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Examining the Key Stakeholders' Perceptions of Student Learning: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Secondary Education in Hong Kong
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Cheung, Alan C. K.; Keung, Chrysa P. C.; Mak, Barley S. Y. – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2019
The current New Senior Secondary curriculum was implemented in Hong Kong in 2009. This educational reform promotes a paradigm shift in learning and teaching strategies, with the ultimate goal to prepare secondary school students for meeting the changing needs of the workplace and for lifelong learning. This paper reports empirical findings by…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Comparative Analysis
Getting out of the Way: Learning, Risk, and Choice
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Barney, Lee S.; Maughan, Bryan D. – Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 2015
Students learn best when teachers get out of the way. Unfortunately, university classrooms continue to be intensely teacher-centric, are driven by the teacher's agenda and calendar, and embrace simple models rather than complex alternatives. These simple types of learning environments frustrate students' development of the risk-­taking and choice…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Risk
Faculty Questionnaire for Future Planning: Results.
Burns, James A. – 1979
Members of the faculty and administration at Western Washington University (WWU) were surveyed in 1978 in an effort to discover trends that could affect the university by the year 2000. The response rate was 32 percent for faculty and 49 percent for administrators. The first section of the survey concerns general trends: economic (inflation,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Administration, College Faculty, College Housing