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Potosky, Alice, Ed. – 1986
Music has an important place in the lives of many people as shown through this compilation of descriptive statements on music. One hundred and three people responded to a request from music educators to share their thoughts about how music has influenced their lives. Comments of leaders in entertainment, government, and business are contained in…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Strategies
Rasinski, Timothy V., Ed.; Padak, Nancy D., Ed.; Church, Brenda Weible, Ed.; Fawcett, Gay, Ed.; Hendershot, Judith, Ed.; Henry, Justina M., Ed.; Moss, Barbara G., Ed.; Peck, Jacqueline K., Ed.; Pryor, Elizabeth, Ed.; Roskos, Kathleen A., Ed. – 2000
Whatever grade level, content, or texts that educators teach, their ultimate goal is to develop their students' understanding of what they read. The 29 articles in this anthology were published in "The Reading Teacher" from 1993 to 1999 and offer ideas to help students comprehend different types of texts and literacies, from technology…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Dave, R. H., Ed.; And Others – 1987
Many countries have recently launched massive programs to promote nation-wide adult literacy, but while these efforts have been commendable, it has been observed that neo-literates who acquire literacy through such programs have great difficulty in retaining it; hence an urgent need to develop suitable programs of post-literacy and continuing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Continuing Education, Foreign Countries
Tynjala, Paivi, Ed.; Mason, Lucia, Ed.; Lonka, Kirsti, Ed. – 2001
This book, the seventh volume in the Studies in Writing International Series on the Research of Learning and Instruction of Writing, is an account of the current state of using writing as a tool for learning. The book presents psychological and educational foundations of the writing across the curriculum movement and describes writing-to-learn…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Theory Practice Relationship
Mezirow, Jack, Ed. – 2000
Stemming from a 1998 Columbia University conference on transformative learning, this 3-part book contains 12 articles that examine the concept of how adults learn to change ("transform") their frames of reference. The following are included in Part One: Developing Concepts of Transformative Learning: "Learning To Think Like an Adult: Core Concepts…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Classroom Techniques, Learning Strategies
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Boekaerts, Monique, Ed. – International Journal of Educational Research, 1999
Contributors to this special issue present information that has accrued within specific subfields of self-regulated learning. Essays discuss key issues of self-regulated learning, providing suggestions on how the modeling, scaffolding, and fading of self-regulatory skills can be done. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies
Flippo, Rona F., Ed.; Caverly, David C., Ed. – 1991
Intended as a comprehensive collection of knowledge about managing college-level reading and study strategy programs for practitioners, administrators, and researchers, this book provides a review of the theoretical, empirical, and programmatic issues in the field. Chapter 1 ("Reading, Writing, and Academic Literacy" by Sharon L. Pugh…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Program Administration, Program Evaluation
Baker, Linda, Ed.; Dreher, Mariam Jean, Ed.; Guthrie, John T., Ed. – 2000
Blending research evidence with practical recommendations, this book demonstrates how promoting children's engagement with reading can greatly enhance reading achievement. A collection of articles from leading literacy researchers and educators, the book illuminates what a child needs to become an engaged reader and presents a set of instructional…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
2000
This packet contains three papers from a symposium on assessing the learning organization. The first paper, "Relationship between Learning Organization Strategies and Performance Driver Outcomes" (Elwood F. Holton III, Sandra M. Kaiser), reports on a study of a new learning organization assessment instrument that was administered to 440…
Descriptors: Adults, Business Administration, Educational Needs, Human Resources
Hammond, Jennifer, Ed. – 2001
This book presents six essays that explain where the educational term "scaffolding" comes from and what it means, then journeys into classrooms that demonstrate effective scaffolding in practice. In the process, it shows that "content" cannot be taught apart from the language about that content. The essays in the book are also about the role of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Language Arts
Kallick, Bena, Ed.; Wilson, James M., III, Ed. – 2001
This book chronicles practitioners' struggles in implementing information technology, identifies the existing barriers to implementation, and provides a set of frameworks from the current understanding of this process to support learning through information creation. The chapters are: chapter 1, "A Model for Organizational Learning: The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Educational Technology, Information Technology
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Krupp, Judy-Arin – Adult Learning, 1991
Five authors relate principles of learning to learn to adult education: "Self-Esteem" (Krupp); "Labor Education" (Nesbit); "Telecommunications Courses and the Distant Learner" (Takemoto); "Learning Techniques" (Rosenthal); and "ABE: Taking Control" (Spring). (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Distance Education
Park, Clara C., Ed.; Endo, Russell, Ed.; Rong, Xue Lan, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2009
This research anthology is the fifth volume in a series sponsored by the Special Interest Group-Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans (SIG-REAPA) of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education. This series explores and examines the patterns of Asian parents'…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Parents, Parent Student Relationship, Asian American Students
Betenbough, T. J., Ed.; Biggs, Shirley A., Ed. – 1988
This eighth yearbook of innovative learning strategies presents the following articles, grouped in three major sections. The first section, Program Models, contains: (1) "Welcome Back: Meeting the Needs of Nontraditional Students" (Kathy Carpenter); (2) "A Model Coordinated Curriculum for the First-Term Community College Learning Disabled Student"…
Descriptors: College Students, Creative Teaching, Educational Research, Higher Education
Steffey, Stephanie, Ed.; Hood, Wendy J., Ed. – 1994
In this contributed collection, 23 teachers explain their successful strategies for teaching the social studies disciplines in a whole language context. The collection covers contemporary subjects, traditional topics, well-known projects, social studies in the community, and multicultural matters. It can be used at elementary through middle and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, History Instruction, Learning Activities
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