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Yeo, Lay See; Tan, Soo Yin; Neihart, Maureen F. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2012
Singapore, a tiny island nation, rose from 3rd- to 1st-world status in just 3 decades. Unlike in most developed countries, counseling in Singapore has a short history with faith-based beginnings and currently faces challenges to remain culturally relevant. The authors trace the development of Singapore's counseling services, provide an update…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Foreign Countries, Counseling Psychology, School Counseling
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Dodington, James; Mollen, Cynthia; Woodlock, Joseph; Hausman, Alice; Richmond, Therese S.; Fein, Joel A. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
This project explores the beliefs and perspectives of urban adults and youth regarding community violence prevention strategies and identifies points of overlap and differences of opinion that can contribute to the development of successful youth violence prevention programs. We coded transcript data from adults and 10-16-year-old youth from the…
Descriptors: Violence, Prevention, Patients, Supervision
Morelock, Kristy – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2012
Finding the best way for students to learn and achieve success is of utmost importance to the State of Illinois and the nation as a whole. College and career success is critical to the national and state economy. Career and technical education (CTE) has been central to this call for greater college completion, and the credentials that CTE provides…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Program Development, Vocational Education, Partnerships in Education
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Bundy, Jessica – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2012
Shifts are occurring in discourses regarding childcare, creating changes in the development of early childhood education programmes. Childcare, as an important "investment" for the future success of nation-states, is a discourse recently developed across a variety of political arenas, both globally and in local governing bodies and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Program Development
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Barrie, Simon C. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2012
For many years universities around the world have sought to articulate the nature of the education they offer to their students through a description of the generic qualities and skills their graduates possess. Despite the lengthy history of the rhetoric of such policy claims, universities' endeavours to describe generic attributes of graduates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role of Education, Higher Education, Graduates
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Giles, David L.; Smith, Richard J. M. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2012
Purpose: This article aims to discuss the conceptualisation process of developing a new one-year taught-master's programme in educational leadership at an Aotearoa/New Zealand university. Design/methodology/approach: The perspective taken is a highly personalised one from the two lead "drivers" of the programme and outlines the two-year…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Masters Degrees, Foreign Countries, Accreditation (Institutions)
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Johnsen, Susan K. – Gifted Child Today, 2012
Educators need to know the professional standards in their field to maintain high levels of professional competence. This article focuses on four sets of teacher preparation standards in gifted education. They address initial and advanced preparation of educators who teach students with gifts and talents. Initial preparation standards include the…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Gifted, Talent, National Standards
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Schmidt, Steven W.; Mott, Vivian W. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2012
In the winter of 2007, a small group of faculty and administrators at East Carolina University (ECU) began discussions with personnel at the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) at Fort Monroe, Virginia, regarding the education and continuing professional development of U.S. Army civilian interns and careerists (two types of…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Professional Development, Professional Continuing Education, Internship Programs
Holladay, Jennifer – Teaching Tolerance, 2009
Since 2002, Teaching Tolerance's Mix It Up at Lunch Day program has helped millions of students cross social boundaries and create more inclusive school communities. Its goal is to create a safe, purposeful opportunity for students to break down the patterns of social self-segregation that too often plague schools. Research conducted in 2006 by…
Descriptors: Day Programs, Social Integration, Internet, Program Development
Smallwood, Carol, Ed. – ALA Editions, 2010
Including 66 focused snapshots of outreach in action, this resource reflects the creative solutions of librarians searching for new and innovative ways to build programs that meet customer needs while expanding the library's scope into the community. This contributed volume includes: (1) A huge array of program options for partnering with other…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Innovation, Library Services, Program Development
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Knight, Steve – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief description of the digital preservation programme at the National Library of New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach: Following a description of the legislative and strategic context for digital preservation in New Zealand, details are provided of the system for the National Digital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservation, Archives, Electronic Libraries
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Kennedy, Rosemary; Kennedy, Barry – Youth Studies Australia, 2010
Using Moxley's (1997) program development framework as an agenda for a dialogue that juxtaposes an academic perspective with that of a seasoned youth program manager, this paper focuses on the relatively unexplored terrain of case management programs. In doing so, it exposes the convergences and divergences between academic and program manager…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Program Development, Caseworker Approach, Caseworkers
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Harris, Geoff – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2010
The aims of this article are to present the case for the study of conflict, violence and peace in African universities and to discuss ways by which this might be organized. It begins with a discussion of the meanings of conflict, violence and peace, as used in the discipline of peace studies. The case for studying peace is then laid out, with…
Descriptors: Conflict, Peace, Social Justice, Social Problems
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Smaldone, David; Dey, Shannon E. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2010
The purpose of this study was to conduct a nationwide assessment of state-level environmental education (EE) organizations to determine the components that are essential to the establishment and success of these organizations. E-mail surveys were used to collect data from North American Association for Environmental Education state affiliates, and…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Internet, Surveys, Organizational Development
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Dettlaff, Alan J.; Rycraft, Joan R. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2010
Recent reform efforts in the child welfare system have called for child welfare agencies to provide community-based services and to increase the involvement of external stakeholders in identifying and developing services within the community. At the same time, child welfare agencies are faced with the challenge of providing services to an…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Social Services, Immigrants, Hispanic Americans
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