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Jita, Loyiso C.; Ndlalane, Tembi C. – Perspectives in Education, 2009
Teacher clusters represent a recent experiment in the field of teacher professional development in South Africa. Increasingly, teacher clusters are being used as a substitute for the traditional approaches to professional development in helping teachers reshape their professional knowledge and change their classroom practices. What underlies this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Faculty Development
Grant, D. R. B. – 1984
The argument presented in this monograph stresses that, as concerns early childhood education, Jamaican parents must not only know and understand what is being done for and with their children but must also be active contributors to their educational development. It is further stressed that disadvantaged parents need special training and help if…
Descriptors: Church Role, Community Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Improvement
Obiakor, Festus E.; And Others – 1995
This paper discusses demands and challenges of being an educator with a disability and includes a review of the literature and an analysis of an interview with a leading educator with a disability. The paper opens with a discussion of the definitional issues and implications of the terms "handicap" and "disability." Literature on the role of the…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adjustment (to Environment), Advocacy, Disabilities