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Zakharchenko, Yuliia – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2017
Due to content-based analysis of marketing specialists' professional training and approaches to development of their educational trajectory, it has been revealed that curricula and their content are given much attention by employers whose demands are focused on meeting current labour market conditions. It has been justified that despite the…
Descriptors: Marketing, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Content Analysis
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Dyke, Erin; Gordon, Sarah; Job, Jennifer – Berkeley Review of Education, 2017
The co authors of this article write that their own roles as teacher educators, student advocates, and social movement workers provide motivation for engaging in critical conversations to make sense of education in the era of Trump. They wonder how they should engage pedagogically with their contemporary political movement deep in the heart of…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Political Affiliation, Political Attitudes, Political Issues
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Stolare, Martin – Education 3-13, 2017
The topic of this article is history education in upper primary school. Traditionally, the history subject has had a narrative orientation at this school level in Sweden, but it is also pattern that is discernible internationally. The recent Swedish upper primary school syllabus places more emphasis on the procedural aspects of the subject. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Course Content, Elementary School Students
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Grossman, W. Eric; Fleet, Christine M. – Journal of Biological Education, 2017
Evolutionary theory is central to the biological sciences, and to critical aspects of everyday life, and yet a significant proportion of Americans reject evolution. Our study sets out to examine the role of a second year college general education course in affecting students' acceptance of evolution. We report three years of data using the Measure…
Descriptors: Evolution, Science Instruction, College Science, Theories
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Coe, Cindy A. – Multicultural Perspectives, 2017
In this article, Cindy Coe describes how after wrapping up her eighth grade "To Kill a Mockingbird" unit, one of her students came to her about derogatory terms being used around school and expressed that she wanted to do something about it in light of their recent unit. In a meeting with the principal, the student shared her frustration…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Video Technology, Ethnic Stereotypes, Racial Relations
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Nguyen, Annie – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2017
Assessment is growing for short-term study abroad as the majority of students (63.1%) continue to choose this option (Institute of International Education, 2016). This study uses the Intercultural Effectiveness Scale (IES) to examine the impact of short-term study abroad programs on students' overall intercultural competency and the connections…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Intercultural Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Student Surveys
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Zhou, Zhen – English Language Teaching, 2017
The Ecological class is a kind of class in which the system of class teaching is in a state of dynamic balance and it can enhance the efficiency of class teaching. The article analyzes the feature of English ecological class, illustrates the non-ecological class teaching problems and explores the ways to establish English ecological class from the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Siqi, Che – English Language Teaching, 2017
Content-Based Instruction (CBI) is considered effective not only in mastering language skills, but also in acquiring the content knowledge of business subjects. WeChat, a popular communicative and interactive platform, is acknowledged as a new instrument to improve verbal teaching proficiency and obtain relevant information. The integration of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Business English
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Averett, Paige; Hegde, Archana; Smith, Justin – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2017
This article presents the first systematic review of all the existing peer-reviewed literature (n = 20) on gay and lesbian parents and their children in early childhood education settings. The review includes articles that were empirical or pedagogical practice oriented, focused exclusively on early childhood education (Birth to 5 years), and…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Homosexuality, Early Childhood Education, Parent Background
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Cruz, Bárbara C.; Bailey, Robert W. – Social Education, 2017
In 2005, the Hillsborough County Board of Commissioners in Tampa, Florida, took steps to forbid government support for gay pride events. The issue came under scrutiny when a public library created a gay-themed informational display. When the commissioners learned of the display, they voted overwhelmingly (5 to 1) in favor of a policy prohibiting…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Social Studies, Curriculum, Social Bias
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Lopez-Medel, Ismael – Journal of Advertising Education, 2017
This paper examines the idea of using advertising to facilitate difficult conversations about diversity, politics, race and gender in the classroom. In our current tense political climate, I explore how cultural competence can be developed in the classroom by introducing topics related to diversity through the viewing of Super Bowl 2017…
Descriptors: Advertising, Team Sports, Diversity, Cultural Awareness
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Lippard, Cameron D. – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2017
The Confederate flag has been a hotly debated symbol of heritage or hate in the United States. In 2015, 54 per cent of Americans polled saw the flag as a symbol of 'Southern pride' whereas 34 per cent saw it as racist. However, 27 per cent of Whites compared to 69 per cent of Blacks saw the flag as racist. In this article, I suggest how…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Race, Racial Discrimination, United States Government (Course)
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Jablonka, Eva; Ashjari, Hoda; Bergsten, Christer – International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2017
Research under the key word 'secondary-tertiary transition problem' in mathematics education points to a range of difficulties students face when passing from learning mathematics at school to attending undergraduate mathematics courses. One of these problems concerns the change in criteria for what counts as a legitimate mathematical activity.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Majors (Students), Foreign Countries
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de Kort, Frauke – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2017
Citizenship education is one of the main aims of the mandated subject of social studies in secondary schools in the Netherlands. Moreover, the learning outcomes of social studies refer to constitutional rights. Internationally, citizenship education and human rights education are considered to be mutually reinforcing. One may, thus, expect that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, Civil Rights, Case Studies
Shaver, Erik James – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative study sought to explore reasons why social studies teachers chose to teach controversial issues and counternarratives in their classroom in an era where doing so is dangerous for teachers and their job security, and how they go about doing so in their classrooms. The theoretical framework of this study encompassed the notion that…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Risk, Politics of Education
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