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White, April L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Many organizations find selecting a leader to be highly challenging. Investigators have found and admit that the study of leadership is a very complex phenomenon that cannot be easily captured and explained in a manner that could lead to a final description about leadership or offer clear steps on how to choose the right leader. Among the many…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Infants, Predictor Variables, Leadership Qualities
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Brown, Chris – London Review of Education, 2013
The process of "knowledge adoption" is defined as the means through which policy-makers digest, accept then "take on board" research findings. It is argued in Brown, however, that current models designed to explain knowledge adoption activity fail to fully account for the complexities that affect its operation. Within this…
Descriptors: Evidence, Educational Policy, Models, Public Officials
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Lytra, Vally – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2014
In this article, I present and discuss a commemorative book project to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Greek School of Lausanne. I examine the continuities and discontinuities of the notions of language, identity and community as these were represented through the voices of former Greek state officials, teachers and pupils. I take a long…
Descriptors: Greek, Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Teacher Attitudes
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Yuh, Leighanne – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2016
Despite the turbulent political circumstances of the 1880s, and notwithstanding opposition from key government officials, this decade witnessed the Korean government's initial attempts to establish educational institutions modelled after western schools--the Royal College (Yugyeong Gongweon), a military academy (Yeonmu Gongweon), and an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Public Officials, Military Schools
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Caporal-Ebersold, Eloise; Young, Andrea – London Review of Education, 2016
The aim of this article is to analyse the early childhood education and care (ECEC) language policy in the city of Strasbourg, focusing on an ethnographic case study of a newly established bilingual English-French crèche in the city. In France, establishing an early childhood education structure--more specifically, a day care centre catering to…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingualism, Creoles, Early Childhood Education
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Nomnian, Singhanat – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2017
This study aims to explore the narrative identity of a politician-turned-doctoral student at an Australian university with a particular focus on his academic and social encounters based on his English resources and experiences of learning and living in Australia. This case study is unique in the way that very few Thai politicians would end their…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Public Officials, Cultural Pluralism, Multilingualism
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Buendia, Edward; Humbert-Fisk, Paul – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background/Context: Mayoral control of large city school districts has become the newest form of school district reorganization. Researchers have documented how real and perceived crises have propelled mayors in Chicago, Baltimore, and Washington DC, amongst others, to redefine the role of board governance by situating the operations of districts…
Descriptors: School Districts, Governance, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Local Government
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Lorne, Frank; Hlozkova, Pavla – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2015
Global economy is now characterized by frontier of models and theories that are often shaped by decision makers in global and national institutions. Creative collaborative learning (CCL) is attempted for this first time in a classroom environment for studying macroeconomics and world trade. CCL is suitable for student-centered learning MBA…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Masters Programs, Cooperative Learning, Creativity
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Lindahl, Mats Gunnar; Folkesson, Anne-Mari – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
The school systems of many countries have been pervaded by student-centred pedagogy making students' small group discussion a common feature of the classroom practice.However, there is a lack of studies focussing different modes of discussion for the purpose of finding out whether some modes are more beneficial than others. Hence, the aim of this…
Descriptors: Small Group Instruction, Group Discussion, Student Attitudes, Student Centered Learning
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Collet, Bruce A.; Bang, Hyeyoung – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2016
Drawing on data collected in South Korea, Jordan and the USA, this paper examines the degree to which security concerns impact the schooling of North Korean refugees in South Korea and Iraqi refugees in Jordan. Operating from a framework examining the intersection of migration and securitisation, the authors find that accounts of negative images…
Descriptors: Refugees, Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Social Systems
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DeBray, Elizabeth; Scott, Janelle; Lubienski, Christopher; Jabbar, Huriya – Educational Policy, 2014
This article develops a framework for investigating research use, using an "advocacy coalition framework" and the concepts of a "supply side" (mainly organizations) and "demand side" (policymakers). Drawing on interview data and documents from New Orleans about the charter school reforms that have developed there…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Interviews, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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Hajisoteriou, Christina; Angelides, Panayiotis – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2014
This article examines (a) the official policy for social justice as developed by the Ministry of Education and Culture and its policy-makers, (b) the ways in which school leaders (head teachers) and school actors (teachers) understand education policy for social justice, and (c) the impact of this process on school leaders' and actors' action or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Social Justice, Stakeholders
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Gerald Fallon; Jerald Paquette – Journal of Educational Administration, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide to First and non-First Nation educators, scholars, and policy makers alternative perspectives that can reshape research on educational leadership in First Nation education with new imaginings that question fundamentally the cultural-political-economic-space defined by Euro-centred notion of…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Teachers
Al Subaie, Khalid F. F. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess staff perceptions of four U.S.-Saudi Diplomatic Corps, the embassy in Washington, DC, and the three consulates in New York, Houston, and Los Angeles regarding the implementation of virtual teams. This study applied the adaptive structuration theory (AST). AST explains how teams develop in a given…
Descriptors: Readiness, Teamwork, Computer Mediated Communication, International Relations
Oguntoyinbo, Lekan – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2011
It was late on Election Day 2010 and Vander Plaats, a Sioux City, Iowa, businessman and leader of a campaign to oust three Iowa Supreme Court justices, had just gotten word that he and his team had pulled it off. The voters had rejected the three justices up for a retention vote: David Baker, Michael Streit, and Chief Justice Marsha Ternus.…
Descriptors: Judges, Opinions, Court Litigation, Legal Problems
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