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…
The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the challenges encountered by Nigerian immigrant youth in the Metro-Toronto school system. The literature review shows scarcity of related work, and so much of this study relied on the general information on racial minority immigrant…
Educational researchers agree that the leadership of the principal is a vital component to the overall success of educational reform. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among the teachers' perceptions of the leadership provided by the elementary school pr…
This dissertation presents the findings of a study whose purpose was to reinvent a Community of Learners (COL) in a sixth-grade social studies classroom. A COL is a classroom environment built upon a set of instructional practices and principles that foster student discourse and…
The purpose of the present study was to assess the explanatory power of certain institutional and teacher factors as predictors of job satisfaction of Saudi Arabian teachers at the elementary level. This study examined how these variables of administrative support, teacher evalu…
In the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) (Appendix A), a remote region in the south-eastern corner of Bangladesh, children from indigenous mountain tribes are among the country’s most illiterate and at the highest risk of dropping out of school (UNDP, 2009). Their school achievement …
Bu araştırmanın amacı; ilkokul 4. sınıf Sosyal Bilgiler Dersi Öğretim Programı’nda yer alan çocuk haklarına ilişkin kazanımlara yönelik hazırlanan Çocuk Hakları Eğitimi Programı’nın (ÇOHEP) ilkokul 4. Sınıf öğrencilerinin çocuk hakları tutumlarına ve çocuk hakları farkındalıklar…