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Guile, David, Ed.; Unwin, Lorna, Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2019
"The Wiley Handbook of Vocational Education and Training" offers an in-depth guide to the theories, practices, and policies of vocational education and training (VET). With contributions from a panel of leading international scholars, the Handbook contains 27 authoritative essays from a wide range of disciplines. The contributors present…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Theories, Educational Practices, Theory Practice Relationship
Kimberly M. Knox – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This phenomenological study used in-depth interviews to mold and create participant narratives to document the lived experiences of special education social workers who work in the inclusive environment through a critical disability lens. Special education social workers primary focus of work is to provide direct and supportive Services to…
Descriptors: Special Education, Social Work, School Social Workers, Inclusion
Brown, Sarah; Collard, Rosemary-Claire; Hoogeveen, Dawn – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2014
To produce a teaching statement, current and aspiring teachers undertake the ostensibly straightforward task of putting their teaching philosophy onto paper. But upon close examination, the teaching statement--a seemingly simple object--is much more complex. The teaching statement is full of dual functions, many of which can be conceived of as…
Descriptors: Geography, Geography Instruction, Feminism, Educational Philosophy
Salter, Peta; Maxwell, Jacinta – Critical Studies in Education, 2016
National curriculum development is a complex and contested process. By its very function, a national curriculum serves to organise diverse interests into a common framework, a task fraught with cultural and political tensions and compromises. In the emergent Australian Curriculum these tensions are manifest in and around the cross-curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Sustainability
Moscati, Vincenzo; Rizzi, Luigi; Vottari, Ilenia; Chilosi, Anna Maria; Salvadorini, Renata; Guasti, Maria Teresa – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Agreement is a morphosyntactic dependency which is sensitive to the hierarchical structure of the clause and is constrained by the structural distance that separates the elements involved in this relation. In this paper we present two experiments, providing new evidence that Italian-speaking children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), as…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Phrase Structure, Italian
O'Donovan, Margaret – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2015
This study explores the challenges and opportunities in relation to developing distributed leadership practice in Irish post-primary schools. It considers school leadership within the context of contemporary distributed leadership theory. Associated concepts such as distributed cognition and activity theory are used to frame the study. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Participative Decision Making, Transformational Leadership, Barriers
Stewart, Lois Elaine – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Advanced practice nurses fill a vital need in the U.S. by increasing access to needed healthcare. Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) are one type of advanced practice nurse with a long history of safe and effective peri-anesthetic care. Nurse anesthetists have a rich tradition of providing anesthetic care for rural and underserved…
Descriptors: Nursing, Nurses, Anesthesiology, Nursing Education
Anderson, O. Roger – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2014
Modern neuroscientific research has substantially enhanced our understanding of the human brain. However, many challenges remain in developing a strong, brain-based theory of human learning, especially in complex environments such as educational settings. Some of the current issues and challenges in our progress toward developing comprehensive…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Educational Theories, Learning Theories, Scientific Research
Clarke, Matthew – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2014
Quality and equity are touchstones of education policy in the twenty-first century in a range of global contexts. On the surface, this seems fitting: after all, who could object to more quality and greater equity in education? Yet what do we mean by quality and equity, and how are they related? This paper draws on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Quality, Equal Education, Ideology
Lancaster, Jeanette Elizabeth – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2013
A central feature of complexity is that it is based on non-linear, recursive relations. However, in most current accounts of complexity such relations, while non-linear, are based on the reductive relations of a Newtonian onto-epistemological framework. This means that the systems that are emergent from the workings of such relations are a…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Epistemology, Social Sciences, Philosophy
Flinders, Brooke A. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2013
The "Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice" (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2008) seek to communicate standards that will prepare graduates to function within a complex healthcare system. The document highlights concepts from patient-centered care to evidence-based practice (Commission on…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Nursing, Nursing Education, Nursing Students
Aydogan, Tuncay; Ergun, Serap – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2016
Concept mapping is a method of graphical learning that can be beneficial as a study method for concept linking and organization. Concept maps, which provide an elegant, easily understood representation of an expert's domain knowledge, are tools for organizing and representing knowledge. These tools have been used in educational environments to…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Computer Science Education, Tests, Student Attitudes
Lee Pettman, Tahna; Armstrong, Rebecca; Johnson, Shae; Love, Penelope; Gill, Timothy; Coveney, John; Swinburn, Boyd; Allender, Steven – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2020
Obesity prevention is an urgent public health priority that requires action at multiple levels. Collaboration between academics, policy and practice is necessary to ensure best-practice implementation. A national knowledge translation and exchange (KT) platform, the Collaboration of Community-based Obesity Prevention Sites (CO-OPS), was delivered…
Descriptors: Obesity, Prevention, Program Evaluation, Theory Practice Relationship
Kulzhanova, Zhuldizay T.; Kulzhanova, Gulbaram T. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
This research is devoted to the philosophical analysis of legal culture as a determinant of value orientations in the transition period society. The purpose of the study is to discover the essence and specificity of legal culture as a determinant of value orientations in a transition society from the philosophical perspective. In accordance with…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Social Change, Youth, Philosophy
Szucs, Dénes; Devine, Amy; Soltesz, Fruzsina; Nobes, Alison; Gabriel, Florence – Developmental Science, 2014
We determined how various cognitive abilities, including several measures of a proposed domain-specific number sense, relate to mathematical competence in nearly 100 9-year-old children with normal reading skill. Results are consistent with an extended number processing network and suggest that important processing nodes of this network are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Children, Numeracy, Short Term Memory