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Potsi, Autoanneta – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2016
This book explores the Capability Approach (CA) as an alternative critical lens through which to regard early childhood education (ECE) curricula. The CA framework is a counter narrative to the narrow instrumentalism that reduces education to a mere process of academic skills acquisition for a future workplace. Primarily the book draws on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Ability, Curriculum Design
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Quinn, Andrew; Fitch, Dale; Youn, Eric – Journal of Social Work Education, 2011
This article presents the idea that distance delivery in social work education is seen as an interaction between four constructs: the student, the setting in which the education is delivered, the educational content, and the expected educational outcomes. To fully understand these interactions, clear operational indicators, well established in…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Distance Education, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education
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Hermans, Ruben; van Braak, Johan; Van Keer, Hilde – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
In this article the development and validation of the Beliefs about Primary Education Scale (BPES) are described. The BPES is an 18-item scale for assessing primary school teachers' beliefs toward the nature of good education, subdivided in a transmissive dimension (TD) and a developmental dimension (DD). Both dimensions assess beliefs toward the…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Beliefs, Construct Validity, Factor Structure