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Howlett, John – History of Education, 2023
This article has as its focus the life and thinking of the practitioner and theorist Norman MacMunn (1877-1925), whose experimental work in a number of schools outlined a new conception of freedom and one that drew initially upon the thinking and practice of Maria Montessori. It explores how MacMunn used these new psychological ideas to develop…
Descriptors: Freedom, Educational History, Educational Theories, Montessori Method
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Judith Harford; Keith J. Murphy – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
The under-representation of women in senior echelons of the academy, particularly in disciplines which have been historically male-dominated and male-led, is well-documented internationally. The narrative, however, is not a linear one, and there have been intervals of alteration and narrow apertures of opportunity. This article focuses on one of…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Science Education, Universities, Foreign Countries
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Falk, Dean – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
Recent allegations that pediatrician Hans Asperger legitimized Nazi policies, including forced sterilization and child euthanasia, are refuted with newly translated and chronologically-ordered information that takes into account Hitler's deceptive 'halt' to the T4 euthanasia program in 1941. It is highly unlikely that Asperger was aware of the T4…
Descriptors: War, World History, Authoritarianism, Biographies
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Silin, Jonathan – Teaching Education, 2020
The 50th anniversaries of the Stonewall riots and my entry into the field of early childhood education prompt me to reflect both on the initial years of my activist and professional life and on these, the final ones. Feeling historical, increasingly connected to both the past and the future, I am discomforted by traditional notions of legacy,…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, LGBTQ People, Early Childhood Teachers, Social History
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Boss, Ginny J.; Dunn, Merrily S. – Georgia Journal of College Student Affairs, 2021
The purpose of this study was to provide more insight into the skills and support systems needed to encourage scholarship among student affairs practitioners. We used topical life history to examine the scholarly lives of eight student affairs practitioners. To guide our examination, we used the questions posed by Jablonski et al. (2006) as our…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Scholarship, Theory Practice Relationship
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Liquete, Elena; Dekoninck, Elies; Wisker, Gina – Design and Technology Education, 2021
Every year, around 35% of engineering graduates (mainly female and ethnic minority graduates) in the UK choose roles outside engineering. Given that engineering disciplines struggle to attract recruits, this represents a significant loss of qualified talent the profession can ill afford. A possible reason why engineers choose not to practise after…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Self Concept, Foreign Countries
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Bowler, Rick; Green, Steph; Smith, Christine; Woolley, Liz – Education Sciences, 2021
This article draws on research undertaken as part of a Collective Biography project generated by a group of activists and lecturers teaching and researching in youth and community work (YCW). Collective Biography (CB) is an approach to research in which participants work productively with memory and writing to generate collective action orientated…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Biographies, Universities, Racial Bias
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David B. Monaghan – Theory and Research in Education, 2024
Empirical educational research nearly universally tacitly assumes that people attend college only in order to improve their likely earnings. Thus, it ignores the immense cultural importance ascribed to education (and particularly higher education) in modern culture, or at least proceeds as if this cultural valorization is irrelevant to…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Institutional Environment, Student Experience, Educational Background
Biyi Wen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation is an inquiry into the history of Chinese computer-based word processing technologies from 1958 to 1997. My purpose in looking into the history is to answer, how the development and usage of word-processing technologies have contributed to knowledge production, by shaping the understanding of what information technologies can do.…
Descriptors: History, Chinese, Word Processing, Computer Software
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Sharma, Namrata – London Review of Education, 2022
This article discusses three (among many) contributions made by Jagdish S. Gundara (1938-2016) to the IOE (Institute of Education), UCL's Faculty of Education and Society (University College London, UK). First, in his capacity as a professor and UNESCO Chair, and as the director of the International Centre for Intercultural Education since its…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Recognition (Achievement), Diversity, Foreign Countries
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Terhart, Henrike – European Educational Research Journal, 2022
Teachers trained in one country are often not allowed to serve as teachers in another country because their teacher's license is not recognised as equivalent. The barriers these teachers have to overcome in order to work in their profession again are high and often require further (full) teacher training at the university. The paper provides…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs
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Barber, Wendy; Walters, W.; Chartier, P.; Temertzoglou, C. – Sport, Education and Society, 2022
This research examines the impact of the biographies of generalist elementary school pre-service teachers (PSTs) on their experiences of Canadian physical education teacher education (PETE), and how these biographies shape self-confidence and self-perceived competence as physical educators. The phenomenological case study took place in a Canadian…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Teacher Competencies, Physical Education, Preservice Teachers
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Howley, Donal – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2022
Student voice is frequently advocated for in Physical Education (PE). Yet, often when student voice is presented and described, what is found are strategies and methodologies that capture or give voice, where teachers work on rather than with students. This article presents six simple strategies I have successfully utilized to enact student voice…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Physical Education, High School Students, Contracts
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Baum, Susan – Roeper Review, 2023
Marcia Gentry personified a life well-lived. In this tribute to her work and legacy, her early ideas are highlighted. The author describes her professional experiences with Marcia during the years when Marcia was a doctoral student at the University of Connecticut. Recalling her initial motivation for a more inclusive form of identification of…
Descriptors: Biographies, Inclusion, Identification, Gifted Education
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Pereira, Nielsen; Peters, Scott J. – Roeper Review, 2023
In this article, we explore the work of Marcia Gentry as it relates to Project Having Opportunities Promotes Excellence (HOPE).We describe Project HOPE, the hundreds of scholarships it provided to students from around the country, and the broader effect it had on gifted student programs at Purdue University. We also discuss how Project HOPE…
Descriptors: Biographies, Scholarships, Gifted Education, Universities
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