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Michelle Galaviz – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative portraiture examined Navajo Native Americans in the Southwest as an under-represented and resilient group in higher education. The scope of research focused on Navajo Native American students in higher education institutions utilizing cultural capitals and strengths to maneuver through four-year higher education institutions in…
Descriptors: Navajo (Nation), Disproportionate Representation, Resilience (Psychology), Higher Education
Rachel Elizabeth Bee – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The problem addressed through this study was that the combination of student anxiety towards patients with mental health conditions along with their unpreparedness for exercising active listening, empathy, and self-awareness in clinical situations created a barrier to achieving therapeutic nurse-patient relationships in Psychiatric-Mental Health…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Nursing Education, Nursing Students, Mental Health Workers
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Janet Schulenberg – NACADA Review: Academic Advising Praxis and Perspectives, 2021
An examination of the history of academic advising reveals six different proposed purposes competing for primacy. Marc Lowenstein's learning-centered theory of academic advising provides a way to prioritize among those purposes, creating what could become a new normative theory for academic advising. When conceived as a locus for meaning-making…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Student Centered Learning, Educational Experience, Student Personnel Workers
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Debele, Meskerem L. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
Ethiopia has launched a grand scheme of renaissance to realise fast-paced economic growth. The two Growth and Transformation Plans spanning five years each (2010/11-2015/16 and 2016/17- 2020/21) outlined major targets towards which the country intends to mobilise all its resources. In the education sector, this vision is understood as producing a…
Descriptors: Christianity, Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Humanism
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Paredes-Chi, Arely Anahy; Viga-de Alva, María Dolores – Environmental Education Research, 2018
In Mexico a reformed curriculum is being implemented at the national primary level focused on the competence model and incorporating EE as a key element. This article reports our analyses of what theories, policies and/or EE related-contents were included in the documents that integrated this curriculum: general study plan, study programs of…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Educational Policy, National Curriculum, Program Content
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Dempster, Edith R.; Kirby, Nicola F. – Perspectives in Education, 2018
Taxonomies of cognitive demand are frequently used to ensure that assessment tasks include questions ranging from low to high cognitive demand. This paper investigates inter-rater agreement among four evaluators on the cognitive demand of the South African National Senior Certificate Life Sciences examinations after training, practice and…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Biological Sciences, Cognitive Processes, Test Items
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Caulfield, Jay L. – Journal of Management Education, 2018
Today's leaders must thrive in a world of turbulence and constant change. Unstable conditions frequently generate crises, emphasizing the need for crisis leadership preparedness, which is missing from many business curricula. Thus, the purpose of this work was to develop a learning module in crisis leadership preparedness. As a baseline measure or…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, Management Development, Business Administration Education, Pretests Posttests
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Lorusso, Jenna R.; Morrison, Hayley J.; Johnson, Ashley M. – International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher Education, 2018
A mission statement can be understood as a declaration about the basic purpose of an organization. Given the low-consensus discipline of physical education/kinesiology (PEKN), and the limited research on its academic units' mission statements, the purpose of this research was to investigate the content of these statements and what discourses they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Kinetics, Position Papers
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Misco, Thomas; Kuwabara, Toshinori; Ogawa, Masato; Lyons, Abby – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2018
This qualitative case study sought to understand the extent to which Japanese high school social studies teachers grapple with controversial issues in their classrooms. Situated within a curricular-instructional gatekeeping framework, we conducted semi-structured interviews with eight respondents of varying backgrounds and schools in Okayama,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Social Studies, Secondary School Teachers
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Semjén, András; Le, Marcell; Hermann, Zoltán – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2018
Introduction: A robust process of centralization in education administration and school finance has taken place in Hungary in the course of the present decade. The governance, control, and funding of schools has been taken from local government by the state, and the autonomy of headmasters and teachers has diminished. However, neither the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Centralization, Educational Administration
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Lee, Courtland C.; Zalkalne, Elina – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2018
As immigrants enter a new country, their arrival generally results in demographic shifts that may challenge the perceptions of native-born members of the resident population. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between awareness of racism and privilege awareness in native-born students at a university located in a Southern…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Race, Racial Discrimination, Racial Bias
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Scarlett, Michael H. – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2018
Standards-based grading, an alternative form of grading in which a student's achievement is based on their performance on a clearly defined set of standards rather than on their performance on tests and assignments, is commonplace in K-12 education but has been slow to catch on in higher education. This article presents an example of how…
Descriptors: Grading, Alternative Assessment, Academic Standards, Program Implementation
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Park, Elizabeth K.; Hargis, Jace – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
The purpose of this exploratory single-case study is to investigate the affordances of iPad transpired within a technological pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK) framework by four early childhood educators with varying Technological Knowledge (TK) at a low-income preschool. Pre/post and follow-up survey, group and follow-up interviews,…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Early Childhood Education, Case Studies
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Sharp, Laurie A.; Diego-Medrano, Elsa; Coneway, Betty – Reading Horizons, 2018
Developing knowledge and understandings related to children's literature among preservice elementary teachers is a vital component of teacher preparation that should be addressed in a required course. The purpose of the present study was to identify essential learning outcomes addressed in children's literature courses that were required…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Content Analysis, Preservice Teacher Education, Education Courses
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Dyer, Caroline – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2018
This paper extends and enriches debates on migration, borders and education by conceptualising education inclusion as a border regime. It applies a regime analysis to illustrate the borders of education inclusion for a community that migration studies have hitherto neglected: mobile pastoralists. It argues that education inclusion signifies a new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Migration, Migrant Education
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