This study explored the use of children's nonfiction trade books in social studies instruction. A split classroom of fourth and fifth grade students that applied informal education participated in this descriptive study. Three research questions guided this study to determine: (…
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In a learner controlled program, where learners are given control over instructional decisions to direct his or her learning activities, strategies are not embedded in the instruction. Therefore, learners are required to self-direct their learning. How do learners direct their l…
This paper supports a performance by children's voices using unison and three-part treble music. Folksongs from widely contrasting cultures in their unique native languages was the focus of this masters recital. Unison pieces for this performance included: "Three Yoruba Native s…
This study explored school effectiveness in mathematics and science at the fourth grade using data from IEA's Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Fourteen of the 26 countries participating in TIMSS at the fourth grade possessed sufficient between-school va…
The purpose of this study was to develop a recommended content base for a course of study for a D-4 music methods course to be used in the College of Basic Education in Kuwait. Recommendations are based upon information obtained from the administration of a survey covering curre…
This study investigated whether constructivist learning environments promote mathematics achievement in rural schools in Indonesia. Until recently primary school teachers were prepared in special high schools. In the mid-1990's movement of these training programs was made to ins…
Despite various efforts made by the Indonesian government to improve students' language arts mastery, students still consider the language arts subject uninteresting and difficult to learn. This qualitative study explored the implementation of literature based instruction, a lan…
In recent years there continues to be a concern over the lack of discipline in American schools. One of the most challenging and often one of the most baffling problems teachers have to face is of channeling the ceaseless activities of children in organized patterns of self-cont…
The purpose of this study was to implement and assess a curriculum on African and African-American art and artists appropriate for elementary school children in a multicultural urban setting in the northeastern part of the United States. The program involved 145 students in a cu…
As a cultural minority, Muslim American students need to become reflective citizens of the United States who are able to balance their rights and responsibilities as members of both an international Muslim community and a national community of Americans. A central mission of sch…
The provision of social services by religious organizations represents an ascendant form of sectarian organization and mobilization that confronts and challenges state authority in several Middle Eastern countries. Religious organizations that can effectively provide for their c…
Primary education serves both the basic skills for human resources and the foundation for further education. The assumption that primary education is the cornerstone of national development stimulated the researcher to examine factors that are frequently assumed by researchers t…
The new Indonesian pre-service elementary teacher education program (D2 PGSD), in order to provide teachers who can implement an integrated curriculum approach in elementary schools, offers a specific course on this approach. This course is called the integrated teaching and lea…
In the rural areas of Pakistan, primary education is almost exclusively provided by government schools which charge little or no tuition. Steady growth of school age population over time coupled with stagnant public funding has put enormous pressure on this system. The alternati…
Les pays du Sahel sont frappés par la sous-scolarisation des enfants et par des disparités majeures en matière de fréquentation de l'enseignement primaire. L'objectif de notre étude est d'identifier, au-delà de l'offre scolaire, les facteurs qui font obstacle à la scolarisation …
This thesis study investigates the integration of traditional indigenous knowledge into an elementary school curriculum in the Amharic speaking regions of Ethiopia. The main question it addresses is whether science education in this developing country builds on the learners' sch…
La presente etude a pour but de developper, d'implanter et evaluer une sequence d'un programme local et multiculturel en education physique dans deux ecoles primaires au Maroc. Diverses techniques telles que le questionnaire, l'observation ethnographique, les journaux de bord, l…
The first goal of this study was to gain understanding of significant mechanisms of peer tutoring with respect to the balance between enhancing tutees' learning, while maintaining tutors' own achievement. The second goal was to propose a model of elementary peer tutoring which b…
The primary purpose of this investigation was to determine the impact of the visual and performing arts program on the education of a group of Asian elementary students. This was a case study in which five credentialed teachers and five Asian parents were interviewed about their…