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Govers, Elly – Cogent Education, 2016
Systems of monitoring and control have left many educators and organisations in the field of post-compulsory education struggling to find ways to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse society. Education is complex. Many educators would agree that it is influenced by many, often contradictory, voices and power structures. Based on the findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Case Studies, Systems Approach
Albashiry, Nabeel M.; Voogt, Joke M.; Pieters, Jules M. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
College Heads of Department (HoDs) are increasingly expected to perform more curriculum-leadership tasks, maintaining and advancing the department curriculum, especially in developing countries. However, in practice, HoDs are reported to pay little attention to this aspect of their job due to several factors--one of which is a lack of professional…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Higher Education, Curriculum Development, Department Heads
McRaven, Nan; Somers, Patricia – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
Using definitions of the American Council on Education (2012) and Knight (2015) as guides, this article explores the internationalization of one urban community college. Twelve interviews--the president, board, and administrators--were held. While all acknowledged that the college had made progress toward the goal of internationalization, they…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Global Approach, Administrator Attitudes, Program Effectiveness
Karp, Melinda Mechur; Raufman, Julia; Efthimiou, Chris; Ritze, Nancy – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
In response to strikingly low completion rates in public 2-year colleges, including for students who are well-prepared academically, most community colleges across the country offer student success courses as one approach to improving outcomes for students. Some colleges have begun to revise these courses in response to research indicating that…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, First Year Seminars
Albashiry, Nabeel M.; Voogt, Joke M.; Pieters, Jules M. – Curriculum Journal, 2015
The Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) curriculum requires continuous renewal and constant involvement of stakeholders in the redesign process. Due to a lack of curriculum design expertise, TVET institutions in developing contexts encounter challenges maintaining and advancing the quality and relevance of their programmes to the…
Descriptors: Technical Education, Vocational Education, Vocational Education Teachers, Teacher Collaboration
Albashiry, Nabeel M.; Voogt, Joke M.; Pieters, Jules M. – Curriculum Journal, 2015
Learning about curriculum development is critical for middle managers of technical vocational institutions in order to assume curriculum leadership in maintaining and enhancing the quality and relevance of their educational programs. This case study reports on the design and effects of a professional development arrangement (PDA), with such a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Technical Education, Vocational Education, Community Colleges
Goldfien, Andrea C.; Badway, Norena Norton – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
Bridge programs, in which underprepared students gain the academic and technical skills necessary for college level courses and entry-level employment, are a promising initiative for expanding access to, and success in, community college education. For career pathways related to science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM), bridge…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Community Colleges, Biotechnology, Basic Skills
Burn, Helen E. – MathAMATYC Educator, 2012
This multiple case study explores factors that shaped the curricular reasoning of mathematics faculty engaged in college algebra reform in community colleges. Overall, the study found that although proposed reform of college algebra is broad in scope and influenced by the student audience, competing influences emerge that can enable or constrain…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Science Education, Algebra, Community Colleges
Sweeney, Kathleen Jennings – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Dwindling resources, the challenges of providing postsecondary remedial education, and an environment that emphasizes outcomes assessment are realities that confront the community college department chair. The role of the department chair is particularly challenging in the community college context due to accountability pressures, fiscal…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Department Heads, College Faculty, College Administration
Brown, Warren J. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2013
The community college system is based on an open-door mission and serves to provide access to students of diverse backgrounds. Online learning is one of the fastest growing segments of community college offerings. If the community college system embraces its open-door mission, it must also embrace new ways of providing multicultural experiences…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Online Courses, Community Colleges, Multicultural Education
Ivey, Tracey – ProQuest LLC, 2009
American higher education is striving to create the appropriate academic environment in order to prepare students to be interculturally competent for the realities of the twenty first century, and curriculum internationalization is part of this process. The purpose of this study was to investigate the process by which the curriculum is becoming…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Global Approach, Global Education, Interpersonal Competence