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Mutch, Carol; Collins, Sandra – School Community Journal, 2012
The Education Review Office (ERO) conducted an external evaluation in over two hundred New Zealand schools to find out more about the engagement between schools and the parents and "whanau" (families and extended families) of their students. This paper provides some historical background and key findings from the relevant literature…
Descriptors: School Culture, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Parent School Relationship
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Morgan, John – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2011
This article focuses on Enquiring Minds, a three-year curriculum development project funded by Microsoft as part of its Partners in Learning programme and run by Futurelab. The article suggests that the project is best understood as an example of a new type of "curriculum entrepreneurialism" that is impatient with the traditional…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Partnerships in Education, School Culture, Political Socialization
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Bhanji, Zahra – Comparative Education Review, 2012
The purpose of this article is to explore Microsoft Corporation as a new international actor shaping educational reforms and practices. This study examines how the implementation of Microsoft's global Partners in Learning (PiL) program varied and was mediated by national politics and national institutional practices in two different contexts,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Educational Policy
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Scott, Shelleyann; Dixon, Kathryn – Educational Forum, 2009
This research report presents a student-focused model aimed at involving students, academics, and administrators in improving and enhancing learning and teaching at a university business school. The "partners in learning" model involves using student feedback to develop curriculum, teaching, and assessment; systematic, in-context…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Curriculum Development, Professional Development, Instructional Leadership
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Wallace, Ruth; Manado, Mark; Curry, Cathy; Agar, Richard – International Journal of Training Research, 2008
Over the past four years a team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners in learning research across Northern Australia have identified many of the issues that underpin the implementation of training and investment through enterprise development to improve economic and community outcomes of Indigenous partners. This paper provides an overview of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Indigenous Populations, Prior Learning
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Moseman, Cindy C. – Early Education and Development, 2003
This study examined the beliefs of kindergarten, first-, and second-grade teachers regarding families' competence to contribute knowledge to their child's educational process. Findings suggest the need to consider the beliefs of current, as well as prospective, teachers regarding the frequently neglected "other half" of the partnership,…
Descriptors: Competence, Educational Cooperation, Family Involvement, Family School Relationship
Orr, Margaret Terry – 1999
This paper examines how community colleges are responding to external pressures to more closely collaborate with secondary schools in school reform efforts and school-to-work transition programs, focusing on four community colleges. These colleges engaged in a wide variety of collaborative activities with secondary schools. Two strong examples of…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, High Schools