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Only Persons Grow Moral: Student Personhood, Moral Growth, and the Purpose of School
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Juan Antonio Casas Pardo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this dissertation is to better understand the formative import of the relationships between adults and the young in their corresponding roles as teachers and students between the first year of kindergarten and the last grade of high school (K-12 education). My approach to this issue is twofold: First, I argue that it is imperative…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Development, Ethics
Outdoor Education in Canadian Public Schools: Connecting Children and Youth to People, Place, and Environment
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Asfeldt, Morten; Purc-Stephenson, Rebecca; Zimmerman, Thomas – Environmental Education Research, 2022
The roots and goals of outdoor education (OE) in Canada are often linked to the Canadian summer camp tradition that emerged in the early 1900s which centered around character development, and the environmental movement of the 1950s and 1960s. However, a comprehensive understanding of the philosophies, goals, and activities of modern Canadian OE…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outdoor Education, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Values and Context: Taiwan Principal Preparation and Practice from an American Perspective
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Vogel, Linda R. – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2015
This qualitative study explores the preparation and practice of school leaders in Taiwan based on indepth interviews and observations with six Taiwan school directors serving geographically diverse student populations. The journey leading to school leadership and the challenges that this representative group of educational leaders face are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrator Education, Management Development
The Role of Parent/Teacher Collaboration in Transforming Student Lives through Learning
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Grothaus, Rick John – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The research in the study examined the development and effects of an alternative model of parent/teacher collaboration on behalf of student learning. The setting for the research was IMPACT School, a small independent school serving students in grades kindergarten through eighth grade. Two primary research questions were addressed: (1) What…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Private Schools, Elementary School Students
Educating the Heart
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Schwartz, Sherry – Educational Leadership, 2007
Japan's elementary and junior high schools have a formal, nationally mandated moral curriculum called Kokoro-no-kyoiku--education of the heart. Japanese educators include moral growth as an integral part of one's intellectual growth and believe that democratic societies must promote virtuous decision making. Moral education in Japan nurtures the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, Altruism, Ethical Instruction
Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning: A Critical Perspective. Critical Perspectives on Education
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Daniels, Harry, Ed.; Lauder, Hugh, Ed.; Porter, Jill, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning" focuses on how education is understood in different cultures, the theories and related assumptions we make about learners and students and how we think about them, and how we can understand the principle actors in education--learners and teachers. Within this volume, internationally renowned…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Brain, Social Environment, Educational Policy