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Mamvuto, Attwell – Teaching Artist Journal, 2019
African art education discourse is deeply enshrined in community visual arts and its programming. This article is an analytical narrative documentation of anecdotal historical debate on art education in Zimbabwe. The referential data-based entry provides a historical analysis of the evolution of art education and its programming as a post-CIET…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Visual Arts, Educational History
Stosich, Elizabeth Leisy; Jaquith, Ann – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2018
This memo, which is the second in the series, highlights the work of the New Hampshire Learning Initiative (NHLI), a member of the ALP network. The memo describes their efforts to support educators across the state to actively engage students as partners in co-designing learning goals and assessment strategies, showcasing how these efforts have…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Participation, Participative Decision Making, Educational Objectives
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Neoh, Jia Ying – Journal of Social Science Education, 2017
Purpose: This paper compares citizenship education in Singapore and Australia. While discussions have been made about education and neoliberalism, few have explored the direct connections between citizenship education and neoliberalism. Approach: Though a discussion of country contexts, citizenship education policies and curriculum,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Citizenship Education, Civics
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Vally, Salim; Motala, Enver – Education as Change, 2017
This article conceptualises the overall relationship between a democratic society, socially useful labour and its implications for education and training and unemployment, particularly youth unemployment. The article analyses the ideas and practices that are dominant in the language, ideologies and practices of human capital theory--a theory which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Democratic Values, Unemployment
Goldenberg, Claude; Wagner, Kirstin – American Educator, 2015
In the United States, bilingual education continues to provoke fierce debate. It seems that nearly everyone--from educators to policymakers to parents with school-age children to those without children--has a strong opinion on whether children with little fluency in English should be taught academic content in their home language as they learn…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Practices, Educational Development, Educational History
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Odendaal, Albi; Kankkunen, Olli-Taavetti; Nikkanen, Hanna M.; Vakeva, Lauri – Music Education Research, 2014
In this article, we discuss Christoper Small's concept of musicking in order to explicate his understanding of music as a practice and the implications of such an understanding for today's general music education. Our main argument is that, armed with Small's concept of musicking, we can deal with music in its full social-cultural…
Descriptors: Music Education, Social Influences, Cultural Influences, General Education
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Capogna, Stefania – Policy Futures in Education, 2015
Educational agencies are going through a difficult transition, with important consequences in terms of de-legitimacy of the social mandate historically assigned to the school. The reason for this widespread unease can be traced to the fact that today we live in a complex system. This paper arises within this problematic framework with the intent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Sociology, Educational Policy, Quality Assurance
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Davies, Richard – Oxford Review of Education, 2015
Elective Home Education is a legal, minority approach to the compulsory education of children. I review the potential contribution of the historical analysis of "domestic pedagogies", presented in this Special Issue, for home education practice in the UK. By drawing on narratives of a period at the cusp of the perceived normalcy of…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Educational History, Educational Development, Educational Practices
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Glassman, Michael; Patton, Rikki – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2014
This paper explores possible important relationships and sympathies between Amartya Sen's Capabilities Approach framework for understanding the human condition and the educational ideas of John Dewey and Paolo Freire. All three focus on the importance of democratic values in a fair, well-functioning society, while Sen and Freire especially…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Educational Philosophy, Capacity Building, Democratic Values
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Shannon, Patrick – Reading Research Quarterly, 2012
This essay reviews six competing positions on U.S. school reform: a speech from Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan; Diane Ravitch's "The Death and Life of the Great American School System"; Frederick Hess's "The Same Thing Over and Over"; Charles Payne's "So Much Reform, So Little Change"; Anthony Byrk and others' "Organizing School for…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Sociology, Position Papers
Alghamdi, Ahmed Hassan; Li, Li – Online Submission, 2011
This article aims to review the historical development of continuing professional development programmes (CPDPs) for teachers, as well as the policies and objectives of such programmes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) from the inception of these programmes until now. Styles of CPDPs that the Education Training Centres (ETCs) offer are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Professional Continuing Education, Educational Objectives
Hargreaves, Andy; Shirley, Dennis – Canadian Teachers' Federation (NJ3), 2011
"Teachers are at the far end of educational reform." Apart from students and parents, they are often the very last to be consulted about and connected to agendas of what changes are needed in education, and of how those changes should be managed. Educational change is something that government departments, venture philanthropists,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Teacher Participation, Change Strategies
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Hongcheng, Shen; Minhui, Qian – Chinese Education and Society, 2010
By means of an investigation into the school education of the Dai people in Dehong, Yunnan province, this article expounds on the interactive relationship between modern education and local culture and the problems of cultural adaptation among ethnic minority students. School education, as a symbol of state power, always endeavors to transform…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Minority Groups, Cultural Education, Cultural Maintenance
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Vengerov, Alexander – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
The growing sensitivity of various systems and parts of industry, society, and even everyday individual life leads to the increased volume of changes and needs for adaptation and learning. This creates a new situation where learning from being purely academic knowledge transfer procedure is becoming a ubiquitous always-on essential part of all…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Learning Processes, Educational Change, Organizational Change
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Niikko, Anneli; Havu-Nuutinen, Sari – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2009
This study was conducted during the academic year 2002-2003 in a municipality in Eastern Finland. It focuses on pre-school education assessing its quality factors from the parents', teachers' and children's points of view. Theoretically, the study focuses on analyses of the purposes of the national core curriculum and pedagogical issues that are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Educational Quality, Teachers
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