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Zhang, Meng; Walker, Allan David; Qian, Haiyan – International Journal of Educational Management, 2021
Purpose: This study aims to describe and analyze an innovative mechanism of teacher-led, system-wide professional learning that has been widely adopted since the beginning of the twenty-first century in China--the Master Teacher Studio (MTS). Design/methodology/approach: This paper drew from policy documents, published Chinese literature relating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Master Teachers, Learning Activities
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Emmers, Elke; Baeyens, Dieter; Petry, Katja – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2020
A lot of legislative changes have taken place on inclusive education. This had consequences at all educational levels (primary, secondary and higher education (HE)). In the context of these changes, there was a need for more research focused on attitudes towards inclusion and the preparation of pre-service teachers for inclusive education. Recent…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Higher Education, Inclusion, Preservice Teachers
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Meader, Kurt; Larwin, Karen H. – Journal of Education, 2022
There is a shortage of male elementary school teachers in the United States. Men who choose careers as elementary school teachers must be confident and ignore social barriers that keep other men from considering the profession. The current investigation seeks to understand the viewpoints of men who teach elementary school, a career predominated by…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Males, Teacher Shortage
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Adamu, Abebaw Yirga – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2023
Women are underrepresented in senior leadership positions across global higher education and there are different reasons for this. This study examines barriers to women's leadership development in Ethiopian higher education, with particular attention to the role of national and institutional policies and practices. The study used a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Women Administrators, Disproportionate Representation
UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 2016
The Malaysia government has placed STEM as a focus in developing the country towards achieving the status of a developed nation. The government acknowledges the role of women as equal partners in nation building. Thus, various policies ranging from economy, education, women's welfare, and human resources have been formulated through the years.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, STEM Education, Residential Schools
Luvanda, Anthony – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2023
Kenya's digital technology advancements--chief among them the mobile money transfer application referred to as Mpesa--has led to the country's status as an emerging digital economy. However, the long strides in the move toward a fully-fledged digital economy are not reflected in the digital technology workforce with regard to gender balance. While…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Education, Digital Literacy, Careers
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Ratchanok Uicheng; Peson Chobphon – International Education Studies, 2024
Academic resilience is crucial in today's crisis-prone society. This qualitative study explored the factors that shaped academic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic to strengthen the global literature on resilience and post-pandemic policy and practice in education. This study adopted a multiple-case study design, with the application of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Resilience (Psychology), Student Attitudes, COVID-19
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Li, Hui; Khattak, Shoukat Iqbal; Jiang, Qingquan – SAGE Open, 2021
Faculty is the key agent for internationalization. This interview-based study explored faculty views about the internationalization understanding, rationales, roles, engagement, and motivation in a research-centric, double-first class university in China. Faculty motivation was analyzed using the lens of the motivation systems theory (MST). The…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Systems Approach, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Motivation
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Shapira-Lishchinsky, Orly; Levy-Gazenfrantz, Tania – Journal of Educational Administration, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore an integrative model which includes specific intentions that may explain the contradictory citizenship behaviors and misbehaviors among superintendents in Israel. Design/methodology/approach: In total, 518 superintendents from seven Israeli Ministry of Education district offices were randomly…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Administrator Behavior, Self Determination, Foreign Countries
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Meier, Markus D.; Diefenbach, Heike – Gender and Education, 2020
The OECD's Programme of International Student Assessment known as PISA, including the Gender Report published in 2015, is a well-received project and its findings keep being transferred into educational policy development. Its quantitative methodology and the sheer volume of data gathered from around 5,100,000 students from 65 countries seem to…
Descriptors: Criticism, Gender Differences, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
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Cushing, Ian – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
This article presents an analysis of the standard language ideology within a corpus of school-designed language policy documents from 264 primary schools in England. It examines the processes by which standard language ideological concepts (e.g. 'Standard English', 'correctness', 'hegemony') get textually manifested in school policies, and how…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Standard Spoken Usage, Computational Linguistics
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Morley, Alyssa – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
Concerns about the academic performance of students from marginalized groups underscore calls for students to be taught by teachers of similar racial, ethnic, or gender identities (e.g., Miller, 2018). In sub-Saharan Africa, projects enlist women teachers as role models for girls in an effort to redress persistent gender disparities in education.…
Descriptors: Role Models, Educational Change, Females, Developing Nations
McEntire, Robert H. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
As globalization allows multinational corporations to shift production to cheaper markets, educators across the globe struggle to meet the changing demands required to attract the foreign direct investment (FDI) needed to raise their country's standard of living. Few countries have been more successful attracting and leveraging FDI than Ireland.…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
Subramanian, Samyukta – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2019
The Delhi government in India recently launched its preschool curriculum for the city's 10,897 communitybased preschool centers. The draft National Education Policy of India, made public in June 2019, dedicates its first chapter to the importance of early childhood care and education and the need to extend the right to education to every child who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Curriculum
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Kaff, Marilyn; Teagarden, Jim; Zabel, Robert – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2017
Susan Albrecht's career has spanned more than 40 years. During those years she has served as an English teacher, school psychologist, behavior consultant, coordinator of services, and special education faculty member. Her contributions to the field include leadership positions with the Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders. Susan shared…
Descriptors: Interviews, Career Development, Behavior Disorders, Role Models
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