The purpose of this dissertation is to understand the nature of the moral dilemmas that Turkish early childhood teachers encounter in their professional lives. Dealing with dilemmas is a part of teachers' professional lives and most dilemmas they encounter are moral in nature. T…
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Scope and Method of Study. This was a descriptive study using mixed methods data analysis to describe K-12 teachers' perceptions of bullying. Participants in this study included 92 teachers from an entire public school district in northeastern Oklahoma. Each participant voluntar…
This research represents a textbook analysis of third grade of government elementary school in Egypt. The textbook that was used in this research is Hand in Hand, Primary Three English, Book 1. The purpose of this research was to find out how vocabulary, reading, and grammar wer…
Strategies to promote group learning, shared leadership, and a sense of community among collaborators were examined during an international project aimed at training workers in Iraq on how to help trauma survivors recover from effects of mental illness and/or emotional distress …
Recent studies of curriculum enactment suggest that different teachers enact the same curriculum materials in different ways (e.g., Cohen & Ball, 2001; Freeman & Poter, 1989; Manoucheri & Goodmann, 1998, 2000). The discrepancies have been attributed to deficiencies in teacher su…
The ubiquitous nature of technology in our lives and the growing cultural diversity in American society call not only for an integration of technology and curriculum, but also for instructional designers and practitioners to understand how culture may affect learning about techn…
This dissertation presents the findings of a comparative oral history study of twenty-seven learner experiences of education in two complex emergencies—World War II and post-1979 Afghanistan. Built around an oral history methodology, the study contributes to the developing resea…
Little is known about student perceptions of effective teacher behaviors in the secondary classroom, yet these perceptions can impact how students respond to teachers and how students learn in these classrooms. The purpose of this study was to examine how high school students pe…
The purpose of this study was to examine the interpretive processes of administrators and staff at individual community colleges in the North Carolina system. The study examines how developmental education policy, established at the state level, is interpreted and applied at the…
This study is a critical analysis of the concept and understanding of traditional education among the Igbo people of Nigeria. It explores the strengths and benefits, as well as the limitations of Igbo traditional education and examines its foundations, methods, contexts, tools, …
Scholastic Assessment Tests (SATs) are used to determine if a student is ready to assume the responsibility of academic achievement in college. These tests have been charged with reflecting the values of the test makers; nevertheless, they are still used as major markers for inc…
The purpose of this study was to examine social studies teachers' perceptions about social studies goals and content areas that should constitute the social studies curricula of grades five to 10 in Oman. This national study involved a population of 538 social studies teachers i…
This study took place in three high schools in rural Northern Pakistan. The participants comprised four experienced high school teachers, three men and one woman. Using predetermined criteria, I had identified them as “improvement-oriented teachers” (IOTs), more ready and determ…
The purpose of the study is to examine art education in boys' middle schools in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. The study specifically investigated characteristics of art education teachers, teaching methods and guidelines, school attitudes toward art education, evaluation,…
This study investigated the effects the use of cooperative learning method in English as a second language reading comprehension performance and how it improves the students' second language, their attitudes toward cooperative learning, and their motivation toward reading. Sixty…
This study examined the challenges associated with the explicit delivery of question-generation strategy with 8 Arab Canadian students from the perspective of a bilingual beginning teacher. This study took place in a private school and involved 2 stages consisting of 9 instructi…
<?Pub Inc> The research described in this study is a quantitative study conducted in Saudi Arabia with the participation of female faculty members teaching in five teacher colleges in Saudi Arabia. The study utilized survey and content analysis in order to achieve the objectives…
As the world is clearly facing a challenge of transition; an unprecedented state of interconnectedness, talking about foreign languages and cultures has been an interesting, but sometimes controversial, topic across college campuses. However, the concept of foreign cultures repr…
The purpose of this study is to investigate parental expectations of Nigerian voluntary immigrants to the United States for their children's education. Immigrant or voluntary minorities are people who have migrated essentially of their own volition to the United States or any ot…