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Download full textUNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2016
Sustainable Development Goals call on Members States to "ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all" and sets a number of targets related to technical and vocational education and training (TVET). In order to collect input from the global TVET community, UNESCO-UNEVOC organized a…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Videoconferencing, Vocational Education, Research Projects
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Direct linkKendrick, Mary – English Journal, 2010
Meaningful discussion helps students develop new knowledge about the world around them. "Progressive discourse" is talk that encourages people to develop a new understanding together. In this article, the author discusses how she used student collaboration to foster progressive discourse and describes assignments that engage her students in group…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Group Discussion, Grade 9, English Instruction
Henig, Jeffrey R.; Stone, Clarence N. – American Journal of Education, 2008
At the national level, debate about school reform typically has been characterized by clashing paradigms offering unicausal explanations and universal prescriptions. At the street level, where parents and practitioners wrestle on a day-to-day basis with questions of what to do, the terms of discussion more typically are concrete, rooted in local…
Descriptors: National Programs, Local History, School Restructuring, Educational Change
Patterson, Jean A. – Middle School Journal (J3), 2006
A team of faculty and students from a principal preparation program sought to discover how administrators and teachers in two culturally diverse middle schools were implementing the concept of learning community. The purposes of the study was to: (1) Explore how administrators and teachers defined learning communities; (2) Determine how the two…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Middle Schools, Fundamental Concepts, Change Strategies
McKeown, Margaret; And Others – 1994
"Questioning the Author" is a particular style of classroom discussion that tries to get young students (fourth and fifth graders) to actively grapple with the ideas they read about in class. It may be distinguished from other reading strategies by the following approaches: (1) it addresses a text as the product of a fallible author; (2)…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Communities
Castleton, Geraldine; McDonald, Marya – 2002
The literacy programs and policies implemented in Australia over the past decade were reviewed to identify initiatives that have and have not had a positive impact on vocational education and training (VET) and lifelong learning opportunities. Policies and practices in seven other countries were also reviewed. The following themes received…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
