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Alvarado, Felix – Academy for Educational Development, 2010
The purpose of this document is to describe AED's extensive experience in six countries that have undergone periods of violent conflict or natural disaster followed by extended and complex periods of increasing resilience, and if possible extract lessons learned from it. The focus is on what we have learned about effectively and sustainably…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Donors, Low Income
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Pilatou, Vassiliki; Stavridou, Heleni – International Journal of Science Education, 2004
The aim of this study was to detect primary students' conceptions about the origin and conveyance of electric current and about the connection of household electric appliances. In total, 383 students (aged 11-12) from the town of Volos, Greece, participated; 213 of them drawn from experimental classes and 170 from control groups. The results…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Electronic Equipment, Science Instruction
Marcondes, Maria Ines; Tura, Maria de Lourdes – Online Submission, 2004
The objective of this paper is to give indications to a curriculum designed to prepare teachers for the next decade, the results presented here were based on a research project entitled "The Teacher and the Cultural Dimensions of School Knowledge" and aiming at analyzing teachers' conceptions about the diversity in group planning and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Family Characteristics, Education Courses