Education reform

The purpose of this study was to explore levels of concerns that teachers have about implementing and executing rapid curriculum changes. Research on teacher concerns has traditionally targeted technology implementation rather than curriculum reform measures. This research was d…

The qualitative research that forms the central focus of this dissertation is an instrumental case study of an elementary school in Netanya, Israel which successfully sustained a nationally acclaimed school reform process through a transition of principals. The study explores se…

Though Childhood Studies has been gradually diversifying, children’s literature of the Global South is still understudied. This has resulted in a normative understanding of the concept of ‘multiple childhoods,’ a concept that is gradually permeating the field in opposition to un…

Fen derslerinde bilimin felsefe, tarih, psikoloji ve sosyoloji gibi alanlarla bağlantısı Bilimin Doğası başlığı altında incelenir. 2013 Fen Öğretim Programı’na sosyobilimsel konuların eklenmesiyle birlikte öğrencilerin bu tür konularda karar verirken hangi ölçütleri baz aldıklar…

This qualitative study explored leadership experiences in the institutional transformation of Indonesia’s Islamic Higher Education Institutions (IHEIs). The Indonesian government, under the supervision of the Ministry of Religious Affairs (MORA), has responsibility to supervise …

What happened to the Free Schools movement in the United States, and why has it been so little examined by historians of education? What legacies were left by these bold experiments in education?

Almost 70% of college students in California are required to take at least one remedial education course in mathematics or English, and of those students, only 40% continue to succeed in their educational goals of transfer or receiving a degree (“Student Success Scorecard,” n.d.…

Racism in the United States is pervasive and access to educational resources has not always been equally afforded throughout our history. Although some areas of our educational system have improved, the needs of minoritized students are still not being fully met. Culturally resp…

This research is based on a qualitative exploratory enquiry which aims to investigate the status of culture in the new middle school curriculum of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) in Algeria and its potential to develop learners’ ICC (Intercultural Communicative Competence). …

With the change of political circumstances in the ’90s, the Brazilian government began to create participatory democratic practices, challenging a cultural and political history of dissociation of citizens from public life. In 2018, the Brazilian Ministry of Education (BMEC) lau…

This dissertation examines how early modern Lutherans experienced, narrated and interpreted their dreams. Confessional controversies, political struggles, wars, and plagues left traces in Lutherans' dream images. Besides contemporary events, religion played central role in shapi…

This autoethnographic study problematizes a fourth-year teacher's experiences at an alternative high school as she navigates a conflicting personal and professional identity. It seeks to trouble notions of curriculum, the teacher's role in developing and shaping that curriculum,…

This dissertation explores the intellectual and political engagement of British colonial administrators and Yoruba intelligentsia in the western region of Nigeria during the decolonization era. The education and social welfare reform plans of the British Colonial Office are juxt…

The institutionalization of separate standard varieties for Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian in the 1990s was hailed by many Bosnians as the long-denied recognition of the Bosnian idiom as distinct from the Serbian and Croatian varieties it had so often been subordinated under. Ye…

This study applies ethnographic methods using the Epistemic Triangle as a lens for investigating teachers' appropriation of a bilingual educational reform policy (i.e., making it their own) in first and second grade Hausa-French classrooms in Niger. The Epistemic Triangle highli…

At what point will educational actors recognize the limitations and utilize the possibilities of policy implementation processes to actualize long overdue reform measures for students—particularly those from historically marginalized backgrounds? Previous literature has attended…

In Jordan, teaching is widely considered “the best job for a woman” because it is accommodating and culturally appropriate for a wife and mother. Public secondary schools and comprehensive (K-12) schools in Jordan are predominantly gender-segregated, with female teachers and sta…

Current educational reform initiatives in Bangladesh focus on classroom teaching as a direct path to improving student learning outcomes and indicate a shift away from the teacher-centered, authoritarian education model of the past with a preference for a more constructivist ped…

The purpose of this study is to investigate how upper elementary school (grades 6 through 8) geometry education in Turkey has developed since the reform movement of 2004. Mathematics education in Turkey revolves around the historical context surrounding the national curriculum, …

This study examined language planning in education reform in the North African country of Morocco. To answer some of the questions raised about Arabization—the replacement of French by Classical Arabic in the educational system, a questionnaire survey of high school and universi…