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Agezew, Birhanu Haile; Bareke, Misganu Legesse; Herut, Adane Hailu – Online Submission, 2022
This study, which was based on the Pragmatism research philosophy, sought to determine the extent to which the COVID-19 global pandemic had disrupted the school system in the SNNPR and the Oromia Regional States of Ethiopia. Both quantitative and qualitative data strands were collected simultaneously using an embedded research design. The surveys…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
Murray, Jane – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
This article considers the relevance of Susan Isaacs' practice and research for twenty-first century early childhood education, reflected in two studies conducted discretely nearly a century apart that theorize young children's constructions of knowledge: Isaacs' Malting House School study and the 'Young Children Are Researchers' study. The…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Research, Educational History, Educational Practices
Jonyo, Bonn Odera; Ouma, Caren; Mosoti, Zachary – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
Sub-Saharan Africa trails other regions in the realm of key human development indicators, produces less than 1 percent of the global research output despite having 12.5 percent of the global population. If the region is to improve on its human capital development indicators, it must embrace action research in addressing the many developmental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Private Colleges, Universities
Bleicher, Robert E. – Professional Development in Education, 2014
The field of professional development is moving towards the notion of professional learning, highlighting the active learning role that teachers play in changing their knowledge bases, beliefs and practice. This article builds on this idea and argues for creating professional learning that is guided by a collaborative action research (CAR)…
Descriptors: Action Research, Faculty Development, Professional Education, Motivation
Stroupe, David – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2022
Curated sites of learning--places that are created by people to promote formal and informal knowledge and knowledge production practices (such as schools and museums)--are deemed foundational by many societies in assisting children to become knowers. However, curated sites of learning can also uphold ways of knowing that can cause harm to people…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Epistemology, Justice, Educational Environment
Attfield, Kate – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2022
Within the education academic arena, there is almost no established research on the alternative Waldorf (or Steiner) education movement in the US or UK. This primary research investigates Rudolf Steiner's philosophy of early childhood Waldorf education, and its child-centered and inclusive core. Ten kindergarten teachers in the US and UK educating…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Centered Curriculum, Inclusion, Nontraditional Education
Huang, Jun Song – Journal of Research Administration, 2014
While collaboration is increasingly recognized to be important for research, researchers' collaboration networks are still not adequately recognized as a form of research capacity in the literature. Research is a knowledge creation activity and interpersonal research collaboration networks are important for knowledge cross-fertilization and…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Social Networks, Partnerships in Education, Teacher Collaboration
Clark, Jonathan Owen; Jackson, Louise H. – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2018
Entrepreneurship skills have become a naturalised part of many curricula in higher education, especially in arts contexts. But what does the term actually mean? By investigating entrepreneurship research, and connecting it with political philosophy, we explore the ways in which the elusive figure of the entrepreneur, both in the academy and in…
Descriptors: Ideology, Neoliberalism, Higher Education, Entrepreneurship
Kumral, Orhan – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
Every science exists on a philosophical basis / thought and becomes functional. As in all sciences, philosophy forms a necessary basis for the educational science. The need for philosophy, emanated from the need to make learning environments meaningful, as well as to find answers to the questions of why and how education should be done. The basic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Attitudes
Winch, Christopher – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2022
"Educational Explanations" is a comprehensive study of the main philosophical questions that confront empirical educational researchers. The book outlines the sense in which empirical educational research pursues truth and sets out and defends an account of its task as the offering of explanations for the many educational problems that…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Intervention
Werler, Tobias Christoph; Baraldsnes, Dziuginta – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2019
This paper explores the historic ideas and practice of outdoor education, as developed in Jean Jacques Rousseau's "Émile", and realized by Adolf Reichwein's rural teaching practice. We aimed at developing a comprehensive research design, triangulating different qualitative data (text and photos). In the paper, we explore how the idea of…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Educational Research, Photography, Visual Aids
Gorichanaz, Tim – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2017
Introduction: Applied epistemology allows information studies to benefit from developments in philosophy. In information studies, epistemic concepts are rarely considered in detail. This paper offers a review of several epistemic concepts, focusing on understanding, as a call for further work in applied epistemology in information studies. Method:…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Epistemology, Hermeneutics, Literature Reviews
Turós, Mátyás – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2022
Introduction: The number of two-to three-year-old children using mobile phones was 10% in 2013 compared to 40% in 2017 (Konok, Bunford, & Miklósi, 2020). Several theoretical and empirical studies deal with the didactics of using modern technology in the classroom. Most studies highlight the neutral (Zsolnai, 2017) or positive impact of using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Information Technology, Preschool Children
Haigh, Martin – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2016
Causal layered analysis (CLA) is a technique that enables deeper critical inquiry through a structured exploration of four layers of causation. CLA's layers reach down from the surface litany of media understanding, through the layer of systemic causes identified by conventional research, to underpinning worldviews, ideologies and philosophies,…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Educational Practices, Inquiry, Educational Theories
Peim, Nick; Hodkinson, Phil – Educational Review, 2007
This paper addresses the general significance of the collection. It briefly and broadly traces the relation of the project's theoretical concerns to its purposes and its positioned nature. These concerns and this positioning are connected with tendencies in contemporary thought in social science theory and in research philosophy. The project's…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Social Sciences, Hermeneutics, Context Effect