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Scope, 1991
Television is widely used in Ontario (Canada) public schools and is appreciated for making teaching more effective. Yet studies on the effectiveness of television as a learning tool outside of the classroom are ambivalent: many have claimed television to have a negative effect on learning, while others show neutral or moderately positive effects.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Childrens Television, Comprehension, Educational Television
Strachan, Jillian L. – The Australian Administrator, 1981
Most Australian teachers do not hold traditional methods of supervision in very high regard. A more acceptable form of supervision, clinical supervision, utilizes the information gathered from classroom observations to allow the teacher to gain a wider perspective on his or her own performance under non-threatening conditions. A limited survey,…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
Smyth, W. John – The Australian Administrator, 1981
After looking at reasons why research on teaching has had limited impact, this paper suggests alternative ways to generate and use research to achieve more productivity and indicates implications for educational practice. The author contends that the Research, Development, and Dissemination model of educational change, with its implicit view of…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
EFA 2000 Bulletin, 1998
This issue of "EFA 2000" focuses on the theme of inclusive education, i.e., including children with disabilities in general education classrooms. The cover story discusses a 1995 UNESCO survey of 63 countries that showed that integration of children with disabilities in regular schools is a declared policy in almost every country.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Davey, Ken – Research File, 1996
Canadian university infrastructures have eroded as seen in aging equipment, deteriorating facilities, and fewer skilled personnel to maintain and operate research equipment. Research infrastructure includes administrative overhead, facilities and equipment, and research personnel including faculty, technicians, and students. The biggest erosion of…
Descriptors: Equipment, Facilities, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Poliakoff, Anne Rogers, Ed. – Basic Education, 2003
Civic education, not so long ago, was regarded as a core purpose of grade school preparation for adulthood, a mandate to educate young people about U.S. history, freedom and values, and citizenship's responsibilities. The landmark 1999 Civic Education Study, conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement,…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Foreign Countries
Leadership and Accountability in the Republic of Scholars. Studies of Higher Education and Research.
Bjorklund, Stefan – 1992
This essay explores issues of higher education leadership, accountability and relationship with outside influences in a critique of recently proposed Swedish legislation on higher education. The paper hypothesizes that the ideal is a body of professionals as independent and responsible through their own internal professional norms. The paper…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation
Smyth, W. John – The Australian Administrator, 1980
To what extent can school principals provide effective educational leadership? Research shows that, contrary to textbook images, principals react to their circumstances instead of controlling them and that they spend most of their time on administrative, not instructional, matters. Further entrenching principals in their administrative role is the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Instructional Improvement
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Ellis, W. Geiger, Ed.; Ward, Dan, Ed. – The ALAN Review, 1980
The articles in this journal issue focus on adolescent literature. Topics covered in the articles include: (1) teaching adolescent literature about minorities to majority group students, (2) death in adolescent literature, (3) trends in German youth literature, and (4) female identity in the young adult novel. In addition, the journal issue…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Black Literature, Death
Huxur, Gulbahar; Mansfield, Earl; Nnazor, Reginald; Schuetze, Hans; Segawa, Megumi – CSSHE Professional File, 1996
This paper examines the learning needs and adaptation problems of foreign graduate students, and is based on the experiences of the five co-authors' graduate studies in Canada and the United States. It reviews the factors that contributed to their decision to study abroad, pre-sojourn expectations and arrival, their arrival in the host country,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, College Instruction, Cultural Differences, Culture Conflict
ASPBAE Courier, 1985
This issue of the Courier has as its main topic nonformal education for vocational and professional competence. The first article, "Nonformal Education for Vocational and Professional Competence: A Report of a Conference" (John Doraisamy), is a summary of the discussions that arose from the papers presented at the Asian-South Pacific…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Developing Nations, Distance Education
ASPBAE Courier, 1984
This publication is devoted to distance education. "The Future of Distance Teaching Universities in a Worldwide Perspectives" (John S. Daniel) examines challenges likely to face the various countries and regions of the world in the next decade. "An Australian University's Approach to Distance Education--Formal and Non-Formal"…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Communications Satellites, Comparative Analysis, Continuing Education
Adult Literacy & Basic Skills Unit Newsletter, 1989
This packet contains the four issues of a newsletter published in 1989 by the Adult Literacy & Basic Skills Unit in England. The Winter issue contains the following articles: "After the Act"; "An Evening at the Theatre"; "Horticulture: A Practical Project with Autistic Adults"; "Shared Reading"; and "Literacy and Adult Basic Education in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Autism, Classroom Techniques
Powell, J. P., Ed. – Higher Education Research & Development, 1983
Five articles on research and development in higher education and three review articles are presented. Titles and authors are as follows: "Students' Assessments of Instruction as a Basis for Teaching Improvement and Promotions Decisions: A Case-Study" (John Jones); "The Making of Academic Promotion Decisions: Criteria and…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Research, Employment Practices, Evaluation Criteria
Adult Literacy and Basic Skills Unit, London (England). – 1985
This collection of papers focuses on working with adults who have special needs. In her paper entitled "Literacy and the Visually Handicapped," Janice E. Mason examines ways in which strategies for meeting the needs of visually handicapped persons can be integrated into literacy programs. "Singer and Listener: Basic Education Work…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Students