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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"history of education"”.
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A history of education in Porto Rico
<p>The purpose of this thesis is to give an outline of education and its progress on the island of Porto Rico, from the coming of the Spaniards through the years of American control. It is not written for experts on Porto Rican education, although it is the data of such experts, that has made this …
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History of Education in the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation of North Dakota
<p>The aim of this thesis is to trace the history of education of the Indians living in the Turtle Mountains. The education of these people has passed through several stages of development. The mission, the federal government and the public schools have provided education in varying degrees at …
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A History of Education for Black Students in Fairfax County Prior to 1954
The purpose of this research is to give a historical account of the educational developments for black students in Fairfax County, Virginia. The research will first address a brief history of education in Virginia. The second and third chapters will respectively address education for black students …
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The Road to 1944 - the history of the development of education in south and south west Wales in the lead up to the wartime Education Act, and its implementation in the years that followed
… concerned with the period between the two Education Acts of 1918 and 1944 and as such, builds on and contributes to the history of education in Wales. Although a number of studies1 have examined aspects of Welsh education there has not been a strong focus on its development during the …
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Controlling youth crime: A qualitative analysis of informal and formal social controls.
This study examined the effectiveness of the threat of punishment in deterring young offenders from criminal activity, exploring both formal and informal methods of social control. Twenty young offenders, incarcerated in an open-custody facility, were interviewed about their informal sources of …
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The Perceptions of Taproot Teachers and Their Sustaining Force on a Year-Round Educational Program
The concept of year-round education is not new. Year-round education (YRE) has an established foundation in the history of education. Research is available on the history, costs, achievement, discipline, calendars, and attendance in YRE. This study investigated the perceptions of taproot teachers …
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Committee of N : playful design in teacher education
Committee of N is a collaborative card game where players deepen their learning about educational policy and the history of education in the U.S. by creating new kinds of schools based on design constraints implemented through random card draws. In the core game play, players are randomly assigned …
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Using teacher narratives for reflection, representation and reforms in teacher training programmes
The focus of this study is to examine the experiences of teachers who find themselves in the position of 'other' by virtue of their race, culture, gender, and beliefs. As teachers share their teaching experiences in culturally different and diverse educational settings, it becomes evident how …
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A educação da mulher norte-riograndense segundo Júlia Medeiros (1920-1930)
This present work has the aim of reconstruct the biographical profile and the practices of the professor and journalist Julia Medeiros in the county of Caico, State of Rio Grande do Norte, in the 1920 s and 1930 s, justified by the visibility of this professor during the construction of the …
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The right to a basic Education in South Africa: Providing content to the right to achieve adequacy in Schools
… is a multi-disciplinary examine at the meaning of a right to basic education in South Africa. It will attempt to better understand the present circumstances in schools and the disparities in educational resource s, both material and human. In order to provide context for an unfamiliar reader, a …
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The educational system of Cyprus since 1960 with particular reference to the relationship with the European Union
… in 1990 s to ascertain perceptions and attitudes of educators towards the Europeanisation of education in that country. The pretext of the study was the decision by the Cypriot government to apply for membership of the European Union. A brief analysis of the history of education in Cyprus is …
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Resurrecting the Past, Constructing the Future: A Historical Investigation on the Formation of a Greek National Identity in Schools, 1834-1913
… methods and analyzes how schooling and education in Greece between 1834 and 1913 sought to shape a Greek national identity. The goal of this project is to present a historical analysis, that has thus far been absent from scholarship on the subject, and to convey how the adoption of a …
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A Curriculum for the Moderately Mentally Handicapped for Recreational and Leisure Skills
<p>As a teacher of moderately mentally handicapped. students, I often ask myself, am I doing enough for my students? Am I giving them all I can? My answer at·3:45 p.m., as I walk out of my classroom on tired feet, is an emphatic yes. And I think, even in my rested moment, that I am giving much to …
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Culturally Affirming Independent School Board Governance: Centering the Experiences of Independent School Board Members of Color
… Smith, 2022). This study examined the narratives of independent school board members of color (BMOC) across the United States’ racialized history of education (Anderson, 1988; Omi & Winant, 2014). The study used a survey (<em>n</em> = 23) and interviews (<em>n</em> = 9) based on Helms’s (1996) …
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Religious Influences in Thai Female Education (1889-1931)
<p>This dissertation examines the impact of religion on female access to education in Thailand from 1889 to 1931 -- the early Modernization Period in Thailand -- a critical time of advancement and modernization in the nation. Although Thailand had traditionally been a Buddhist nation-state, …
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The influence of ecosystemic factors on Black student teachers’ perceptions and experiences of Early Childhood Education
… Africa which also brought about change in the educational sector since Black students had access to former White universities. Contrary to the growing number of Black students, the impetus for this study was found in the short supply of Black student teachers in ECE. Moreover, this study …
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Educational values and practices of fundamentalist Mormons
… western United States and Canada. Polygamists often have large families, and they educate their children in a variety of settings: a public charter school within a polygamous town, private religious schools in suburban and rural areas, “priesthood schools” based on home school models, and in …
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Perennial Educational Tensions: Saint Gregory Palamas’s Approach to Byzantium’s Exothen and Kath’imas Educational Traditions & Its Consequences for Thinking with Byzantium in a Contemporary Context
The purpose of this dissertation is to help fill a long-standing gap in the field of history of education with respect to studies on the Eastern Roman Empire of Byzantium. In particular, this study examines a crucial episode in the thousand-year tension between the exothen (pagan/secular) and …
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Segregation, Transformation, and Urban Education: A History of Attaining Racial Equity in the Hickman Mills C-1 School District
This dissertation examines the history of racial segregation in Kansas City, Missouri, leading to the creation of the Hickman Mills C-1 Racial Equity Policy. The study’s six chapters present an analysis of the history of education and schooling in the greater Kansas City metropolitan community from …
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The Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) and the development of the Arts Council in Scotland: background, politics, visual art policy 1919-1947
This work is a history of how the arts council system of public funding of contemporary art developed in Scotland between 1919 and 1947, with a specific focus on the visual arts. It treats that history as belonging, primarily, to the history of education and, through its origins in the voluntary …
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