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Svensson, Martina; Wagnsson, Stefan; Gustafsson, Henrik – Educational Research, 2021
Background: Motivational interviewing (MI) is a collaborative communication style used to enhance behaviour change, and there is increasing support for using MI in schools. However, little is known about school-based MI from a teacher perspective and how MI is applied by teachers in their daily work. Understanding teachers' use and experiences of…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Sharma, Runumi; Aswal, Mamta – Issues and Ideas in Education, 2021
Bertrand Russell's educational thoughts significantly deal with reforming education for school going children and he also supported pre-primary education. He favored early childhood education for physical, intellectual and character development. His emphasis on character development of a child shows the significance of early years of life for…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Change, Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education
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Pitkänen, Hannele – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
Illustrating the rising trend across education systems, the article examines the socio-historical constitution of the "politics of pupil self-evaluation" in the case of Finnish compulsory education assessment policy discourse. By studying self-evaluation as a 'politics', which, drawing on studies in governmentality, engages in the…
Descriptors: Policy Analysis, Outcomes of Education, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Educational Practices
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Tunstall, Luke; Ferkany, Matthew – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2017
We examine the extent to which mathematics is necessary for students to flourish, a principle that consists of realizing objective goods in a lifestyle endorsed from the inside. Our conclusion is that, through the end of compulsory schooling, all students should take coursework that fosters quantitative literacy, or the ability and disposition to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Role of Education, Required Courses, Numeracy
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Adrião, Theresa; Silva, Rui da – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2020
This paper focused on public funding to private providers of compulsory education in the context of globalisations. It analyses the differences and the common points between Brazil and Portugal (from 2014 to 2017) regarding the type of private providers in education, the mechanics and the reasons linked to the public funding to compulsory…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Private Schools, Compulsory Education, Comparative Education
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Lin, Szu-Yin; Chen, Hsien-Chun; Chen, I-Heng – Policy Futures in Education, 2021
As the world is changing and transforming at a fast pace, students today are expected to face more challenges in the future. For example, they need to prepare for jobs that do not yet exist, use technologies that have not been invented yet, or even solve problems that have not been discovered yet. The current study proposes that futures…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Educational Trends, Imagination
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Peart, Sheine – Education & Training, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the lived educational realities of black male students studying in further education (FE) colleges to understand how these experiences compare to their experiences of statutory education. It describes the way in which students perceived and received education in both sectors and highlights the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Adult Education, Adults
Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2018
This publication focuses on the duration of compulsory education/training in Europe. It highlights the starting and leaving ages and distinguishes the notions of full-time and part-time compulsory education/training. The information is available for 43 European education systems covering 38 countries participating in the EU's Erasmus+ programme.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, Full Time Students, Part Time Students
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Perez-Jorge, David; Ruiz-Ruiz, Jorge; Rodriguez-Jimenez, Maria del Carmen; Arino-Mateo, Eva – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2020
In 2012, the Canaries School Council (CSC) and the Canary Federation of Municipalities (FECAM) decided to investigate the level of school absenteeism in the Canary Islands. They therefore with the Ministry of Education Canary Islands Government about holding a conference for municipal technical teams on addressing this problem, which is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attendance, City Government, Compulsory Education
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Magsumov, Timur A.; Korolev, Aleksey A.; Ponomareva, Marina A.; Zulfugarzade, Teymur E. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2020
This work explores the system of public education in Kars Oblast in the period 1878-1917. The present part of the work covers the period 1908-1917, which spans the timeframe from the commencement of preparatory activities on the introduction of compulsory primary education to the start of the February Revolution. The key sources used in putting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Educational History, Politics of Education
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Mandel, Kinga Magdolna – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2020
Introduction: In the presented article, we are looking for the solutions and challenges of homeschooling in terms of further education and labour market inclusion. Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to discuss the conceptual framework of a research-initiative on homeschooling. What are the consequences? Because of a lack of adequate state…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Schooling, Compulsory Education, Labor Market
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Cherkasov, Aleksandr ?.; Bratanovskii, Sergei N.; Ponomareva Marina A.; Zimovets, Ludmila G. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2021
The paper reviews the system of popular education in Denmark in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Emphasis is made on the conservative and liberal trends in European education. Scientific and specialized literature on the research topic was used as materials. Methodological basis of the study consisted of the traditional historiography…
Descriptors: Popular Education, Educational History, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Romanus A. Igweonu – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The Nigerian government has been concerned in recent years with students' achievement gaps in basic science. Currently, there is not enough research on the perspectives of administrators and teachers concerning their practices and experiences of Universal Basic Education (UBE) programs and their influence on students' science achievements. In this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
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Durrant, Philip; Brenchley, Mark – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
This paper aims to advance our understanding of how children's use of vocabulary in writing changes as they progress through their school careers. It examines the extent to which a model of lexical sophistication as use of low-frequency, register-appropriate words adequately captures development in vocabulary use across the course of compulsory…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Word Frequency
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Helbling, Laura A.; Tomasik, Martin J.; Moser, Urs – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
This study used a stratified random sample of classes in Zurich, Switzerland, comprising approximately 2,000 students whose academic performances in math and language were assessed across primary and lower secondary education. Based on this longitudinal data, the study investigated the association of social inequalities with the baseline of, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Longitudinal Studies, Elementary School Students
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