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Managing, Understanding, Applying, and Creating Knowledge in the Information Age: Next-Generation Challenges and Opportunities
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Goldman, Susan R.; Scardamalia, Marlene – Cognition and Instruction, 2013
New media, new knowledge practices, and concepts point to the need for greater understanding of cognitive processes underlying knowledge acquisition and generation in open informational worlds. The authors of the articles in this special issue address cognitive and instructional challenges surrounding multiple document comprehension--a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Information Literacy, Synthesis, Epistemology
Global Aspirations and Strategising for World-Class Status: New Form of Politics in Higher Education Governance in Hong Kong
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Mok, Ka Ho; Cheung, Anthony B. L. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2011
In the era of globalisation, competition has also become global. In higher education, countries worldwide are attaching increasing importance to international ranking exercises and subscribing to the "world-class universities" paradigm, complemented by various strategies to benchmark with leading universities in order to enhance the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Governance, Politics of Education
Inquiry Evaluation
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Abilock, Debbie – Knowledge Quest, 2010
In an academic setting, sources of information that can help the author answer a question or make sense of a problem are judged on competence and trustworthiness. As she locates a written text, an image, or a person, and "interrogate" it, the author is working through a series of judgment calls that end in a summative assessment of credibility.…
Descriptors: Credibility, Inquiry, Evaluation, Value Judgment
Mapping the Fabricated Identity of Childminders: Pride and Prejudice
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Jones, Liz; Osgood, Jayne – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2007
The principal aim of this article is to highlight how childminders come to be both valorised and demonised. The question of not only who cares for the child but the 'quality' of such care is of course inextricably linked with the identity of the carer. The article focuses on and illustrates the means by which the identity of childminders is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Child Caregivers
Liberal Education in an Interdependent World
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Gini, Al – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2008
This article presents a keynote address delivered by Al Gini, Professor of Business Ethics in the School of Business Administration at Loyola University in Chicago, at the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA) 93rd Annual Conference, March 26, 2008, New Orleans, Louisiana, on the topic of "Liberal Education in an Interdependent…
Descriptors: General Education, Liberal Arts, Majors (Students), Reputation
Investigations into Character Enhancement.
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Hartoonian, H. Michael – International Journal of Social Education, 2001
Presents six different investigations of character enhancement that attempts to answer three questions: (1) who are you; (2) what is your destination; and (3) who is your captain? Intends to build relationships among ideas such as perspective taking, seeing and making connections with the other, and understanding more about ethical development.…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethics