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A Unipolar Concentration of English and the Multilingual-Semilingual Paradox
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Katada, Fusa – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
'We have the right to talk and think in our own language.' This self-evident slogan is ever challenged in the digital age of the 21st century. 'Talking and thinking' is most effectively trained and achieved by formal education carried out in one's own language. However, multilingual children growing up in multilingual societies would have to…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language of Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
ACER 2017-18 Annual Report
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Australian Council for Educational Research, 2020
The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) is one of the world's leading educational research centres. Since it was established in 1930, ACER has built a strong reputation as a provider of reliable support and expertise to education policymakers and professional practitioners. Each year, ACER is involved in a large number of research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
Social Injustice, Human Rights-Based Education and Citizens' Direct Action to Promote Social Transformation in the Philippines
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Ty, Reynaldo – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2011
This article opens with a proposed framework for human rights education (HRE), which synthesizes ideas drawn from Zinn's people's history, Sen's theory of justice and Freire's critical pedagogy. A review of the literature on HRE and human rights-based learning suggests three existent interrelated models of HRE. Drawing on human rights-based…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Civil Rights, Social Action, Social Change
Identifying Key Elements of Community-Based ESD: ESD-J's Projects to Collect ESD in Practice in Japan and Asia
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Noguchi, Fumiko – Online Submission, 2010
Since its establishment in 2003, the Japan Council on the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD-J) has paid close attention to informal learning processes in community-based efforts to promote local sustainable development. ESD-J carried out two projects to collect information on and visualise community-based ESD practice: the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Informal Education, Community Programs
Integrating Ethics in Teaching Social Studies: A Focus on the Students' Values and Character
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So, Odette G.; Castolo, Carmencita L. – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2008
The article discusses about the importance of ethics, values and character integration in the teaching and learning process particularly on the part of the teacher. In the teaching of Social Studies as a subject, the teacher has also the responsibility of imparting and implying values and ethics particularly in the secondary schools education. In…
Descriptors: Ethics, Values, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
International Conference on Teaching-Learning Process in Universities. A Fresh Look into the Teaching-Learning Process and Use of Educational Technology in Universities with Special Reference to ASEAN Countries.
University of Science, Penang (Malaysia). – 1979
The proceedings of the conference include background information, transcripts of opening and closing sessions, papers presented, a conference program, summary of discussions, findings and recommendations, and lists of committees and participants. The papers are divided into four sections: (1) goals and objectives of university education in…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Case Studies, College Faculty, College Instruction