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Logli, Chiara – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2016
This article focuses on the Indonesian film "Cin(T)a," which features the interfaith and multiethnic love between two college students. I apply intergroup contact theory, critical pedagogy and grounded cosmopolitanism to the reading of the movie in order to demonstrate two key points. First, higher education is a contact zone, where…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Observation, Interviews
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Vincent, Kerry – Critical Studies in Education, 2016
Pregnant and mothering schoolgirls have been identified as an educationally vulnerable group. Many are not welcomed in their mainstream schools and as a consequence, access a range of educational alternatives. This article presents the views and experiences of 14 young women in the English Midlands, who became pregnant while still of statutory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Early Parenthood, Pregnancy
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John, Deborah H.; Gunter, Katherine; Jackson, Jennifer A.; Manore, Melinda – Journal of School Health, 2016
Background: Practical tools are needed that reliably measure the complex physical activity (PA) and nutrition environments of elementary schools that influence children's health and learning behaviors for obesity prevention. The School Physical Activity and Nutrition-Environment Tool (SPAN-ET) was developed and beta tested in 6 rural Oregon…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Nutrition, Educational Environment, Elementary Schools
Okerson, Justine Rebecca – ProQuest LLC, 2016
College choice, the decision-making process for students of whether and where to attend college, is complex. The college choice process also affects a range of stakeholders: high school students, parents, public policymakers, high schools, admission professionals, and institutions of higher education. Understanding the influences of college choice…
Descriptors: College Choice, College Bound Students, Qualitative Research, Interviews
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O'Boyle, Neil – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2015
Research finds that participation in higher education is generally empowering for mature students but that it can also create tensions in their off-campus relationships. This article reports on findings from an ongoing study of the experiences of mature students at university in Ireland and draws from interviews with 15 such students in the final…
Descriptors: Risk, Interviews, Student Attitudes, Academic Discourse
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Isik, Ali – Journal of Education and Learning, 2018
The paper investigates the role of English language teaching materials in the creation of a classroom atmosphere conducive to foreign language education. In this study, teachers and students were given a questionnaire and later interviewed to elicit their ideas about the materials. The data was analyzed and the responses of teachers and students…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Instructional Materials
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Parks, Amy Noelle – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2018
Previous research focused on schools that serve low-income and minoritized communities has demonstrated that families often do not feel that their schools are receptive to family involvement. This interview study, which comes out of a long-term ethnographic project at a rural school that primarily served low-income, African American families,…
Descriptors: African Americans, Mothers, Educational Resources, Parent Attitudes
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Glenn, Wendy; Ginsberg, Ricki; King-Watkins, Danielle – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2018
This phenomenological case study explores the persistence of high school readers labeled as struggling as they described their responses to recurring, consistent, externally originating challenges to positive reading identities growing from their experiences in a Young Adult Literature (YAL) course. Through application of Weinreich's identity…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Reading Difficulties, Case Studies, Phenomenology
Kiraz, Zafer – Online Submission, 2018
The school administrator is the person who is in charge or administration of the school. Revealing school administrators' opinions regarding administering the school is significant since it makes it possible for us to understand how they administer the school. The purpose of this study was to reveal the opinions of school administrators working in…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Qualitative Research, School Culture, Power Structure
Hennegan, Jennifer M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This qualitative case study was designed to better understand the phenomenon of how identified "distinguished" upper elementary educators within Domain 2, "The Classroom Environment," of Danielson's (2007) "Framework for Teaching," create and sustain a learning environment that fosters genuine respect and care, and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary School Teachers, Classroom Environment, Caring
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Dowdy, Josh; Dore, Elizabeth – Teacher Educators' Journal, 2017
Research pertaining to institutions of public education reveals that curricular structures often function to produce and reproduce systemic inequalities. The following personal statement outlines a middle school teacher's attempt to address social reproduction in public education. By situating issues of inequity within a local context of…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Educational Environment, Sense of Community, Public Education
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Gómez-Rey, Pilar; Barbera, Elena; Fernández-Navarro, Francisco – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
This paper determines which instructional roles and outputs are important in the 21st century from the perspective of students in asynchronous learning environments. This research work uses a literature review, in-depth interviews with experts, and a pilot study with students to define the instructors' outputs. Following this, roles are determined…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Educational Environment, Teacher Role, Student Attitudes
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Hatfield, Megan; Falkmer, Marita; Falkmer, Torbjorn; Ciccarelli, Marina – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2017
Adolescents on the autism spectrum experience difficulty transitioning from secondary school to post-school activities, often due to transition planning processes that do not meet their unique needs. This study identified parents' and professionals' viewpoints on transition planning for adolescents on the autism spectrum. Interviews were completed…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Transitional Programs
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Okanlawon, Kehinde – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2017
There is a dearth of research on homophobic bullying in Nigerian schools. Using data from 14 in-depth interviews and public media sources that were analyzed thematically, this formative research examined homophobic bullying using Nigerian universities as a case study to bring attention to the need for policies and interventions to make schools…
Descriptors: Bullying, Social Bias, Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation
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Hein, Nina – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
This article explores the subject of parents with respect to children's bullying at school. The overarching claim is that parental agency and positions on children's bullying at school are produced and made possible by an apparatus of multiple, concurrent forces that provide poor conditions for a constructive partnership between parents and…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Bullying, Educational Environment, Qualitative Research
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