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Davidson, Christopher M. – History of Education, 2008
This article charts the development of education in the lower Arabian Gulf from its traditional beginnings in the nineteenth century to the provision of more formal schooling and eventually a ministry of education following Britain's withdrawal from the region in 1971. In order to provide a better understanding of the complexities and relative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Development, Educational History
Wilcox, Susan – 1997
This paper examines the evolution over three decades of the educational development (ED) movement in Canada. An informal history of ED was constructed, using published documents about ED and personal interviews with 8 educational developers who played key roles in programs and ED centers; e-mail responses were received from ten other developers.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational History, Educational Improvement
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Reiser, Robert A. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2001
This second of a two-part article focuses on the history of instructional design in the United States. Starting with its origins during World War II, major events in the development of instructional design are described. Factors affecting the field over the last two decades, including increasing interest in cognitive psychology, microcomputers,…
Descriptors: Education, Educational Development, Educational Media, Educational Research
Han, Dongping – 2000
China's official history maintains that the radical egalitarianism of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) led to economic disaster. This book challenges that view. Drawing on local interviews and records in rural Jimo County, Shandong Province, this study contends that the Cultural Revolution's political convulsions democratized village political…
Descriptors: Communism, Economic Development, Educational Change, Educational Development
Smith, Anna Tolman – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1912
The publication of "Il metodo della pedagogica scientifica," by Dr. Maria Montessori, docent in the University of Rome, giving a full account of the inception and development of the system of education of which she is the author and the simultaneous translation of the work into English and German are events so unusual as to challenge attention.…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Educational History, Educational Development, Educational Methods
Spodek, Bernard – 1981
Changes in kindergarten education in the United States from its inception to the present and reasons for the historical changes are explored. Froebel's approach to kindergarten education is described and the introduction of kindergarten programs in the United States by various sponsors such as the Women's Temperance Union, churches, and settlement…
Descriptors: Child Development, Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Change
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Reiser, Robert A. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2001
Discusses the history of the field of instructional design and technology in the United States. Includes a definition, major features, rational for using instructional design and technology as the label for the field, history of instructional media from 1900 to the present, effects media have had on instructional practices, and the effect…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Media, Educational Research, Educational Technology
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Ferguson, Patrick – Journal of Teacher Education, 1985
The historical development of teacher education in Japan is highlighted. Similarities and differences between past and present Japanese and American teacher preparation practices are analyzed. Japanese efforts to modify and use Western pedagogical concepts are described. (MT)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Development, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Mushi, Philemon A. K. – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de Pedagogie, 1994
Analyzes the context in which a postliteracy curriculum was perceived and developed in Tanzania in the late 1970s. Indicates that the first postliteracy curriculum sought to provide neoliterates with general knowledge in politics, history, geography, health, and agriculture. Analyzes factors that influenced changes in the curriculum's form and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Problems, Educational Development
Carr, Alison A. – Educational Technology, 1994
Examines the issue of community involvement in reformulating educational systems. Historical perspectives on community involvement in schools are reviewed; the roles of community members in educational settings and in educational systems design settings are discussed; and experiences from fieldwork observing community participation are related.…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Role, Educational Change, Educational Development
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Reid, William A. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1990
Examines educational history to discover the process by which curriculum became a universal idea and how the concept of the classroom was invented. Argues that universal ideas and inventions such as the classroom result in the creation of dominant institutional categories that exert a powerful influence over what can or cannot be done by…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Educational Development, Educational History
Bowers, Roy A.; Cowen, David L. – 1991
This book presents and analyzes the history of the Rutgers College of Pharmacy (from 1892 to the present) and relates the Rutgers' experience, not only to national developments in education, but also to developments in the pharmaceutical sciences and to the changing pharmaceutical practices in the nation and in the State of New Jersey. A brief…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), College Environment, College Faculty, Continuing Education
Neff, Kenneth L. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
This bulletin is a continuation of the author's inquiry into the conceptual problems of national development as initially presented in "Education and the Development of Human Technology." It is based on a paper prepared by the author as background for a Consultant Seminar on Human Resources Development in August 1962. The purpose of both…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Role of Education, Educational Development, Labor Force Development
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Pederson, Robert – Community College Journal, 1995
Discusses the importance of the first annual meeting of the American Association of Junior Colleges (AAJC) in 1920 to the junior college movement. Indicates that, besides marking the beginning of the AAJC, the conference was a noted break from the narrowly academic view of the junior college prevalent in higher education. (MAB)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Development, Educational Development, Educational History
National Inst. of Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1978
Background information on the relationship between educational laboratories, research and development (R&D) centers, and the National Institute of Education (NIE) is presented. Attention is directed to: (1) the authorizing legislation for and the subsequent creation of the laboratories and centers; (2) a chronology of selected major events…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Coordination, Educational Development, Educational History
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