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Mobegi, Florence Osiri; Ondigi, A. Benjamin; Oburu, Paul Odhiambo – Educational Research and Reviews, 2010
The desire to provide quality education for all Kenyan children was one of the major objectives of the struggle for independence. The government is currently implementing measures to improve the quality of education in secondary schools. The Kenya Education Staff Institute is strengthening capacities of education managers and reviewing staffing…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Supervisory Methods, Educational Quality, Quality Control
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Blunt, R. J. S. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
This investigation elicited the perceptions of thirteen of the most successful research supervisors from one university, with a view to identifying their approaches to selecting research candidates. The supervisors were identified by the university's research office using the single criterion of having the largest number of completed research…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Educational Research, Supervisors, Supervisory Methods
Glanz, Jeffrey – Online Submission, 2008
Drawing on historical research, this paper draws attention to Dewey's oft-neglected, but no less brilliant work published in 1929, The Sources of a Science of Education. Dewey's critique of efforts in his day to seek "quick-fixes" to practical educational and curricular issues by employing premature scientific investigations and findings has…
Descriptors: Oral History, Investigations, Educational Philosophy, Supervision