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Harris-Hart, Catherine – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2010
Whilst the past 35 years have seen numerous attempts at national curriculum collaboration in Australia, these have invariably failed largely due to the constitutional reality that the States have responsibility for curriculum. Federal government involvement in curriculum can only be achieved, therefore, with the consent of the States. To achieve…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Critical Theory, Foreign Countries, Federal Government
Mays, Tony John – Online Submission, 2011
This paper argues that the development of classroom practice is central to the purpose of the IPET (initial professional education and training) of teachers. Notwithstanding the growing use of ICTs (information and communication technologies), both in teacher development and school classrooms, the normative modeling of appropriate contact-based…
Descriptors: Open Education, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Professional Education
Giesbrecht, Norman – 1996
Though statistical literacy is an essential skill in modern society, students often approach statistics courses with apprehension and "mathophobia." Educators need to design and deliver statistics instruction so as to counter these anxieties and facilitate learning in concrete, experiential ways. This paper explores several key issues in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Curriculum
Tremmel, Robert – English Education, 2010
English teacher educators' commitment to Deweyan progressivism has cost them in recent years. It has contributed to their being pushed to the margins when it comes to serious, top-level discussions about the direction of American education. This essay reexamines the case for progressivism and its relevance as an element of CEE's ongoing effort to…
Descriptors: English Teacher Education, English Teachers, Teacher Educators, Educational Philosophy
Schulte, Barbara – Comparative Education, 2013
Both in China and internationally, educators and policy makers claim that vocational education and training (VET) is essential for the sound economic development of a country and the physical and social well-being of its population. However, China looks back upon a century-long history of rejection when it comes to popularising VET, despite…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Educational History
Seng, Seok Hoon – 1991
Recent research suggests the importance of social interaction in facilitating knowledge acquisition and transfer. The theory of mediated learning experience has recently been used to develop a teacher-student interactionist model that is especially applicable to high-risk students. In this model, teachers are involved as mediators in: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education
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Carroll, Michael – TESOL Journal, 1994
Focuses on student involvement in determining course structure through journal writing. Successful student writers become highly skilled at directing the course of their own learning. The data in the journals inform teachers about what is occurring in learners' heads. Reflective journal writers are adopting a professional approach to their…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Course Content, Course Organization, Creative Thinking
Holloway, Susan D. – 1987
Studies of causal attributions among elementary school children and their mothers in Japan and in the United States indicate that the Japanese are more likely to cite effort as the primary cause of school achievement. In the United States, ability is more frequently selected as a key factor. The characteristics of Japanese mother-child interaction…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory
Honeyfield, John – Guidelines, 1991
This article considers how to get students to form groups in the language classroom. It focuses on two related questions: (1) how big should small groups be? and (2) what other grouping criteria should be considered besides group size? (Contain 14 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Class Size, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
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Osborne, Barry – Australian Journal of Education, 1987
The strengths and weaknesses of both the qualitative and quantitative approaches to classroom research are examined. The qualitative approach, with some modification of objectives and reporting, is recommended as essential to cross-cultural classroom research. Interdisciplinary team research is also advocated. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Denscombe, Martyn – 1983
Ethnographic data on schools are used as the basis for commenting on two issues that concern British educational policy-makers: the crisis of control in the classroom, and the cut-back in initial teacher training. An ethnographic review of classroom control indicates that physical and verbal aggression by students is rare, and that such aggression…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Discipline, Educational Policy
Kavanagh, Robert N.; Pokraka, Edward S. – 1990
This report is intended to serve as a focus for developing a commitment for continuing investment in computer support for education, research, and administration at the University of Saskatchewan. Based on the assumption that effective utilization of computers, computer networks, and other telecommunications technology is essential to the…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Databases, Educational Administration
Kaldor, Susan – 1991
Differences in the role of Standard Australian English (SAusE) in a variety of Australian language educational programs are explored. The value of teaching SAusE (as opposed to a more international Standard English) both to non-native speakers learning English as a Second Language and to Aboriginal English speakers learning SAusE as a second…
Descriptors: Dialects, English, Foreign Countries, Language Role
Collis, Betty; Muir, Walter – 1984
The first of four major sections in this report presents an overview of the background and evolution of computer applications to learning and teaching. It begins with the early attempts toward "automated teaching" of the 1920s, and the "teaching machines" of B. F. Skinner of the 1940s through the 1960s. It then traces the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Makarov, A. N. – Russian Education and Society, 2008
Radical transformations in Russian life today, in particular in the economy, are going hand in hand with tendencies in which higher education is involved increasingly in economic relations. The complexity of this process is due to the very nature of higher education, which not only provides for the reproduction of highly qualified professional…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Labor Market, Norms, Social Mobility