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Solomon, R. Patrick, Ed.; Sekayi, Dia, Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2007
This volume illuminates the most pressing challenges faced by urban schools, teachers, teacher candidates, and teacher training programs and offers a range of insights and possibilities for urban teacher education and teaching. Covering issues spanning the broadly theoretical to the urgently practical, it goes beyond the traditional discourses in…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Cultural Pluralism, Justice
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Ferdig, Richard E.; Coutts, Jade; DiPietro, Joseph; Lok, Benjamin; Davis, Niki – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss several technology applications that are being used to address current problems or opportunities related to multicultural education. Design/methodology/approach: Five technology applications or technology-related projects are discussed, including a teacher education literacy tool, social networking…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Games, Patients, Educational Technology
Strodl, Peter – 1993
Principals must integrate information originating from many sectors among the schools' constituents. The degree to which constituent groups participate in school activities helps determine the quality of instruction and learning. Crucial to the role of administrator is a network of interactions between people and things, school board pressures and…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Leadership
Schwarz, Sharon M.; Schellenberg, Richard P. – 1992
Ninety-four persons employed in direct care positions in a community-based agency that serves adults with mental retardation completed self-report questionnaires assessing relationships between social support and the adaptive outcomes of mood, perceived competence, and self-efficacy. Findings indicated that: (1) negative mood was negatively…
Descriptors: Adults, Attendants, Caregivers, Community Programs
Shultz, Eileen L.; And Others – 1992
A study was conducted at Kutztown University (Pennsylvania) to examine issues affecting women in higher education. Areas addressed in the study include aspirations for advancement, perceptions of family support, perceived institutional support, perceived barriers to advancement, and networks perceived to support faculty. Data were solicited…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Faculty, Faculty Integration, Females
Webb, Norman L.; And Others – 1991
The Urban Mathematics Collaborative (UMC) project has the goal of contributing to the improvement of mathematics education in the inner-city schools by identifying models to enhance the professional lives of teachers and encouraging the entry of high school mathematics teachers into a larger mathematics community including mathematicians from…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Educational Cooperation, Faculty Development
Webb, Norman L.; And Others – 1991
The Urban Mathematics Collaborative (UMC) project has the goal of contributing to the improvement of mathematics education in the inner-city schools by identifying models to enhance the professional lives of teachers and encouraging the entry of high school mathematics teachers into a larger mathematics community including mathematicians from…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Educational Cooperation, Faculty Development
Webb, Norman L.; And Others – 1991
The Urban Mathematics Collaborative (UMC) project has the goal of contributing to the improvement of mathematics education in the inner-city schools by identifying models to enhance the professional lives of teachers and encouraging the entry of high school mathematics teachers into a larger mathematics community including mathematicians from…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Educational Cooperation, Faculty Development
Webb, Norman L.; And Others – 1991
The Urban Mathematics Collaborative (UMC) project has the goal of contributing to the improvement of mathematics education in the inner-city schools by identifying models to enhance the professional lives of teachers and encouraging the entry of high school mathematics teachers into a larger mathematics community including mathematicians from…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Educational Cooperation, Faculty Development
Winchell, Dick G. – 1982
Humanistic geography is similar to ethnography in that both are concerned with describing actions and events in terms of their meaning to those experiencing them; humanistic geography is particularly concerned with understanding subjective social space: space as perceived by members of particular human groups. A humanistic geography case study,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Basketball, Case Studies, Community Relations
Ratcliff, James L. – 1984
Electronic networking is communication between two or more people that involves one or more telecommunications media. There is electronic networking software available for most computers, including IBM, Apple, and Radio Shack personal computers. Depending upon the sophistication of the hardware and software used, individuals and groups can…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Literacy, Electronic Equipment
McBroom, Elizabeth, Ed. – Social Work Papers, 1981
The nine papers in this collection are directed toward aspects of family treatment in social work practice. Ranging in focus across the life span from infants to older adults and including material about minority group families in America, all of the papers discuss current practices and programs. The first paper discusses primary prevention…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcoholism, Asian Americans, Child Abuse
Coleman, Ann; And Others – 1978
An interdisciplinary course on women and identity for college-level women's studies instructors is presented. Materials for the course are taken from myth, psychology, sociology, feminism, art, and other disciplines. It is divided into seven units: sexuality, fertility, work and family, fear and envy, women's networks, individuality, and social…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Contraception, Family (Sociological Unit), Fear
Scherer, Jacqueline; And Others – 1981
This is the second of a four-part study on the function of social networks in school community relations in Pontiac, Michigan. This volume consists of a 20th century social, economic, and demographic history of Pontiac, focusing on (1) the role of the auto industry in forming the socioeconomic character of the city, and (2) race relations. Then…
Descriptors: Blacks, Busing, Economic Development, Economic Factors
Yoder, Janice D. – 1984
Potential pitfalls for women pursuing academic careers in psychology as they make the transition from graduate student to assistant professor are discussed, along with ways to avoid or minimize some of these difficulties. Basic statistics on women's representation in the profession are examined, including two common explanations of the data.…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Career Ladders, Change Strategies, College Faculty
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