiative in which ten essential learning outcomes students acquire from curricular and extra-curricular learning experiences were developed and implemented at the university. Using descriptive and…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education, Extracurricular Activities
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Sendur, Gulten – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2014
The aim of this study is to determine prospective chemistry teachers' creative comparisons about the basic concepts of inter- and intramolecular forces, and to uncover the relationship between these creative comparisons and prospective teachers' conceptual understanding. Based on a phenomenological research method, this study was conducted with…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Science Teachers
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Vasil'ev, I. A. – Russian Education & Society, 2015
These days labor training of the rising generation has been made more difficult by the fact that a certain contingent of that generation lack a solid motivation to work. There is a shortage of systematic and intelligent promotion of skilled blue-collar professions. On the basis of an analysis of a sociological field survey the author looks at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Training, Job Skills, Surveys
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Enke, Kathryn – NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education, 2014
Women are underrepresented in senior-level leadership positions in higher education institutions, and their experiences are underrepresented in research about leadership and power in higher education. This qualitative study engaged women senior administrators at liberal arts colleges in the Upper Midwestern United States to better understand how…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Higher Education, College Administration, Qualitative Research
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Mazzoni, Elvis; Nicolò, Enrico; Sapio, Bartolomeo – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the user experience of young people with video content accessed through different technological artefacts. Design/methodology/approach: To this purpose, an essay has been assigned to the pupils of two lower secondary school classes (mean age 12 years) to know their diverse types of usage of multimedia…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Secondary School Students, Qualitative Research
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Stagg, Steven D.; Slavny, Rachel; Hand, Charlotte; Cardoso, Alice; Smith, Pamela – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
Research investigating expressivity in children with autism spectrum disorder has reported flat affect or bizarre facial expressivity within this population; however, the impact expressivity may have on first impression formation has received little research input. We examined how videos of children with autism spectrum disorder were rated for…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Nonverbal Communication, Video Technology
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