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Tachine, Amanda R.; Patel, Pooja R.; Daché, Amalia Z. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2022
In order to understand our present and future work in planting the seeds of solidarity, we excavate the past, through an exploration of transnational solidarity and the vestiges of U.S. legislative policy and philanthropy. Through life notes and sharing circles, we examine policies (Morrill Act of 1862, Refugee Act of 1980, and the Gates…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Private Financial Support, Group Unity, Educational Legislation
Swanson, Julie Dingle – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2016
Javits Gifted and Talented Education Program has provided a wealth of knowledge on culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) gifted learners and how to support teachers in their work with CLD students. This study examined five impactful Javits projects through qualitative inquiry centered on how innovative practice takes root or not. Using…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Talent Development, Innovation, Teaching Methods
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Barrett, Brian D. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2012
This paper draws on the theory of Basil Bernstein and on more recent applications of it by Rob Moore, John Beck and Michael Young to respond to recent calls for the replacement of discipline-based university faculties and departments with "problem-based" curricula and programmes of study. It considers, particularly, the potential…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Universities, Problem Based Learning
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1908
Volume I begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction of the 1908 report. Chapter I is on current topics and discusses education relations, including professor, teacher and student exchanges. International congresses are discussed, including the first international congress of mothers, parents' national education union, universal…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Peer Relationship, Conferences (Gatherings), Mothers
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2004
"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This May 28, 2004 issue of "Chronicle for Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "Thailand to Open a University in Muslim Region, to Defuse Tension"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Access to Education, Immigrants
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1902
After the Commissioner of Education's introduction, Volume 1 presents state school system statistics and a list of U.S. Bureau of Education publications. Chapters cover central European education; Ohio public school legislative history; school consolidation and pupil transportation; U.S. industrial education; educational pathology; formation of an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Educational Legislation, Student Transportation