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Ting, Ding Hooi; Cheng, Charles Fang Chin – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: This study aims to assess the effectiveness of a student participatory approach and assessment to achieve an environmentally friendly behaviour and change strategy. Design/methodology/approach Three time-phase studies employed a participatory and experiential case in the form of ecotourism experiential learning and assessment using a…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Field Trips, Student Participation, Experiential Learning
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Karabekmez, Meryem – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2017
This study demonstrates how the cultural role of Ottoman women began to change during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as considering emerging conflicts due to their altering roles in society as they were educated in the "Darulmuallimat" (teachers' college for women) and acquired social positions as woman instructors. The…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Women Faculty, Sex Role, Teacher Education
Awan, Seher – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The California Community College (CCC) system is the largest system of higher education in the United States, with 72 districts and 113 colleges. The CCC system exhibits statistics demonstrating success; however, as with any organization, trust, communication, and leadership play an essential role in creating stable and productive organizations.…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Community Colleges, Participative Decision Making, Cooperative Planning
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Peters, Michael A.; Jandric, Petar; Irwin, Ruth; Locke, Kirsten; Devine, Nesta; Heraud, Richard; Gibbons, Andrew; Besley, Tina; White, Jayne; Forster, Daniella; Jackson, Liz; Grierson, Elizabeth; Mika, Carl; Stewart, Georgina; Tesar, Marek; Brighouse, Susanne; Arndt, Sonja; Lazaroiu, George; Mihaila, Ramona; Legg, Catherine; Benade, Leon – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2016
This article is concerned with developing a philosophical approach to a number of significant changes to academic publishing, and specifically the global journal knowledge system wrought by a range of new digital technologies that herald the third age of the journal as an electronic, interactive and mixed-media form of scientific communication.…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Organizations (Groups), Writing Processes, Collaborative Writing
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Stark, Rachael H.; Anderson, Sharon K. – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2016
This qualitative study explores the moral behavior in the lived experience of resident assistants who administer disciplinary policy at a large, public, urban institution located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The 12 participants volunteered to be interviewed by the first author utilizing the research question, "What is the…
Descriptors: College Students, Resident Advisers, Higher Education, Interviews
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Bingham, Adrian; Delap, Lucy; Jackson, Louise; Settle, Louise – History of Education, 2016
This article reflects on methodological and ethical issues that have shaped a collaborative project which aims to chart social, legal and political responses to child sexual abuse in England and Wales across the twentieth century. The etymological problem of searching for child sexual abuse in the historical archive is discussed, given that the…
Descriptors: Historical Interpretation, Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Historians
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Krettenauer, Tobias; Murua, Lourdes Andrea; Jia, Fanli – Developmental Psychology, 2016
In this study, age-related differences in adults' moral identity were investigated. Moral identity was conceptualized a context-dependent self-structure that becomes differentiated and (re)integrated in the course of development and that involves a broad range of value-orientations. Based on a cross-sectional sample of 252 participants aged 14 to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Moral Values, Identification (Psychology), Adolescents
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Beighton, Chris – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
This paper analyses recent policy and discourse in the UK lifelong learning sector to identify a tension in discourse which positions teacher educators as essential to the knowledge economy while simultaneously insisting on the deficits they represent. Drawing on critical analyses from Friedrich Nietzsche, Maurizio Lazzarato and Gilles Deleuze, I…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Teacher Educators, Teacher Role
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Tarrant, Seaton Patrick; Thiele, Leslie Paul – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to ground contemporary sustainability education in John Dewey's democratic pedagogy. Specifically, the authors argue that Dewey's thought anticipates, and theoretically informs, the sustainability skill set required of contemporary citizens in a complex and changing world. Design/methodology/approach: For…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Teaching Methods, Cultural Context, Democratic Values
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Hoben, John – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2016
Using discourse analysis, the author identifies contradictions in privatization discourse in order to highlight how state-based educational reform has used a normative language of student interests to fundamentally redefine the nature of the university's mission and its faculty based governance structures. The author proposes a counter-discourse…
Descriptors: Privatization, Higher Education, Discourse Analysis, Educational Change
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Anson, Daniel W. J. – English in Australia, 2016
This paper investigates the language of the 2009 NSW Stage 6 English Syllabus. I argue that the language of the syllabus aims to create two distinct subjects: Subject English, that is, what students learn; and the subject position of its students, that is, what students are expected to become. Analysis reveals themes of personal development and…
Descriptors: English Instruction, National Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Individual Development
Hallman, Samantha K. – Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, 2016
University of Michigan (U-M) students visit community-based organizations in Detroit on a weekly basis to work on projects aimed at improving the well being of children and their families, such as tutoring youth in after school programs. Their site visits are supplemented by relevant readings, class discussions and written reflections on topics…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, Citizenship Responsibility, Student Responsibility, College Students
Gözpinar, Halis – Online Submission, 2016
Proverbs, which have been evaluated as a very rich heritage of collective wisdom and experience in society, are loved by people who prefer spicing up a conversation with the tips of wisdom to 'convince' others to 'prove' their point of view and actions. The paper explores semantic models of proverbs which denote the status of children in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Proverbs, Folk Culture, Cultural Influences
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Curren, Randall – Journal of Moral Education, 2014
This article addresses a puzzle about moral learning concerning its social context and the potential for moral progress: Won't the social context of moral learning shape moral perceptions, beliefs, and motivation in ways that will inevitably "limit" moral cognition, motivation, and progress? It addresses the relationships between…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Social Environment, Beliefs
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Iversen, Lars Laird – British Journal of Religious Education, 2014
The article presents a method for analysing recurring curriculum documents using discourse theory inspired by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. The article includes a presentation of the method in seven practical steps, and is illustrated and discussed throughout using the author's recent case study on religion, identity and values in Norwegian…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Discourse Analysis, Religion, Self Concept
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