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Teachers' Leadership and Students' Experience of Group Work
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Hammar Chiriac, Eva; Granstrom, Kjell – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2012
Group work is used as a means of learning at all levels of most educational systems. However, teachers often use group work without considering its "pros and cons." Such a mode of non-reflected application may sometimes end up in positive experiences and learning, but the likelihood is that the outcome will be the opposite. The aim of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Focus Groups, Cooperative Learning
Research into the School as an Organization. I: A Presentation and Discussion of Research Literature with a Bearing on the School as an Organization.
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Berg, Gunnar – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1982
Provides research dealing with the school as an organization and offers an alternative development strategy based on the studies. Shows previous research was either functionalist or structuralist in approach. Research describes the school as an organization in terms of professionalism or bureaucracy. Additionally, it is described as a coercive…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Bureaucracy, Educational Environment
A Model of the Adoption and Diffusion of Innovations for the Case of the Individual Decision Maker.
Smith, David Allan – 1976
Information on the development and testing of a model of spatial diffusion and adoption of an agricultural innovation is presented. The data concern the practice of artificial insemination of cattle in southern Sweden. The model is intended to predict the time at which adoption occurred in terms of the time at which the innovation became available…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Case Studies, Data Analysis