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Davids, Nuraan; Waghid, Yusef – Africa Education Review, 2019
By far the most challenging task faced by schools in post-apartheid South Africa, has been the distance educational leaders were mandated to put between the educational institutions and the apartheid legacy of racial discrimination and exclusion. It is therefore not surprising that there are two dominant approaches to educational leadership,…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Social Change, Racial Segregation, Racial Discrimination
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Erickson, Kristen – Childhood Education, 2019
Combining the sophistication of modern communication technology with the simplicity of an unadorned mobile room, Portals are making it possible for people around the world to connect and recognize their shared humanity.
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Internet, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Thomas, Matthew Krehl Edward; Whitburn, Benjamin Jay – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
This article examines the constraints of modern temporality which are antithetical to the careful consideration that working with diverse learners requires for the development of inclusive, democratic education. We take up the conceptual construct of time to explore how it mediates systemic practices that impact policy positions of inclusion in…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Inclusion, Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education
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Roberts, Kelly Morris – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2019
This essay outlines the case for keeping schools diverse socioeconomically as an important priority in school choice and school assignment. The author uses the current climate surrounding charter schools and private vouchers to connect to other times in the history of our nation's schools when diversity was threatened, namely the civil rights era…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Socioeconomic Status, Elementary Secondary Education, National Competency Tests
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Patkin, Dorit; Plaksin, Olga – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2019
In this study, we aim to explore the extent of mathematics pre-service teachers' ability to apply their procedural understanding combined with spatial perception for drawing conceptual conclusions related to angles in a pyramid. The participants are 16 pre-service high school mathematics teachers. They have studied solid geometry during one…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Spatial Ability
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van Hamersveld, Christine – Knowledge Quest, 2019
Hurricane Harvey dealt a devastating blow to the Pasadena Independent School District (PISD) community when it made landfall August 25, 2017, one week into the PISD 2017-2018 school year. Hurricane Harvey affected all PISD stakeholders and all campuses to some extent, displacing more than 2,000 district families and tripling the number of homeless…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, School Districts, School Libraries, Library Materials
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Çiftçi, S. Koza; Yildiz, Pinar – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
The aim of this study is to examine the effect of self-confidence on mathematics achievement. In this meta-analysis, the effect of self-confidence on mathematics achievement was analysed using the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). In the first stage of the study, the average effect size of self-confidence on…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Meta Analysis
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VanGronigen, Bryan A.; Meyers, Coby V. – Educational Policy, 2019
School turnaround--the rapid improvement of student achievement in low-performing schools--is increasingly a major topic of interest in K-12 public education. Federal legislation has left varying degrees of school improvement-related responsibilities up to states, and policy makers have divergent views about how to realize turnaround. We…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, School Turnaround, Program Implementation, Educational Policy
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Langeberg, Melinda Ellen – Issues in Teacher Education, 2019
Teaching writing requires explicit pedagogical training. Often pre-service English teachers are not only unprepared to teach writing, but they are also unprepared to provide effective writing feedback. Effective writing feedback: (1) prepares young writers to make sound and thorough writing choices; (2) positively impacts learning; and (3)…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Preservice Teachers, Feedback (Response), Writing Instruction
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Yoon, Irene H. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2019
In this autoethnography, I inquire into naming the histories and dynamics behind some of the embodied and affective experiences I have had as a Korean American woman of color while studying up/down, across/within, in White-dominant professional spaces such as K-12 schools. This 'in-between' status is part of the nature of being Korean American. In…
Descriptors: Korean Americans, Educational Researchers, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography
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Cole, Laura B. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2019
Background: Despite the increasing square footage of green buildings worldwide, green building expertise remains largely in the domain of building industry professionals. However, the performance of and advocacy for green buildings would benefit from a green building literate general public. Green building education is an expanding frontier for…
Descriptors: Science Education, Environmental Education, STEM Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Zolkoski, Staci M.; Lewis-Chiu, Calli – Beyond Behavior, 2019
Managing challenging student behaviors can be difficult for any educator. Lacking knowledge of research-based, positively oriented behavior interventions, educators may resort to punitive, reactive disciplinary strategies. Mindfulness is a positive, proactive approach that may help students with emotional and behavioral disorders improve their…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Behavior Modification, Emotional Problems
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Chen, Xiaoge; de Goes, Luciane F.; Treagust, David F.; Eilks, Ingo – Education Sciences, 2019
This study provides an analysis of selected aspects of the intended curriculum related to redox reactions as represented in secondary chemistry textbooks from the People's Republic of China, with a special view also on Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taiwan, and the Chinese minority in Malaysia. This study reveals how chemistry textbooks deal with visual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Textbook Content, Secondary School Science
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Borowczak, Mike; Burrows, Andrea C. – Education Sciences, 2019
There is a clear call for pre-collegiate students in the United States to become literate in computer science (CS) concepts and practices through integrated, authentic experiences and instruction. Yet, a majority of in-service and pre-service pre-collegiate teachers (instructing children aged five to 18) lack the fundamental skills and…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Faculty Development, Technological Literacy, Elementary Secondary Education
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Mamvuto, Attwell – Teaching Artist Journal, 2019
African art education discourse is deeply enshrined in community visual arts and its programming. This article is an analytical narrative documentation of anecdotal historical debate on art education in Zimbabwe. The referential data-based entry provides a historical analysis of the evolution of art education and its programming as a post-CIET…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Visual Arts, Educational History
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