Teacher burnout is an important issue that needs to be understood in the educational environment. This study examines the burnout of general education teachers in inclusion settings, what may influence burnout, and the relationship between burnout and classroom and teacher facto…
This study examines the Turkish elementary pre-service teachers' beliefs about learning and teaching, their preferences concerning instructional practices, and the differences between elementary pre-service teachers in terms of beliefs about teaching, learning and instructional …
Integration of Greek, Italian, and Turkish immigrant guestworker children into West German society is a major problem requiring investigation. In the past, efforts to integrate these children have been placed solely with the schools. Now the family is seen as the focus for inter…
This research attempts to shed light on how the State sustains and perpetuates the gender-based disparities in education leading to inequitable social outcomes. Its purpose is to examine the role of Turkish education policies and practices in formal and non-formal education in c…
Four case studies in two American and two Turkish science methods classrooms were conducted to investigate the changes in preservice elementary teachers' personal science teaching efficacy (PSTE) beliefs during their course periods. The findings indicated that while Turkish pres…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of parental deployment to Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War on the academic achievement of sixth-grade students from military families stationed at Fort Bragg Army Base and at Pope Air Force Base. Reading and mathematics sco…
The purpose of this study was to determine if Arabic male and female children perceived differential treatment by their parents. Arabic families, immigrant and first generation, have tried to maintain their culture, while living in a new country with a culture different from the…
The purpose of this study was to investigate acculturation of fourth grade Lebanese-Moslem students in a public elementary school in Southeastern Michigan and its relationship with family demographic variables and student achievement as measured by MEAP scores. Immigrants, encou…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the performance and solution strategies of Arabic-speaking bilingual second graders in the domain of addition and subtraction word problems. Furthermore, relations between children's performance in this domain and their proficiency in…
This study investigates how Muslim parents of pre-K and elementary public school children perceive their role in their children's education. Furthermore, the study identifies how Muslim parents describe their current parent involvement practices and the challenges they face when…
Textbooks are often considered as key elements in education. For many students, especially in developed countries, textbooks are their first and early exposure to books and to reading. The education policy in Jordan is trying to design a new curriculum for reading textbooks. Thi…
This study explores perceptions and divergent commitments to formal schooling and education among present-day elementary school children in Tanzania. The study examined mechanisms which operate in the context of Tanzania and lead elementary school children to either embrace or a…
This inquiry examined how 4 Class 1 students in a private school in Pakistan learn about right and wrong. The study grew out of the lack of literature on young children's learning, and moral learning in particular, in a Pakistani context. Even Western studies of childhood educat…
This study is based on 72 children's and young adult books that met the criteria of being about Muslims and published and circulated here in the U.S. They can be divided into the varied genres as 49 contemporary realistic fiction, 6 historical fiction, and 17 autobiographies, bi…
This study was conducted to find the teachers' attitudes and evaluations of children with and without kindergarten education in the Al-Kharj Governate of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It was hypothesized that teachers would have favorable attitudes towards children with kindergar…
Cette thèse s'inscrit dans les préoccupations récentes du système scolaire marocain à l'égard de la qualité de l'éducation. Ces préoccupations consistent à considérer l'enseignement fondamental (le primaire) non seulement comme un lieu pour apprendre à lire, à écrire et à compte…
Character education includes morals, virtues, values, and ethics. Certain moral truths remain constant across civilizations, but the influence of the culture is a point of contention. It is this source of cultural influence on morals, virtues, values, and ethics that allows for …
This study explored the state of gifted education in Islamic schools in the United States, focusing on school organization and elementary school teachers' practices in planning and implementing instructional and curricular experiences for gifted students and average students. Th…
In 1996, learning disabilities (LD) was introduced as formal category of disability into Saudi Arabia educational system. This qualitative grounded theory study aimed at understanding how members of LD teams in 9 Saudi public elementary schools perceived and made sense of studen…