Inclusive Settings In Belizean Primary Schools: A Focus On Teacher Practices,
2024
Oklahoma State University
Inclusive Settings In Belizean Primary Schools: A Focus On Teacher Practices, Katherine A. Curry, Jentre Olsen, Ed Harris, Candy Garnett, Dian Danderson
Journal of Global Education and Research
Educators in Belize are charged with ensuring that all Belizeans are given an opportunity to acquire a quality education that promotes personal development and productive citizenship. Consequently, Belizean law now requires all children from ages five through fourteen to attend at least eight years of primary school. Students with special needs have historically not received accommodations in the education system, so many teachers struggle with meeting the needs of students with learning disabilities in these inclusive settings. This qualitative case study explored teaching strategies and contextual factors in inclusive primary classrooms in Belize and was conducted in the form of …
The Department Chair’S Role In Fostering Equity: Faculty Evaluation,
2024
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
The Department Chair’S Role In Fostering Equity: Faculty Evaluation, Susan Morgan, Lynn Bartels
SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
No abstract provided.
The Department Chair’S Role In Fostering Equity: Recruitment And Hiring,
2024
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
The Department Chair’S Role In Fostering Equity: Recruitment And Hiring, Susan Morgan, Lynn Bartels
SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
No abstract provided.
The Department Chair’S Role In Fostering Equity: Family-Friendly Policies,
2024
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
The Department Chair’S Role In Fostering Equity: Family-Friendly Policies, Susan Morgan, Lynn Bartels, Leah O'Brien
SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
No abstract provided.
How Did School Administrators Manage The Crises During The Covid-19 Outbreak?,
2023
Baskent University
How Did School Administrators Manage The Crises During The Covid-19 Outbreak?, Sadegul Akbaba Altun, Mustafa Bulut
Journal of Global Education and Research
The focus of this research was to investigate how school administrators in Turkey managed the crises caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, which was a deadly threat for humanity worldwide. The research questions guiding this study are: 1) Did schools have a crisis plan? 2) If yes, how was the plan implemented in a crisis situation?; 3) What kind of changes were made in the plans?; 4) What should administrators do in such crisis situations?; and 5) What was done in the COVID-19 outbreak? The research was conducted as a qualitative case study which involved 105 school administrators. Due to the …
Global Educational Ramifications Of Covid-19 On Minorities And Students Living In Poverty Or Extreme Poverty: A Literature Review,
2023
Arkansas State University
Global Educational Ramifications Of Covid-19 On Minorities And Students Living In Poverty Or Extreme Poverty: A Literature Review, Jessie S. Thacker-King
Journal of Global Education and Research
Public education requires all stakeholders to collaborate as a community and focus on the essential factors that create a path for student progress, growth, and maturity. The result nurtures students from kindergarten to graduation and beyond and affords them opportunities to become efficacious members of their communities. Schools are a business operating on the premise of the service industry, working collectively with and for the communities they serve. Their operational parameters are to work with all stakeholders to successfully facilitate excellence in education for all students regardless of gender, race, or socioeconomic status. Recent COVID-19 school closures have opened dialogues …
Strategic Plan For The Honors College At Marshall University, 2023,
2023
Marshall University
Strategic Plan For The Honors College At Marshall University, 2023, Honors College, Brian A. Hoey
Honors College Publications
Beginning with a consideration of our broader institutional and communal contexts and informed by wide-ranging internal and external data collection and analysis, the first five-year strategic plan of the Honors College at Marshall University sets overarching priorities and defined goals that together are intended to deepen community connections, expand recruitment efforts, support greater access and inclusion while increasing retention, develop a more engaging, flexible, and valuable curriculum, and through securing greater material and human resources, to raise the college’s ability to serve as an equal partner in the provision of service to other units on campus. Our overarching goal is …
Review: Teaching Stem To First Generation College Students: A Guidebook For Faculty And Future Faculty By Gail Horowitz,
2023
Bard College at Simon's Rock
Review: Teaching Stem To First Generation College Students: A Guidebook For Faculty And Future Faculty By Gail Horowitz, Jessica S. Robbins
Early College Folio
Book Review: Gail Horowitz’s Teaching STEM to First Generation College Students: A Guidebook for Faculty and Future Faculty (Information Age Publishing, 2019). Horowitz taught chemistry at Bard High School Early College Newark.
Artist Into An Educator—Educator Inside An Artist,
2023
University of Karachi, Pakistan
Artist Into An Educator—Educator Inside An Artist, Raheela Qabool Abro Ms
Early College Folio
This study is a self-investigation of the author's identity by exploring her two professions: an artist as well as an art educator. Her insights as an educator provided a background for her as an artist through the production of this series of miniature artworks created with cell phone SIM cards. A SIM card, which stands for “Subscriber Identification Module,” contains information tied to the identity of the individual using it. For this reason, the author chose it as a medium for creating an art series to represent identity. In the dialogue of artist and educator, Abro confronts changes to the …
Teaching Food Studies In Early College: Experiments In Collaboration,
2023
Bard Early College New Orleans
Teaching Food Studies In Early College: Experiments In Collaboration, Cynthia Brown, Maryann Tebben
Early College Folio
This article outlines the process of designing and teaching a collaborative course on sustainable food and agriculture on multiple campuses at once, including two early college institutions. The authors offer insights on the specific elements of the course they designed as well as methods for designing the course, what worked in practice, and what they would change. This article will be useful for faculty who would like to work with other early college colleagues to plan a collaborative course in general or a specific course on sustainable food and farms.
Commitment To Access: A Conversation About The Unconventional And College-In-Prison,
2023
Cornell University, Bard Prison Initiative
Commitment To Access: A Conversation About The Unconventional And College-In-Prison, Elías Beltrán, Megan Callaghan
Early College Folio
The Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) currently operates full-tuition scholarship Bard College degree programs across seven New York State prisons, three Microcollege campuses created in partnership with community-based institutions, and on the Annandale campus of Bard College, where adult students are completing degrees through the BardBac. Since 2005 when the first degrees were granted to BPI students, the program has issued over 5,000 credits and more than 700 degrees.
This conversation between BPI alumnus Elías Beltrán, who earned is Bard College bachelor’s degree in 2017 while incarcerated, and Megan Callaghan, the program’s Dean, touches upon Elías’s upcoming transition to BPI faculty, …
Rolling A Boulder Up A Mountain: The Path To Higher Education In Displacement Concepts,
2023
Bard College, OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives
Rolling A Boulder Up A Mountain: The Path To Higher Education In Displacement Concepts, Rebecca Granato
Early College Folio
Students in contexts affected by displacement and forced migration are at a disadvantage when it comes to accessing and successfully completing higher education, as well as translating their learning into post-graduation opportunities. Universities with clear social missions and networks of institutions have the power and the obligation to support the creation of “opportunities pipelines” for these populations.
Solving Higher Education In Burma, The Global South, And Beyond,
2023
Parami University
Solving Higher Education In Burma, The Global South, And Beyond, Myat Su San
Early College Folio
By introducing readers to a migrant student from Burma, the author unpacks the longstanding and increasingly complicated barriers to higher education, which many students face across the Global South. Readers are then introduced to one institution seeking to dismantle those barriers through innovation and expansive access, Parami University.
Move,
2023
Phaung Daw Oo International University
Move, May Honey Maung
Early College Folio
“Move” is a call to action that urges leaders to work together to create a world where education is accessible and inclusive to everyone regardless of their socioeconomic status or background. Drawing inspiration from the author’s own educational experiences as both a student and employee of Phaung Daw Oo, this poem is a reminder that education is not a privilege but a fundamental human right; we all have a responsibility to ensure that it is available to all learners. The author—whose country is currently facing violence and economic and educational instability due to a February 2021 coup d’état—relays the hopeful …
Case Study: Phaung Daw Oo International University,
2023
Phaung Daw Oo International University
Case Study: Phaung Daw Oo International University, Yee Wai Than Ma
Early College Folio
The case study discusses an unconventional path to education in Myanmar, one that serves as an alternative to government-controlled institutions. The article highlights the challenges faced by students and educators in the country and presents Phaung Daw Oo Monastic School (PDO) and its mission to contribute to society through excellence in education and lifelong learning. The school provides necessary schooling for children who did not receive adequate education at the traditional age, students who are up to five years off from what is considered aligned with the expectations of state-sponsored education. The article also discusses the establishment of Phaung Daw …
Editor's Note,
2023
Parami University
Editor's Note, Kyaw Moe Tun
Early College Folio
Editor's Note, Early College Folio, Volume 2, Issue 2 (Spring 2023).
Contributors,
2023
Bard College
Contributors
Early College Folio
Contributors, Early College Folio, Volume 2, Issue 2 (Spring 2023).
Table Of Contents,
2023
Bard College
Table Of Contents
Early College Folio
Table of Contents, Early College Folio, Volume 2, Issue 2 (Spring 2023).
Expressing Information Needs And Information Literacy Skills Amongst Final Year Undergraduate Students In Northern Nigeria,
2023
Baze University Abuja
Expressing Information Needs And Information Literacy Skills Amongst Final Year Undergraduate Students In Northern Nigeria, Zikrat Abdulsalam, Imoisili Ojeime Odigie
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
Information literacy is the ability of an individual to locate, evaluate, and use information. This study expresses the conscious information needs and information literacy skills amongst final year undergraduate students of three Universities in Nigeria; being the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Federal University Lokoja (FUL), and Baze University. A survey research design alongside a questionnaire for the instrument were utilised on a sample size of 307 final year undergraduate students from select faculties within the above-mentioned universities. The findings of the study amongst other show that undergraduate students at the final year level had a conscious knowledge of their information …
The Case For Succession Planning In Higher Education: A Study Of Knowledge Transfer Within Louisiana State University,
2023
Louisiana State University
The Case For Succession Planning In Higher Education: A Study Of Knowledge Transfer Within Louisiana State University, Leila Shaik Villien
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The primary purpose of this study was to explore the challenges, benefits, and perceptions of succession planning among currently employed administrators at research universities in the southern portion of the United States at the level of assistant department head or higher and the accessible population was defined as currently employed administrators at Louisiana State University at the level of assistant department head or higher. Deans, Associate Deans, Department Heads, Assistant Department Heads, and Department Chairs were invited to participate in an online survey designed by the researcher to assess the attitude toward succession planning and training, along with a variety …
