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Ben Moussa, Mohamed; Seraphim, Joanna – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2017
The phenomenal diffusion and adoption of ICTs in the UAE is widely viewed as a game changer in the country's struggle to address continuous significant gender gaps in the country. The small body of research on this topic has been, however, inconclusive, overtly optimistic, and insufficiently theorized. Addressing these lacuna, the article uses a…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Females, Information Technology, Internet
Wenner, Julianne A.; Campbell, Todd – Review of Educational Research, 2017
In the current review, we examined teacher leadership research completed since York-Barr and Duke published the seminal review on teacher leadership in 2004. The review was undertaken to examine how teacher leadership is defined, how teacher leaders are prepared, their impact, and those factors that facilitate or inhibit teacher leaders' work.…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Literature Reviews, Definitions, Teacher Education
Pstross, Mikulas; Rodríguez, Ariel; Knopf, Richard C.; Paris, Cody Morris – Education and Urban Society, 2016
This article emphasizes the role of parental involvement in the college preparation of Latino elementary and secondary school students. Although literature shows that education is highly valued in Latino families, actual college enrollment rates for Latino youth are below average. This has been attributed to barriers including lack of financial…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Hispanic Americans, College Preparation, Hispanic American Students
Soongpankhao, Watcharaphong – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2016
This qualitative case study investigated how local Thai teachers came to view opportunities and challenges they faced in teaching foundation English to Thai university students. Specifically, this study explored EFL teaching in a provincial university in Thailand by focusing on six Thai EFL teachers, selected by means of purposive sampling. Data…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Teachers
Foster, Abby; Worrall, Linda; Rose, Miranda; O'Halloran, Robyn – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2015
Background: An evidence-practice gap has been identified in current acute aphasia management practice, with the provision of services to people with aphasia in the acute hospital widely considered in the literature to be inconsistent with best-practice recommendations. The reasons for this evidence-practice gap are unclear; however, speech…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Speech Therapy, Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel
Tamim, Rana M. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2018
Blended learning (BL) is still in its infancy in the United Arab Emirates, but is gaining growing attention and acceptance. The particular university under investigation offers its nationally accredited graduate programs with a BL format that makes use of synchronous virtual classrooms, asynchronous self-study, and face-to-face sessions. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Graduate Students, Student Empowerment
Sturgis, Chris; Casey, Katherine – iNACOL, 2018
The role of public education has never been more important--it is the bedrock of democracy. The failure to provide an equitable public education that enables equal access to opportunity unravels the American dream. Competency-based education holds promise as a uniquely powerful model for fostering equity, but only if equity is an intentional…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Public Education, Democracy, Equal Education
Walker, Zachary; Musti-Rao, Shobana – Global Education Review, 2016
Building an inclusive society in which all people can participate effectively and live together requires understanding inclusive education and its impact on the social order. As countries of different regions face the vast array of challenges unique to their educational systems, it becomes apparent that inclusive societies are intricately tied to…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Alsalahi, Saud Mossa – Educational Research and Reviews, 2014
Teaching as a legitimate profession where teachers could practice their leadership agency as leaders has been under debate over the last two decades. The support for teachers' inclusion in the development of schools as well as their leadership is numerous and varies. There seems to be a few when it comes to teacher leadership in the Saudi context.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Leadership, Professional Identity, Status
Waddington, Hugh; Snilstveit, Birte; Hombrados, Jorge; Vojtkova, Martina; Phillips, Daniel; Davies, Philip; White, Howard – Campbell Collaboration, 2014
Since the 1980s there has been a decline or stagnation in public expenditure on agriculture in most developing countries (Akroyd & Smith, 2007). Likewise, the proportion of official development assistance (ODA) going to agriculture is estimated to have declined from around 20 per cent in 1979 to a low of 3.7 per cent in 2006, and has remained…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Field Instruction, Adult Education, Agricultural Occupations
Aspen Institute, 2014
In this paper, Leading Educators and the Aspen Institute propose a roadmap to empower teachers to lead from the front of the classroom. This paper outlines key phases that system administrators will need to consider as they build teacher leadership systems that address their highest priorities. For each phase, the Aspen Institute offers a…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Teacher Empowerment, Program Implementation, State Standards
Israel, Maya; Wherfel, Quentin M.; Pearson, Jamie; Shehab, Saadeddine; Tapia, Tanya – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2015
This article's focus is on including computing and computational thinking in K-12 instruction within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, and to provide that instruction in ways that promote access for students traditionally underrepresented in the STEM fields, such as students with disabilities. Providing computing…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Disabilities, Student Empowerment, Computer Science Education
Miller, Dianne; Twum, Sampson – in education, 2017
This study explores the experiences of selected teachers undertaking place-based education (PBE) in a prairie region, the challenges they encounter, and their understanding of the knowledge and skills required to implement PBE. PBE is defined and described. Five individual teachers and one teaching team of two who practice PBE are interviewed. The…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Competencies, Barriers
Hambacher, Elyse L.; Bondy, Elizabeth – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This paper draws on the literature on effective African American teachers of African American students to investigate the enactments of culturally relevant critical teacher care (CRCTC) in two fifth-grade teachers' classrooms in a large, urban school district. Using interview and observation data, the findings illustrate the teachers' knowledge of…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, African American Students, Grade 5, Elementary School Teachers
Jacobson, Kelly A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Conflict transformation theory provided a philosophical lens for this critical cultural, constructivist study, wherein four student conduct administrators who engage in leveling hierarchical relationships with students in conduct processes shared ways they make meaning of their professional practice. Through informal, unstructured interviews, a…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Conflict Resolution, Administrators, Interpersonal Relationship