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Valérie Vermueulen; Philippe Emplit – European University Association, 2024
Since 1999, the Bologna Process has advocated towards a new teaching paradigm, the so-called student-centred approach to learning, as well as towards more coherence of the higher education system across Europe. This paper explores how co-creation of course contents and learning activities, for and with students, may be implemented to sustain a…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Cooperative Planning, Program Development, Curriculum Design
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Cross, Amanda Brown; White, Aisha; Jackson, Medina; Wanless, Shannon Beth – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2019
Young children of color experience daily messages, explicit or implicit, that they are not as good as White children. These encounters act as barriers to African American children's positive racial identity development. This paper presents findings from a feasibility study of a program to infuse a community with positive messages about African…
Descriptors: Racial Identification, African Americans, Race, Community Programs
Loew, Tom – NAMTA Journal, 2014
Tom Loew says that East Dallas Community Schools have been creating beautiful and functional environments for decades, but developing Bachman Lake Community School was more than creating a school. They also had to establish a community center, scale up staff quickly, service a wide number of families, leverage Montessori training and related…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Community Schools, Early Childhood Education, Educational History
Marvin, Michael D.; Ferderbar, Joseph – 1974
Initiating a planning effort in school districts requires attention to the mechanics of its adoption as well as the communication of planning concepts. Such a system has been developed by the Administering for Change Program of Research for Better Schools, Inc. This package emphasizes involvement of teachers and administrators through…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Curriculum Development, Educational Administration, Educational Change
Carss, Brian W.; And Others – 1977
This paper describes a joint venture between the Queensland Primary Education Division and the Department of Education at the University of Queensland that has attempted to improve teacher inservice education through the use of participative decision-making processes. First stage of the program involved the collection of data from a representative…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Decision Making, Educational Policy, Elementary Education
Mackdanz, R. Alfred – 1991
This paper describes a rural school program that assists high school special education students in achieving a successful transition from the school to the community. Plans for transition are first introduced at the special education staffing in 10th grade and are viewed as an integral part of the individual education plan. The transition…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, High School Students, High Schools, Parent Participation
Thorpe, Judie Mosier – 1983
A survey of 80 department chairpersons, directors of forensics, and debate coaches indicated an increased use of nontraditional, audience-centered debate paradigms since the National Developmental Conference on Forensics issued its report advancing alternative debate options during the 1970s. Report recommendations on expanding the role of…
Descriptors: Audience Participation, Citizen Participation, Communication Research, Competition
Parthasarthy, K.; Balasaravanan, T. – 1997
India has made considerable progress toward universal primary education but has the dubious distinction of having the highest illiteracy rates in the world. Stringent endeavors are being made at the national, state, and district levels to eradicate illiteracy through mass approaches and programs. Extension is recognized as the third dimension of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, College Faculty, College Students
Blecke, Janalou; Hadden, Lisa – Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, 2000
Describes the "Community Defined Health" (trademark) process developed by the Center for Health Professions, Saginaw, Michigan, to capture caring, citizen engagement, and the quality of relationships and assure that these intangible assets become as valuable as institutionally defined health indicators in curricula for the health…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Citizen Participation, Curriculum Development, Program Development
Miller, Susan A. – 1982
Guidelines for planning and conducting a series of parent awareness workshops are offered in this paper. Parent awareness programs consist of efforts to involve parents in the education of their children through collaboration with teachers. Phases of planning with parents as partners are discussed in the first part of the paper. Planning…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Parent Education, Parent Participation, Parent Workshops
Perdue, David A. – 1979
The public school system of Houston County, Georgia, has instituted an inservice staff development program planned by the teachers themselves. Following assessment of the needs of students and parents as well as teachers, the planning group designed a program offering college credit to participants. Houston County teachers now find it possible to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Development
Bauch, Jerold P. – 1994
A study evaluated the effects of an innovative parent involvement model. Nine school systems in Indiana were selected by the funding agency to use the Transparent School Model, which uses computer-based voice messaging technology to allow teachers and parents to exchange information with the efficiency and convenience of time displacement. At the…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Pelland, Raymonde; Huling-Austin, Leslie – 1985
As one means of serving their clients, Ginn and Co. made a commitment in the early 1980's to provide inservice workshops for teachers that more closely related to customer needs. The vehicle for assessing these needs and ultimately designing appropriate inservice activities is Stages of Concern about the Innovation (SoC), one of the diagnostic…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Inservice Teacher Education, Needs Assessment, Program Development
Williams, Ellen; Lizotte, Jack – 1985
The paper describes Project PIPE (Parent Involvement through Parent Education), an approach designed to increase the involvement of parents of preschool developmentally delayed and disabled children in their children's education and treatment programs. Three phases are delineated: (1) development of a community network (facilitating relationships…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Disabilities, Intervention, Parent Participation
Grahn, Joyce L. – 1980
The sequential components of a model for the development of an upper-division marketing certificate program in professional sales are described in this report as they were implemented at the University of Minnesota's General College during Fall 1980. After introductory material examining the responsibilities of the professional sales…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Business Education, Data Collection, Education Work Relationship
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