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Download full textSchuyler, Gwyer – 1997
Although most educators agree that the primary goal of education is student achievement, many believe that this goal has become incongruent with the way that educational institutions function. Community college professionals, in particular, have taken the lead in proposing a new paradigm of learning for the educational process. This digest will…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives
Brosnan, Patricia A.; Hartog, Martin D. – 1993
Current assessment practices in the classroom can affect the movement toward a child-centered curriculum in mathematics education. The mathematical community is addressing the challenge to implement standards in the areas of testing, assessment, and accountability in order to maintain this movement. This digest: (1) discusses what makes current…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Principles
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 1998
Service learning contextualizes student learning and provides an environment in which students can acquire organizational, team, problem-solving, and other skills and attitudes necessary for future work and learning. Although service learning has been classified as a form of work-based learning, students participating in service learning receive…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits
Kerka, Sandra – 1997
Popular education is a form of adult education that encourages learners to examine their lives critically and take action to change social conditions. Popular education's goal is to develop people's capacity for social change. Although it may assume diverse forms, popular education usually involves a cycle described as action/reflection/action or…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Change Agents, Change Strategies
Wonacott, Michael E. – 2001
Technological literacy includes the following elements: (1) the ability to use technology; (2) knowledge about the details of individual technologies and the processes of technology development; (3) a holistic understanding of the historical and cultural context of technology and adaptability based on initiative and resourceful thinking; and (4) a…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Cooperative Planning, Curriculum Development, Definitions
Lounsbury, John H. – 1996
Concerns about middle level education began early in this century and will continue to be discussed by researchers and observers well into the next century. This digest examines the evolving characteristics and goals of middle level education, especially in terms of the most recent statements of purpose by major organizations in the field. Noting…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Community Involvement
