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Browse Dissertations and Theses - Education by Contributor "McCarthy, Cameron"
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(2019-04-15)This study described the decision processes used by managers from small-medium enterprises (SMEs) whether to participate in government-sponsored training programs in Malaysia. Research discovered that SMEs are critical ...
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(2017-04-11)Higher education is no longer a national concept, but rather a global concept. Globalization has enacted competition as a new driving force in higher education. This includes competition for students, faculty, research, ...
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(2016-11-17)My work addresses the field of Curriculum Studies as a worldwide interdisciplinary field, its difficulties, complications, and possibilities. It primarily focuses on the relations between the Anglo-Saxon field of Curriculum ...
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(2019-05-30)This work presents an evaluation of the Chilean Public Policy for quality assurance in higher education. Such an evaluation is justified by the need to determine if the quality assurance processes have a particular role ...
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(2017-04-14)This dissertation examines the pedagogies used to educate students on the global challenges of poverty in higher education. I suggest that in order for higher education to assume both its economic and social-ethical roles ...
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(2017-12-08)Drawn from critical discourse analysis and a 14-month ethnographic project at a public community college in the Chicago metropolitan area, this study scrutinizes the complex mechanisms through which racial identities and ...
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(2014-05-30)In this interpretive study, I raise the possibility that what American public education policy needs in order to address present and future challenges is a “new guiding narrative, a new myth,” (Jones, 2008, p. 104). This ...
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(2020-07-17)In a globalized era of knowledge-based economies, U.S. universities have become entwined with industry, creating research centers and institutes that are increasingly innovative and entrepreneurial in solving real-world ...
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(2019-04-18)This qualitative study explores the dimensions of language learning and identity development through the eyes of language teachers in the Catalonia region of Spain. Three interviews with teachers from the greater Barcelona ...
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(2017-04-19)Performance-based compensation is gaining traction in the education systems of countries that lead in the world economy and in comparative international assessments of student achievement. Longstanding and contemporary ...
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(2017-07-13)This dissertation examines the experiences and perceptions of multilingual international undergraduate students with English language policy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in order to better ...
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(2019-04-14)One of the recent innovations taking place in higher education is the phenomenon of Massive Open Online Courses, known as MOOCs. MOOCs have grown rapidly over the last several years and have become a popular topic in media ...
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(2015-06-18)This is an interdisciplinary study, because it focuses on the relationship between the education and media fields via a case study of the 2011 Chilean student movement. I have studied the mediatization of educational ...
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(2011-05-25)This research critically analyzes Taiwan’s long-standing National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study. It focuses on the program’s development between 1955 and 2000. The National Scholarship Program can be seen as ...
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(2018-11-09)This research was a narrative study of the professional learning of workshop leaders, that is, senior teachers whose professional growth prepared them to share their learning with other teachers. Six participants in this ...
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(2014-05-30)How do education policies intended to create equitable educational opportunities for racial minorities in the US unintentionally exacerbate racial inequality? What can we do about it? “Neoliberal Globalization, Model ...
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(2021-07-15)This is a three-study dissertation. In three different mathematics education contexts (i.e., seminar, after-school mathematics club, and mathematics classroom) with three different groups of participants (i.e., teacher ...
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(2016-06-21)My dissertation research examines how the right to education, stated explicitly in the Chilean constitution, has been interpreted as educational policies are being enacted. I contrast this analysis with the use of the right ...
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(2021-03-29)This qualitative, interview-based study features nine multilingual faculty members at a major R1 university in the United States. They are all highly accomplished second-language writers (SLWs), and the study draws upon ...
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(2015-11-25)Considering the important role of teachers in improving learning outcomes, teacher evaluation is considered a priority for educational policy makers. This dissertation addresses three issues related with teacher quality ...
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