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Kwon, Ja Youn; Kulinna, Pamela Hodges; van der Mars, Hans; Koro-Ljungberg, Mirka; Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Norris, Jason – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2018
Purpose: Physical educators may be the responsible people for implementing comprehensive school physical activity programs (CSPAPs) in schools. However, it is unclear whether physical education teacher education (PETE) programs provide the relevant learning opportunities to preservice teachers for CSPAP implementation. The purpose of this study…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Preservice Teacher Education
Wendt, Brea E. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The dissertation study is a basic qualitative study, which illuminates the educational experiences of active duty undergraduate army adult learners or active duty learners. The literature review for the study highlights themes of military education, of identity roles, of adult learnings and of how the brain learns. The study closed the gap in…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Military Personnel, Self Concept, Undergraduate Students
Hauenstein, Amy J. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation proposes a further conceptualization of intersectional identity as a fundamental topic in education reform research. Overlaying the theoretical lenses of Critical Race Theory and intersectionality, a modified narrative inquiry methodology was used to investigate the self-perceived identities among seven women of color, who are…
Descriptors: Females, Minority Groups, Higher Education, Educational Change
Engleking, Charlene – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Many colleges and universities have expanded their mission to include adult learners. Programs range from scheduling traditional courses in the evening to designing new programs tailored to meet the needs of working adults. Program designers have relied on theorists such, as Mezirow (1991), Houle (1996), and Knowles, Holton, and Swanson (1998), to…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), College Students, Adult Learning, Program Evaluation
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Peterson, Kay; DeCato, Lisa; Kolb, David A. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2015
This article introduces ways in which movement can enhance one's understanding of how to learn using Experiential Learning Theory (ELT) concepts of the Learning Cycle, Learning Styles, and Learning Flexibility. The theoretical correspondence between the dialectic dimensions of the Learning Cycle and the dimensions of the Laban Movement Analysis…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Experiential Learning, Motion, Cognitive Style
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Hentschke, Guilbert C.; Parry, Shirley C. – Innovative Higher Education, 2015
While advocates of the proposed "Gainful Employment" regulations promise a variety of improvements for students attending for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs), there is little research on how these institutions are responding to this heightened form of accountability. Through interviews with senior executives of FPCUs, we used…
Descriptors: Employment, Proprietary Schools, Colleges, Educational Innovation
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Singer, Elly; Wong, Sandie – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Early childhood education changed in the twentieth century, from mother-at-home-care in the 1950s, to professional early education today. Theoretical and social-political choices of pioneers in ECE had a profound impact on the way children's education is conceptualized. We argue from a social constructivist perspective. The oral history method is…
Descriptors: Oral History, Child Development, Learning Theories, Neoliberalism
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Reichenberg, Monica – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2016
The present study is an investigation of a daily activity centre (DA). The overall aim was to build a grounded theory that could explain why this particular DA deviated from the norms of Swedish group homes and DAs described in previous studies. These studies have suggested that the staff stuck to old routines, such as letting the participants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grounded Theory, Group Homes, Ethnography
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Sutarto; Nusantara, Toto; Subanji; Sisworo – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
This aim of this study is to describe the process of local conjecturing in generalizing patterns based on Action, Process, Object, Schema (APOS) theory. The subjects were 16 grade 8 students from a junior high school. Data collection used Pattern Generalization Problem (PGP) and interviews. In the first stage, students completed PGP; in the second…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Problem Solving, Generalization, Cognitive Processes
Salazar, Tammie L. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The current study explored the dimensions and roles of trust in effective instructional leadership through a triangulation of data gathered from 78 survey responders and 35 interview participants along with a review of pertinent literature. The interviews and written free-responses related effective instructional leadership to three clear…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Leadership Effectiveness, Interviews, Surveys
Jackson-Butler, Uletta – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this qualitative embedded multiple case study was to describe what instructional strategies corporate instructional designers were using to design mobile learning and to understand from their experiences which instructional strategies they believed enhance learning. Participants were five instructional designers who were actively…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Teaching Methods, Instructional Design, Corporate Education
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Gunn, AnnMarie Alberton; Peterson, Barbara J.; Welsh, James L. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2015
The educational research community has underscored the importance of preparing teachers to embrace a culturally responsive pedagogy for all their students. At the same time, teacher education programs have been criticized for being overly theoretical and lacking a bridge for preservice teachers to connect theory to practice. Teaching cases allow a…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Student Diversity, Course Content, Case Method (Teaching Technique)
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Grigg, Kaine; Manderson, Lenore – Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2015
Existing Australian measures of racist attitudes focus on single groups or have not been validated across the lifespan. To redress this, the present research aimed to develop and validate a measure of racial, ethnic, cultural and religious acceptance--the Australian Racism, Acceptance, and Cultural-Ethnocentrism Scale (RACES)--for use with…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Racial Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Ethnocentrism
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Lee, Dong-min – Journal of Geography, 2018
This study illuminates the effects of graduate education on primary teachers' awareness of geography. Data were collected through interviews with twenty-one teachers who held M.A. or Ph.D. degrees in geography and analyzed using Straussian-grounded theory. The participants were categorized into four types. Many teachers (type A) showed meaningful…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Geography Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Graduate Students
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Lammers, Jayne C.; Marsh, Valerie L. – Written Communication, 2018
This article reconsiders theoretical claims of identity fluidity, stability, and agency through a longitudinal case study investigating one adolescent's writing over time and across spaces. Qualitative data spanning her four years of high school were collected and analyzed using a grounded theory approach with literacy-and-identity theory…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies, Adolescents, Writing (Composition)
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