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Teachers' Concerns about Adopting Technology-Enhanced Embodied Learning and Their Mitigation through Professional Development
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Georgiou, Yiannis; Ioannou, Andri – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2019
Technology-enhanced embodied learning is argued to have the potential to revolutionize K-12 education. Despite the affordances of technology-enhanced embodied learning, its integration in mainstream education is currently at slow pace. Slow adoption of technological innovation is not a new issue in the education arena. Several factors are…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Adoption (Ideas), Technology Integration, Faculty Development
Headteacher Change Leadership Competency: A Study in Malaysian Primary Schools
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Tai, Mei Kin; Abdull Kareem, Omar – Professional Development in Education, 2020
The main aim of the study was to examine whether headteachers in Malaysian primary schools were equipped with the relevant competencies to execute school change, in the light of increasing demands for educational excellence and ensuing school reforms. A comparison was made between the National School (NS) and National-Type Chinese School (NTCS).…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Effectiveness, Elementary Schools, Foreign Countries
The Impact of a Forest School Model and an Interdisciplinary Curriculum in a Third-Grade Classroom: An Action Research Study
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Hoyt-Parrish, Valerie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
New policy at LHP (pseudonym) requires all teachers to implement the Danish Forest School approach and integrate the natural outdoor areas surrounding the campus in their curriculum and pedagogy. The purposes of the present study are to identify the cognitive, affective and psychomotor impact of the Danish Forest School approach on students and to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outdoor Education, Natural Resources, Teaching Methods
And Then the Basals Arrived: School Leadership, Learning Communities and Professionalism
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Wood, Diane R. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2011
This article, based on six years of participant observation, provides a close-up view of two learning communities in an urban elementary school. It provides a case study of both learning communities, laying out how teachers participating in them learned to respond differently to difficult problems and dilemmas, to change their language and…
Descriptors: Expertise, Participant Observation, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership
Chasing Dreams and Recognising Realities: Teachers' Responses to ICT
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Underwood, Jean; Dillon, Gayle – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2011
The teaching profession's response to the inexorable march of new technology into education has been a focus of research for some 30 years. Linked with the impact of ICT on measurable performance outcomes, teacher attitudes to technology and the impact on pedagogic practice have been central to that research, a research that has often seen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Attitudes, Educational Research
"One for All and All for One": Assessing the Implementation of One Comprehensive School-Wide Discipline Program in a Primary School in Southwest Georgia
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Ward, Linda T. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
In schools across America, school safety and student discipline remain primary concerns for all stakeholders in the education process. Researchers and educators suggest that implementing a school-wide discipline plan tailored to meet the needs of a particular school setting is one solution to the complex behavior management problem. The limited…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, Discipline, School Safety