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McNae, Rachel; Vali, Kerren – Gender and Education, 2015
The ways in which women deliberately press back against practices of oppression and demonstrate agency in higher education institutions are highly contextual and culturally bound. The formal and informal networks that women develop and maintain are important elements of generating agency and enhancing women's access to and opportunities for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Leadership, Experience
Katz, Vikki S.; Levine, Michael H. – Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, 2015
This brief combines original research and policy analysis to examine a key issue that is often overlooked in debates about the proliferation of new technologies, education, and equity: the potential for digital media investments to support a promising learning pathway for children in our nation's increasingly diverse, low-income families. A…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Hispanic Americans, Computer Literacy, Access to Computers
Breton Caminos, Michelle Evangeline – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This qualitative comparative case analysis investigates the leadership approaches of the graduates of two educational leadership doctoral programs in Upstate New York--one a cohort-modeled program, the other a non-cohort program--with specific attention to collaboration. Responses from participants indicate key differences in Engaging Communities,…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Doctoral Programs
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Naidoo, Dhaya – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2013
Organisational culture and external quality assurance have both been presented as significant drivers of effectiveness, efficiency and excellence in higher education institutions. However, these assumptions have not been critically examined given the philosophical, conceptual and methodological contestations surrounding both constructs. A…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Excellence in Education
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Burger, Ulrike – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2013
This account of practice explores the concept of resistance in action learning. Resistance is conceptualized as an attempt of self-protection that is manifested in action learners' struggles with their sense of self-efficacy and their social Self. These struggles are an inherent part of the action learning process and may elicit defensive…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Experiential Learning, Resistance (Psychology), Graduate Students
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Kyle, Eric J. – Religious Education, 2013
The lived experience of persons with disabilities necessarily challenges our understandings of religious education. In this article, the author reviews how the marginalized lives of persons with disabilities might lead us to re-envision how religious education is defined and embodied in Western Christian communities. Based on this, suggestions are…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Religious Education, Christianity, Social Attitudes
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McKay, Jane; Garratt, Dean – Journal of Education Policy, 2013
This paper examines the concept of participation in relation to a range of recently imposed social and education policies. Drawing on recent empirical research, we explore how disciplinary technologies, including government policy, operate at the interface of service users and providers, and examine the interactional aspects of participation where…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Parent Participation, Decision Making
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Ng, Pak Tee – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2013
Lifelong learning is now a recurring topic in national human resource, employment, entrepreneurship and educational reform discourse. In Singapore, the government urges citizens to be lifelong learners to enhance their employability and reminds them that lifelong learning is a survival strategy for the country. This paper presents and analyses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Individual Development, Empowerment
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Jeanes, Ruth – Sport, Education and Society, 2013
The sport-for-development movement has grown exponentially in the last decade generating increasing academic attention. However, existing research has rarely sought the views of young people despite them being both the main target audience of initiatives and frequently the deliverers. This paper seeks to address young people's absence within…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Athletics, Adolescent Attitudes
Thiemann, Jared W. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Understanding the experience of transformation in counselor training provides insight into the phenomenon of four counselors-in-training who were currently engaging in a CACREP-accredited program. The participants comprised two females and two males, whose ages ranged from early thirties to mid fifties. The qualitative methodology of hermeneutic…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Transformative Learning, Qualitative Research, Hermeneutics
Barrett, Sharon Kebschull; Han, Jiye Grace – Public Impact, 2013
Leading Educators works with schools and districts to maximize the leadership development of highly effective teachers. It aims to bolster the talent pipeline by identifying and training strong potential teacher-leaders, and in turn, increasing student achievement and developing teachers on its fellows' teams. The organization's leaders believe…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, Teacher Leadership, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Improvement
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Monkman, Karen; Hoffman, Lisa – Theory and Research in Education, 2013
Girls' education has been a focus of international development policy for several decades. The discursive framing of international organizations' policy initiatives relating to girls' education, however, limits the potential for discussing complex gender issues that affect the possibilities for gender equity. Because discourse shapes our…
Descriptors: Females, Educational Policy, Equal Education, Sex Fairness
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Schroeder, Charles C. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2013
When institutions engage in discussions regarding improving retention and graduation rates, invariably the conversation focuses on entering student characteristics, especially ACT and SAT scores and high school grades. Clearly, attracting and enrolling well-prepared and motivated high-ability students will certainly improve institutional measures…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Graduation Rate, College Administration, Methods
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Liu, Danica Wai Yee; Winder, Belinda – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2014
Although international students are an important source of income to universities in the UK, the emotional impact of their experiences may be ignored and unacknowledged. This study explored the personal experiences of international students studying for an undergraduate degree in the UK. Semi-structured interviews with five participants were…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Experience, Foreign Students, Foreign Countries
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Klemencic, Manja – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
Students, if organised into representative student governments or movements, can be a highly influential agency shaping higher education policy. This article introduces the Special Issue on student power in a global perspective, which addresses the question of how students are organised in different world regions and what role they play in higher…
Descriptors: Student Organizations, Student Empowerment, Trend Analysis, Global Approach
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