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Direct linkAnna Becker – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This study investigates the interplay among identity, language, and culture of six heritage language (HL) teachers at a Greek school in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. It applies the concept of "participative multilingual identity construction" and argues that in order for teachers to provide agency and opportunities to their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Language Usage, Native Language
Mussington, Marlon J., Sr. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Food insecurity is a problem for millions of people in the United States. In 2020, 10.5 percent of US households were food insecure, and for people of color, the numbers were even greater. With the United States' history of discrimination against Black and Brown people in areas such as housing, employment, and education, racism is clearly a root…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Food, Hunger, Weekend Programs
Alrasheedi, Ghazi; Almutawa, Farah – Improving Schools, 2020
Many educational centers for instructing Muslim children in the principles of Islam and the Arabic language have been established in Europe. These centers are called weekend schools; students attend these schools on the weekend to learn the Holy Qur'an in addition to Arabic language skills. The current study aimed to examine the nature of these…
Descriptors: Islam, Foreign Countries, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning
Download full textWang, Jia; La Torre, Deborah; Adreani, Linda F.; Kinnard, Lauren; Leon, Seth; Kikoler, David; Rosales, Elaine – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2022
COVID-19 changed the experiences of K-12 students and teachers in ways that are not yet well-documented. This report provides initial insights into teaching and learning during the pandemic from the perspectives of teachers and students at 31 public schools in three states. The analyses indicate that about two thirds of the teachers surveyed…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools
Menzies, Victoria; Collyer, Clare; Kokotsaki, Dimitra; Hewitt, Catherine; Younger, Kirsty; Wiggins, Andy; Torgerson, Carole – Education Endowment Foundation, 2015
This is a report of a pilot programme of the SHINE in Secondaries Saturday school transition intervention. The programme aims to improve attainment by focusing on literacy and numeracy and revisiting areas where pupils are struggling through a creative curriculum approach and enrichment opportunities. The Saturday programme is run by teachers from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Weekend Programs
GILES, FREDERIC T.; AND OTHERS – 1964
STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND ADMINISTRATORS AT FIVE WASHINGTON COMMUNITY COLLEGES PARTICIPATED IN A QUESTIONNAIRE STUDY DESIGNED TO (1) DETERMINE CURRENT TRENDS IN SATURDAY INSTRUCTION, (2) SURVEY ATTITUDES TOWARD SUCH A PROCESS, (3) IDENTIFY RELEVANT PROBLEMS, AND (4) DEVELOP A QUESTIONNAIRE FOR LOCAL USE. OF THE 14 WASHINGTON COMMUNITY COLLEGES, NONE…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitudes, Program Development, Scheduling
Menges, Robert J. – 1985
The impact of 2-week summer workshops and weekend reunions on college faculty who participated in the Stanford Program for Faculty Renewal was assessed using a questionnaire completed by 123 workshop participants, workshop and reunion observations, and interviews with 18 persons at 10 campuses. About two-thirds of the respondents were associate or…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Messina, Robert C., Jr.; And Others – 1996
In response to a projected enrollment decline for spring 1995, Burlington County College, in New Jersey, offered "Power Package" courses, or 11, 45-hour courses held over 3 weekends, to attract more credit students. In response to questions regarding the academic validity of these alternative courses, the college undertook a study to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Declining Enrollment, Educational Innovation, Enrollment Management
Fonseca, James W., Ed. – 1984
Six papers on adjunct and nontraditional college faculty are presented from the George Mason University (Virginia) annual conference on nontraditional interdisciplinary programs. The papers and authors are as follows: "Educational Orientation and Role Perceptions of Adjunct Faculty" (William McAfee, Lewis Smith); "Quality Teaching…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Administrator Education, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty
Lucas, John A. – 1992
In an effort to determine the needs and perceptions of students and faculty involved in evening and weekend classes at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) in Palatine, Illinois, surveys were sent to 400 students randomly chosen from 100 course sections taught at WRHC in fall of 1991, and to 767 faculty teaching evening or weekend classes during…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, College Planning, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Freidman, William – 1979
The problems of class scheduling in higher education institutions are discussed in this research study that investigated the scheduling preferences of students at Fontbonne College, a small, private, four-year college in Missouri. Scheduling for nontraditional, part-time students at Fontbonne has centered on evening and weekend classes with…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Faculty, Evening Programs, Flexible Scheduling
South Oklahoma City Junior Coll., OK. – 1979
Of the 14 institutional research projects undertaken at South Oklahoma City Junior College during fiscal year 1979, four are summarized in this compilation which also contains a bibliography on non-traditional education in the two-year college setting. The first report presents, in three tables, a count of classes by time of day for the 1977,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Building Design, Classroom Design, Classrooms
