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Mulcahy, D. G. – Irish Educational Studies, 2012
This article considers the conceptualization of physical education as a Leaving Certificate Examination subject and the place of physical education in a liberal education. Special attention is given to the conceptual evolution of physical education and its intrinsic educational values and to the developments in the idea of a liberal education over…
Descriptors: Physical Education, General Education, Teacher Certification, Exit Examinations
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Martinez de Morentin, Juan Ignacio – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2011
This article is an analysis of official UNESCO documents--General Conference resolutions and Executive Board decisions for the period 1946 to 1999--that address international education. It shows that international education has been key to UNESCO's mission since the organization began, and illustrates various trends in its acceptance and…
Descriptors: International Education, Concept Formation, International Organizations, Position Papers
Boix Mansilla, Veronica; Lenoir, Yves – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2010
This article examines the historical evolution of the concepts of interdisciplinarity and integration in American education. We first focus on United States education in the 20th century to review the rationales for integrated and interdisciplinary primary and secondary education. We place such rationales in the context of the larger purposes…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Concept Formation, Educational Development, Educational History
Segovia, Isidoro; Lupiáñez, Jose Luis; Molina, Marta; González, Francisco; Miñán, Antonio; Real, Irene – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2010
This article provides an overview of the role that interdisciplinarity plays in the Spanish education system. With this aim, we first describe the main conception of the term "interdisciplinarity" in texts written in Spanish, including other terms that have similar meaning. Then we review the role of interdisciplinarity in the Spanish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Concept Formation, Role Perception