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Ziblim, Lukman; Ertürk, Abbad – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
The aim of this research is to examine the relationship between the power types used by school principals and the power distance perceptions of teachers. The population is composed of the teachers in Mugla (Turkey) and Tamale (Ghana). The sample is made up of 384 teachers from Mugla and 407 teachers from Tamale. The data used in this research were…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Principals, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Administrator Relationship
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Yurtyapan, Mehmet Ihsan; Keleli Yilmaz, Gül – Participatory Educational Research, 2021
The aim of this study is to examine the geometric thinking levels of middle school mathematics preservice teachers regarding the problem situations regarding the concept of social distance according to the SOLO taxonomy. The research was conducted using the special case method, one of the qualitative research methods. The working group, studying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
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Firat, Tahsin; Koyuncu, Ilhan – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2022
People acquire professional knowledge and skills throughout university education during which their social relations network, orientation and social perceptions are also shaped. Due to the importance of university education period, the purpose of this study was to determine the social distance levels of the university students towards individuals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability, College Students, Social Distance
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Bababayli, Isgandar; Kiziltan, Nalan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
Different communities assess social distance, social power, rights and obligations, and degree of imposition used in specific speech acts differently. As a result of this difference, foreign language learners are likely to make sociopragmatic failure. This kind of failure is harder to correct because of the learners' justifiable sensitivity in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Social Distance, Power Structure, Speech Acts
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McCarthy, Linda; Sziarto, Kristin – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2015
This paper reports on an introductory world regional geography course with a role-playing exercise. The goal was to situate students in a form of popular geopolitics that engaged them viscerally with positionality and othering. Students were assigned different positionalities in a liminal active learning environment within a context of fear of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography, Geography Instruction, Role Playing
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Bagci, S. Erhan – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2015
This paper claims that neo-liberalism is a period that capitalism calls and brings back some archaic forms of class domination depending on the results of marketisation policies in education. Marketisation policies in education are accompanied by specific shifts in ideological discourses, such as meritocracy that were valid only under the welfare…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Commercialization, Governance
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Satiç, Canan Önal; Çiftçi, Hatime – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
This study aims to examine refusal strategies of Turkish learners of English and explore their perceptions of social factors that are influential in their strategy use. The study was conducted at a private university in the west of Turkey, and eighty Turkish L2 learners enrolled at an English language preparatory program participated in the study.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Demirer, Veysel; Bozoglan, Bahadir; Sahin, Ismail – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2013
The aim of this study is to investigate pre-service teachers' Internet addiction in terms of gender, Internet accessibility, loneliness and life satisfaction. Statistical analyses were completed on the data by the 247 preservice teachers that filled the surveys completely. According to findings, pre-service teachers' level of loneliness and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Internet, Gender Differences, Access to Information
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Demirkaya, Pervin Naile; Bakkaloglu, Hatice – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
The purpose of this study is to comparatively examine the student-teacher relationships of preschool children with and without special needs (SN) and to identify the variables which predict student-teacher relationships. In order to collect data from 40 preschool teachers regarding 54 students with and 54 students without SN, the Student and…
Descriptors: Special Needs Students, Student Needs, Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Children