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Energy plays a vital role in human life as it serves in many different activities such as heating, cooking, transportation and lightingetc. This research aimed to determine household's socioeconomic factors associated with energy choice in informal settlements of Kigali city, Rwanda. The research was conducted in three sectors namely Gatenga located in Kicukiro district, Kimisagara located in Nyarugenge district and Kimironko in Gasabo district. Cluster sampling technique has been adopted to...
Topics: Socio-economic factors, clean energy, informal settlements.
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The biophysical-edaphic and socioeconomic factors do equally influence the on-farm tree farming in the smallholder farming systems. Naturally, neither of the factors do act in isolation, but they are interrelated. The study was carried out in Nsangi sub-county, Wakiso District, 2018. Using the stratified random sampling method based on landholding sizes, a sample of size of sixty households were selected and interviewed. The objectives of the study were to examine the influence of the...
Topics: On-farm tree farming enterprise, ecological-edaphic, socio-cultural-economic factors.
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Topics: Wirtschaftsentwicklung, Bevölkerungsentwicklung, Birth rate Economic factors Developing...
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Topics: Self-help groups -- United States -- Case studies, Self-help groups, SOCIAL FACTORS, ECONOMIC...
The published prices on which the analysis in "Trends in College Pricing" is based come from data reported by institutions on the College Board's Annual Survey of Colleges. This survey, which is distributed to nearly 4,000 postsecondary institutions across the country, collects a wealth of data on enrollment, admission, degrees and majors, tuition, financial aid, and other aspects of undergraduate education. "Trends in College Pricing 2011" presents detailed data on public...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Financial Aid, Open Enrollment, Tuition, Educational Finance, Public...
Widespread concern about the high and rising price of college makes timely data on tuition increases in historical context particularly important. The increase in average published tuition and fees at public four-year colleges and universities for the 2012-13 academic year is smaller than it has been in recent years--and below the average growth rate for the decade from 2002-03 to 2012-13. But the news about what students actually pay is less encouraging. From 2008-09 to 2010-11, grant aid and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Associate Degrees, Grants, Income, Paying for College, Federal...
De Impact van de Lago op Aruba J.R. (Quito) Nicolaas, 1986 Republished online by Biblioteca Nacional Aruba  with the author's permission. All rights remain reserved by the author.
Topics: articles, Aruba, Lago Oil & Transport Co. Ltd., refineries, oil industry, San Nicolas, economic...
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Poverty is a curse to the society and reducing poverty is a global challenge. It is directly related to other serious issues like- diseases, environmental degradation, internal conflicts, terrorism etc. If we don’t succeed in reducing poverty substantially, solving these problems becomes harder. India also claims special attention in this issue for its huge population under ‘Below Poverty Line’, especially in rural area among different classes, caste, gender etc. Along with poverty,...
Topics: Economic Factors, Poverty, Self-Help Groups, Women
This article examines the impact of the fiscal recovery policies stemming from the 2007-09 economic recession and the implementation of the 2011 New York State Property Tax Levy Cap on the budgets of school districts located within a Long Island, New York suburban township. The research basis of this paper is based on two studies conducted by the New York State Council of School Superintendents and the New York State Council of School Business Officials and data collected from the Office of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Suburban Schools, Economic Factors, Taxes,...
This paper follows recent scholarship in youth studies in suggesting that young people's aspirations for the future are deeply enmeshed within a social, cultural, and economic articulation of what constitutes a "good" life that an individual ought to orient toward. It uses Ahmed's (2014) notion of "wilfulness" to consider how young people anticipate, plan for, and orient toward the future as a real and imagined space that is embedded within their relationship to everyday...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Females, Aspiration, High Stakes Tests, Electronic Publishing, Web...
The United States has recently seen a significant increase in the number of unaccompanied minors from the Northern Triangle of Central America (i.e., El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala). These children and youth are refugees fleeing extreme poverty and gang violence. This study examined the narratives of 16 refugees from the Northern Triangle who arrived in the United States as unaccompanied minors. In particular, the purpose of this study was to gain awareness of the journey experienced by...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Refugees, Poverty, Juvenile Gangs, Personal Narratives, Adolescents, Acculturation,...
This paper reviewed the development of early childhood education (ECE) in Saudi Arabia and its strengths and weaknesses. The paper discusses the contextual background of Saudi Arabia, including its geography, demographics, social system, economy, political system and religion. In addition, the paper investigated the education system at large in Saudi Arabia, including its development, objectives, enrollment and challenges.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Educational History, Geography, Social...
This paper reflects on the history of adult and community education (ACE) in Aotearoa New Zealand with special reference to older people's learning. The paper adopts a critical framework and draws on both primary and secondary sources. Key economic, political, social, demographic and cultural forces are discussed along with the huge growth in tertiary education, the increasing pressures on people to continue their education in later life, and the impact of social movements on this expansion....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Older Adults, Foreign Countries, Community Education, Cultural Influences, Economic...
Almost all countries periodically review and discuss their educational systems and their content due to the growing importance attached to educational activities. The goal here is to allow the use of innovative and different methodologies and to reflect scientific advances and social developments and innovations on school life which is one of the main dynamics of society. However, there are some topics that are never included in teaching curriculums although their content is directly related to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Geography, Geographic Regions, Rural Development, Economic...
In this article, the authors argue that the notion of a teacher and the coexisting teacher education processes are being progressively emptied out, and replaced by the model of a corporate worker, serving the needs of a post-industrial financial capitalist society. They assert that teachers have had their identities stripped of their previous roles as guardians and proponents of civil society, or as the keepers of an essential knowledge to live a good life. Instead their roles have become...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Professional Identity, Politics of Education,...
Introduction: This paper reports on a study of e-books issues in academic libraries in two European countries representative of small language markets--Sweden and Lithuania. Method: Questionnaire surveys, using the same instrument, were carried out in Swedish and Lithuanian academic libraries. Analysis: Quantitative analysis was performed using the descriptive statistics capability of SurveyMonkey. Results: The survey's results reveal some interesting similarities and differences in the two...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Electronic Publishing, Books, Online Surveys, Cross Cultural Studies, Ownership,...
This paper presents an ethnographic interpretation of education as a social technology of state sovereign power and governing in the borderlands of contemporary China. Illustrated with snapshots from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a Pumi (Premi) ethnic village located along China's south-western territorial margins, it is argued that the hierarchical structure of the education system, coupled with the arduous and yet "compulsory mobility" entailed in educational participation,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Mobility, Ethnic Groups, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Rural Areas,...
In this study, an attempt was made to predict the students' mathematical academic underachievement at the Islamic Azad University-Yadegare-Imam branch and the appropriate strategies in mathematical academic achievement to be applied using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model. Survey research methods were used to select 91 students from the Faculties of Engineering, Science, and Humanities for the analysis using the DEA model, along with the SBM method. This study had shown that the mean...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Prediction, Mathematics Achievement, Low Achievement,...
Examining the following selected Renaissance dramas: Marlowe's "The Jew of Malta" (1585), Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" (1596), Massinger's "The Renegado" (1624), Daborne's "A Christian Turn'd Turk" (1612), and Goffe's "The Raging Turk" (1656), this research investigates Renaissance dramatists' portrayal of biased Christian standpoints that govern the relation with the non-Christian to uncover whether that dramatization represents the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Christianity, Drama, Political Attitudes, Religious Factors, Stereotypes, Racial...
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been a relatively recent entrant in the field of online learning, yet with their "massiveness" and "openness" were posited to have the potential to transform learning and development in developing countries by providing willing learners with ready access to knowledge and Higher Education (HE). Early research has shown that MOOCs have mostly been deepening, rather than broadening, access to education. Yet they have strengthened in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology,...
Propelled by Maxine Greene's (1988) continuum of freedom from normative structures to critical consciousness and action, I illuminate the institutional and individual influences on teacher development and action in mathematics teaching. I focus on the question: What barriers and openings, both individually and institutionally, spur teachers to consider equitable mathematical teaching practices as important to pursue with commitment? Reflecting on the broad cultural features that uphold...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Mathematics Instruction, Institutional Characteristics, Teacher Characteristics,...
Frequent conflicts over money, land, power, and other resources make it difficult for some societies to find or sustain any sense of equilibrium. Additionally, racial, ethnic, religious, socioeconomic, educational, and political injustices, among others, require that leaders increase their understanding and commitment to social justice. Such efforts are critical in light of the vastly disparate opinions and increasingly polarized positions at the heart of contentious relationships that exist...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Leadership, Social Justice, Definitions, Social Issues, Labor, Economic Factors,...
This paper is a review which presents a summary of 52 studies from 2006 to 2016 in Quality Management (QM) within Higher Education Institutes (HEIs). The aim of this paper is to submit evidence regarding the level of QM in HEIs, particularly in developing countries, and also to enhance the research in the field of QM. The findings reveal that from 2013 onward there is an increased interest in the items of QM mainly in Arabic countries. Moreover, the findings include Critical Success Factors...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Quality, Higher Education, Resource Allocation, Barriers, Educational...
The concept of sustainable development has become a widely used construct that is incorporated into virtually all disciplines and discourses. The implementation and achievement of sustainable development goals in the management of our environmental resources cannot be realized without education, especially at a formal level. Teacher training institutions (colleges of education and faculties of education in universities) are expected through their courses to engage and create awareness of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Social Studies, Sustainable Development, Content Analysis, Curriculum, Foreign...
The graduate unemployment rate is one of the current issues being discussed by higher education scholars. College students spend their time and money in order to receive educational advantages unavailable to high school graduates. So if they face unemployment, they are more vulnerable to unfavorable economic conditions because they have already spent their resources pursuing higher education. This paper examines the reasons why college graduates are facing unemployment in the competitive...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Unemployment, Employment Level, College Graduates, Economic Factors, Labor Market,...
Despite current legislation which makes provision for collaboration between the public school sector and home schooling, it appears that much can still be done to move towards a closer partnership. Consequetly I investigated the possibilities of such a liaison. A literature review on the nature of home schooling in general was conducted as background to a qualitative investigation on the views of parents, educators an d other role players of home schooling within the South African context. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Legislation, Home Schooling, Qualitative Research, Parent Attitudes,...
This article highlights some of the cultural barriers that exist for Hmong people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ), while placing these barriers in an historical context. It uncovers differences and similarities found between the experiences of queer Hmong youth and the larger population of queer youth living in the United States. Despite the perception that a traditional Hmong culture holds no place for queer Hmong Americans, individuals are finding spaces...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Hmong People, Homosexuality, Cultural Influences, Barriers, History, Organizations...
This research investigates the factors influencing Bogor senior high school students' choice of Bogor Agricultural University for further study. Choice of higher education institution is difficult for senior high school students and requires the consideration of many factors. Students in choosing a college are influenced by social factors, personal, psychological, family, friends, teachers, the economics of situation, motivation, campus facilities and reputation of the college as well as...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Choice, High School Seniors, Agricultural Education, Foreign Countries,...
Gross Domestic Product of any country often influence economic decisions by policy makers, market participants and econometricians on policy recommendations, evaluation and forecasting. However these decisions are often based on preliminary data announcements by statistical agencies. It is therefore important to ensure that the preliminary GDP announcements are efficient and can be relied on. This paper focuses on South Africa's preliminary announcements of quarterly GDP estimates by examining...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Economic Factors, Computation, Data, Least Squares Statistics,...
This study is designed to explore the reasons for sending and not sending preschool age children to preschools at an early age by exploring the motivations for and barriers towards promoting preschool education in Turkey. It aimed to determine various stakeholders' perceptions, attitudes, and knowledge related to preschool education in order to promote high-quality and comprehensive preschool education. The research was conducted with 224 participants in five cities in Turkey. Qualitative data...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Barriers, Preschool Education, Decision Making, Motivation,...
The Mozambican government has introduced reforms of basic education, notably the introduction of interdisciplinarity, learner-centredness and new teaching pedagogies. This is a case study of how these curriculum reforms have been implemented at Marrere Teachers' Training College. We conducted interviews with lecturers, observed their teaching practices, and studied student results to assess teaching outcomes. The study is grounded in the literatures on educational change and globalization. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Educational Change, Foreign Countries,...
One of the approaches to achieve sustainable development is based on smart specialization. Rural areas are of particular importance in ensuring sustainable development, the smart development of which largely determines the balanced sustainable development of a state as a whole. The present study reflects the quantitative and the qualitative assessment of sustainable development in the region of Latgale (Latvia) on the level of 19 districts; the assessment has been carried out on the basis of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Rural Areas, Specialization, Qualitative...
In this study, it was aimed to determine the remarks of teacher candidates on the place and importance of out of school learning environments in Social Studies education. Phenomenological method, which is one of the qualitative research designs, was used in this study. The work group of the study consists of 73 teacher candidates who conduct out of school activities (43 of them are Social Studies teacher candidates and 31 of them are Classroom teacher candidates). Semi structured interview form...
Topics: ERIC Archive, After School Programs, Outdoor Education, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher...
Women as an important stratum of society play a fundamental role in the creation, establishment and strengthening of families. So, paying attention to their mental health as the family guides has direct effects on the mental health of children, families and consequently the whole of society. Thus, the present study was performed to investigate the moderating effect of the economic situation on the relationship between problem solving skills and mental health in two groups of working women and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Problem Solving, Females, Mental Health, Family Environment, Economic Factors,...
Engagement is widely recognized by higher education institutions, nation-states, and international organizations as the third pillar in the mission of university education. Despite the global reach of this concept, published research is disproportionately based on examples from the United States. This article brings to light the rich and extensive literature on university engagement from Latin America that is largely accessible only in Spanish. Among advocates for engaged universities...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Universities, Institutional Mission, Social Justice, Social Responsibility, Case...
This study examines factors contributing to faculty stress. Factors including demographics, tenure, discipline, and teaching medium are all examined. Whereas once faculty members were inundated with learning new electronic technology (and the stress it created), many appear to have become somewhat comfortable with this change and have adapted to expectations of online teaching/learning. The latest trends in stress factors affecting higher education are more likely related to changes in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Stress Variables, College Faculty, Business Administration Education, Online Courses,...
This study aims to study households' expectations for their children's academic performance in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Education has a significant role in increasing the productivity and income level of an individual in a society. Household education, income, distance from school, gender discrimination within household and cost of education can affect parents' expectations of their children. The present study aims to understand why households in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan do not send...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Scores, Educational Attainment, Probability, Models, Academic...
Complimentary Basic Education in Tanzania (COBET) is a community-based programme initiated in 1999 to provide formal education system opportunity to over aged children or children above school age. The COBET program was analyzed using secondary data collected from 21 regions from 2008 to 2012. Cluster analysis was applied to classify the 21 regions in terms of enrolments by cohort, dropouts, gender, and regional per capital Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The cluster analysis classified 21...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Community Programs, Access to Education, Multivariate Analysis,...
Purpose: This article explores the classical relationship between socioeconomic status and political domains, and the need to include different variables (contextual and individual) to measure the effect of economic and cultural capitals on youth participation and knowledge. Method: A multivariate analysis of covariance was performed on a sample of 732 Portuguese students, from Grades 8 and 11, in order to analyse how different socioeconomic variables related to family and schooling contexts...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Correlation, Socioeconomic Status, Political Issues, Economic Factors, Cultural...
Creativity is a key driver in the global economy. However, in the majority of national curricula creativity is perceived as secondary in many subjects. Unfortunately this means that students leave school without knowing how to create and innovate, consequently they will be under prepared for challenges that our society and economies are facing. In today's world of global competition and complex problems, creative intelligence and innovative capacity are fast becoming requirements for personal...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Creativity, Economic Impact, Economic Factors, Academic Achievement, Educational...
From 2007 to 2009, the United States experienced one of the greatest economic declines reported in the previous decades, known as the Great Recession (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2012). While a great deal of media attention focused on the immediate financial effects of the recession, little discussion was made about the influence of this crisis upon students' lives and education (Isaacs & Healy, 2012). Therefore, I investigated what happened to the education of these students. In this case...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economic Impact, Economic Factors, Elementary Education, Educational Practices,...
Using exploratory, qualitative interviews, the authors studied conceptions of academic service-learning in the United States and the Republic of Ireland in order to elucidate the ways in which culture and social context shaped practitioners' perceptions and practices regarding service-learning pedagogy. Participants articulated a shared understanding of service-learning, identified similar barriers to utilizing service-learning and institutionalizing its practice, and discussed tensions...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Teaching Methods, Cross Cultural Studies,...
The number of international students attending U.S. higher learning institutions has decreased over the past decade (excluding students from China and Saudi Arabia) from 40 percent to 30 percent. These students are an important resource for the U.S. and their native countries in terms of education, culture, and economy. Differences between international and domestic students currently enrolled in a private university were assessed using a new American College of Testing Survey of Student...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Recruitment, Foreign Students, Orientation, Student Adjustment, Private...
The symbolism of "flowers" has always been a significant part of cultures around the world due to their functional meaning in daily life. From their decorative to their aromatic role, flowers and their symbolic meaning trigger emotions, convey wishes and represent thoughts that can not be explicitly expressed. In this regard, an elaborate language based on flower symbolism was developed in many societies, to convey clear messages to the recipient. However, in some cultural contexts,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Literary Styles, Cultural Context, Economic Factors, Language Usage, Correlation,...
Increasing budget pressures on universities are causing many to turn to online education to solve their budget woes. However, as the marketplace for online learning expands, so does the opportunity for students to become ever more selective of the programs and universities they choose. The researchers sought to identify those factors that motivate students to choose or not choose to take online courses at Eastern Oregon University (EOU). Furthermore, students currently enrolled at EOU were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Motivation, Student Attitudes, Online Courses, College Choice, Universities,...
This paper examines the various generations that include the greatest generation, the baby-boomers, generation X, and generation Y. The research encompasses many motivational elements that each generation covets, rejects, or shares. These generations are at different stages in life and each plays a vital role within our society. The workforce has become a melting pot of generational influences that produce a unique and complex dynamic that economic entities and educational institutions must...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Generational Differences, Influences, Social Values, Veterans, Baby Boomers, Age...
A fast developing industry worldwide, tourism demands a monumental extent of resources, and at times devastates and condemns the very own environments that are fundamental to the economic survival of organizations and the sustainability of travel destinations. The purpose of the study is to link three established scientific themes on survival and sustainability to empirical results in the field of economic decision and behavior. The discussion of this link may also represent the originality...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Tourism, Economic Factors, Sustainability, Decision Making, Behavior, Travel, Games,...
Canadian university students tend to endorse employment-related reasons for attending university ahead of other reasons such as personal satisfaction or intellectual growth. In the present study, first- and fourth-year students from a mid-sized Canadian university reported on the benefits they expected to receive from their degree and rated their relative importance. These open-ended responses suggested that both groups of students placed a greater emphasis on benefits related to career...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Attainment, Higher Education, Intellectual Development, Foreign...
Determining the factors that affect teachers' competences has a decisive role in revealing the quality of teaching process. In this context, it is important to identify professional variables affecting the self-efficacy of preschool teachers. For this reason, it is aimed to investigate which professional variables influence preschool teachers' sense of efficacy. In the research, a descriptive research model was adopted. The working group of the study is composed of 191 preschool teachers...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Preschool Teachers, Self Efficacy, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Competencies,...
Terrorism is an unfamiliar phenomenon to the Islamic religion and it is in opposition to its doctrine. It leads to the loss of innocent lives, destruction of properties, spreading rumors, terrorizing the innocents and destabilization. All this makes fighting and preventing the phenomenon of terrorism the duty of all human beings. This study aimed to highlight and clarify the concept of the culture of peace and the prevention of terrorism from the perspective of Islamic Education and the United...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Terrorism, Peace, Islam, Religious Factors, Prevention, Religious Education, World...
