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Shabajee, Paul; Postlethwaite, Keith – School Science Review, 2000
Argues for including the concepts of "twentieth-century physics"--relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos theory--within the National Curriculum in science for England and Wales, which almost entirely ignores them. (Contains 16 references.) (Author/ASK)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Physics, Science Curriculum
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Seller, Wayne – School Leadership & Management, 2001
Three articles in this special issue explore the people/school organization interrelationship in England, Canada, and the Netherlands. Two articles discuss learning organizations' change capacity. A third article examines tensions occurring when people/organization interactions clash with desired outcomes. Chaos theory and improvement programs are…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Chaos Theory, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
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Carter, Kay; Sood, Krishan – Management in Education, 2014
A view from the dance floor of ALICSE participants showed that the integrated children's services remain under pressure to become multi-dimensional, with the rhetorical push to a joint working becoming increasingly complex and difficult to navigate. This was the view of a 360 degree questionnaire to a number of ALICSE participants and reflections…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Services, Children, Questionnaires
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Cornish, Carlene – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2021
Self-governance and responsibilisation are integral to Basic Key Skills Builder (BKSB) assessments and Functional Skills qualifications. However, very little is known of its neoliberalist effects and the governance practices of tutors teaching disengaged youth taking Functional Skills as part of the overall employability certificate. Adopting a…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Job Skills, Employment Potential, Neoliberalism
Beghetto, Ronald A., Ed.; Kaufman, James C., Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2010
"Nurturing Creativity in the Classroom" is a groundbreaking collection of essays by leading scholars, who examine and respond to the tension that many educators face in valuing student creativity but believing that they cannot support it given the curricular constraints of the classroom. Is it possible for teachers to nurture creative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Gifted, Motivation
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Hobson, P. R.; Lansbury, A. N. – Physics Education, 1996
Describes Chua's circuit, a simple electronic circuit that can be used to demonstrate many of the important features of nonlinear dynamical systems. (Author/JRH)
Descriptors: Chaos Theory, Demonstrations (Science), Electric Circuits, Foreign Countries