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J. Broadbent; M. Bearman; D. Boud; P. Dawson – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2025
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, higher education teachers, having transitioned to new teaching methodologies, including online learning and modified assessment strategies, face the question: Do they intend to revert to pre-pandemic ways of operating or retain their new practices? A university-wide invitation with an incentive resulted in 63…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, College Faculty, Educational Practices
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Mahadih Kyambade; Afulah Namatovu; Bridget Namubiru; Clare Muganzi – International Journal of Educational Management, 2025
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to determine the degree to which Uganda's public universities feel obligated to adopt socially responsible leadership practices and, in turn, live up to the expectations of their stakeholders. A crucial component of higher education institutions is socially responsible leadership in universities.…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, Leadership, Educational Practices, Developing Nations
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Junita Purwandari; Helen Dixon; Eleanor Hawe – Assessment Matters, 2024
Using data generated from three teachers and 18 students in three senior English language learning (ELL) classrooms in Indonesia, we respond to calls for research that investigates the impact of societal rules or cultural norms that influence how people think and act about feedback and their place within the feedback process. Particular attention…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Educational Practices, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
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Amponteng, Michael; Opoku, Maxwell Peprah; Agyei-Okyere, Elvis; Afriyie, Sally Adwoa; Tawiah, Richard – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2019
The significant contribution of parents towards education of children has been well explored in the literature. In effort towards practicing inclusive education, parents have been urged to work closely with teachers in order to sustain inclusive practices. In Ghana, the Inclusive Education Policy document has reiterated the need for diverse…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Educational Practices, Students with Disabilities, Educational Policy
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Prenger, Rilana; Schildkamp, Kim – Educational Psychology, 2018
Data-based decision-making has the potential to increase student achievement results. Data-based decision-making can be defined as teachers' systematic analysis of data sources in order to study and adapt their educational practices for the purpose of maximizing learning results. Teachers must apply the findings from their data use to their…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Data Analysis, Teacher Role, Academic Achievement
Lazen, Matthew – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The number of international branch campuses globally has skyrocketed in the last fifteen years, rising from 183 to 232 between 2011 and 2015 alone. This case study looks at the ways that two highly selective American universities adapted their educational policies, programs, and practices at international branch campuses in a Persian Gulf country…
Descriptors: Multicampus Colleges, Educational Policy, College Programs, Educational Practices
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Wulf, Christoph; Bittner, Martin; Clemens, Iris; Kellermann, Ingrid – Ethnography and Education, 2012
The article focuses on pedagogical practices of recognition and esteem (Wertschatzung) and on the question of how those practices can be appropriately studied and epistemologically grasped. The investigation involves an inner-city elementary school in a socio-economically problematic district. With regard to the communication forms in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship, Ethnography, Recognition (Achievement)
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Nguyen-Phuong-Mai, Mai; Terlouw, Cees; Pilot, Albert – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2012
Under pressure of the continuing need to modernize, Vietnam is rapidly reforming its education system. Cooperative Learning (CL) with a Western-based model is being enthusiastically applied. This paper suggests that an authentic form of CL has long existed in the foundations of Vietnamese education. The reasons why Western-based CL is encouraged…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Culturally Relevant Education
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Hope, Andrew – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2010
The growth of surveillance in UK schools in recent years has resulted in the development of what can be labelled as the surveillance curriculum. Operating through the overt and hidden curricula, contemporary surveillance practices and technologies not only engage students in a discourse of control, but also increasingly socialise them into a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Observation, Internet, Educational Practices
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Simpson, Murray K. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2007
In constructing a framework for the participation and inclusion in political life of subjects, the Enlightenment also produced a series of systematic exclusions for those who did not qualify: including "idiots" and "primitive races". "Idiocy" emerged as part of wider strategies of governance in Europe and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities, Citizenship, Foreign Policy
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Holligan, Chris – Scottish Educational Review, 1999
Draws on Foucault to critically analyze interviews with Scottish preschool teachers. Suggests that, in contrast to preschool education's ideals of individual freedom and self-expression, greater governmentality and actual professional practices may lay the foundation for the production of governable subjects. Compares socialization,…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Conformity, Critical Theory, Discipline
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Reed, Jodie – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2003
Shortly after coming to power, Tony Blair's New Labour government expressed its strong commitment to tackling the problem of school expulsion. The Treasury's 1998 Spending Review included the bold target to achieve "a reduction by one third in... exclusions (from 12,500 to 8,400 permanent exclusions a year) by 2002". This article gives…
Descriptors: Expulsion, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Political Attitudes