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Sakkoulis, Dimitris P.; Asimaki, Anna; Vergidis, Dimitris K. – International Education Studies, 2018
The purpose of this paper is the investigation of the prevailing forms of in-service training, the detection of the dominant pedagogical discourse they promote as well as their contribution to the shaping of the teacher's individual theory of education (I.T.E.). The research was conducted using semi-structured interviews with a sample of 11…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Educational Theories, Semi Structured Interviews, Training Methods
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Klemencic, Manja; Galán Palomares, Fernando Miguel – European Educational Research Journal, 2018
The article seeks to advance understanding of the involvement of transnational student associations in European governance of higher education policies within the European Union (EU) and the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Specifically, the article explores the mechanisms for interest intermediation that exist for transnational student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Organizations, Governance, Educational Policy
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Kaplun, Catherine – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
Children's views have often been supplementary to those of adults in research on children's lives. With growing awareness of the Rights of the Child, children are being engaged as experts in their own lives, that is, young people who have valid perspectives on the things that matter and are important to them. In this study, a draw-write-tell…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Childrens Rights, Sociocultural Patterns, School Readiness
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Kaufman, Kristina – NASSP Bulletin, 2015
This study aims to give voice to public high school principals in Illinois as to their perceived views on the purpose of high school education and their perceptions of partnerships with businesses. Data from 105 distinct public high schools from 50 Illinois counties were analyzed. Findings reveal that principals view the purpose of high school…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, High Schools, Public Schools
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Migliore, Maria-Cristina Giovanna – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to older workers (OWs)' subjective engagement in working and learning in the manufacturing industry. Workplace learning (WPL) literature rarely considers the subjective side of learning from a cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) account. Design/methodology/approach: The paper adopts a…
Descriptors: Older Workers, Workplace Learning, Manufacturing Industry, Learner Engagement
Pertuz, Sofia Bautista – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Student Affairs serves as a viable career option for professionals working in higher education, including Latinas, who have increasingly entered as undergraduate students and found careers in student affairs. Latinas seem to be bottlenecked at midlevel, with few advancing to senior level leadership positions. According to the literature, negative…
Descriptors: Work Experience, Occupational Aspiration, Hispanic Americans, Middle Management
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Standal, Øyvind Førland; Moen, Kjersti Mordal; Moe, Vegard Fusche – European Physical Education Review, 2014
Previous studies have found that student teachers value the practicum over other parts of physical education teacher education and that they experience a gap between theory and practice in their education. The purpose of this study was to provide more knowledge about the theory-practice relations in the context of the practicum of physical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Physical Education, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Ozfidan, Burhan; Machtmes, Krisanna L.; Demir, Husamettin – European Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Sociocultural theories consider language learning as a social practice examines students as active participants in the construction of learning processes. This study investigates sociocultural theories' central concepts, which includes peer interaction and feedback, private speech, and self-efficacy. The present study is a case study of twenty…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Processes, Peer Relationship, Feedback (Response)
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Catalano, Theresa; Kiramba, Lydiah Kananu; Viesca, Kara – Bilingual Research Journal, 2020
Recent research has documented the ways that schools adapt to increasingly multilingual and multicultural student bodies. This qualitative study explores the schooling experiences of nine K-12 multilinguals not identified as English language learners in US schools. Using "deep interviewing" strategies, the authors expose the racializing…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Student Diversity, Educational Experience, Interviews
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Hannon, Michael D.; Hannon, LaChan V. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
Sixteen fathers of individuals with autism were interviewed to develop a grounded theory explaining how they learned about their children's autism diagnosis. Results suggest the orientation process entails at least two phases: orienting oneself and orienting others. The orienting oneself phase entailed fathers having suspicion of developmental…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Attitudes, Autism, Clinical Diagnosis
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Bredlöv, Eleonor – Gender and Education, 2017
This study outlines the self-positioning of skin and spa therapy students. More specifically, it focuses how they position themselves as professionals in terms of knowledge, and how gender is at play throughout this process. Drawing on a poststructural approach, inspired by Foucault and feminist theory, regularities of description and…
Descriptors: Cosmetology, Professional Identity, Self Concept, Gender Differences
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Scholz, Kyle; Tse, Crystal; Lithgow, Katherine – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2017
This paper explores the alignment of student and instructor experiences when employing ePortfolio activities in a Canadian higher education context. Successful ePortfolio activities are operationalized as exhibiting alignment of expectations between students and instructors, whereas misalignment of expectations is characteristic of a poorer…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research, Portfolios (Background Materials)
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Means, Darris R. – Journal of College Student Development, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how Black gay and bisexual male college students experience oppression during their spiritual journeys and how they resist this oppression. Data collection included interviews, field observations, and photovoice. Data were analyzed using quare theory, an alternative to queer theory, which…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, African Americans, Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation
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Jaworski, Barbara; Mali, Angeliki; Petropoulou, Georgia – International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2017
This paper focuses directly on mathematics teaching practice at university level, exploring "what teachers do and think daily, in class and out, as they perform their teaching work" (Speer et al. in "The Journal of Mathematical Behavior," 29, 99-114, 2010, p. 99). It is based on a small corpus of research conducted from…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Interviews, Teacher Attitudes
Peer, Andrea Jo – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Organizations interested in increasing their user experience (UX) capacity lack the tools they need to know how to do so. This dissertation addresses this challenge via three major research efforts: 1) the creation of User Data Spectrum theory and a User Data Spectrum survey for helping organizations better invest resources to grow their UX…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Theories, Use Studies
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