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Matthews, Douglas R; Ubbes, Valerie A; Freysinger, Valeria J – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2016
Rhythm has been found to enhance not only biological functioning (e.g. balance, timing and coordination), but also to facilitate learning across sociocultural contexts. That is, rhythm may be a method of supporting child development and well-being. Hence, to the extent that children are not exposed to or engaged with rhythm, their development or…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Qualitative Research, Phenomenology, Elementary School Teachers
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Schöpf, Andrea C.; Ullrich, Antje; Nagl, Michaela; Farin, Erik – Health Education Journal, 2016
Objective: Group health education is an important aspect of medical rehabilitation. While interaction and active involvement are important characteristics of group health education, little is known about patients' understanding of their role in this form of education. This study explored patients' understanding of their role in group health…
Descriptors: Health Education, Rehabilitation Programs, Group Instruction, Qualitative Research
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Savas, Behsat – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
This study delves into 169 social studies doctoral dissertations published from January 2012 to October 2015. The results of the included studies were qualitatively synthesized and presented in narrative form in the results section. In preliminary searching for systematic reviews concerning social studies, we concentrated on 169 doctoral…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Doctoral Dissertations, Comparative Education, Comparative Analysis
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Kiel, Ewald; Lerche, Thomas; Kollmannsberger, Markus; Oubaid, Viktor; Weiss, Sabine – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
Lee S. Shulman deplores that the field of education as a profession does not have a pedagogic signature, which he characterizes as a synthesis of cognitive, practical and moral apprenticeship. In this context, the following study has three goals: 1) In the first theoretical part, the basic problems of constructing a pedagogic signature are…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Educators
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McLachlan, Benita – Support for Learning, 2016
Local Authorities (LAs) in Britain traditionally employ Visual Impairment (VI) teams as integrative statutory Special Educational Needs and Inclusion (SENI) provision. Teaching Assistants (TAs) work alongside Qualified Teachers (QTs) in VI teams to support children and young people (CYP) with VI. The VI TA has a broad role in covering early years,…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Visual Impairments, Special Education, Focus Groups
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Zewude, Bereket Tessema; Ashine, Kidus Meskele – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
An attempt has been made to assess and identify the major variables that influence student academic achievement at college of natural and computational science of Wolaita Sodo University in Ethiopia. Study time, peer influence, securing first choice of department, arranging study time outside class, amount of money received from family, good life…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Peer Influence
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Salikhova, Nailia R. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The leading role of meaning of life in regulation of human's activity of all types provides the relevance of the research. The goal of the paper is to identify and describe types of meaningfulness of life in future teachers, and to reveal the specificity of values hierarchy indicative of each type. The leading approach applied in the research was…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Essays, Statistical Analysis, Life Satisfaction
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Lozenski, Brian D. – Critical Questions in Education, 2016
Drawing from a two-year ethnographic study, this article establishes jazz as an epistemological metaphor for critical participatory action research. The author juxtaposes the tensions inherent in jazz music and critical participatory research methodologies to provide a framework for understanding how dissonance can become a productive element for…
Descriptors: Music, Ethnography, Participatory Research, Action Research
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Kurniawan, Henry; Nusantara, Toto; Subanji; Susiswo; Setiawan, Iwan; Sutawidjaja, Akbar; As'ari, Abdur Rahman; Muksar, Makbul – International Education Studies, 2016
This research is an exploratory study with a qualitative approach, which is based on interviews with a task-based the purpose of this study is to describe the understanding of elementary school students in interpreting sub concept fractions in changing of the object is given to fractions with limit intervention. While intervention on problems…
Descriptors: Intervention, Fractions, Qualitative Research, Mathematical Concepts
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Thompson, Kevin S. – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2016
Since more than $140 Billion is invested annually on employee learning and development in the U.S (Harward, 2014) it is important that training leads to improved job performance. Millennials, who comprise the latest employee generation, are age 18-37 (Tyler, 2007) and share the same performance requirements and expectations of the generations that…
Descriptors: Preferences, Workplace Learning, Qualitative Research, Private Sector
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Håkansson, Jan – School Leadership & Management, 2016
Preschool managers' responsibility for and leadership of systematic quality work has come to the fore in connection with changes made to the Swedish preschool curriculum. The aim of this study is to contribute to the understanding of preschool managers' leadership and management of the systematic quality work in Swedish preschools with reference…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Administrators, Preschool Curriculum
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Viczko, Melody; Tascón, Clara I. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Internationalization processes are at the fore of university strategic plans on a global scale. However, the work of internationalization is being performed through the connections between many actors at different policy levels. Our purpose here is to ask, what is happening with internationalization of higher education at the Canadian national…
Descriptors: International Education, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
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Dhaqane, Mahad Khalif; Afrah, Nor Abdulle – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study examines the role of satisfaction on students' academic performance and investigates the relationship between satisfaction of students and academic performance and explores other factors that contribute academic performance. A correlation research was used. The study population was the third and the last year students of Benadir…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Student Satisfaction, Academic Achievement
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Bergren, Martha Dewey – Journal of School Nursing, 2016
School nurses cite barriers to collecting comprehensive data on the care they provide. This study evaluated the feasibility of collecting school nurse data on selected child health and education outcomes. Outcome variables included school health office visits; health provider, parent, and staff communication; early dismissal; and medications…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Statistical Analysis, Child Health, Surveys
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Yan, Zi; Sendall, Patricia – Journal of International Students, 2016
While many American colleges and universities are providing a First Year Experience (FYE) course or program for their first year students, those programs are not often customized to take into account international students' (IS) unique challenges. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, this study evaluated a FYE course that was customized for…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Foreign Students, Student Surveys, College Students
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