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Download full textDaw, Tony de Souza; Falah, Ahmed; Fahd, Kiran; Parvin, Sazia; Di Serio, Antony – Online Submission, 2022
Structuring a degree is a common activity for course developers. Analyzing appropriate subjects and year levels, establishing pre- and co-requisite, and benchmarking against similar degrees are common academic activities. However, the degree structure itself has not had significant changes until now. A degree often lacks flexibility and cohesion…
Descriptors: Specialization, Academic Degrees, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education
Direct linkRoot-Bernstein, Michele; Root-Bernstein, Robert – Creativity Research Journal, 2023
Previous statistical studies found that polymathic networks of vocational and avocational interest predominate among Nobel Prize winners, discriminating them from less-successful peers. Here we confirm qualitatively and phenomenologically that this multidisciplinarity is a considered creative strategy. Peers often recognize Nobel laureates as…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Interdisciplinary Approach, Awards, Creativity
Hudson, Brian; Gericke, Niklas; Olin-Scheller, Christina; Stolare, Martin – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2023
This paper outlines the development of a comparative research framework in subject didactics and applies this in the process of analysing the transformations from academic disciplines across different school subjects. The theoretical framework builds on the concepts of 'powerful knowledge' and 'transformation' and 'epistemic quality' within which…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Intellectual Disciplines, Knowledge Level, Transformative Learning
J. Patrice McSherry – International Journal of Human Rights Education, 2023
As Latin American countries moved from military dictatorship to civilian government in the 1980s, a burning issue was how to deal with the massive repression and grave human rights violations of the recent past. Should there be an effort to hold perpetrators accountable, or simply "turn the page?" This article documents and analyzes the…
Descriptors: Nongovernmental Organizations, Latin Americans, Civil Rights, Agency Cooperation
Wendi I. Johnson; Amanda L. Skierkiewicz – Communique, 2025
School neuropsychology focuses on brain--behavior relationships and how these connections influence the learning process. This specialized field considers the individual and sociocultural factors that influence cognitive development, using targeted neuropsychological assessments to guide effective intervention. While grounded in pediatric clinical…
Descriptors: Neuropsychology, Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Higher Education
V., Terentyeva Irina; Liya E., Bushkanets; Maria Yu., Karelina; Ekaterina A., Karelina; Igor V., Gaidamashko – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The old management system crisis and the involvement of new social sectors into participation in management encourage us to study the humanitarian foundations of managing the higher education system. This article discusses the issues of managerial humanitology and the content of special education, and the ratio of civil and professional elements…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Special Education, Social Values, Humanism
Algharaibeh, Salem Ali Salem – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
This study aimed to identify the differences between cognitive flexibility and subjective vitality according to specialisation background (scientific and literary), gender (male and female) and the ability of cognitive flexibility as a predictor of subjective vitality. The cognitive flexibility inventory and subjective vitality scale were applied…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Predictor Variables, Undergraduate Students, Well Being
Hindhede, Anette Lykke – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
Drawing on Bourdieu's theory of practice, this paper aims to understand whether and how a reproduction of the status hierarchy of medical specialties and diagnoses occurs within a medical school in a North European context as well as students' educational strategies given the hierarchy. We report data from a cross-sectional survey conducted on a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Medical Education, Student Attitudes
Alvarez-Gonzalez, Yasmina – History of Education Review, 2022
Purpose: This article focuses on the study of the shaping of pedagogy as a discipline in Spain prior to the Civil War. Its aim is to identify those elements that helped pedagogy become constituted as a distinct field of knowledge that could offer rigorous insight into the world of education. Design/methodology/approach: The article uses the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Case Studies, Educational History, War
White, Jamison; Huang, Lifei – Journal of School Choice, 2022
We seek to build a framework with which researchers can track the trends in charter school specialization and parents can better understand their options. This report examines the entire charter school population operating in the 2018-19 school year and calculates the rate of specialization among charter schools based on key terms found on their…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Innovation, Models, Specialization
Atkin, JoAnn L.; Bowie, Anthony Alland; Cowley, Scott; Eckert, James A.; Ferrin, Bruce G.; Harrison, Robert L.; Lancendorfer, Karen M.; Luqmani, Mushtaq; Luqmani, Zahida; Leingpibul, Thaweephan; Mumuni, Alhassan G.; O'Reilly, Kelley; Quraeshi, Zahir A.; Samples, Robert G.; Veeck, Ann; Xie, Hu; Zondag, Marcellis M. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2022
Many business colleges offer specialized marketing majors in addition to the general marketing major. Given the extra resources needed to maintain multiple majors, in a time when higher education budgets are being strained, a need exists to understand how students make choices among these majors and what students perceive to be the advantages of…
Descriptors: Marketing, Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
Manoharan, Aroon P.; Gilmore, Briana; Rangarajan, Nandhini – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2022
This paper describes the pedagogical efforts of 67 NASPAA programs offering a specialization in global/comparative administration and policy. A web content analysis of course and concentration titles, course descriptions and syllabi of 67 programs with this specialization showed that across all programs, 52 unique concentrations were offered, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Public Administration Education, Public Affairs Education, Specialization
Olufsen, Magne; Karlsen, Solveig; Saeleset, Johannes; Thorvaldsen, Steinar – Education Inquiry, 2022
In recent decades, most Nordic countries have seen reforms in their teacher education programme, giving rise to an ongoing debate on these programmes' content, structure, and quality. As part of a recent reform of teacher education in Norway, new Master's-level programme have been introduced to educate teachers for grades 5-10, whereby pre-service…
Descriptors: Specialization, Student Teaching, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education
Hwang, NaYoung; Kisida, Brian – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2022
Although the majority of elementary school teachers cover all major subjects in self-contained classrooms, a growing number of teachers specialize in teaching fewer subjects to higher numbers of students. We use administrative data from Indiana to estimate the effect of teacher specialization on teacher and school effectiveness in elementary…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Specialization, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Quality
Martino, Andrew – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2021
This essay explores and expands the boundaries by which honors is defined and defines itself. By opening a path toward a more expansive and public perception of honors, the author argues for emphasis on the public good as a key element in honors discourse and the broader dissemination of its theories and practices. Drawing from characteristics of…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Higher Education, Social Problems, Political Issues
