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Zaring, Olof; Gifford, Ethan; McKelvey, Maureen – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This article proposes a taxonomy of entrepreneurship education, with the aim of enhancing our understanding of how higher education contributes to society. Entrepreneurship education programs have become a prominent feature in the curricula of many universities and business schools. Often it is developed in parallel with national policy, as…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Instructional Design
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Béhague, Dominique; Storeng, Katerini – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2013
In recent years, the demand for cost-effective evidence of health impact has grown exponentially, often to the exclusion of other disciplines and of epidemiology's longstanding interest in the multivariate determinants of health. Drawing on an ethnography of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, this paper focuses on experts who, in producing historical…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Mothers, Pregnancy, Epistemology
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Fouts, Hillary N.; Hallam, Rena A.; Purandare, Swapna – American Journal of Play, 2013
Gender segregation in early-childhood social play is a pervasive pattern in North America, and child-development scholars have suggested it is a human universal. But very few researchers have looked at gender segregation in small-scale societies, particularly those of hunter-gatherers, whom the authors here call foragers. The authors present their…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Play, Young Children, Foreign Countries
Seale, Clive, Ed. – SAGE Publications Ltd (CA), 2012
Clear, coherent and trusted, this book is the perfect guide to the main social research methods in use today. The much anticipated Third Edition of Clive Seale's bestselling title further expands its coverage to provide an authoritative introduction to all of the social research methods used to analyze qualitative and quantitative data. Written by…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Research Methodology, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis
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Ross, Hildy; Stein, Nancy; Trabasso, Tom; Woody, Erik; Ross, Michael – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
Parents and two children (average ages: 8 1/2 and 5 1/2 years) in 76 families each appraised the quality of their relationships with one another. Family members described generally positive relationships, both from their own perspectives (e.g., "I am often nice to my mother") and from the perspectives of their relationship partners (e.g., "My…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Attitudes, Social Psychology
Reidler-Berger, Carole R. – 1985
A study investigated initial reading acquisition in English and an ethnic tongue in two New York schools (Holy Martyrs, Armenian and St. Spiridons, Greek) which are representative of an immigration-based biliteracy tradition. The population consisted of students who were mostly (at least 80%) native born, English dominant, and from bilingual…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs