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Sarkar, Tanushree – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2023
The present study examines how middle school students attending private schools in a major urban centre in India understand intelligence. The study focuses on mindset theory, which is a major framework in the literature on children's understandings of intelligence. Mindset theories distinguish individuals based on beliefs about the malleability of…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Private Schools, Urban Schools
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Chandran, Meera – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2022
Teachers' work in India is impacted by the ongoing restructuring of school education that incorporates simultaneous attempts at reform and regulation. Child-friendly assessment policy instituted by the local bureaucracy leads to intensification of teachers' administrative roles, drawing their attention away from critical pedagogic ones.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Professional Identity, Teacher Role, Accountability
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D'Souza, Carol; Brahme, Milind; Babu, M. Suresh – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2020
This article analyses the National Council of Educational Research and Training textbooks of environmental studies using critical discourse analysis to shed light on questions such as how the environment is dealt with in the text, using what kind of language are environmental concerns framed, how is the current environment crisis contextualized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Textbooks, Textbook Content
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Byker, Erik J. – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2014
The article's purpose is to compare case studies of computer technology use at two rural elementary schools across two international settings. This study uses the Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) theory to guide this comparative investigation of how elementary school teachers and students in East Texas and South India construct meaning for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poverty, Elementary Schools, Rural Schools