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Abakah, Ellen; Widin, Jacqueline; Ameyaw, Edward Kwabena – SAGE Open, 2022
This paper reports on an exploratory study regarding the current continuing professional development (CPD) situation of basic schoolteachers in Ghana. The study investigates the teachers' CPD needs, frequency and nature of CPD provisions, and barriers to teachers' participation in CPD activities. Using a cross-sectional survey involving 456…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Educational Needs, Access to Education
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Nold, James; De Jong, David; Moran, James; Robinson, Derrick; Aderhold, Frederick – SAGE Open, 2021
State-funded prekindergarten educational programming for all children is a rarity in the United States. Five states offer no financial support to fund prekindergarten educational programming, and the majority offer partial funding. Only three states provide universally funded prekindergarten educational programming. The purpose of this study is to…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Access to Education, Educational Finance, Program Effectiveness
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Almumen, Huda A. – SAGE Open, 2020
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the role of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in inclusive settings in which students with and without disabilities learn and gain knowledge. Five teachers from Kuwait participated in the study. Twenty-five consecutive observations were conducted to derive the primary data for this study.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Students with Disabilities, Student Needs, Foreign Countries
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Juharyanto, Juharyanto; Sultoni, Sultoni; Arifin, Imron; Bafadal, Ibrahim; Nurabadi, Ahmad; Hardika, Hardika – SAGE Open, 2020
This study aimed at finding an effective leadership strategy carried out by one-roof school principals in remote areas. This study was conducted qualitatively with a multi-site approach. The data were obtained from the school principals as key informants and focus group discussion (FGD) involving all school principals, Indonesian Institute of…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Effectiveness, Stakeholders, School Effectiveness
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Mahlo, Dikeledi – SAGE Open, 2017
This qualitative study draws from Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory, which emphasizes interaction between the systems of education. The study argues that if teachers are able to cater for diversity in their classes, the vision of inclusive education will be realized. Inclusive education requires all learners with the diverse needs to be able to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Needs, Inclusion, Access to Education
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Mondal, Ajit – SAGE Open, 2017
Attempts to make free and compulsory education accessible to Indian children began a little more than a century ago. A strong consciousness for the need of free and compulsory Primary Education in India was highly moved by enactment of the Compulsory Education Act in 1870 in England. Education has been formally recognized as a human right since…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Access to Education, Compulsory Education, Elementary School Students
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Abuya, Benta A.; Ngware, Moses – SAGE Open, 2016
The free primary education policy has led to a significant increase in primary school enrollment in the country, from 8.6 million children in 2008 to 9.9 million in 2012. Increased enrollment complicated the work of teachers in the classrooms in the wake of FPE. This article seeks to document the challenges that teachers face in Kenyan classrooms…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Educational Policy, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
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Venkatanarayanan, S. – SAGE Open, 2015
The basic foundation of policy making had undergone profound shifts over the past two decades as the policy makers are inclined to rely heavily on the exercise of power in their pursuit of development and prosperity. Government interventionism was subject to a strong intellectual and political backlash, and a new ideological movement seeking to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Educational Policy, Educational Change