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Thiersch, Hans – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1990
Criticizes university training in graduate programs in West Germany that fail to prepare students to utilize their university knowledge and solve practical problems in their professional positions after graduation. Focuses on training for careers in social work and educational science. Encourages intensive discussion to ameliorate these problems.…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Development, Educational Objectives
Atutov, P. R.; And Others – Soviet Education, 1988
Reports on activities and concerns of the Soviet Union's Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in conjunction with educational reform. Calls for systematic improvement, of which "the pedagogy of cooperation" is only a part. Emphasizes creative teaching methods and better coordination between research and classroom practice. Reviews individual…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Diffusion (Communication), Educational Change, Educational Research
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Raushi, Thaddeus M. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1993
Describes developmental academic advising as a comprehensive, collaborative, and empowering process designed to maximize students' educational potential. Reviews basic developmental theories (i.e., psychosocial, cognitive-developmental, and person-environmental), and focussed theories dealing with adult learners, women, people of color, and gays…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, College Curriculum
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Lockwood, Alan L. – Social Education, 1991
Criticizes character education programs that tend merely to present moral values to students, believing this produces socially responsible behavior. Argues listing values is simplistic and ineffective. Recognizes the situational complexity that confounds making moral choices. Suggests character education must contend with value conflicts and guide…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Moral Values
Monoszon, Ele Isaevich – Soviet Education, 1989
Excerpts chapter five from Ele Monoszon's "The Establishment and Development of Soviet Pedagogy." Defines didactics from a Marxist-Leninist perspective, identifying principles and problems in content, methods, and organization of instruction. Reviews teachers' participation in research and development of Soviet pedagogy. (CH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Communism, Educational History, Educational Objectives
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Graber, Julia A.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Comments on this special theme issue examining the roles of socialization, biology, and culture as they affect adaptive and maladaptive developmental outcomes. Presents models for predicting and understanding behavioral and affective change at transitions occurring especially from middle childhood through adolescence. Provides examples…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents
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Reid, D. Kim – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1996
Seven elementary school personnel and eight university personnel participated in a school-university partnership based on narrative knowing. Using a teacher-as-researcher model to focus on the instruction of students labeled as language and learning disabled, the educators engaged in group-building activities and research collaboration. Case…
Descriptors: Action Research, Case Studies, Classroom Research, College School Cooperation
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Cribb, Alan; Gewirtz, Sharon – Theory and Research in Education, 2005
This article is an attempt to make an empirical contribution to a more grounded model of thinking about justice. It focuses on the work of one practitioner working in an inner-London local education authority with a remit relating to the achievement of "African-Caribbean" students. In describing the challenges that she faces in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Districts, Social Justice, Context Effect
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Niaz, Mansoor – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2004
The objective of this study is to provide in-service teachers an opportunity to become familiar with the controversial nature of progress in science (growth of knowledge) and its implications for research methodology in education. The study is based on 41 participants who had registered for a nine-week course on Methodology of Investigation in…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Research, Constructivism (Learning), Research Methodology
Karabenick, Stuart A., Ed.; Newman, Richard S., Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2006
Building on Karabenick's earlier volume on this topic and maintaining its high standards of scholarship and intellectual rigor, this book brings together contemporary work that is theoretically as well as practically important. It highlights current trends in the area and gives expanded attention to applications to teaching and learning. The…
Descriptors: Helping Relationship, Bullying, Academic Advising, Help Seeking
Stahl, Katherine A. Dougherty, Ed.; McKenna, Michael C., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2006
This book presents state-of-the-science research on the components of successful literacy learning and how to target them in contemporary classrooms. The volume builds on and extends the work of Steven Stahl, whose pioneering contributions encompassed the key areas of phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and assessment.…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Educational Research, Educational Trends, Teaching Methods
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Ferro, Trenton R., Ed.; Dean, Gary J., Ed. – 1995
These proceedings contain 11 refereed papers and 2 symposia in which researchers and practitioners share research findings focusing on the link between research and practice in adult, continuing, and community education. "Literacy Skill Standards for the Workplace" (Eunice N. Askov) summarizes efforts leading toward voluntary industry skill…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Business Education
Landers, Mary F.; And Others – 1995
This study investigated attitudes concerning inclusive education among teachers and building administrators (principals and vice principals) in Ohio. Sixteen grants were awarded to educators in 28 public schools to support their efforts in conceptualizing and implementing inclusive education. Inclusive education was defined as any educational…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Assistant Principals, Disabilities, Educational Philosophy
Maxwell, Rhoda J. – 1996
Designed for education majors and minors in all subjects and as a resource for experienced teachers, the central theme of this book is writing to learn. The chapters are entitled: (1) Writing across the Curriculum; (2) Writing as a Process; (3) Levels of Writing; (4) Journals; (5) Writing as a Means for Learning; (6) Improving Writing Skills; (7)…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Educational Theories, High Schools, Higher Education
Grau, Isidro, IV – 1996
This study examined the technology preparation component of two University of Houston-Clear Lake (UHCL) preservice teacher education programs: the traditional teacher education program and the Teacher Education Advancing Academic Achievement Model (TEAM) Collaborate teacher education program. Some characteristics of TEAM were: a year-long site…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College School Cooperation, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education
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