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Edwards, Sachi – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2018
There is a burgeoning interfaith movement in U.S. higher education, inspired, in large part, by global events, and aimed at promoting tolerance of religious diversity. While there are various supporting arguments and approaches to this type of student programming, social justice oriented approaches--that is, approaches specifically centered around…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Higher Education, Religious Cultural Groups, Minority Groups
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Dunne, Linda; Kay, Virginia; Boyle, Rachel; Obadan, Felix; Lander, Vini – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2018
This paper presents aspects of a small scale study that considered student teachers' language and discourse around race and ethnicity at a university in the northwest of England. The first part of the paper critiques current education-related policy, context and practice to situate the research and then draws upon aspects of critical race theory…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Discourse Analysis, Questionnaires, Race
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Cytrin, Yitzhak – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
This article aims to examine the difficulties, misgivings, and criticism that exist in academia and the field of education, regarding creating history curricula relevant and significant to twenty-first century society and individuals; how compulsory history curricula can be suited to the methodology and didactics of training students as history…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, History Instruction, Teaching Methods, World Views
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Midgette, Allegra Joie; Ilten-Gee, Robyn; Powers, Deborah Wong; Murata, Aki; Nucci, Larry – Journal of Moral Education, 2018
This study examined the application of Lesson Study for professional development (PD) for a domain approach to moral education. A comparison was drawn between the effects of Lesson Study with 17 teachers and 144 students representing middle schools in the same district as a prior study employing intensive traditional PD. In Lesson Study, groups of…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Middle School Teachers, Faculty Development
Goff, Brenton – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Although most of the writing in high school English Language Arts (ELA) classrooms is about literature and although there have been incessant calls for changing the practices of teaching and learning literature, only meager amounts of research have been conducted in these interrelated domains of the field. Accordingly, this dissertation seeks to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, English, Language Arts, Teaching Methods
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Yigit, Murat – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
This study will try to read the stories of Sabahattin Ali, who has written various books in Turkish, within the context of Marxist literary aesthetics, assess the types and characters in the stories of Sabahattin Ali within that framework, and observe the social levels and the gaps between them based on the relationships between the two extreme…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Authors, Fiction, Marxian Analysis
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Bahmaee, Azizollah Baboli; Saadatmand, Zohreh; Yarmohammadian, Mohammad Hossein – International Education Studies, 2016
Montessori the physician and educational philosopher was probably one of the most prominent and famous education theorizer in the field of preschool education. Current research attempts to extract and clarify the major elements of curriculum by reliance on Montessori viewpoints. In this paper first the philosophical basics of preschool education…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Educational Principles, Preschool Curriculum, Educational Philosophy
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Dobson, Nicolas – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2016
In this article, I draw on my experience as an instrumental tutor with a music program inspired by and explicitly linked to El Sistema, to explore new perspectives on Sistema-based pedagogy and management. Detailed ethnographic description of an orchestral session provides a first-hand account of the program's pedagogy, which I then contextualize…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Music Education, Ethnography, Music Activities
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Miles, Rebecca; Lemon, Narelle; Mathewson Mitchell, Donna; Reid, Jo-Anne – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
As a field, Teacher Education has lived with continued criticism from governmental and research bodies on the quality of professional preparation and the lack of a strong research base. We respond to such criticisms by considering possibilities for further exploration of the "research of practice" and the "practice of research"…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Role, Educational Researchers, Role
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Parlow, Holger; Röchter, Angelika – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The university system in Germany is currently undergoing profound changes. In order to strengthen their competitive position, private universities of applied sciences are increasingly offering integrated study programs which combine profound academic education with practical on-the-job training in a company. Private businesses highly appreciate…
Descriptors: Cooperation, School Business Relationship, Criticism, Foreign Countries
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Gurney, Laura; Liyanage, Indika – International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 2016
Teachers construct their practice, education and professional development within two domains of professionalism: sponsored and independent. The association between these two domains, however, is complex; it is overlapping, inseparable and sometimes uneasy. The complexity is further exacerbated by the codependent nature of association between the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Faculty Development, Criticism, Correlation
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Gambrill, Eileen – Journal of Social Work Education, 2016
The integration of research and practice is of concern in all helping professions. Has social work become an evidence-based profession as some claim? Characteristics of current-day social work are presented that dispute this view, related continuing concerns are suggested, and promising developments (mostly outside social work) are described that…
Descriptors: Social Work, Evidence Based Practice, Theory Practice Relationship, Misconceptions
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Torres, Heidi J. – Children's Literature in Education, 2016
There are few empirical studies that examine the depiction of Muslims in children's literature. Given the influence of US media on perspectives of Muslims (Jackson, 2010), and the pervasive use of children's literature in American schools, it is important to investigate what viewpoints about Islam are being communicated to children through these…
Descriptors: Muslims, Childrens Literature, Picture Books, Islam
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Ellett, Alberta J. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
This article is a critique of David Stoesz' descriptions of organizational issues in child welfare, and more specifically, the relationships between the U.S. Children's Bureau and the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute. The focus is on Stoesz perspectives and assessments of sub-entities (cartels) that are currently influencing funding and…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Criticism, Reader Response, Organizational Effectiveness
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Sankofa Waters, Billye – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2016
It is imperative to explore multiple approaches to intelligence and public education that fundamentally integrate the ideas and lived experiences of students--with particular interest to those who are most disenfranchised. Within various black communities, the oral traditions transmitted at home are life-affirming "freedom lessons,"…
Descriptors: Mothers, Ethnography, Females, Freedom
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