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Download full textMerey, Zihni; Kus, Zafer; Karatekin, Kadir – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
The purpose of this study is to compare the social studies teaching curricula of Turkey and the United States in terms of values education. The study is a model case study that relies upon one of the qualitative research methods. The data come from the elementary social studies curricula of both countries through the documents analysis method. The…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Democratic Values, Social Studies, Foreign Countries
Sakk, Monica – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2013
The purpose of the research was to monitor opinions of learners, parents and teachers on the aspects of coping at the second level of primary school in both Estonian-medium and Russian-medium schools. The research was carried out from 2006 to 2011. The research used a questionnaire which was administered to 652 learners and their parents in Forms…
Descriptors: Coping, Academic Achievement, Success, Student Attitudes
Direct linkLeduc, Rhonda – Educational Forum, 2013
If the definitions of global citizenship are varied and contestable, how do teachers conceptualize and make meaning of global citizenship when required to teach global citizenship in the classroom? For this study, twenty-nine grade six social studies teachers in British Columbia, Canada, were surveyed on their definitions of global citizenship…
Descriptors: Global Education, Citizenship Education, Social Studies, Teacher Surveys
Bourn, Douglas – Development Education Research Centre, 2014
Over the past decade, school linking has become an important feature of the landscape of global learning and development education in England. Yet what is the actual relationship between having an international link with a school in the Global South and the school's broader curriculum learning activities on global and development issues? This…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Global Education, Correlation, Learning Activities
Sayed, Yusuf; Sprague, Terra; Turner, David; Smith, Alan; Paulson, Julia; Shields, Robin; Shrestha, Purna Kumar; Unterhalter, Elaine; Vaughan, Rosie Peppin; Smail, Amy; Tungaraza, Frida; Sutherland, Margaret; Stack, Niamah; Barrett, Angeline M.; Bunwaree, Vasant K.; Alhawsawi, Sajjad; Hanna, Helen; Soudien, Crain; Motivans, Albert – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2013
As the 2015 target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, there are a growing number of processes, preparations and debates on what a post-2015 agenda and framework will look like. The United Nations Development Group (UNDG) (as chaired by the United Nations Development Programme) is leading the planning of efforts…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Equal Education
Elek, Elvira; Wagstaff, David A.; Hecht, Michael L. – Journal of Drug Education, 2010
This study assessed the outcomes of adapting the culturally-grounded, middle school, substance-use prevention intervention, "keepin' it REAL" ("kiR"), to target elementary school students and to address acculturation. At the beginning of 5th grade, 29 schools were randomly assigned to conditions obtained by crossing grade of implementation (5th,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Intervention, Prevention, Acculturation
Omwami, Edith Mukudi; Keller, Edmond J. – International Review of Education, 2010
Budgetary capacity that would allow for the public funding of the provision of universal access to primary education is lacking in many sub-Saharan economies. National revenues significantly lag behind the overall economic productivity measure of GDP. Analysis of data derived from UNESCO and UNDP for 2004 shows that governments in the region spend…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Developed Nations
Hao, Shiqi; Johnson, Robert L. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2013
This study, through multilevel analyses of the data of four English-speaking nations (i.e., Canada, England, New Zealand and the United States) from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2001 database, investigated the relationship between teachers' uses of various types of classroom assessments and their fourth-graders'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, International Education, Comparative Education
Bines, Hazel; Lei, Philippa – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
Children with disabilities are one of the many groups of children still not enrolled in primary education in developing countries. However, their educational exclusion and right to education are now receiving more policy attention. This paper reviews some of the key issues and challenges in relation to disability, education and development:…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Policy, Developing Nations, Inclusion
Kryst, Erica L.; Kotok, Stephen; Bodovski, Katerina – Global Education Review, 2015
Disparities in educational outcomes exist between students in rural areas as compared to students in urban settings. While there is some evidence that these rural disparities are present in eastern Europe, little is known about young peoples' lives in the rural areas of this region. This paper presents an analysis of science achievement by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Systems, Science Achievement, Achievement Gap
Carnoy, Martin; Ngware, Moses; Oketch, Moses – Comparative Education Review, 2015
We take an innovative approach to estimating student mathematics learning in the sixth grade of three African countries. The study reinforces the notion that beyond the quality of the teaching process in classrooms, national contextual factors are important in understanding the contribution that schooling makes to student performance. Our approach…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Outcomes of Education, Teacher Characteristics, Academic Achievement
Bardi, Mohammad; Burbank, Andrea; Choi, Wayne; Chow, Lawrence; Jang, Wesley; Roccamatisi, Dawn; Timberley-Berg, Tonia; Sanghera, Mandeep; Zhang, Margaret; Macnab, Andrew J. – Health Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe activities used to initiate health promotion in the school setting. Design/Methodology/Approach: Description of successful pilot Health Promoting School (HPS) initiatives in Canada and Uganda and the validated measures central to each program. Evaluation methodologies: quantitative data from the…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Outreach Programs, Enrichment Activities, Pilot Projects
Stephens, Max; Armanto, Dian – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2010
There are now strong arguments for building closer links between children's understanding of numbers and number operations and the beginning of algebraic (relational) thinking in the primary school years. Rarely, however, do Australian mathematics textbooks give enough guidance for teachers to use good activities in the classroom to promote…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematical Concepts, Comparative Education
Foy, Pierre, Ed.; Drucker, Kathleen T., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2013
Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) provides international comparative data about students' reading achievement after four years of primary schooling, while also measuring trends over time, monitoring curricular implementation, and identifying promising instructional practices. Conducted on a regular 5-year cycle, PIRLS has…
Descriptors: Guides, Users (Information), Reading Achievement, Best Practices
Simnacher-Pate, Roberta; Ortlieb, Evan; Cheek, Earl H., Jr. – English Language Teaching, 2011
The presence of multilingual learners places multifarious demands upon classroom educators to properly select appropriate research-based and functional methods, materials, and assessments to guide children's literacy development. Researchers aimed to investigate whether universal teaching methods, materials, assessments, concerns, and problems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Comparative Education, Elementary Education
