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Bovill, C.; Jordan, L.; Watters, N. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
The higher education sector has become increasingly internationalised over recent decades. This paper examines a range of challenges that can arise where teaching staff in one context support and implement learning and teaching initiatives in another international context--transnational teaching. We use examples and experiences from our own…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Global Approach, Global Education
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Tanriogen, Zeynep Meral – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Problem Statement: Behavior is the visible conclusion of unseen values. More concretely, the teaching attitudes of teachers are affected by their values. The study of values is therefore fundamental to the study of teaching. If it is possible to understand the values of teachers, it is possible to estimate the teaching behaviors of teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Value Judgment, Preservice Teachers, Values
Gözpinar, Halis – Online Submission, 2016
Proverbs, which have been evaluated as a very rich heritage of collective wisdom and experience in society, are loved by people who prefer spicing up a conversation with the tips of wisdom to 'convince' others to 'prove' their point of view and actions. The paper explores semantic models of proverbs which denote the status of children in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Proverbs, Folk Culture, Cultural Influences
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Nilufer Guler – Journal of English as an International Language, 2015
Writing in another language has always been a difficult task. Using contrastive rhetoric theory as a theoretical framework, this study aims to focus on the effects of culture-educational patterns of Turkish EAL learners on English narrative essay writing. Narrative writings of 30 Turkish and 23 American college students were analyzed. The results…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Attou, Amal Ben, Ed.; Ciddi, M. Lutfi, Ed.; Unal, Mevlut, Ed. – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
"Proceedings of International Conference on Studies in Education and Social Sciences" includes full papers presented at the International Conference on Studies in Education and Social Sciences (ICSES) which took place on November 10-13, 2022, in Antalya, Turkey. The aim of the conference is to offer opportunities to share ideas, to…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Ültanir, Gürcan; Ültanir, Emel; Irkörücü, Ayse – International Journal of Instruction, 2016
Effective emotional thoughts like attitudes, stereotyped judgments and preconceptions are dependent on both collective and individual experiences. Experiences like reading an article or watching a movie that is based on a context determined by the curriculum might cause individual or collective discrimination towards different ethnic or cultural…
Descriptors: Ethnic Stereotypes, Immigrants, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
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Demir, Yusuf; Özmen, Kemal Sinan – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2017
Commonly defined as L2 teachers' responses to learners' erroneous utterances, oral corrective feedback (OCF) is an interactional classroom phenomenon which frequently occurs in foreign language classes and has gained growing momentum in SLA research in recent years. However, how OCF preferences of English teachers vary in terms of their…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Error Correction, English (Second Language), Classroom Techniques
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Burnside, Bruce S. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2015
This study is centered on a youth center in Berlin, Germany, that serves migrant females. It draws on the anthropology of performance and the concept of "friction" to argue for an understanding of performances of belonging, where migrant girls stage acts of inclusion through creative encounters with the forces of integration to negotiate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Programs, Females, Immigrants
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Frantz, Roger S.; McClarty, Katie Larsen – Gifted and Talented International, 2016
Educational policies and practices are influenced by cultural, political, and economic factors, and this is also true of specialized educational approaches such as gifted education. Factors such as a country's cultural tendency toward egalitarianism or meritocracy, whether the political system is centralized or decentralized, and the degree to…
Descriptors: Gifted, Special Education, Cultural Influences, Economic Factors
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Cen, Suzan; Aytac, Berna – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2017
The present study aimed to assess the interaction between familial and cultural factors on child problem behaviors of learning disabled children aged between 7 and 14 within the perspective of ecocultural theory (N = 90). Mothers completed the Family Support Scale, Portrait Values Questionnaire, and Social-Demographical Form, and teachers…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Family Programs, Values, Child Behavior
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Arar, Khalid; Beycioglu, Kadir; Oplatka, Izhar – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
The research compares principals in Israel (Jewish and Arab) and Turkey and how they perceive and practice their role in promoting social justice (SJ) in their schools in order to bridge socioeconomic and pedagogic gaps. It poses three questions: (1) How do Turkish and Israeli SJ leaders make sense of SJ? (2) What do SJ leaders do in both…
Descriptors: Principals, Comparative Education, Social Justice, Foreign Countries
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Kara, Bülent; Mukaddes, Nahit Motavalli; Altinkaya, Isilay; Güntepe, Dilek; Gökçay, Gülbin; Özmen, Meral – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
We aimed to adapt the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers to Turkish culture. The Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers was filled out independently by 191 parents while they were waiting for the well-child examination of their child. A high screen-positive rate was found. Because of this high false-positive rate, a second study was done…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Check Lists, Autism, Toddlers
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Karal, Yasemin; Karal, Hasan; Silbir, Lokman; Altun, Taner – Educational Technology & Society, 2016
Graphic symbols are commonly used across countries in order to support individuals with communicative deficiency. The literature review revealed the absence of such a system for Turkish socio-cultural context. In this study, the aim was to develop a symbol system appropriate for the Turkish socio-cultural context. The process began with studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Influences, Cultural Influences, Dictionaries
Isik-Ercan, Zeynep; Kang, Hyun-Young; Rodgers, Adrian – Professional Educator, 2017
In this three-year longitudinal qualitative case study, the authors investigate a) the emergence of the professional supervisor identity, and b) the dynamics of evolving supervision practices by analyzing the case of two female supervisors from international backgrounds working within an early childhood education (P-3) program in a large…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Case Studies, Qualitative Research, Longitudinal Studies
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Kahraman, Ayhan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2016
In the field of ELT, the undeniable relationship between language and culture has always been a focus of attention from a variety of perspectives. Sociologists, anthropologists and naturally applied linguists have tried to understand whether cultural aspects of L2 scaffold or interfere in much the way where other types of contrasting linguistic…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Cultural Influences, English (Second Language)
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