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Akademi Komunitas is a policy borrowing or policy transfer in Indonesian higher education system from the U.S. community college system. This policy officially started in 2012 under the Indonesian Law No.12/2012 on Higher Education with...
ABSTRACT This case study explored the leadership processes and procedures one principal and her administrative team used to implement planned educational change at North Valley Middle School, a pseudonym given to a predominately African...
John Dewey belonged to the Aristotelian and Kantian metaphysical tradition, which means that he relied on their categories to signify and therefore to know individual entities in the empirical world, including human beings. Specifically, ...
The Imam-Hatip schools have long been a site of contestation between Turks who see modernization as synonymous with secularization and those who maintain that it is possible to be both modern and Muslim. But are contemporary Imam-Hatip...
Cultural Identity Crafting Across Different Cultures in the U.S.: An Ethnographic Study of Temporary Migrant Korean Secondary Students Chogi-Youhacksangs and Girugi Students
This study explores the significantly growing number of Korean secondary students' study abroad experiences in the U.S. This study examines how these students deal with potential cultural conflicts as they move between Korea and the U.S....
This study examines the social and cultural contexts, and factors of global and local sources, which influence teacher preparation and which may serve to impede or facilitate the training of public and private school English teachers at...
Public education in the United States has seen many changes over the years. Some of those changes came in response to what are now recognized as clear problems with religious liberty in the common education system adopted in the mid 1800...
Research on self-efficacy and how it is developed in K-12 educational spaces has primarily focused on traditional classroom spaces and activities. Little research has focused on self-efficacy development in the context of outdoor...
The role of religion in modern education is a discussion that vexed scholars from the Western world as well as Muslim scholars. There are different approaches to the problem. Some scholars argue that religion does not have space in...
This dissertation is written in the context of the radically changing Chinese society, in which the individual easily gets separated from the meaning of life and follows the dualistic social conventions for success. This problem is...
Community College Development in India: Variations in the Reception and Translation of the U.S. Community College Model by Indian Administrators to Suit Indian Contexts
The educational system in India is ready for a revamp and community colleges have been identified by policy makers as a vehicle for that change. Although they have existed since the 1990’s, the urgent focus of the Indian government in...
The purpose of this dissertation in practice was to understand how participation in a career exploration/introduction to career and technical education (CTE) course with embedded digital tools certification implemented for fifth-grade...
The present study examined the developing intercultural competence of pre-service English language teachers (ELTs). The nine (9) participants in this study were students within a short-term teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL)...
The focus on decreasing student stress in academic settings is an international concern. With insight into student perspectives of what creates stress for them in an academic setting, teachers, administrators, and county personnel can...
A review of the curriculum literature reveals historical shifts from: (a) scarcity to abundance of information; (b) from more to less centralization of curricular authority; and, (c) from the learner as a copy of the mentor toward...
From East to West: A Phenomenological Study of Indonesian Graduate Students' Experiences on the Acculturation Process at an American Public Research University
The purpose of this inquiry was to describe and understand the lived experiences of the acculturative process of the Indonesian graduate students at an American public university. The primary focus here was on better understanding how...
A Black Curriculum for a Black School: A Case-Study Exploring Black Students' Attitudes Towards Culturally Sensitive Curriculum and Its Impact on Black Student Engagement
Predominantly Black schools may struggle with ways to keep their students engaged. When Black students are not engaged in class, it could lead to low academic performance, which may reflect the lack of culturally relevant content in the...
The teacher-student relationship is one of the most important relationships in any educational experience. In this inquiry I explore the ethics of the teacher-student relationship, namely as a relationship between the self and the other....
Research shows that quality teachers are the single most significant influence on the quality of education available to students. This recognition of the importance of quality teachers on quality education is reflected in goal 6 of the...
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