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Download full textDoughty, Howard A.; Kenney, Lorne J. – College Quarterly, 2011
Innovation should be about procedures and methods. Little thought is given to proximate, much less ultimate aims. In this article, the authors invite educators to take a break and explore the educational enterprise to which they devote their life's work. They discuss two bits of excerpted writing, both over half a century old. One comes from Jack…
Descriptors: High School Students, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Educational Attitudes
Byers, Patricia – College Quarterly, 2010
This Ontario-based qualitative study examined secondary school and college textbooks' treatment of trigonometric representations in order to identify potential sources of student difficulties in the transition from secondary school to college mathematics. Analysis of networks, comprised of trigonometric representations, identified numerous issues…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Transitional Programs, Textbooks, Foreign Countries
Villalba, Ernesto – College Quarterly, 2008
The paper discusses the concept of schools as "multi-purpose learning centres", proposed by the European Commission in the year 2000 as part of the Lisbon Strategy to improve competitiveness. This concept was arguably the "European vision" for school education and was meant to drive the modernization of school education. However, the concept has…
Descriptors: School Activities, Foreign Countries, Educational Objectives, Competition
