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Dunn, Dennis; Hackney, Ray – 2000
The growth of interest in all things knowledge management (KM) is exponential. Developments of products and ideas, fueled by a newly designated knowledge community, is happening at such speed that few seem to question the trends or the knowledge management systems finding favor in organizational life. A consideration of what is being presented as…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Information Management, Information Science Education, Information Systems
Moallem, Mahnaz – 1994
This study was designed to explore an expert teacher's model of thinking and teaching as it occurred within the social and cultural context of the classroom. The model was then compared with instructional systems design (ISD) to identify similarities and differences between them. To accomplish these goals, the study focused on the process and…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context, Elementary School Teachers
Rahilly, Timothy J.; Saroyan, Alenoush – 1997
This study examined the types of knowledge influencing classroom teaching in higher education. A total of 102 professors from across North America regarded as exemplary teachers participated in the study. Respondents were asked to recall a time during the last 3 years when they thought that they had done a poor job of teaching as well as a time…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Educational Attitudes, Epistemology
Schwartz, J. E.; Riedesel, C. Alan – 1994
This study was conducted to explore the relationship between elementary school teachers' professed teaching practice and their beliefs about and understanding of elementary mathematics. The Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics, published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (1989) was used as the criterion for…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Kleinfeld, Judith – 1992
Teacher educators have come to appreciate that the teaching of difficult subjects combines knowledge of content and knowledge of generic teaching methods. A study was conducted, therefore, to explore the potential of cases to carry pedagogical content knowledge. A case was developed describing how an expert teacher goes about teaching…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), English Instruction, English Teacher Education, Graduate Students
Nel, Johanna; Seckinger, Donald S. – 1993
This paper presents a culturally adapted curricular/pedagogical model of a traditional foundations of education course. It was developed as a result of a college of education's commitment to internationalize its curriculum and to broaden global and cross-cultural experiences for preservice teachers, in order to enhance the knowledge, skills, and…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Case Studies, Comparative Education, Course Descriptions