NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 5 results Save | Export
Rose Stephenson, Editor – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2024
The report "Evolution of Devolution" examines how higher education policy has diverged across the four nations of the United Kingdom--England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland--since the devolution of powers in 1999. Edited by Rose Stephenson, Director of Policy and Advocacy at the Higher Education Policy Institute, the report…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Time Perspective
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Owens, Joshua – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2011
The prolific educational discussions of America's founding generation have led to extensive treatments surrounding the nature of early-national education in recent scholarship. Republican educational models Jefferson, Rush, and Webster have been scrutinized and praised as the forerunners to modern American higher education. Where these treatments…
Descriptors: United States History, Educational History, Higher Education, Educational Philosophy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Allender, Tim – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2009
This paper contributes to the special issue by offering a new framework in time periods that demonstrates the changing nature of the intellectual transfer to and from colonial India and to posit the imperatives that drove these changes. It shows that the nature of educational exchange in India was transformed in elemental ways during the colonial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Educational Experiments, Nationalism
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Roberts, Roberta D.; Humphreys, Glyn W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
The ability to report the temporal order of 2 tactile stimuli (1 applied to each hand) has been shown to decline when the arms are crossed over compared with when they are uncrossed. However, these effects have only been measured when temporal order was reported by stimulus location. It is unknown whether this spatial manipulation of the body…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Spatial Ability, Human Body, Human Posture
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
McGregor, Jane – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2004
Drawing on a research study into the spatiality of teachers' workplaces, this article explores the "concrete realities" of the artefact-filled world with which teachers, support staff and students interact, and considers the way in which networks of people and things order the spaces of the school. Spatiality is examined explicitly in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Teaching Conditions, School Space