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Faddis, Toni Osborn – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore and describe the individual experiences of elementary principals' in Southern San Diego County when making ethical decisions that are unique to schools near the United States/Mexico border. Ethical decision-making, in this case, is the term used to depict an incident that calls for a…
Descriptors: Principals, Ethics, Decision Making, Administrator Attitudes
Wilcox, Denise – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how using technology tools during mentoring impacts the desired outcomes, as defined by the mentor-mentee contract, of the mentoring relationships of technology workers at a private graduate university with the main campus in Southern California. Methodology: This was a single…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Mentors, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
Ponder, Morgan – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Undocumented Latinx students are currently one of the most disenfranchised racial/ethnic groups in the United States. As demography reaches critical mass levels in many states, visibility has triggered new economic and policy imperatives. The Latinx populations in many states have created a sense of urgency regarding socioeconomic concerns. This…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Hispanic American Students, College Students, Academic Persistence
Story, Jill Taylor – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Public education reforms that attempt to more accurately determine the impact of individual teachers on student learning outcomes have resulted in recent changes to educator evaluation systems. In Massachusetts, teachers are evaluated according to their performance on the standards of effective teaching and their progress on student learning and…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Teacher Evaluation, Teaching Experience, Teacher Effectiveness
Todd-Adekanye, Clarissa – Online Submission, 2017
This study was designed to assess the impact of visual journaling in art education as a means for self-reflection and (self) education. Given that art making can be used as a tool for holistic healing, and Stuckey (2010) suggests that by supporting expression through creativity and imagination the formation of identity and reservoirs for healing…
Descriptors: Diaries, Art Education, Reflection, Self Esteem
Winterberg, Sarah Griffith – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study offered insight on the intermingling of discourse communities in the learning environment by examining experiences of composition instructors from a regional Southern university and their reflections of teaching students who struggled to navigate from home discourse to academic discourse. Merriam's basic qualitative research design…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Discourse Communities, Qualitative Research, Writing (Composition)
Carvalho Cooley, Linda M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Purpose: Community colleges continue to face an ever-changing environment. California Community Colleges are confronted with state initiatives, accountability, and accreditation changes that require integrated planning processes. The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe the role of communication as perceived by community college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Qualitative Research, Committees, Strategic Planning
Mustafa Öztürk Akcaoglu; Zeki Arsal – Online Submission, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine teacher candidates' perceptions regarding multicultural education in general, as well as to investigate whether content integration dimension is effective in terms of teaching multicultural education. Data for the study were collected from the semi-structured interviews performed with 10 teacher candidates.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Educational Attitudes, Multicultural Education
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Robinson, Kyle – Exceptionality Education International, 2018
In Canada little research has been conducted on inclusive education practices in secondary schools. The purpose of this study is to report, for a diverse group of four secondary school teachers in a single school board in southeastern Ontario, their descriptions of facilitating the inclusion of exceptional students in general classrooms. The four…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Inclusion, Children
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Hudson, Tara D.; Haley, Karen J.; Jaeger, Audrey J.; Mitchall, Allison; Dinin, Alessandra; Dunstan, Stephany Brett – Review of Higher Education, 2018
Postdoctoral scholars are a critical labor source within academia, and a postdoc appointment has become a prerequisite to most academic science careers. A small but growing body of literature examines postdocs' career experiences and outcomes. The present research adds to this literature by seeking to understand how STEM postdocs exhibit science…
Descriptors: Scientists, Self Concept, STEM Education, Outcomes of Education
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Çayak, Semih; Eskici, Menekse – World Journal of Education, 2018
The purpose of this paper is to investigate teachers' opinion and metaphorical perceptions about globalization. In this paper, phenomenology one of the qualitative research type was used. 61 teachers' metaphorical perceptions about globalization were collected and interviewed with 12 teachers about globalization in education. Teachers'…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Teacher Attitudes, Phenomenology, Semi Structured Interviews
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Gonsalves, Allison J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Astronomy Education Research.] This paper presents the cases of two doctoral students in observational astrophysics whose circumstances and experiences led them on a career trajectory out of academic research. In this article, I employ a sociocultural lens that provides insight into the dynamics of…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Astronomy
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Appova, Aina; Arbaugh, Fran – Professional Development in Education, 2018
In this study, we investigated teachers' motivation to learn following in the footsteps of emergent research efforts in the field. This qualitative study was grounded in the intersection of four research fields: policy, educational psychology, andragogy and professional development (PD). Findings indicate that teachers' dissatisfactions with their…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Teacher Motivation, Qualitative Research, Secondary School Teachers
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Wright, Jan; O'Flynn, Gabrielle; Welch, Rosie – Health Education, 2018
Purpose: Health education still tends to be dominated by an approach designed to achieve individual behaviour change through the provision of knowledge to avoid risk. In contrast, a critical inquiry approach educates children and young people to develop their capacity to engage critically with knowledge, through reasoning, problem solving and…
Descriptors: Health Education, Physical Education, Student Attitudes, Preservice Teachers
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Yao, Christina W.; Garcia, Crystal E. – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2018
Higher education institutions in Vietnam have embraced opportunities to collaborate internationally to address specific educational needs that have emerged as a result of an accelerated economic and political society. The shift to a global market-driven economy has resulted in the need to produce better prepared graduates, advance in technology,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Educational Cooperation
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