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Tatzia Langlo – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation focuses on the professional philosophies, practices, and collaborative negotiation skills used and developed in two teacher education programs within two countries and how novice teachers integrate these ideas, skills, and processes in classrooms and schools. Simultaneously, this research examines how the patterns of democratic…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Beginning Teachers, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices
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Van Boxtel, Joanne M.; Sugita, Trisha – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2022
The researchers piloted an observational protocol to examine the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and checkpoint strategies used during daily instruction with a small sample of general and special education teachers. Observational research on UDL has been recommended within the literature. Researchers used the high-leverage practice…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Access to Education, Classroom Observation Techniques, Educational Principles
Taylor, James Grant – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to identify Core components perceived by faculty to be effective in their prominent graduate entrepreneurship education programs. The study sought to identify the best practices in graduate entrepreneurship education programs from the perceptions of faculty in the field. Research questions guiding the study were: (1)…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Entrepreneurship, Teacher Surveys, College Faculty
Elizalde, Ricardo Omar, Sr. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This qualitative design based research study examined the Connected Learning theoretical framework coupled with academic language scaffolds for Long Term English Learners (LTELs) in a secondary public school setting. The participants of this study were students that have been in the United States for more than six years and have yet to be…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, English Language Learners, Grade 9, High School Students
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Casanova, Carlos R.; Cammarota, Julio – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2019
This ongoing ethnographic study examines how a counter-space, La Libertad, introduces Latin@ students to a liberating pedagogy of praxis which counters dehumanization they experience in their high school. The researcher spent 180+ hours over 14 months in the field collecting data through participant observation, field notes, and personal…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Hispanic American Students, Teaching Methods, High School Students
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Furutan, Omid – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2014
Management faculties often use cases, simulations, and research projects to achieve learning objectives in the Principles of Management class. This class typically aims to introduce students to the topics of "planning, organizing, coordinating, staffing, directing, budgeting, controlling, and evaluating functions of management; leadership…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Experiential Learning, Educational Principles, Educational Practices
Woods, Rosmary Sandie M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the social justice principles embedded in California State University (CSU) Educational Administration Preparation Programs. More specifically, this study explored the intended, implemented, and assessed curriculum relative to social justice and critical consciousness, and investigated if differences exist…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Leadership Training, Educational Administration, Educational Principles
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Knotts, Greg; Henderson, Lynette; Davidson, Ronald A.; Swain, John D. – College Teaching, 2009
This article describes the investigation of four first-year faculty at a comprehensive state university. We each explored and evaluated our teaching philosophies, strategies, and roles as educators and researchers, using Bain's definition of authentic teaching and learning, the "natural critical learning environment." We identified four…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, College Instruction, College Faculty
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Heritage, Margaret; Kim, Jinok; Vendlinski, Terry; Herman, Joan – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2009
Based on the results of a generalizability study of measures of teacher knowledge for teaching mathematics developed at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing at the University of California, Los Angeles, this article provides evidence that teachers are better at drawing reasonable inferences about student…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Educational Testing, Inferences, Mathematics Instruction
Capra, Fritjof – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2007
This paper discusses the conceptual foundations for "Education for Sustainable Patterns of Living," the mission of the Center for Ecoliteracy in California. It offers an operational definition of ecological sustainability, and proposes study of living systems as a framework for understanding ecology. It considers key concepts for…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Ecology, Sustainable Development, Educational Philosophy
Stone, Michael K. – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2007
This paper complements Fritjof Capra's paper in this issue, "Sustainable Living, Ecological Literacy, and the Breath of Life." It explores how concepts essential to ecological literacy can also guide strategies for overcoming barriers to introducing integrated, multidisciplinary pedagogy into school curricula. It examines how the crisis…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Barriers, Educational Strategies
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Escalante, Jaime; Dirmann, Jack – Journal of Negro Education, 1990
Describes the success of the Escalante Math Program in East Los Angeles in teaching mathematics to poor minority students. Fundamental principles of the program include the following: (1) accountability; (2) hard work; (3) demand; (4) love; (5) parental involvement; (6) respect and values; (7) nutrition; and (8) drug use prevention. Discusses…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Principles, Educational Psychology, Educational Strategies
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Ross, Christine – College Composition and Communication, 2003
This article links failed reform to failed education through a case study of an annual collaborative revision of a program textbook in the Composition Program at the University of California at Irvine. Review of successive editions of the program's "Student Guide to Writing at UCI" reveals a progressive retreat from the program's…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Textbooks, Educational Change, Case Studies
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Kroll, Linda R. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2004
This case study investigates the development of the understanding of constructivist theory among students in a Masters level elementary teacher education program within a particular course. The focus of the study is a seminar entitled "Advanced Seminar in Child Development". The questions explored include: How do students' ideas of…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Constructivism (Learning), Teacher Education Programs, Seminars