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Huff, Howard Dean – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Education has changed more in the last twenty years than in the previous 100 years. This fact is due to the onslaught of online learning opportunities through web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies that allow users to interact almost seamlessly with other people and content. Rapid change brings with it the potential for new challenges about how students…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Environment, Educational Technology, Learner Engagement
Welton, Anjalé; Mansfield, Katherine Cumings – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2020
Critical policy analysis (CPA) is a means by which to critique policy and promote agency, equity, and justice. However, most CPA scholars examine political discourse from a distance rather than actively participate in political processes. Meanwhile, there is a growing interest in community-engaged research whereby academics partner with community…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Community Involvement, Empowerment, Citizen Participation
Linden, Christina – Journal of Museum Education, 2020
The 2019 exhibition Queer California: Untold Stories at the Oakland Museum of California represented a constellation of queer hxtories and artistic perspectives that extended beyond the narratives that have been most frequently recounted in relation to LGBTQ+ individuals and communities in California. In alignment with OMCA's mission, a stated…
Descriptors: Museums, Social Theories, Exhibits, LGBTQ People
Malloy, Jake – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
Drawing on an actor-network articulation of evaluation theory, this article examines the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's transition from a punitive teacher evaluation model to a promising new development and support model, which focuses on teacher growth and environmental adjustments. Supported by dozens of interviews and observations…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Public School Teachers, Change, Evaluation Methods
Woolley, Susan W. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2023
In this essay, the author reflects on her teaching as a site in which to analyse the pedagogical tensions produced by foregrounding disability in the study of gender and sexuality and by allowing students to see her vulnerability. Analysing a moment in class, the author thinks through a queercripistemological vulnerable pedagogy of care that…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Sexuality, Gender Issues, Social Theories
Wells, Trish; Sandretto, Susan; Tilson, Jane – Research in Drama Education, 2023
Metaxis offers a powerful, yet elusive space for learning. We argue that authentic questions can provoke compelling metaxis moments where students and their teachers straddle two worlds at one time: the fictional and the real. We report findings from two New Zealand research projects in primary schools where we investigated the precursors to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Drama, Lesson Plans
Reed, Richard S.; Van Wagoner, Hunter Phoenix; Cropanzano, Russell; Jennings, Tracy M. – Journal of Management Education, 2023
For many reasons, higher education is shifting toward more online instruction. As this shift occurs, educators and administrators should be aware that the efficacy of online courses may be influenced by course content. Specifically, student learning may suffer as courses utilizing significant quantitative content, such as accounting and finance,…
Descriptors: Business Education, Electronic Learning, In Person Learning, Comparative Analysis
Winberg, Christine; Dippenaar, Hanlie; Engel-Hills, Penelope; Phillips, Heather – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2023
Background: 'Snack writing' is a term coined to describe regular short bursts of writing on a larger academic writing task. There is extensive research on academic writing, but research on 'snack writing' is limited. Moreover, the idea of 'snack writing' in an online environment is not evident in the literature. Objectives: The study objectives…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing (Composition), Computer Mediated Communication, Writing Processes
Schey, Ryan – Curriculum Inquiry, 2023
Part of a larger yearlong ethnography at a comprehensive, public high school in a Midwestern city in the United States, this article explores a telling case from a bookclub that was part of the school's Genders and Sexualities Alliance. Approaching curriculum as a question of what knowledges are valued in education, in this article I describe the…
Descriptors: Social Theories, High School Students, Books, Clubs
Said Hadjerrouit; Celestine Ifeanyi Nnagbo – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2023
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the affordances of the e-assessment system Numbas from an Activity Theory perspective. The study follows a qualitative research design combined with semi-structured interviews with six students and two teachers. The findings reveal that the students were able to perceive and actualise several affordances…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Computer Assisted Testing, Social Theories, Feedback (Response)
Read, Stuart; Parfitt, Anne; Macer, Mel – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
In England, Pupil Premium Plus is additional funding to help address the educational attainment gap experienced by looked after children. This paper explores the experiences of virtual school heads and designated teachers (n = 140) as they access Pupil Premium Plus-related information, guidance and training to support their practice; navigate the…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Educational Attainment
Lebron, Monica Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2019
With the low number of ethnic minority and/or female athletics directors at the Division I level, this proposed study aimed to determine what commonalities, if any, existed among those ethnic minorities and/or females who are athletics directors at the Division I level. Critical race theory and critical gender theory were both used as theoretical…
Descriptors: Females, Women Administrators, Minority Groups, Critical Theory
Leonardo, Zeus; Manning, Logan – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2017
Best known for arguing that individual development is part of social and historical development Vygotsky's entry into education may be captured by his concept of the "zone of proximal development" (ZPD). ZPD has not yet been synthesized with a critical study of whiteness. When ZPD is used to explain racial disparities in the service of…
Descriptors: History, Social Theories, Racial Attitudes, Critical Theory
Oosterhoff, Arda; Thompson, Terrie Lynn; Oenema-Mostert, Ineke; Minnaert, Alexander – Studies in Continuing Education, 2021
How does a researcher investigate phenomena that continually emerge through, with and as various practices? This paper explores this question, drawing on transformative reflections on the unfolding process of an empirical research project investigating professional practice in Dutch early childhood education. The project initially applied an open,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Early Childhood Education, Social Theories
Hammond, Lucy – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Student research is an important pedagogical feature across the higher education lifecycle. Postgraduate taught (PGT) student research has received limited attention in the context of the diverse nature of the PGT cohort. Using Activity Theory, PGT student research is explored from the perspectives of differently motivated Master's students:…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Graduate Students, Student Research, Masters Programs