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Lima Junior, Paulo; Anderhag, Per; Wickman, Per-Olof – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
This paper introduces the notion of taste for teaching a subject, especially science, as a conceptual framework to analyse the aesthetics of teacher development as a lifelong process. We draw on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and John Dewey in order to account for how teachers distinguish admirable practices and, in doing so, distinguish themselves…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Professionalism, Teaching Skills, Instructional Effectiveness
Morgan, Kimberly J. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The topic of the research study is published academic rankings and teacher efficacy. A need for the study was based upon a gap within the literature that showed little is known about the influence of published academic achievement rankings on teacher efficacy. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to investigate teachers' perceptions in…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Educational Indicators, High Schools, Institutional Characteristics
Kamara C. Roach – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A qualitative study was conducted to understand better how school principals respond in an environment of school choice and how this reform movement impacts their role as leaders. The principal is considered one of the most influential people in the development of the quality and character of a school. Reform policies have added to the traditional…
Descriptors: Principals, School Choice, Administrator Role, Educational Change
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Worth, Eve; Reeves, Aaron; Friedman, Sam – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
Private schools have long played a crucial role in male elite formation but their importance to women's trajectories is less clear. In this paper, we explore the relationship between girls' private schools and elite recruitment in Britain over the past 120 years -- drawing on the historical database of "Who's Who," a unique catalogue of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Single Sex Schools, Females
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Hartman-Caverly, Sarah; Chisholm, Alexandria; Glenn, Alexandrea – College & Research Libraries, 2023
This qualitative, evaluative case study details the conceptual framing, development, delivery, and assessment of a privacy literacy workshop called Digital Shred. The workshop is a multi-institutional effort offered initially in-person in fall 2019 and adapted to virtual delivery in fall 2020. The conceptual framework underlying the workshop…
Descriptors: Privacy, Workshops, Academic Libraries, Digital Literacy
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dos Santos Barbosa da Silva, Matheus; Kasseboehmer, Ana Cláudia – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2023
In this paper, we present our study into how teaching practices in chemistry are socially stratified under the center-suburban divide in a medium-sized city, located in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The paper mainly draws upon the Bourdieusian-inspired concepts of institutional habitus and symbolic capital to examine how institutional discourses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Science Teachers
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Guzmán-Valenzuela, Carolina – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023
Latin American universities have been subject to old and new forms of colonialism that act concurrently. Old forms of colonialism are based on a matrix of race and labour divisions that universities have inherited, reproduced, and reinforced. New forms of colonialism are attaching to global forces that promote a world class university model based…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Colonialism, Universities, Foreign Countries
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Nejadghanbar, Hassan; Hu, Guangwei; Jahangiri Babadi, Maryam – Language Teaching, 2023
This study examines the experiences and motivations of language and linguistics academics who have published in potential predatory journals (PPJs). A questionnaire was administered to 2,793 academics with publications in 63 language and linguistics PPJs, and 213 of them returned their responses. A subsample of the respondents (n = 21) also…
Descriptors: Publishing Industry, Writing for Publication, Periodicals, Deception
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Kuriakose, Francis – International Journal of Educational Management, 2023
Purpose: The objective of the research is to evaluate the experiential branding practices of a higher education institution (HEI) in India against student perceptions. Design/methodology/approach: Using a mixed-method approach for data collection, a range of relevant attributes of the experiential brand identity of the HEI was constructed. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Marketing, Institutional Characteristics
Bleemer, Zachary; Kumar, Mukul; Mehta, Aashish; Muellerleile, Chris; Newfield, Christopher – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023
High school and college students are inundated by indicators and rankings supposedly designed to help them decide where to go to college and what to study once they arrive. In "Metrics That Matter," coauthors Zachary Bleemer, Mukul Kumar, Aashish Mehta, Chris Muellerleile, and Christopher Newfield take a critical look at these metrics…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, College Choice, Universities
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Nina Petreska; Jana Prodanova; Ljupco Kocarev – SAGE Open, 2023
Following the relevant literature on higher education services, the objective of this study explores how the higher education perceived value outlines students' satisfaction with the service and their migration intentions. Data from 1,150 university students in Macedonia was collected and analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Higher Education, Futures (of Society), Outcomes of Education
Youngran Kim; Ron Zimmer – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
During the pandemic, a number of states instituted hold-harmless funding policies to protect school district financially from declining enrollments (Center for Public Education, 2021). In addition, some school choice policies have protected traditional public schools financially from declining enrollments. Together, these policies raise the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Competition, Reputation
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Jennifer Feldman; Jennifer Wallace – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2023
This article investigates the awarding of scholarships to students from historically disadvantaged communities to attend elite schools in South Africa. Specifically, the article analyses the narrated accounts of former scholarship recipients who reflect on their experiences of entering an elite secondary school as scholarship students. Using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Scholarships, Disadvantaged Environment
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Orhan Kara; Mustafa Celikten – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
The purprose of this paper is to investigate the effect of education on women entrepreneurs' success : factors in Vietnam. We used the survey instrument developed by H.M. Chu, which has been adopted in several small business studies. To determine the role and importance of education on the success of entrepreneurs, an ordered logit model is…
Descriptors: Females, Entrepreneurship, Educational Attainment, Small Businesses
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Carol Dole; Andrew Ju – Journal of Education Finance, 2023
Previous research showed that the Great Recession of 2007-2008 had negative effects on student test scores. These declines were linked, in part, to the negative effects of states' educational budget cuts or less spending per student. Using individual student test scores, this paper examines whether the level of school quality (as measured by…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Scores, Institutional Characteristics, Achievement Rating
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