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Angélica María Sáenz-Macana; Sofía Pereira-García; Javier Gil-Quintana; José Devís-Devís – European Physical Education Review, 2024
The purpose of this study was to review academic papers on the experiences of binary and non-binary trans people in physical education (PE), published between January 2000 and August 2022. The selection process yielded 16 articles from Brazil, the UK, Spain, Canada, Finland, Ireland, New Zealand, and the USA. The discussion focuses on five themes…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Student Experience, Physical Education, LGBTQ People
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Marín, Victoria I.; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf; Aydin, Cengiz H.; Bedenlier, Svenja; Bond, Melissa; Bozkurt, Aras; Conrad, Dianne; Jung, Insung; Kondakci, Yasar; Prinsloo, Paul; Roberts, Jennifer; Veletsianos, George; Xiao, Junhong; Zhang, Jingjing – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2022
This paper explores faculty's perspectives and use of open educational resources (OER) and their repositories across different countries by conducting a multiple case study to find similarities and differences between academics' awareness, perceptions and use of OER, as well as examining related aspects of institutional policy and quality that may…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Open Educational Resources, Knowledge Level, College Faculty
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Leon, Ramona-Diana – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2023
Purpose: This research aims to identify the most suitable intergenerational learning strategies for the private higher education institutions, using the analytic network process. Design/methodology/approach: In order to achieve this goal, two private higher education institutions from Curacao and Spain are analyzed. Data are collected based on a…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Generational Differences, Learning Strategies, Intergenerational Programs
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Ferrari, Enzo; Reyes-Carrasco, Paula Mariel; Barrón Ruíz, Angela; Ruíz, Camilo – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to introduce a new instrument to assess the perception of the university community after the Climate Emergency Declaration (CED) and its application at the Universidad de Salamanca (USAL) in Spain. This CED includes a comprehensive program to reduce the carbon footprint and the introduction of the education for sustainable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conservation (Environment), Sustainable Development, College Students
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Marín, Victoria I.; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf; Aydin, Cengiz H.; Bedenlier, Svenja; Bond, Melissa; Bozkurt, Aras; Conrad, Dianne; Jung, Insung; Kondakci, Yasar; Prinsloo, Paul; Roberts, Jennifer; Veletsianos, George; Xiao, Junhong; Zhang, Jingjing – Open Education Studies, 2022
Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education cannot be put into practice without considering institutional contexts, which differ not only globally but also within the same country. Each institutional context provides educators with opportunities or limitations where Open Educational Practices (OEP) and OER for teaching and learning are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Open Educational Resources, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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Nieto, Cristina; Moriña, Anabel – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2019
In this study, we analyse the characteristics that define an ideal school, from the perspective of people with intellectual disabilities. we carried out an inclusive research qualitative study with 36 Spanish adults with intellectual disabilities. Information from individual interviews about educational inclusion was summarized on to notecards,…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Adults, Interviews, Inclusion
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Loinaz, Edurne Scott – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2019
The central motive for conducting this research was to investigate how Greece, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom treat social and emotional education (SEE) within pedagogical practice. The study used a sequential quantitative-qualitative analysis with a comparative design, with 750 teachers in the initial quantitative phase participating in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Social Development, Emotional Development
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DePalma, Renée; López, Laura Cruz – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
The social integration of migrant populations has been defined as an intercultural, mutually enriching process, and can be distinguished from processes of assimilation that involve a more unilateral adaptation on the part of immigrants to the norms of the host country. In Spain, this distinction has become blurred in both political and educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Social Integration, Acculturation
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Rodríguez-Gómez, David; Feixas, Mònica; Gairín, Joaquín; Muñoz, José Luís – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The dropout rate is an indicator of complex analysis and there is no consensus on its significance. Universities lack systematized, univocal methods for collecting student dropout data, making measurement problematic. In consequence, the formulas applied to analyze this phenomenon differ between countries and it is therefore an immense challenge…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality
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Moya, Soledad; Prior, Diego; Rodríguez-Pérez, Gonzalo – Accounting Education, 2015
When laws change the rules of the game, it is important to observe the effects on the players' behavior. Some effects can be anticipated while others are difficult to enunciate before the law comes into force. In this paper we have analyzed articles authored by Spanish accounting academics between 1996 and 2005 to assess the impact of a change in…
Descriptors: Accounting, Foreign Countries, Literature Reviews, Performance Based Assessment
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Coronel, Jose M.; Moreno, Emilia; Carrasco, Maria J. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2010
In Spain, the presence of women in decision-making positions and in positions of power is not proportional to the total number of women within the field of education. Women have encountered personal and professional barriers in their advancement to the principalship; however, significant and substantive changes to school policy are revealed when…
Descriptors: Females, Leadership Styles, Educational Change, Foreign Countries