What is writing for? When it comes to our students, we often answer this question with our present and past views of literacy and writing. In terms of critical literacy, and from a theoretical and pedagogical perspective, literacy and writing are part of a larger process of cons…
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No âmbito da unidade curricular de Prática de Ensino Supervisionada (PES), que integra o plano de estudos do Mestrado em Ensino do 1.º CEB e do 2.º CEB em Português e História e Geografia de Portugal, apresentamos o nosso Relatório Final de Estágio. Neste, procuramos, na primeir…
In education contexts, agent-based simulations have been used at all levels, from the individual to the classroom to the state, to explore individual-level interactions and often to provide conclusions and explanations that could support decision-making. The aim of this research…
This dissertation tells the story of the United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO) from 1965, when they first launched their collective bargaining campaign, until 2008, three years after the storm. I argue that UTNO was initially successful by drawing on the legacy and tactics of th…
Citizenship education plays a critical role in the development of civic attitudes and contributes to the appropriate delivery of a government's policy. However, there is a discrepancy in the literature in defining the meaning and understanding of citizenship concepts. This study…
The purpose of this study was to identify the factors that may influence stress levels of secondary teachers in Kuwait. This study was important for two reasons; first, no previous investigation on this topic among Kuwaiti secondary educators had taken place, and second, the fin…
These qualitative life history case studies explore how five Tajik teachers in three sites of the Mountainous Badakhshan Autonomous Province of Tajikistan understand and improve their practices in a politically unstable, ideologically complex, impoverished, geographically harsh,…
Standards for 21st century education as outlined by the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future require the theory, research, and practice of multicultural education. Without the clearly stated, direct, and fundamental support of multicultural education as a pedagog…
This study investigates how practicing teachers conceive of learning in their teaching. Recent research indicates that learning is viewed as part of either a transmission or a constructivist paradigm. Categorizing learning into such constructs can be quite difficult and somewhat…
The major aim of this study is to investigate the perception of Saudi Arabia middle school principals and teachers as they pertain to the implementation of characteristics identified in the literature as appropriate for middle school students. The study instrument was a 44-item …
This dissertation investigates how the Israeli state educational system reproduces and transforms the social structure of that country by reinforcing, modifying, and blurring ethnic, class, and gender hierarchies. Specifically, this project examines how the social inequalities o…
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…
Teacher turnover in international schools creates difficulties in hiring, raises viability questions about the schools, and has large financial implications. The research on teacher satisfaction and dissatisfaction is substantial, but the population of American school teachers w…
Educating a nation of ethnically, racially and linguistically diverse children is one of the many challenges facing teachers and teacher educators. In 1995, 35 percent of the students enrolled in public schools were multicultural 1 students of color (National Center for Educatio…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Saudi teachers' curriculum perspectives and their preference of curriculum development models. The sample of the study consisted of science, math, and social studies teachers who taught in elementary, middle, …
The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of the Kuwait physical education teachers relevant to the goals of the physical education program for secondary schools. Data were collected from a sample consisting of 200 (n = 200) physical education teachers teachin…
This study examines the effects of some American teaching practices on middle grade mathematics teachers in Tigrai, Ethiopia. Seventy in-service middle grade mathematics teachers (pilot study) and 54 pre-service teachers participated in the study. A four-week mathematics Standar…
The purpose of this study is to investigate the actual and preferred perceptions of teachers and supervisors of the supervisory practices that usually occurred in Riyadh schools, Saudi Arabia. The sample of this study includes 149 teachers and 45 supervisors randomly selected fr…
The present study was designed to explore and examine the degree of availability and comprehension toward the reflective teaching approach of teachers of Islamic education in Kuwaiti middle schools. I investigated the degree to which the teachers of Islamic education reflected u…