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Download full textDantus, Sabine Jean – Commission for International Adult Education, 2021
There is an ongoing debate about the omission of specific learners in modern learning theories. Most learning theories are derived from theoretical works by the dominant culture. This paper argues that despite the criticisms and shortcomings of Knowles' andragogical theory, the instructor can alter the framework as needed to meet the varying needs…
Descriptors: Andragogy, Misconceptions, Adult Learning, Learning Theories
Uyanik Aktulun, Özgün; Keser, Merve – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2021
The aims of this study are investigating the attention ability and geometry skills of 60-72-month-old children according to the socio-economic status and determining whether the attention ability significantly predicts the geometry skill when the socio-economic status is controlled. The accessible population of the research in the relational…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Geometry, Mathematics Tests, Attention Control
Chopra, Harshita; Lin, Yiwen; Samadi, Mohammad Amin; Cavazos, Jacqueline G.; Yu, Renzhe; Jaquay, Spencer; Nixon, Nia – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2023
Exploring students' discourse in academic settings over time can provide valuable insight into the evolution of learner engagement and participation in online learning. In this study, we propose an analytical framework to capture topics and the temporal progression of learner discourse. We employed a Contextualized Topic Modeling technique on…
Descriptors: Semantics, Computer Mediated Communication, Pandemics, COVID-19
Gore, Oliver; Botha, Johan – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2022
Vignettes, as a research method, presents short hypothetical stories to individuals to elicit their views on a particular topic. A review of the literature indicates that although vignettes have successfully gleaned detailed data on phenomena, few research studies have employed this valuable method in higher education institutions' (HEIs) contexts…
Descriptors: Vignettes, Honors Curriculum, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Direct linkDesmet, Ophélie Allyssa; Flaming, Natalie – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2021
There is a persistent stereotype that gifted students feel ostracized and have less sense of belonging than their normative peers. To explore this stereotype, data from 9251 15-year-old students in the U.S. were used to explore differences in the sense of belonging across achievement levels in various domains (i.e., mathematics, science, and…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Academically Gifted, Sense of Community, High School Students
Gates, Emily; Benitez Alvarez, Kayla M. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2022
Evaluators have opportunities to advance equity within evaluations, yet little research has examined whether and how evaluators center equity in evaluation practice. This paper explores whether and how evaluators in New England address inequities and advance equity throughout evaluation phases. The study uses a complementarity, sequential mixed…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Professional Development, Context Effect, Social Justice
Xu, Nuo; Sun, Wenyang; Valdez, Veronica E. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2023
This study draws on the theoretical construct of critical consciousness to explore secondary Chinese DLBE teachers' barriers to developing critical consciousness in the classroom. Employing a narrative inquiry approach, we explore the general struggles Chinese DLBE teachers face in classrooms, focusing on understanding their barriers to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Secondary School Teachers, Barriers, Personal Narratives
Popkewitz, Thomas S. – European Educational Research Journal, 2020
There is an alluring, daunting, and haunting desire for practical knowledge in the contemporary social and education sciences about school change. This desire is not new: it haunts the turn of 20th century social sciences to change urban conditions and populations, and appears today in international school assessments and professional education.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Comparative Analysis, Equal Education, Social Systems
Senay, Hanife Hilal; Kondakci, Yasar – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships among students' academic self-efficacy, academic optimism, family income and academic achievement. Two studies were conducted in order to reveal the relationship between students' optimism, self-efficacy and their achievement. Firstly, Academic Self-Efficacy and Student Academic…
Descriptors: Correlation, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Positive Attitudes
Vasquez-Martinez, Claudio-Rafael; González-Gonzalez, Felipe; Flores, Francisco; Cardona-T., Jose-Gerardo; González, Irma; Espino, Piero; Olaguez, Eugenia; Rendon, Hector; Chavoya, Jorge; Valdes-Perea, Alba-Liliana; Álvarez, María-Ines; Torres-Mata, Joaquín; Betancourt-Nuñez, Erik-Moises; Rodríguez-Ramírez, Sergio-Esteban; Álvarez-Gómez, Miguel; Cabral-Araiza, Jesús; Anguiano, Carlos – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2018
A reform always implies an adjustment, a transformation, or a change. But one always hopes that a reform is for the better, and that it will benefit those who will be affected by the reform. Educational reforms have been seen in this way, since the world changes and we change with it. In this line of thought, we can dare to think that when an…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Poverty, Quality of Life, Social Differences
Svoboda, Ryan C.; Rozek, Christopher S.; Hyde, Janet S.; Harackiewicz, Judith M.; Destin, Mesmin – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
High school students from lower-socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds are less likely to enroll in advanced mathematics and science courses compared to students from higher-SES backgrounds. The current longitudinal study draws on identity-based and expectancy-value theories of motivation to explain the SES and mathematics and science…
Descriptors: Social Class, Social Differences, STEM Education, Course Selection (Students)
Kurtz, Brianna; Roets, Leon; Biraimah, Karen – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2021
Access to quality education for all children is a common mantra for countless national and world organizations, such as the UN and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper examines the struggle within two nations who continue to move beyond the impact of racial segregation in the United States (US) and "apartheid" in South…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Comparative Education, Racial Segregation, Social Change
Smyth, John – Ethnography and Education, 2016
This papers deals in a polemical fashion with what is arguably one of the most contentious issues in education--the disengagement of increasing numbers of young people from schooling. It makes the argument that what is occurring is that global forces are conspiring to position young people as a form of "social waste" and that allowing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Educational Research, Learner Engagement
Winings, Kathy – Religious Education, 2019
As Robin D'Angelo (2018) describes it, white normativity rests on the "definition of whites as the norm or standard for human, and people of color as a deviation from that norm." Consequently, going beyond white normativity is not a simple feat. Racism and normativity have been an entrenched part of many of cultures, societies, and…
Descriptors: Whites, Behavior Standards, Minority Groups, Racial Bias
Peyton, Lynne; van Turnhout, Jillian; Hooper, Ernest; Fitzpatrick, Siobhan; Turbitt, Una; Morgan, Denise – Child Care in Practice, 2017
The "Child Care in Practice" Conference took place on October 15, 2016, in Newry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The theme of the one-day conference was "Celebrating Diversity" and included keynote addresses and workshops. This article includes summaries of some of the speaker presentations that day, including: (1) Evolving…
Descriptors: Workshops, Student Diversity, Social Differences, Child Care
