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Suspitsyna, Tatiana – Critical Studies in Education, 2015
This paper presents the results of a discourse analysis of the "Chronicle of Higher Education" publications about China in 2011 and 2012. Drawing on postcolonial appropriations of governmentality to frame the discussion of globalization as the context of the study, the author analyzes the stylistic, rhetorical, and semantic strategies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Newspapers, Higher Education, Discourse Analysis
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Elbeck, Matt; Bacon, Don – Journal of Education for Business, 2015
The absence of universally accepted definitions for direct and indirect assessment motivates the purpose of this article: to offer definitions that are literature-based and theoretically driven, meeting K. Lewin's (1945) dictum that, "There is nothing so practical as a good theory" (p. 129). The authors synthesize the literature to…
Descriptors: Definitions, Evaluation Methods, Global Approach, Evidence
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Hutzler, Yeshayahu; Sherrill, Claudine – Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, 2007
The purpose of this study was to describe international perspectives concerning terms, definitions, and meanings of adapted physical activity (APA) as (a) activities or service delivery, (b) a profession, and (c) an academic field of study. Gergen's social constructionism, our theory, guided analysis of multiple sources of data via qualitative…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Mail Surveys, Literature Reviews, Physical Activities