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Memisoglu, Hatice – Educational Research and Reviews, 2017
The purpose of this study is to investigate the opinions of teachers and preservice teachers of social studies on geo-literacy. The study used the qualitative research design of phenomenology to collect data. The study consisted of 20 teachers and 30 prospective teachers of social studies. The purposive sampling method of criterion sampling was…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Geography
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Joyce, Caroline; Honey, Emma; Leekam, Susan R.; Barrett, Sarah L.; Rodgers, Jacqui – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
In order to investigate the experience of anxiety and restricted and repetitive behaviours (RRB) in young people with ASD, 19 families with young people with ASD aged between 13 and 20 years completed questionnaire measures of RRB, anxiety, and intolerance of uncertainty. Ten young people also completed a novel semi-structured interview exploring…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Problems, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Yamashita, Lina; Hayes, Kathryn; Trexler, Cary J. – Environmental Education Research, 2017
In response to the increasing recognition of the need for sustainable food systems, research on students' and educators' knowledge of food systems and sustainability more broadly has grown but has generally focused on what people "fail" to understand. Moving away from this deficit approach, the present study used semi-structured…
Descriptors: Food, Sustainability, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Meydan, Ali – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
As geography program has been discussed with the constructivist approach, it has become necessary to enhance the lessons with activities. Geography teachers implement the activities in course books, on the one hand, and also use the activities other teachers prepared or the activities in social network websites, on the other. However, what is more…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Semi Structured Interviews
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van Niekerk, Molly; Botha, Johan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2017
The qualitative research discussed in this article is based on the assumption that school principals as leaders need to establish, develop and maintain a core of shared values in their schools. Our focus is on principals' current perceptions of values in their schools. This is important because values underpin their decisions and actions and thus…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Decision Making
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Sawiuk, Rebecca; Taylor, William. G.; Groom, Ryan – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2017
Background: Within the context of sports coaching and coach education, formalised mentoring relationships are often depicted as a mentor--mentee dyad. Thus, mentoring within sports coaching is typically conceptualised as a one-dimensional relationship, where the mentor is seen as the powerful member of the dyad, with greater age and/or experience…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Mentors, Athletics, Physical Education
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Liu, Ting; Fuller, Jeffrey; Hutton, Alison; Grant, Julian – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2017
Within a rapidly changing cultural and socio-economic context, young people in China are increasingly engaging in romantic experiences and sexual behaviours with consequences such as unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. Across a range of contexts, parental communication about sexuality has been recognised as protective in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Sexuality
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Kaya, Beytullah; Topçu, Ersin – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Peace education requires that students have a correct and academic perception regarding other countries. These perceptions of students, who acquire certain perceptions starting from primary school to university, need to be based on real facts and should not contain extravagance. This study aims to determine whether 3rd year Prospective Social…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Elliott, Samuel Kim; Drummond, Murray J. N. – Sport, Education and Society, 2017
Characteristic issues surrounding parents in youth sport include examples of negative verbal and non-verbal behaviour demonstrated during competition. Numerous studies have done well to highlight while parents possess a great potential for positively influencing the sport experience, they can also exert a considerable negative influence by…
Descriptors: Parents, Youth, Foreign Countries, Team Sports
Ross-Norris, Vicki – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to explore the essence of professional learning experiences shared by teachers who participated in a professional learning community (PLC) at a New York City high school in the South Bronx. Guided by Hord's PLC characteristics and Bruner's constructivism theories, this phenomenological study addressed the research…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Urban Schools, Faculty Development, Secondary School Teachers
Sauerwein, David A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative study utilizing grounded theory examined sense of place for a group of 15 urban students at a small, rural college. The setting is a traditional campus in New England with academic, residential, administrative, and support buildings that sit in a town of 3,500 residents. The area is mountainous and wooded with wetlands, and the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Rural Schools, College Students, Photography
Sands, Ashley Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Ground-based astronomy sky surveys are massive, decades-long investments in scientific data collection. Stakeholders expect these datasets to retain scientific value well beyond the lifetime of the sky survey. However, the necessary investments in knowledge infrastructures for managing sky survey data are not yet in place to ensure the long-term…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Data Collection, Scientific Methodology, Semi Structured Interviews
Disu, Abimbola – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of teachers who engage in reflective teaching practice. This study was conducted at two elementary urban charter schools in New York City (NYC). A phenomenological research design was used to investigate the perspectives of twenty-one elementary school teachers who use reflective…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Reflective Teaching, Elementary School Teachers, Urban Schools
Foot, Rachel Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative, naturalistic study was to explore the ways in which hidden curriculum might influence doctoral student success. Two questions guided the study: (a) How do doctoral students experience the hidden curriculum? (b) What forms of hidden curricula can be identified in a PhD program? Data were collected from twelve…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Hidden Curriculum, Doctoral Programs, Academic Achievement
Sapeg, Raquel – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the lived experiences of underrepresented tenured Latina faculty in one four-year university in the southeast area of the United States to identify barriers towards achieving tenure. Eight tenured Latina faculty with experience of 7 to 20 or more years in a tenured position provided their…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, College Faculty, Tenure, Qualitative Research
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