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Raisor, Jill M.; Zhulamanova, Ilfa; Berridge, Gina – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2021
Young children are faced with the challenges of collaborating with others usually for the first time as they enter preschool. They must learn to think beyond their own needs and recognize the needs and wants of other children. Most educators soon realize that the naturally occurring interactions among the children tend to establish hierarchies. A…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Social Structure, Power Structure, Preschool Children
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Christine J. Jackson – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2022
Internationally, assessment and the use of diagnostic data are recognized as critical capabilities for teachers. This is not a recent development, with assessment recognized for some decades as playing a significant role in informing learning and learners.This paper will examine whether teachers and members of the school leadership team utilize…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Literacy, Numeracy, Instructional Leadership
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Väkevä, Lauri; Westerlund, Heidi; Ilmola-Sheppard, Leena – Music Education Research, 2022
This study presents an analysis of hidden elitism in music education through the free choice argument -- that individuals are fundamentally free to choose to study music -- as a meritocratic power structure. Qualitative Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) is applied to understand music education as a social system with a special structure in which its…
Descriptors: School Choice, Music Education, Power Structure, Social Systems
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Morales-Doyle, Daniel; Varelas, Maria; Segura, David; Bernal-Munera, Marcela – Cognition and Instruction, 2021
This study examines the development of secondary preservice science teachers' (PSTs') sociopolitical understandings in the context of a yearlong, masters-level, justice-oriented teacher education program. It articulates a theoretical perspective regarding teachers' conceptions of the work-of-teaching in terms of pedagogical and disciplinary…
Descriptors: Ethics, Science Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Case Studies
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Cordoba, Tanya Espinosa; Sanders-Smith, Stephanie C. – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2018
An increasing amount of attention and public funding has been dedicated in recent years to the field of Early Childhood Education and the expansion of early childhood programs in the United States. Program quality in early childhood is evaluated based on program-level structural features and instructional support (e.g. problem solving, feedback,…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Early Childhood Education, Power Structure, Teaching Methods
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Lee, Sunghoe – Gender and Education, 2013
This study investigates the life experiences of six mature undergraduate women at a traditional 4-year university in South Korea. It explores women's construction of their university lives in the context of their wider socio-cultural experiences, both past and present, which are shaped by the socio-historical context of South Korean society. The…
Descriptors: Females, Social Structure, Undergraduate Study, Confucianism
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Sikandar, Aliya; Hussain, Nasreen – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2014
This case study explored the English language related ideologies of different management groups and student representatives at a business school of Karachi, Pakistan. The study tried to bring an insider's perspective to the causes of certain language ideologies prevalent in the business school's social structure, and the role language played in…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Case Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Winans-Solis, Jaime – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2014
This qualitative case study investigates how service-learning may enable self-direction and the development of a critical consciousness for marginalized high school students by exploring the dynamics of service-learning through a theoretical framework of critical theory. Service-learning is theorized to counter the oppressive nature of schooling…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Service Learning, Disadvantaged, Teaching Methods
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Perkins, Rosie – Research Studies in Music Education, 2013
This article explores the intersection between institutional hierarchies and learning at a UK conservatoire. Conceptualizing learning as a social practice situated in a hierarchical social space, the article draws on the theorization of Bourdieu to understand how students are positioned in the conservatoire field and what this means in terms of…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Guidelines, Learning Processes
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Martin, Kenneth H. – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2013
Disinhibition is recognized as an effect that prompts online users to communicate with less constraint than in face-to-face discussion. This article describes how disinhibition may affect more than individual instances. In a blended learning environment, disinhibition may alter the entire context of discussion by disrupting established patterns of…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Blended Learning, Asynchronous Communication, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Bess, Donald Arlo – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Information systems are considered to be a critical and strategic part of most organizations today. Because of this it has become increasingly important to ensure that there is an effective information security program in place protecting those information systems. It has been well established by researchers that the success of an information…
Descriptors: Information Security, Organizational Culture, Case Studies, Information Management
Montgomery, Michelle Rene – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In recent years, many studies have clearly documented that mixed-race people are currently engaged in the process of self validation (DaCosta. 2007; Dalmage, 2003; McQueen, 2002; Root, 1996 & 2001; Spencer, J, M., 1997; Spencer, R., 2006a; Thorton, 1992). There is not a lot of empirical research that examines how schools influence the racial…
Descriptors: African American Students, Race, Social Systems, American Indians
Chisolm, Richard – 1981
The rights of parents and children can best be understood, it is argued, if the law is seen as distributing power over children's lives. Three case studies that illustrate this thesis are discussed with reference to some changes to the law contained in the Community Welfare Bill 1981 (New South Wales). It is further argued that the legal principle…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Court Litigation, Foreign Countries, Foster Family
Wolcott, Harry F. – 1974
Efforts to analyze a case study of the implementation of Program Planning Budgeting System (PPBS) materials for a pilot study in a school district are discussed from a descriptive, ethnographic approach. Antagonism, anxiety, and accusations characterize the extreme we-they split among those interviewed. Anthropology describes such a society with…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Anthropology, Case Studies, Educational Anthropology
Hansell, Stephen – 1982
Research on grades 9-12 in an elite, coeducational private school in an urban area examined the effects of the school's social organization on students' commitment to educational goals and their sense of academic purpose. The author gathered data through 2 years of participant observation as a teacher-researcher and through questionnaire…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Case Studies, High Schools
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