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Ewan Wright; Chrysa Keung – Educational Review, 2025
This article interrogates the purpose of the International Baccalaureate (IB), which is becoming an increasingly prominent feature of education systems worldwide. It specifically explores the enduring tensions between claims of a distinctively well-rounded education aimed at the whole person and the more instrumental function of enabling students…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Educational Objectives, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries
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Kromhout, Jessamy; Scheckle, Eileen M. – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2021
Background: Much of the research in literacy focuses on what learners fail to do, especially in the early grades, but it is equally important to research successful readers. In particular learners' experiences with literature contribute to our understanding of the possibilities literary texts offer. This article focused on learners' responses to…
Descriptors: Reader Text Relationship, Literature, English Instruction, High School Seniors
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Wright, Ewan; Lee, Moosung – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
This research investigated educational pathways into a Global Middle Class characterised by professional or managerial careers and cosmopolitan sensibilities. The focus was International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) alumni with upper-middle-class backgrounds at 'world-class' universities in Hong Kong. The first objective was to…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Advanced Placement Programs, Reputation, Universities
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Demircioglu, Serife; Çakir, Cemal – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2015
The study explores the opinions and attitudes of International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) English language teachers from Turkey, the USA, the UK, New Zealand and Spain on intercultural language teaching. 16 teachers from Turkey, 15 teachers from the USA, 11 teachers from the UK, 10 teachers from New Zealand and 8 teachers from Spain,…
Descriptors: Intercultural Programs, English Teachers, Advanced Placement Programs, Online Surveys
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Ferrara, Francesca; Ng, Oi-Lam – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
In this paper, we explore an approach to understanding how multimodality works in a community of practice. Using a social learning framework, we show how a community of practice, involving a pair of high school students, engaged in perceptual, bodily, and imaginary experiences while discussing about calculus concepts in a dynamic geometry…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, High School Students, Calculus, Student Experience
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O'Boyle, Eanna – Journal of Research in International Education, 2009
This report of a case study examined the expectations and lived experiences of students who had moved into the first year of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP) in an international school in Turkey. Although most students were making the move from the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) within the school, about one-third…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, International Schools, Advanced Placement Programs