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Cohen, Rebecca Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The varied academic needs of students with learning disabilities throughout the U.S. and in Southern California, specifically, have driven demand for private learning centers. For the purposes of this study, a learning center refers to a private business that teaches primary and secondary school students with learning disabilities outside of the…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Living Learning Centers, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Strategies
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Vasquez-Martinez, Claudio-Rafael; González-Gonzalez, Felipe; Flores, Francisco; Cardona-T., Jose-Gerardo; González, Irma; Espino, Piero; Olaguez, Eugenia; Rendon, Hector; Chavoya, Jorge; Valdes-Perea, Alba-Liliana; Álvarez, María-Ines; Torres-Mata, Joaquín; Betancourt-Nuñez, Erik-Moises; Rodríguez-Ramírez, Sergio-Esteban; Álvarez-Gómez, Miguel; Cabral-Araiza, Jesús; Anguiano, Carlos – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2018
A reform always implies an adjustment, a transformation, or a change. But one always hopes that a reform is for the better, and that it will benefit those who will be affected by the reform. Educational reforms have been seen in this way, since the world changes and we change with it. In this line of thought, we can dare to think that when an…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Poverty, Quality of Life, Social Differences
Wright, Jerry Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to examine teachers' perceived autonomy in two different school settings. The theory that guided this study was Bandura's social-cognitive theory, specifically focusing on the three aspects of human agency. The research question was used to investigate the similarities and differences of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Professional Autonomy, Administrative Organization, Teacher Attitudes
Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, 2018
Missouri career education is preparing young people and adults for the job market and/or further education. It combines academics and job-specific skill training to assist in narrowing the skills gap. This fact sheet shows how Missouri's career education programs are preparing students for the future. [For the 2016-17 Fact Sheet, see ED590196.]
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education, Student Organizations, Secondary Education
Moon, Jodi – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2018
This research brief is Part I of a four-part series that studies the implementation and impact of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) decision to decentralize in the 1990s. This first part describes how decentralization was enacted in HISD. It examines the implementation of decentralization at HISD. The process that HISD originally…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Change, Educational Administration, School Districts
D'Acierno, Maria Rosaria – Online Submission, 2018
This study, based on the observation of children (3-5 year olds) following a program of specific physical exercises guided by music, wants to evaluate the effect of movement on body, mind and cognition. It will promote activities and experience in order to 1) build up a healthy body and a healthy mind; 2) prevent obesity as well as type 2…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Health, Cognitive Development, Young Children
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Valverde-Moreno, Marta; Torres-Jimenez, Mercedes; Lucia-Casademunt, Ana M. – European Journal of Training and Development, 2021
Purpose: There is a growing consensus among human resources researchers and professionals that a participative environment can enhance job satisfaction, commitment, employee motivation and productivity. Moreover, globalization has caused that organizations operate in a huge number of culturally diverse countries. Studies suggest that understanding…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Employee Attitudes, Human Resources, Job Satisfaction
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Skinner, Barbara; Leavey, Gerard; Rothi, Despina – Educational Review, 2021
In Europe, well-being in the workplace has increasing prominence in the policy and research agenda, and education is a key context in which the challenge of occupational stress has been reported. Traditionally, the ethos in school settings could be said to be shaped by the vocational motivation of employees; that is, a commitment to a social…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Professional Autonomy, Well Being, Mental Health
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Regmi, Kapil Dev – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
In the context of educational globalisation, the role of supranational organisations in shaping the educational policy decisions, especially of aid-dependent countries, has increased. Using global governance as a theoretical framework and Critical Policy Sociology (CPS) as a methodological framework, this paper analysed key educational policy…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Foreign Countries
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Sadan, Naama; Alkaher, Iris – Environmental Education Research, 2021
In this qualitative case study, we adopted theories of street-level bureaucracy and policy entrepreneurship to examine formation processes of environmental and sustainability education (ESE) policy at school and local government level. We focused on teachers' and urban government ESE officials' motives for initiating ESE programs, the support…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Case Studies
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Gorur, Radhika; Dey, Joyeeta – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
Mapping India's vast, complex, and unruly education system through the systematic generation of accurate and current data, and encouraging accountability by persuading a diverse array of actors to engage with such data, is an ambitious, if not heroic, project. Yet this is what India's Education Information Management System (EMIS), the Unified…
Descriptors: Usability, Data Analysis, Accountability, Information Management
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Tucker, Janice; Fushell, Marian – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2021
Neoliberal discourse dominated education policy for decades and fueled reform movements with lasting effects. Through a critical lens this qualitative case study explored policy direction, the influences that shaped multiple years of reform initiatives and the impact of these changes in one Canadian province. Data sources including policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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Switzer, Sarah; Chan Carusone, Soo; McClelland, Alex; Apong, Kamilah; Herelle, Neil; Guta, Adrian; Strike, Carol; Flicker, Sarah – Health Education & Behavior, 2021
Community engagement is considered a cornerstone of health promotion practice. Yet engagement is a fuzzy term signifying a range of practices. Health scholarship has focused primarily on individual effects of engagement. To understand the complexities of engagement, organizations must also consider relational, structural, and/or organizational…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Community Involvement, Health Promotion, Stakeholders
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Boice, Katherine L.; Jackson, Justina R.; Alemdar, Meltem; Rao, Analía E.; Grossman, Sabrina; Usselman, Marion – Education Sciences, 2021
There is growing enthusiasm for STEAM education in preparing students for an increasingly complex world. However, implementing STEAM in the classroom can be challenging for educators, as it may require collaboration across disciplines, increased workload, and understanding the nature of STEAM integration. This paper details a mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Art Education, STEM Education, Professional Development, Teacher Education
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Kurylo, Vitalii; Myhovych, Iryna – Advanced Education, 2021
The paper deals with the phenomenon of lean management in higher education analysed within the context of internationalisation process in Polish higher education as a means of ensuring inclusive global higher education space. Lean management is looked upon as one of the 21st century models of university management transplanted from the sphere of…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Web Sites
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