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Favouritism Behaviours of School Principals: Teachers' Perceptions on the Causes and Consequences of Favouritism in Turkey
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Sakçak, Adem; Arslan, Yaser; Polat, Soner – Educational Studies, 2023
This study aims to reveal the causes and consequences of school principals' favouritism behaviours based on teachers' perceptions, and definitions about favouritism behaviour within schools. A descriptive phenomenological design was applied. Data were gathered via face-to-face interviews conducted with 15 public middle school teachers in Turkey.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrator Behavior, Power Structure
"I Feel Like It's Not My Place Because I Don't Know Anything about It": Preservice Teachers, Praxis in Classroom Management
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Matthew Green; Jade Calais – Educational Studies, 2025
Race, poverty, and gender interplay with school discipline, to make schools ancillary to the juvenile justice system (Morris and Perry 2017). Exclusionary discipline contributes to the school-to-prison nexus, a metaphor that illuminates the complex, interconnected relationship between schools and prisons (Okilwa, Khalifa, and Briscoe 2017).…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Teachers, Elementary School Students, Discipline
Social Justice Leadership, School Climate, Cultural Capital and Academic Aspiration in Turkish High Schools: Contextual Influence of Gender and Family Income
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Murat Özdemir; Safiye Çigdem Gören; Ebru Gülcemal; Nuray Özge Sagbas; Gürsen Vural – Educational Studies, 2024
The purpose of this study is to examine the link among social justice leadership, school climate, cultural capital and academic aspiration in Turkish high schools. The study also aims at analysing the contextual influence of gender and family income on academic aspiration. The participants of the study include a total of 22.802 students from 210…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Environment, Cultural Capital, Academic Aspiration
Service-Learning Cohorts as Critical Communities
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Mitchell, Tania D.; Rost-Banik, Colleen – Educational Studies, 2020
Examining alumni perspectives from three multi-term service-learning programs, this study highlights the dimensions of the cohort experience that alumni credit as critical to their learning and development, namely building relationships among diverse perspectives, teaching and learning from one another, and sharing a commitment to social justice.…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Alumni, Communities of Practice, Interpersonal Relationship
Gender Representation in the Public Sector Schools Textbooks of Pakistan
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Ullah, Hazir; Skelton, Christine – Educational Studies, 2013
This paper examines gender biases in school textbooks after a decade long effort by the ministry of education (MoE) Pakistan and international organisation (IOs) to eliminate all forms of gender inequality in education. The intention underpinning these initiatives was to nurture a view of gender equality based consciousness through the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Bias, Textbooks, Public Schools
Reaching for the Dream: Quality Education for All
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Greyling, A. J. – Educational Studies, 2009
Quality and equality in education is the dream of many. In South Africa hope was pinned onto the transformation that was to follow the major political changes of the 1990s. The promotion of inclusive education is rooted in a philosophical and principled position that all children should have educational rights and opportunities as encased in the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Inclusive Schools, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries