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Josic, Jasmina – ProQuest LLC, 2011
As today's youth is growing up in societies made more complicated by globalization, the argument grows for expanding the discussion about citizenship education. In increasingly multicultural and interconnected societies, young people are developing new civic attitudes as well as "attachments and identifications" as citizens within three…
Descriptors: Feminism, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Ethnography
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McCormack, Tim; Schnee, Emily; VanOra, Jason – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background: The field of higher education abounds with qualitative research aimed at highlighting the needs, struggles, strengths, and motivations of academically struggling students. However, because of the small-scale nature of these studies, they rarely enter the public debate or impact institutional policy concerning access, remediation,…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Researchers, Meta Analysis, Case Studies
Moghadam, Yaara Shteinhart – ProQuest LLC, 2011
As Jewish museums are witnessing a rapid numerical rise in the United States and beyond, the professional and academic literature on Jewish museum education lags behind. This dissertation is aimed to help narrow this gap by examining how the education departments of Jewish museums in the United States conceptualize, promote, and conduct programs…
Descriptors: Jews, Judaism, Museums, Religious Education
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Caracciolo, Diane; Staikidis, Kryssi – Qualitative Inquiry, 2009
In this article the authors tell the story of their separate but related journeys toward "coming of age in methodology," journeys that brought them, as non-indigenous women, into relationships with indigenous peoples, who challenged them to unlearn their taken-for-granted notions about research. The first study highlights the pervasive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Cooperation, Females