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Ozfidan, Burhan; Aydin, Hasan – Higher Education Studies, 2017
The goal of bilingual education is fostering academic achievement, assisting immigrant acculturation to a new community, enabling native speakers to learn a second language, conserving linguistic and cultural heritage of minority groups, and advancing national language resources. This study investigated how certain parameters such as the views and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Mixed Methods Research, Surveys
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Weston, Donna – Music Education Research, 2020
A survey of 80 graduates of an Australian popular music degree revealed that graduates had a deep understanding of the value of soft skills to their employability and musical livelihoods. Soft skills are defined here as interpersonal and intrapersonal transferrable skills such as effective collaboration and communication, as opposed to the hard…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Music Education, Employment Potential, College Graduates
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Morley, Alyssa; Braun, Alisha M. B.; Rohrer, Lodi; Lamb, David – Global Education Review, 2019
This article applies a postcolonial analytical framework to critically review empirical literature on study abroad for preservice teachers (PSTs). Our systematic search of scholarly databases identified 47 empirical studies of study abroad programs for PSTs in the 2000-2019 time period. Our analysis of these 47 studies is driven by the objectives…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Study Abroad, Research Reports, Program Content
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Benard, Bonnie; Marshall, Kathy – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2016
It is no surprise to educators and prevention specialists that for more than two decades, the majority of evaluation studies of individual psychosocial prevention strategies not only in substance-abuse prevention but in all of social science research have failed to find sustained positive outcomes (Feldman, 1983; Kreft & Brown, 1998). Many…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Drug Abuse, Prevention, Program Effectiveness
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Fitzgerald, Angela – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
The phrase 'next practice' was coined to indicate a shift from the notion of best practice to thinking more broadly about the needs of future learners and the ways in which teaching practice might align to support these needs. In understanding what next practice means for the classroom, this study was particularly interested in examining how…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Edwards, Bethany; Coperman Petig, Abby; Austin, Lea J. E. – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2021
This report describes the early childhood degree programs offered in Maryland, focusing on variations in program content, age-group focus, student field-based learning, and faculty characteristics, as well as the extent to which Maryland early care and education (ECE) higher education programs are incorporating early math, family engagement, and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education Programs, Student Teaching, Teacher Educators
Edwards, Bethany; Coperman Petig, Abby; Austin, Lea J. E. – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2021
Maryland is home to more than 430,000 children under the age of six; 73 percent of these young children have all available parents in the labor force and thus potentially need child care. Stakeholders and advocates in Maryland are committed to advancing strategies that improve early care and education (ECE) services, including workforce…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education Programs, Student Teaching, Teacher Educators
Edwards, Bethany; Coperman Petig, Abby; Austin, Lea J. E. – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2021
Maryland is home to more than 430,000 children under the age of six; 73 percent of these young children have all available parents in the labor force and thus potentially need child care. Stakeholders and advocates in Maryland are committed to advancing strategies that improve early care and education (ECE) services, including workforce…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education Programs, Student Teaching, Teacher Educators
Afterschool Alliance, 2021
The report "Time for a Game-Changing Summer, With Opportunity and Growth for All of America's Youth," finds that as participation in summer programs prior to the pandemic was on an upwards trajectory, there remained a significant number of children missing out. For every child in a summer learning program in 2019, another would have been…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, African American Family, African Americans, Access to Education
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Naser, Shereen C.; Verlenden, Jorge; Arora, Prerna G.; Nastasi, Bonnie; Braun, Lindsay; Smith, Rokeishia – School Psychology International, 2020
A key part of promoting social justice as school psychologists is infusing practice with actions that breakdown systems of inequity and incorporate systems of inclusion. The current manuscript provides a description of applying social justice as a framework in universal programming through child rights education. Additionally, the manuscript…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Social Justice, Program Development, Program Content
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Spooner-Lane, Rebecca – Professional Development in Education, 2017
While mentoring programmes have proven to be successful in reducing attrition and improving teaching ability in beginning teachers, there remains a lack of research delineating the key components of effective mentoring programmes in primary education. This integrative research review examines empirical studies conducted since 2000 on the nature…
Descriptors: Mentors, Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction, Elementary School Teachers
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Postholm, May Britt – Cogent Education, 2018
This review study includes 43 articles from 2016 and 2017 focusing on teachers' professional development, as guided by the following twofold research question: "What characterizes teachers' professional development in school, and how does this development influence school improvement?" The review indicates that teachers' learning…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Content, Educational Improvement, Learning Processes
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Rosales, Robert; Figuereo, Victor; Woo, Bongki; Perez-Aponte, Jaime; Cano, Manuel – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2018
To successfully integrate Latino immigrant populations in the United States, the Social Work Grand Challenges call for increased culturally responsive training in social work education. Nevertheless, professional programs of social work education have been slow to incorporate courses that prepare students to work with Latino communities. This…
Descriptors: Social Work, Caseworkers, Hispanic Americans, Immigrants
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Sakkoulis, Dimitris P.; Asimaki, Anna; Vergidis, Dimitris K. – International Education Studies, 2018
The purpose of this paper is the investigation of the prevailing forms of in-service training, the detection of the dominant pedagogical discourse they promote as well as their contribution to the shaping of the teacher's individual theory of education (I.T.E.). The research was conducted using semi-structured interviews with a sample of 11…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Educational Theories, Semi Structured Interviews, Training Methods
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Ikonnikova, Maryna – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2016
The article deals with master program in foreign language education at New York University Steinhardt (US). Thus, its peculiarities have been revealed. It has been defined that the study program presupposes mastering of foreign language teaching approaches that meet various needs of learners. It has been indicated that students acquire the…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Holistic Approach
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