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Stakelum, Mary – British Journal of Music Education, 2008
Whilst a rationale for the content and organisation of knowledge in a standardised curriculum may be clearly articulated at official policy level, factors may come to bear on a teacher operating at a local level which may work against the successful implementation of the curriculum on the ground. Drawing on a Bourdieuan notion of cultural field,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
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Blonder, Ron; Kipnis, Mira; Mamlok-Naaman, Rachel; Hofstein, Avi – Science Education International, 2008
The study describes the process of adopting new curriculum materials, which had been developed in the PARSEL project in several European countries, into the local educational science classroom of another country. The goal of the PARSEL project was to raise the popularity and relevance of science teaching by enhancing students scientific and…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Interviews, Foreign Countries, Learning Modules
Slavkin, Michael; Braysmith, Hilary; Faust, Norma – School-University Partnerships, 2010
The purpose of this article is to review a partnership between a teacher education department and a dropout prevention program. The partnership developed from a variety of communities' needs, no less of which was that of reconnecting marginalized youth at a local dropout prevention school with their community through cultural and civic…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Schools of Education, Dropout Programs
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Weschke, Barbara; Canipe, Stephen – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2010
The presentation will trace the experiences of two program directors from Walden University and their examination of issues involved with faculty assessment. Their experiences were used to create a simple but effective and workable model for faculty assessment and development. Once a presentation of how data were obtained, and analyzed, to create…
Descriptors: Faculty Evaluation, College Faculty, Curriculum Implementation, Program Descriptions
Robert, Pinet – TESL Canada Journal, 2006
This article highlights how citizenship and citizenship education are sites of contestation. I have analyzed the process of curriculum making of the LINC 4 & 5 Curriculum Guidelines (TCDSB, 1999) through three stages: from production, through reception, to implementation. The production stage is investigated by contrasting commentaries from…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation
Pinkham, Caroline; Wintle, Sarah E.; Silvernail, David L. – Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation, 2008
Over the past 20 years, the amount of information available to students via the Internet has increased dramatically. Access for students to technological resources used to locate information on the Internet has likewise increased. As a result, teachers are now being asked to teach students important 21st Century Skills, including the ability to…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Program Effectiveness, Science Teachers, Grade 8
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Reilly, Benjamin – History Teacher, 2008
In fall of 2004, Carnegie Mellon University embarked on a bold educational experiment, the establishment of an overseas branch campus at Education City in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar. Carnegie Mellon's decision to open up shop in the Middle East was by no means unique; indeed, Carnegie Mellon is just one of a growing number of institutions to…
Descriptors: Multicampus Colleges, Arabs, Information Technology, Foreign Countries
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Tormey, Roland; Liddy, Mags; Maguire, Helen; McCloat, Amanda – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2008
Purpose: Higher education has a key role and responsibility in creating change and addressing issues of fundamental human concern such as inequality and social justice, globalisation and development, environmental protection and sustainability. The purpose of this paper is to describe how RCE-Ireland, established in September 2007, aims to develop…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Action Research, Research Methodology, Educational Practices
Fuller, Robert G., Ed.; Campbell, Thomas C., Ed.; Dykstra, Dewey I., Jr., Ed.; Stevens, Scott M., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2009
This book is intended to offer college faculty members the insights of the development of reasoning movement that enlighten physics educators in the late 1970s and led to a variety of college programs directed at improving the reasoning patterns used by college students. While the original materials were directed at physics concepts, they quickly…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), College Instruction, College Students, Textbooks
Ivey, Tracey – ProQuest LLC, 2009
American higher education is striving to create the appropriate academic environment in order to prepare students to be interculturally competent for the realities of the twenty first century, and curriculum internationalization is part of this process. The purpose of this study was to investigate the process by which the curriculum is becoming…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Global Approach, Global Education, Interpersonal Competence
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Baker, Thomas R.; Palmer, Anita M.; Kerski, Joseph J. – Journal of Geography, 2009
This article examines the results of an online national survey of K-12 educators who attended a series of GIS training workshops conducted by the authors between 1998 and 2004. Data from the self-report survey (N = 186) suggest new information about potential changes in instruction and assessment patterns following GIS training. The survey…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Workshops, Professional Development, National Surveys
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Niu, Hui; van Aalst, Jan – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2009
Questions about the suitability of cognitively-oriented instructional approaches for students of different academic levels are frequently raised by teachers and researchers. This study examined student participation in knowledge-building discourse in two implementations of a short inquiry unit focusing on environmental problems. Participants in…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Grade 10, Social Studies, Teaching Methods
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Kale, Ugur; Brush, Thomas; Saye, John – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2009
This study examines online messages in a discussion forum that a group of K-12 history teachers used to discuss curriculum implementations as part of their professional development. It has 3 main research foci. First, it focuses on identifying the types of assistances provided to the teachers in an online forum. Second, it examines teachers'…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes, Thinking Skills, Content Analysis
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Doering, Aaron; Veletsianos, George; Scharber, Cassandra; Miller, Charles – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2009
In this article we sought to understand how social studies teachers' metacognitive awareness of their technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge (TPACK) changed after their participation in a program that consisted of: (a) professional development for the use of an online learning environment; and (b) using an online learning environment in…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Professional Development, Inquiry, Social Studies
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Wang, Yuanqiong; Braman, James – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2009
Second Life is a three-dimensional (3D) electronic environment where members can socialize, hold virtual meetings, or conduct economic transactions. Utilizing virtual environments like Second Life is believed to provide educators with a new medium for teaching and information dissemination that bypasses the normal boundaries associated with…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Learning Motivation, Virtual Classrooms, Learning Experience
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