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Flessner, Ryan – Action in Teacher Education, 2012
Educational scholars often describe a research/practice divide. Similarly, students in teacher education programs often struggle to navigate the differences between university coursework and expectations they face in field-based placements. This self-study analyzes one researcher's attempt to address the research/practice divide from the position…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Educators
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Lawson, Hal A. – Sport, Education and Society, 2009
Researchers' social-cultural organization influences the scope, quality, quantity, coherence, dissemination, utilization and impact of research-based, theoretically sound knowledge. Five concepts--paradigm, exemplar, segment, network and gatekeeper--are salient to research on researchers' organization. Autobiographical reflections signal these…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Physical Education, School Activities, Social Change
National Governors Association, 2007
American postsecondary education is a diverse collection of public and private institutions, ranging from community and technical colleges to comprehensive and research universities. These institutions are an invaluable resource to states and to the nation -- they educate many of the talented people who work in our industries, businesses, and…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Educational Innovation, Accountability, Research and Development
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Vincent, Jill – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2004
In 2001, with funding of $7 million, the Australian Government implemented the "Numeracy Research and Development Initiative"--one of several initiatives introduced by the Australian Government to support literacy and numeracy improvement. Other initiatives included the "National Indigenous English Literacy and Numeracy…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Research and Development, Educational Change, Teaching Methods
Bawden, William, Ed. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
This publication presents the papers presented at the Proceedings of the National Citizens Conference on Education held at the Washington Hotel, Washington last May 19-21, 1920. The purpose of the conference is to capitalize for the new era the interest in education that is springing up in all parts of the country, and to organize it for effective…
Descriptors: Health Education, Agricultural Production, Foreign Countries, Civil Engineering
Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association, Alexandria. – 2001
This document contains 95 papers and summaries of 5 poster sessions from an Australian conference on putting vocational education and training (VET) research to work. The following are among the areas covered in the papers: factors affecting VET graduates' employability over time; technical and further education (TAFE) institutes as models of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Case Studies