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Sintayehu Belay; Tadesse Melesse – SAGE Open, 2024
This study's main objective was to use structural equation modeling to examine the direct effects of teachers' amotivation, identified regulation, external regulation, introjected regulation, and intrinsic motivation on PLC development in Ethiopia's Awi administrative zone's primary and middle schools. For this purpose, a correlational…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries
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Bidandi, Fred; Ambe, Anthony Nforh; Mukong, Claudia Haking – SAGE Open, 2021
This study investigated the insights and current debates on community engagement in higher education institutions with specific reference to the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa. The article argues that although community engagement seems to present some challenges, it has become an integral part of higher education in South…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, College Role, Public Colleges
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Hege Fimreite; Øyvind Glosvik – SAGE Open, 2024
This article aims to analyze discourse about professional development in preschool, represented by knowledge movements in meta-conversations about peer counseling. Empirically, this article presents a case study based on audio recordings of focus group discussions on peer counseling. The underlying study highlights findings in the form of various…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Private Schools, Preschools
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Elfarargy, Hamada; Irby, Beverly J.; Singer, Erin A.; Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Tong, Fuhui; Pugliese, Elisabeth – SAGE Open, 2022
In this study, we investigated Texas teachers' perceptions of instructional coaches' (ICs) practices that improve professional learning communities (PLCs) to enhance teachers' instructional capacities. The study's participants included 67 teachers from rural, urban, and suburban school districts across the state of Texas. They enrolled in a…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Coaching (Performance), Faculty Development, Communities of Practice
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Al-Shanawani, Hania M. – SAGE Open, 2019
This study sought to evaluate the self-learning curricula of a kindergarten in Saudi Arabia by applying the context, input, process, product (CIPP) model. To this end, the study utilized a mixed-method design, where teachers (N = 420) had been randomly selected and surveyed, and school inspectors (N = 15) had been interviewed. Furthermore, a…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Kindergarten, Young Children, Preschool Curriculum
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Andrew M. Clark; Monica Zhan; Justin T. Dellinger; Peggy L. Semingson – SAGE Open, 2023
The Professional Learning Community (PLC) model has been used to help faculty develop innovative teaching practices and diffuse effective strategies and resources throughout K-12 schools. Yet, whether and how PLCs influence research-focused higher education institutions remain unknown. Drawing on existing research on PLCs and the social network…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Higher Education, College Faculty, Program Effectiveness
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Christopher Yaw Kwaah; Mikako Nishimuko – SAGE Open, 2023
In the education decentralization processes, community participation in education governance has been argued to be essential for improving accountability to service beneficiaries. Therefore, this paper examined the perspectives of key actors on the impact of an educational decentralization policy on improving school quality education in Junior…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Junior High Schools, Foreign Countries, Administrative Organization
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Hsu, Pi-Chun; Chang, I-Hsiung; Chen, Ru-Si – SAGE Open, 2020
To understand early childhood educators' attitudes toward internet-related instructional applications, this study examined several factors that influence educators' practical instructional behaviors and analyzed the mediating effects of internet enjoyment and professional support on their attitudes toward internet-related instructional…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Internet, Self Efficacy
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Kelty, Noel E.; Wakabayashi, Tomoko – SAGE Open, 2020
How engaged families are in their children's lives, whether at home or in school, predicts their success in school and in life. The purpose of this study was to explore parent, educator, and community member perspectives of family engagement, preschool through grade 12, to inform state-level policy from an ecological framework. Ten semi-structured…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Family School Relationship, Parent Participation, Parent Attitudes
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Chua, Wei Chuan; Thien, Lei Mee; Lim, Shun Yi; Tan, Chee Seng; Guan, Teik Ee – SAGE Open, 2020
Professional learning community (PLC) studies in the Asian Chinese nations remain scarce despite the emerging interest in the practice of PLC beyond the Western context. This study attempts to provide an understanding of the practices of PLC and challenges in implementing PLC in a Malaysian Chinese culture-dominated secondary school. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Program Implementation, Secondary Schools
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Tanyanyiwa, Vincent Itai – SAGE Open, 2019
Indigenous African education grew out of the immediate environment, real or imaginary, where people had knowledge of the environment. Indigenous education inculcated a religious attitude that imbued courtesy, generosity, and honesty. At colonization, Africans were thought of as primitive although they had their own systems, contents, and methods…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Climate, Curriculum Development, Geography Instruction
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Kazi, Asma Shahid; Aziz, Fakhra; Quraishi, Uzma – SAGE Open, 2018
This study is an attempt to investigate the impact of educational facilities of a school on various aspects of self-efficacy, confidence, and character building of the underprivileged people in Dera Jutta, a village in Southern Punjab. Trust for Rural Uplift and Community Education (TRUCE) was initiated in the year 2000, and under its auspices,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, Self Esteem, Student Characteristics
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Nestian Sandu, Oana – SAGE Open, 2015
Our societies are going through a process of continuous transformation. The challenges and opportunities of diversity and globalization can only be addressed if civic education and intercultural education are interrelated. More often than not, there is a lack of coherence between educational practices based on these approaches. Moreover, even if…
Descriptors: Community Development, Attitude Change, Civics, Citizenship Education