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Springborg, Martin; Horii, Cassandra V. – To Improve the Academy, 2016
This invited essay of "To Improve the Academy's" special feature on Creative Scholarship presents one example of creative scholarship in educational development as a forward to other forms and approaches in the special feature. This example, the Teaching and Learning Project, merges documentary and art photography traditions with faculty…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Scholarship, Visual Arts, Consultation Programs
Caruth, Gail D.; Caruth, Donald L. – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2013
Online learning is a descendant of distance education. Online education has a shared history with correspondence learning. In 1873, Anna Eliot Ticknor founded the Society to Encourage Studies at Home. Ticknor's Society established one of America's first correspondence schools, a distance learning option conducted through the mail. This Society was…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Educational History, Intellectual History
Huber, Valerie J.; Firmin, Michael W. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2014
We provide a historical perspective toward the current public school practices of American sex education. The primary time frames include the progressive era (1880-1920), intermediate era (1920-1960), the sexual revolution era (1960s and 1970s), and the modern sex education era (1980s to the present). In each period, we highlight key developments…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Educational History, Public Schools, Educational Practices
Redecker, Christine; Johannessen, Oystein – European Journal of Education, 2013
This article discusses how Information and Communication Technologies can support 21st century assessment strategies and what needs to be done to ensure that technological advances support and foster pedagogical innovation. Based on an extensive review of the literature, it provides an overview of current ICT-enabled assessment practices, with a…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Alternative Assessment, Technology Uses in Education, Evaluation Methods
Perry, Laura B.; Tor, Geok-hwa – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2008
Educational transfer is an important and growing body of literature in the field of comparative education. Work from the last decade has focused on the stages of the borrowing cycle, and the context, causes and rationales for education borrowing. This recent work has contributed to earlier research on the role of multilateral organizations in…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Policy, Educational Development, Educational Research
McDermid, Campbell – Online Submission, 2008
This manuscript provides a synopsis of the written history of American Sign Language-English interpreters in Canada and adds to the limited resources available to interpreter educators, to students, and to the field of visual language interpreting. Within a qualitative framework, this review of the literature identified major themes in sign…
Descriptors: Deaf Interpreting, Deafness, Foreign Countries, American Sign Language
Hinton, Samuel – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this paper is to review current issues in pre- and primary school reform and to pose questions on the long-term implications of present day solutions. Such an exercise will open up discussion on the probable effects of educational policy decisions with a view to minimize negative effects brought on by new policies. Because data…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Elementary Education, War, Educational Change
Schmuck, Patricia A. – 1988
Preparing school leaders should not be a dispassionate, value-free journey that produces administrators who are technocrats with neither objective curiosity or passion. Lewis & Clark, a small liberal arts college near Portland, Oregon, initiated an administrative certification program in 1981. The curriculum of this program focuses on holistic…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Education, Educational Development, Higher Education
Ellis, Michael J. – 1988
This book presents a survey of the socioeconomic context of physical education and: (1) sketches the roots of the field; (2) relates the field to the changing nature of the society in which it exists; and (3) seeks to predict the nature of the profession, its content, and its relation to society in the future. The first two chapters set the scene…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Sociology, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society)
Jones, Sandra – 2001
Universities have historically encouraged individual academics with research expertise in a discrete area of study to undertake research and teaching in their discipline. In this process academics have had full autonomy, from the discovery of knowledge, the method used to integrate and interpret it, and the means used to convey it to students and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Change, Educational Development, Foreign Countries
Olsen, James; Olsen, Mary Anne – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, 1979
Reviews research on success factors in early childhood education and explains how this research can help develop a model of early childhood in developing regions such as the West Indies. Topics discussed include curriculum development, family involvement, objectives, community development, and child development. (DB)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Early Childhood Education, Educational Development

Holmberg, Borje – Open Learning, 1995
Examines the evolution of the character and practice of distance education through a historical explanation of early distance education, and a review of early distance education pioneers. Addresses 20th-century developments in distance education, 20th-century distance education target groups, and discusses the need to understand the role of…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Development, Educational Practices, Higher Education
Schwille, John; Dembele, Martial; Schubert, Jane – International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) UNESCO, 2007
This booklet targets policymakers and educators with busy lives (especially those in developing countries) who may neither have the time nor the opportunity to read widely across all the issues raised herein. This publication looks at all forms of teacher learning, formal and informal, from teachers' own early schooling, through their training,…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Teacher Education, Educational Planning, Educational Development
Lo, Leslie Nai-kwai – Chinese Education and Society, 2007
The advent of inclusive education has quietly changed the ecology of Hong Kong's educational system. Inclusive education is a product of education in the developed Western nations and has spread at the instigation of international organizations. It is a plan for educational development that is based on the concepts of human rights and peace and…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Inclusive Schools, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Morris, Don R. – 1998
This paper outlines reasons why current school improvement efforts in the Miami-Dade (Florida) school district are inadequate and offers an approach that will both build on the formal structure already in place and add a methodology to make it more effective. The text focuses on the field of system dynamics and how this method of analyzing…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Computer Assisted Design, Educational Development, Educational Improvement