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Melissa Yeung – NACADA Review: Academic Advising Praxis and Perspectives, 2022
Graduate enrollment patterns of students of color suggest that a gap in graduate enrollment persists between Black and Latinx students and White students despite an overall increase in enrollment. Graduate enrollment depends, in part, on student aspirations for graduate study, which is influenced by undergraduate student success and sense of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Critical Race Theory
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Barba, Kimberly – Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, 2020
Mathematics problems are shared rapidly across all social media platforms, and the relative anonymity granted to users can lead to unfiltered discourse. This study examined 1,046 comments from a mathematics problem posted twice to YouTube in February 2016 to determine the underlying narratives that indicate the commenters' mathematical mindsets…
Descriptors: Social Media, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Discourse Analysis
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Dahler-Larsen, Peter – American Journal of Evaluation, 2018
As theory-based evaluation (TBE) engages in situations where multiple stakeholders help develop complex program theory about dynamic phenomena in politically contested settings, it becomes difficult to develop and use program theory without ambiguity. The purpose of this article is to explore ambiguity as a fruitful perspective that helps TBE face…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Context), Concept Formation, Educational Theories, Organizational Theories
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Watson, Lani – Journal of Moral Education, 2019
One natural application of Linda Zagzebski's exemplarist moral theory (EMT) is found in the context of moral and intellectual character education. Zagzebski discusses this application in her recent book, commenting that 'exemplars can serve as a guide for moral training' (p. 129) and endorsing 'the learning of virtue by imitation' (p. 129). This…
Descriptors: Values Education, Moral Values, Theories, Ethics
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López, Josué – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2019
This article revisits the place of theory in social justice praxis. Using Du Bois' "Immortal Child," the author argues efforts for social justice in education are greatly aided by dedicating intellectual energies to the theorization of alternative futures. In particular, political theory has a significant place in critical educational…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Social Justice, Theory Practice Relationship, Praxis
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Huhtala, Hanna-Maija; Holma, Katariina – Ethics and Education, 2019
This article scrutinises one of the mainstream views of how one grows into responsible membership of society; the view based on Jürgen Habermas', Lawrence Kohlberg's and Jean Piaget's theories. Habermas praises Kohlberg's and Piaget's psychological theories and uses them as empirical sources crucial for his theoretical work. We argue that this…
Descriptors: Ethics, Moral Development, Piagetian Theory, Epistemology
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Giesinger, Johannes – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2019
The problem of paternalism, widely discussed in moral and political philosophy, has not received much attention in the philosophy of education. Yet Johannes Drerup claims that paternalism should be considered 'an indigenous concept' of educational theory, and 'the indigenous model of justification' in education. This essay explores Drerup's claim,…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Power Structure, Theory Practice Relationship
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Tenenberg, Josh; Chinn, Donald – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2019
It is common to think of learning as the acquisition of knowledge by an individual learner. Starting a century ago, Lev Vygotsky developed a different perspective on learning, initiating a tradition of educational research whose momentum and influence continue to grow. One of Vygotsky's key principles is the "general genetic law of cultural…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Learning Theories, Cultural Influences, Social Theories
Dennis, Jeremy – Online Submission, 2019
In interdisciplinary education, metaphors often provide the epistemological clarity that is lacking in our definitions and theories of interdisciplinarity. The problem is that ineffective and unsubstantiated metaphors proliferate. We lack a root metaphor or shared world view of interdisciplinarity. Is it time that we move away from thinking in…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Figurative Language, Psychology, Postmodernism
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Parra, Saro Lozano; Bakker, Cok; van Liere, Lucien – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021
Research shows that teachers and educators struggle to act when conflict appears in the classroom. This article argues that (political) conflict should not be avoided or eradicated. Teachers should enable conflict and attend to their pupils in the process, in order to enable further understanding of each other and their differences, as part of…
Descriptors: Conflict, Political Attitudes, Citizenship Education, Problem Solving
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Alves de Oliveira Feitosa, Viviane; Marley de Araújo Stedile, Antônio; Cleide da Silva Barroso, Maria; Alves Feitosa, Raphael – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2021
This research deals with the Soviet pedagogy proposed by Moisey M. Pistrak, which typified the structuring of the young people's school life in ancient Russia aiming at educating the new man. The objective of this research was to analyse the Pistrakian proposal for a unified labour school in the context of the Bolshevik revolution, seeking a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Practices, Social Systems
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Thangaraj, Stanley Ilango – Urban Education, 2021
In this paper, I insert the importance of teaching race through Middle Eastern America and Muslim America. By bringing in critical analysis of Middle Eastern America and Muslim America, I offer theoretical insights and pedagogical strategies in the education curriculum to teach race that will deconstruct, destabilize, and interrogate the dominant…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Race, Islam, Fear
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Fujio, Misa – AILA Review, 2021
Transdisciplinary collaboration has become one of the most important agendas in the field of Applied Linguistics and professional communication. Investigation into transdisciplinary collaboration has been conducted at the interface of both fields through knowledge transformation and multimethod action research. In Japan, however, investigation…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Grounded Theory, Applied Linguistics, Professional Personnel
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Pomeroy, Eva; Oliver, Keira – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
This article reports on the findings from an interview-based, qualitative study of adult learners in Scotland participating in the MITx u.lab massive open online course in 2015 and 2016. It focuses on interviewees' accounts of the impact of participating in u.lab on their work and lives. Using grounded theory as an analytical guide, we explore…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adult Students, Online Courses, Mass Instruction
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Sedlacek, Quentin Charles – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to support advocacy for racial and linguistic justice by examining teachers' efforts to contest their colleagues' language-exclusive policies and practices. Design/methodology/approach: The author used a critical and reconstructive discourse analysis guided by interest convergence theory to analyze narratives…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Advocacy, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Policy
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