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Dickey, Jan; Pahk, Sang-hyoun; Rost-Banik, Colleen – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
In this article we attempt to envision what utopian higher education could be given the realities that currently shape students' experiences. Postsecondary education is fraught with admissions that favor those with social, cultural, and economic capital; with course enrollment, class size, and instructor accessibility governed by bureaucratic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Futures (of Society), Fiction, Democracy
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Telling, Kathryn – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
Critical, and in particular Bourdieusian, sociology of education is often suspicious about educators when they describe their ideal students. It tends to see these descriptions as euphemisations, so that apparently intellectual assessments are really elitist evaluations about students' class positions. However, this way of thinking about educators…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Attitudes
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Green Saraisky, Nancy; Pizmony-Levy, Oren – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
Organizational networks shape education policy by influencing power holders and elites, but do they have similar effects on grassroots activists? We use data from the National Survey on Opting Out (2016 and 2018; n = 2,909) to examine the role of organizational networks in mobilizing activists in the opt-out movement (a movement in which parents…
Descriptors: Activism, Organizations (Groups), Social Networks, Educational Policy
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Phelps-Gregory, Christine M.; Frank, Martha; Spitzer, Sandy M. – Teacher Educator, 2020
Previous research has found that prospective elementary teachers hold beliefs about mathematics that potentially hinder learning, sometimes called "math myths." However, since these research studies were conducted, mathematics education and teacher education in the United States has changed, so more recent work is needed. This historical…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Beliefs, Mathematical Concepts
Isikgoz, Mustafa Enes – Online Submission, 2020
The purpose of this study is to determine the philosophical beliefs of physical education and sports teachers towards education and to analyze whether these beliefs differ by various demographic variables. The research group of the study is composed of 789 physical education teachers working in official secondary schools and high schools who…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Educational Philosophy
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Dills, Angela – Journal of School Choice, 2022
Safety remains a key concern for parents and education policy makers. Homeschooling opponents argue that child abusers use homeschooling to isolate and harm their children while public school teachers and administrators, as mandatory reporters, reduce child maltreatment. Supporters of homeschooling argue that public schools expose children to…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Child Safety, Child Abuse, Bullying
Mary E. Wake – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quantitative study aimed to expand upon existing research, which discussed student expectations, the relationship between expectations and retention, persistence, and student success, as well as why understanding student expectations is important to supporting student success. This research study explored these concepts from a lens of…
Descriptors: College Students, Age Groups, Student Characteristics, Student Attitudes
Jamba Tobden – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2022
Nations, institutions and researchers worldwide are increasingly demanding their governments set out a systemic change to humanise the present order of the world. In Bhutan, introducing a Gross National Happiness (GNH) philosophy in the 1970s and applying GNH indicators in the early 2000s was a deliberate attempt to embed Bhutanese values into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Philosophy, Public Policy, Life Satisfaction
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Fazal-e-Hasan, Syed Muhammad; Mortimer, Gary; Lings, Ian; Sekhon, Harjit; Howell, Kerry – Research in Higher Education, 2021
This paper develops a student relationship model which highlights the role of gratitude in impacting students' positive perceptions, attitudes, and behavioral intentions towards their higher education providers. Using theories from services marketing and positive psychology, we develop and test a gratitude relationship model. A field survey,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Positive Attitudes, Models, Educational Attitudes
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Almossa, Samar Yakoob – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
This article presents the findings of a study exploring students' reports of their engagement with online learning and assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi higher education. Students shared perspectives on Twitter about their engagement, and research data was collected from their tweets posted between March and May 2020. A total of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Educational Attitudes
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Naidoo, Devika – Perspectives in Education, 2021
While three million youth in South Africa are not in education, employment or training (NEETS), not much is known about their schooling experiences nor their aspirations for the future. Eighty-seven post-school youth (PSY) were enrolled at a youth development and organisation (IYDO) centre in a Black township to the south-east of Johannesburg.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Out of School Youth, Aspiration, Educational Quality
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Tyler, Quentin R.; Vincent, Stacy K.; Monroe, Tiffany C. – Journal of Research in Technical Careers, 2021
This study identified perceptions of education by low performing and college track African American males in a rural town in Southern Kentucky. Through the lens of Critical Race Theory and Symbolic Interactionism, the researchers explored how 16 young men value a secondary and postsecondary education. Selected by their administrator at two high…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Rural Areas, Educational Attitudes
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Sjølie, Ela; Østern, Anna Lena – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2021
This paper explores student teachers' academic preparation to be teachers. Despite the fact that a persisting criticism is directed towards the 'academic' part of teacher education, we know little about student teachers' academic learning practice as learners in higher education. The paper reports on a Norwegian study of 24 student teachers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Educational Attitudes
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Adi Sapir; Ravit Mizrahi-Shtelman – European Journal of Education, 2024
This study explores how homeroom teachers construct meaningfulness in their work and in their professional identity, and how this meaningfulness serves them as they interpret and react to public criticism of their profession. Our study relies on interviews with 95 teachers working in Israeli elementary-, middle- and high schools, and draws on the…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Teacher Role, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers
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Kosonen, Toni; Annala, Johanna; Penttinen, Leena; Mäkinen, Marita – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This article explores university students' approaches to and positions with regard to making the most of their study time. The article discusses how various normative societal expectations around students' use and management of time feature in their talk about how they organise their everyday lives. The research is based on thematic interviews (n…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Time Management, Learning Activities, Student Attitudes
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