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Education Sciences, Volume 8, Issue 2

June 2018 - 52 articles

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Articles (52)

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,289 Views
17 Pages

Applying a critical gendered lens, this article examines academic leadership ideals. It draws on a content analysis of job advertisements for Vice-Chancellors at Swedish higher education institutions from 1990 until 2018. The aim of the article is to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
8,171 Views
8 Pages

The aim of this study was to examine the influences of physical education and play practices on the school social behavior of mild-level intellectually disabled children. The quantitative research methods used were based on the pre-test, post-test, p...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,044 Views
11 Pages

This paper confronts the myth that all off-task interactions in mathematics classrooms is detrimental to learning. To do so, this paper first explores links between participation, learning, and identity in mathematics education research that points t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,082 Views
14 Pages

This study aims to identify characteristics of national culture in the culture of Brazilian school management and leadership. Considering the broad literature that deals with the peculiarities of Brazilian culture and its influence on Brazilian manag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,567 Views
9 Pages

The aim of this research was to determine the factors that may prevent high school students from participating in recreational activities and to investigate whether these factors differ within the scope of various variables. This study consisted of 1...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,292 Views
12 Pages

Myths of Priority and Unity in Mathematics Learning

  • E. Paul Goldenberg and
  • Cynthia J. Carter

How people see the world, even how they research it, is influenced by beliefs. Some beliefs are conscious and the result of research, or at least amenable to research. Others are largely invisible. They may feel like “common knowledge” (t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,386 Views
19 Pages

Effects of an International Undergraduate Honors Course on Awareness of Global Justice

  • Ingrid Schutte,
  • Elanor Kamans,
  • Marca Wolfensberger and
  • Wiel Veugelers

How can undergraduate students be prepared for global citizenship? This question was investigated in a mixed-methods case study of an international, blended one-semester course. Undergraduate honors students (N = 22) from the USA and the Netherlands...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,187 Views
18 Pages

Processing Image to Geographical Information Systems (PI2GIS)—A Learning Tool for QGIS

  • Rui Correia,
  • Lia Duarte,
  • Ana Cláudia Teodoro and
  • António Monteiro

Education, together with science and technology, is the main driver of the progress and transformations of a country. The use of new technologies of learning can be applied to the classroom. Computer learning supports meaningful and long-term learnin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,514 Views
16 Pages

The Technical Efficiency of High Schools: The Case of a Greek Prefecture

  • Dimitrios Halkiotis,
  • Ilias Konteles and
  • Vasiliki Brinia

Scarce human and fiscal resources of high value are spent in the field of education. Thus, the concept of efficiency, and particularly technical efficiency, that refers to the maximization of outputs at a given set of inputs, can be a possible contri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,797 Views
19 Pages

Debates on the absence of women in senior organizational roles continue to proliferate but relatively little attention is paid to the Higher Education (HE) context in which women in leadership roles are seriously under-represented. However, higher ed...

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