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Rasmussen, Casper Hvenegaard; Jochumsen, Henrik – Library Quarterly, 2007
The public library is a product of modernity that follows in the wake of industrialization, urbanization, and popular movements, while at the same time the public library itself supports the building up and development of the modern. This article will examine the arrival of modernity and the prerequisites for the rise of public libraries, as well…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Postmodernism, Library Development, Library Research
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Klinker, JoAnn Franklin; Todd, Reese H. – Qualitative Report, 2007
The authors describe a project that illustrates the use of autoethnography as a research methodology to better understand their decisions to become professors. Strangers to one another, both authors discovered common motivations to make mid-life changes in opposition to cultural expectations. A review of the literature on epidemic theory,…
Descriptors: Females, Ethnography, Autobiographies, Social Theories
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Pretorius, Gertie – Perspectives in Education, 2007
This article posits an intervention in the education system which integrates the theories of justice as fairness and deliberative democracy. The aim is to honour every child's right to learn in freedom, and to ensure that every child becomes a responsible and democratic South African citizen. The education system and the schools in that system…
Descriptors: Intervention, Democracy, Childrens Rights, Foreign Countries
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Pace, Judith L.; Hemmings, Annette – Review of Educational Research, 2007
Authority is a fundamental, problematic, and poorly understood component of classroom life. A better understanding of classroom authority can be achieved by reviewing writings on social theory, educational ideology, and qualitative research in schools. Social theories provide important analytical tools for examining the constitutive elements of…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Ideology, Teacher Student Relationship, Social Theories
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Pang, Yanhui – School Community Journal, 2010
Active family involvement and important family roles in the early intervention to preschool transition have been mandated by laws, recognized by the position statements of professional organizations, and validated through evidence-based research. In order to involve families in this process, reduce stresses, and conquer the challenges families may…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Family Involvement, Systems Approach, Disabilities
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Bridges, David – Educational Theory, 2010
In this essay David Bridges argues that since most families choose to realize their responsibility for the major part of their children's education through state schools, then the way in which the state constructs parents' relation with these schools is one of its primary levers on parenting itself. Bridges then examines the way in which…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Social Class, Child Rearing, Educational Change
Roach, William Farris, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative study sought to better understand the lived experiences of students, teachers, and administrators with regards to the In-School Suspension program. This study was grounded in a theoretical framework which included basic concepts of behaviorism and social exchange theory. With these theories this research study sought to explain…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Suspension, Social Exchange Theory, Student Behavior
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Koganzon, Rita – History of Education Quarterly, 2012
One of the vexing ambiguities in the historiography of the civic republican tradition has been just when and how republicanism ended. The American Revolution itself, according to Gordon Wood and J. G. A. Pocock, was waged for republican principles, but the government established in its wake represented what Wood called "the end of classical…
Descriptors: Historiography, United States History, Educational History, Ideology
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Shibayama, Sotaro; Walsh, John P.; Baba, Yasunori – American Sociological Review, 2012
This study uses a sample of Japanese university scientists in life and materials sciences to examine how academic entrepreneurship has affected the norms and behaviors of academic scientists regarding sharing scientific resources. Results indicate that high levels of academic entrepreneurship in a scientific field are associated with less reliance…
Descriptors: Sciences, Entrepreneurship, Scientists, Norms
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Yick, Alice G.; Oomen-Early, Jody – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2008
Until recently, research studies have implied that domestic violence does not affect Asian American and immigrant communities, or even Asians abroad, because ethnicity or culture has not been addressed. In this content analysis, the authors examined trends in publications in leading scholarly journals on violence relating to Asian women and…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Asian Culture, Interrater Reliability, Family Structure
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Kuperminc, Gabriel P.; Darnell, Adam J.; Alvarez-Jimenez, Anabel – Journal of Adolescence, 2008
A path model based in a theory of social capital was tested with Latino middle school (n = 195, 58% female, average 13.8 years of age) and high school students (n = 129, 64% female, average 16.8 years of age). Most participants (77%) were immigrants (predominantly from Mexico). Questionnaires assessed student perceptions of parent involvement,…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Student Adjustment, Hispanic American Students, Middle School Students
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Wright, Stephen L.; Perrone, Kristin M. – Journal of Career Development, 2008
There has been a significant amount of research investigation focused on the construct of attachment, and also a significant amount of research investigation using the social cognitive career theory (SCCT). More recently, researchers have investigated the influence of attachment on career-related variables. Studies that focus on both attachment…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Attachment Behavior, Social Cognition
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Hwang, Yujong – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2008
Affective commitment and intrinsic motivation to share knowledge are important issues in developing successful technology-mediated learning (TML) and knowledge management (KM) systems. This paper investigates an individual's social/self identities and affective commitment as important identity factors for perceived enjoyment to share knowledge by…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Information Systems, Social Influences, Computer System Design
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Lee, I-Fang; Tseng, Chao-Ling – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2008
This paper discusses the cultural conflicts around the Western notion of child-centeredness in Taiwanese preschools. The implementation and translation of Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) in Taiwan is highlighted as an example to understand productions of differences, norms and cultural conflicts in Taiwanese early childhood education.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
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Bodrova, Elena – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2008
The article focuses on the Vygotskian approach to high quality early childhood education in light of the challenges facing early childhood educators in Russia and in the West. One of these challenges is the constant pressure to start teaching academic skills at a progressively younger age at the expense of traditional early childhood activities.…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries
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