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Agnes Pfrang; Daniel J. Castner – Educational Theory, 2024
This article critically assesses contemporary empirical educational research, directing attention toward overlooked facets of pedagogical practice. Here, Agnes Pfrang and Daniel Castner raise questions about predominant psychological approaches to empirical educational research, instead advocating for a holistic viewpoint that encompasses the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Instruction, Evidence Based Practice, Educational History
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Trond Risto – History of Education, 2024
There is no doubt that the first boarding school in the South Sami region in Norway (1910-1951) was authoritarian and contributed to Sami assimilation over several generations. Descriptions given by a former student regarding the poor conditions 70 years after he felt he was the victim of abuse is perhaps a sign of growing self-awareness among the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Boarding Schools, Minority Groups, Foreign Countries
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Douglas C. Orzolek – Music Educators Journal, 2024
Music is ever expanding and growing. It feels as if there is a new artist, genre, technology, or something happening in the broad world of music on a daily basis. Our ability to access all sorts of music and musical information has never been easier. Running parallel to this ever-changing landscape of music and music-making is a similar pattern of…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Music Activities, Culturally Relevant Education
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Raihan Taqui Syed; Dharmendra Singh; Reena Agrawal; David Spicer – Industry and Higher Education, 2024
Theoretical roots of higher education institutions (HEIs) and Stakeholder Analysis date back to mid-1990s and research was focussed on the role of HEIs in society and sustainable development. While various studies have been published about 'triple-helix model' - bringing government, academia, and industry closer, the concept of HEIs and…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Colleges, Educational History, Sustainable Development
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Zachary Brown – Educational Policy, 2024
Educational research, policy, advocacy organizations, and higher education policy scholars, have noted the significance of race-conscious admissions in the dismantling of the structural and material racial and class barriers that reflect the historical role of colleges and universities. In this essay, the author enacts a different reading of the…
Descriptors: College Admission, Affirmative Action, Higher Education, Educational Policy
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Alex Romagnoli – Educational Considerations, 2024
The traditional points system and subsequent Grade Point Average (GPA) in education perpetuates an evaluation of academic performance which reflects arbitrary weighting of assignments and/or assessments. As such, GPAs which are calculated using a traditional points system are not unidimensional in their design. The baseball batting and slugging…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Weighted Scores, Team Sports, Grades (Scholastic)
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Lisa M. Baumgartner; Davin Carr-Chellman – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
This article provides an overview of adult learning theory, focusing on the theories covered in this issue of New Directions in Adult and Continuing Education. In offering a brief synopsis of each article and reflecting on the ways adult learning theories have evolved since the first update was published in 1993, this article explains several…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learning Theories, Educational Change, Student Diversity
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Marta Estellés; John O'Neill – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
In this article, we continue Martin Thrupp's critical work in education policy in Aotearoa New Zealand by examining the policies of the Sixth Labour-led Government (2017--2023) and the Sixth National-led Government (2023-present). We consider their attempts to mitigate social injustice via education policy and the social imaginaries that underpin…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Educational Policy, Educational History
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Hugh Lauder – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
This paper examines the contribution that Martin Thrupp made to educational policy and teachers' practice in the light of the present threat to democracy presented by the authoritarian right. Martin's work on school composition is extended to an analysis of the prospects and practice for a education for democratic citizenship. It focuses on the…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Teaching Methods, Democracy, Educational History
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Felix V. Rodriguez Suero – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2024
Drawing from decolonial theories, I explore the history of art education in the Dominican Republic in the first half of the 20th century. I examine how racial hierarchies were activated in art classes in school through the romanticization of the countryside and the mystification of children's material culture. A distorted use of rural imagery…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Art Education, Educational History, Foreign Countries
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Ali Çapar – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
This article examines the campaign of schooling and education reforms for non-Sunni or "heterodox" groups, particularly the Nusayri community, during the reign of Abdulhamid II (1876-1908) in the late Ottoman Empire in Syria and Southern Turkey. Through a detailed examination of Ottoman archival documents, missionary reports, and…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Policy, Educational History, Asian History
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Harvey J. Graff – Across the Disciplines, 2024
Scholarly disciplines are historical reservoirs riven with contradictions. Often unaware of their own history, the humanities lead in complications, with English departments outpacing other fields of study. Both writing and English language and literature studies exhibit long-standing omissions and conflicts. This essay explores their similarities…
Descriptors: Reading, Writing (Composition), Educational History, Humanities
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Virgínia Célia Cavalcante de Holanda; Heronilson Pinto Freire – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
This article provides a panoramic analysis of the historical process of the emergence of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and their role as mediators of medieval knowledge, which later also exerted significant influence as they reshaped themselves for the consolidation of national states and modern Western scientific culture. In Brazil, unlike…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Medieval History
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Zhenzhen Zhou – History of Education, 2024
This article assesses the evolving dimensions of sympathy education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on the League of Pity, the juvenile branch organisation of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). In its early years the League sought to emphasise Christian service and self-denial,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Empathy, Child Abuse
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Jennifer Spiegel; Joshua Clements – Critical Questions in Education, 2024
Personalized learning (PL) is not new, but it has morphed and re-emerged as an approach that might re-engage today's students in the classroom and better prepare them for college and careers in the 21st century. Amid this re-emergence of personalization is the implementation of new technologies in the classroom. While technology may offer…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Service Learning, Educational Technology, Classroom Environment
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