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One Direction: Strategic Challenges for Twenty-First Century Secondary School Music
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McNeill, Jeff; McPhail, Graham – Music Education Research, 2020
This paper reports on the second stage of an international study exploring the future of secondary school music education. Within a discursive context that tends to regard music education as failing to meet the needs of many students, we instigated a three-step Delphi study to capture views from educators across the English-speaking world.…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Music Education, Teacher Attitudes, Music Teachers
History Education for Nation-Building in Ethiopia, Germany, Rwanda, South Africa, Switzerland, and USA: A Comparative Analysis
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Awgichew, Sisay; Ademe, Enguday – Cogent Education, 2022
This study examined the role of history education for nation building in Ethiopia, Germany Rwanda, South Africa, Switzerland, and USA using a comparative research method. Student textbooks and syllabi were the main data sources. Document review was the principal data-gathering tool and the data was analysed qualitatively. Findings revealed that…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Nationalism, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Teaching Gender Studies via Open and Distance Learning in South Africa
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Murray, Jessica; Byrne, Deirdre; Koenig-Visagie, Leandra – Distance Education, 2013
The University of South Africa (UNISA) has recently redesigned its honors degree in Gender Studies. The course design team members have been mindful of three key factors while redesigning this degree. First, we are aligning our course design with the demands of open and distance learning (ODL) and UNISA's institutional move to online delivery of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Distance Education
Tourism on Television.
Young, Bruce – 1984
Thirteen half-hour television programs entitled "The Geography of Tourism" developed for use in Wilfrid Laurier University's (Canada) distance education program are discussed. Distance education embraces teaching, or communicating with, students who are not physically in the classroom with the instructor. The central theme of the series…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Distance Education, Educational Objectives
Developing Creative Thinking through an Integrated Arts Programme for Talented Children.
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Eriksson, Gillian I. – 1984
Described is a K-12 integrative arts program of the Schmerenbeck Educational Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa, designed to help gifted and talented children develop an understanding of the nature of creative thinking as expressed through different art forms. The report discusses how the program defines talent; how gifted students are identified…
Descriptors: Art Education, Artists, Child Development, Comparative Education
Rethinking Learner Support in Distance Education: Change and Continuity in an International Context. RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Distance Education.
Tait, Alan, Ed.; Mills, Roger, Ed. – 2003
This book contains 16 papers on learner support in distance education in an international context. The following papers are included: "Constructivism or Confucianism? We Have the Technology, Now What Shall We Do With It?" (Louise Aylward); "Exploring Informal Study Groups in a South African Teacher Education Programme" (Carol…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Ancillary School Services, Change Strategies