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National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2015
This good practice guide is intended to assist public and private registered training organisations (RTOs) planning to commence higher education (HE) delivery. The guide is based on research undertaken by Victor Callan and Kaye Bowman, who completed case studies with six providers currently delivering higher education qualifications in addition to…
Descriptors: Guides, Vocational Education, Bachelors Degrees, Best Practices
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Roesken-Winter, Bettina; Hoyles, Celia; Blömeke, Sigrid – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2015
In this survey paper we approach the challenge of scaling CPD from four perspectives. First, we elaborate on crucial aspects of teacher learning and what taking the learning of these crucial aspects entails. Second, we focus on different CPD frameworks to showcase developments in CPD research and practice over the last 40 years and the influences…
Descriptors: Evidence, Sustainability, Intervention, Educational Development
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Matthews, Roberta S.; Smith, Barbara Leigh; MacGregor, Jean – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
This volume focuses on learning communities at the beginning and at the culmination of work in the major of psychology and reflects a commitment to good practice both within and outside the classroom. Its comprehensive approach attests to the power of learning communities within the discipline and is a fine example of their evolution. In this…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Educational Development, Psychology, Best Practices
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Tirri, Kirsi – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2014
This article sets out to identify and discuss the changes that have taken place in Finnish teacher education during the last 40 years (1974-2014). A brief history of teacher education in Finland is presented, followed by the goals and aims of current research-based teacher education in Finland. Finally, the major changes in Finnish teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Educational History
Pearson, George – Education Canada, 2012
Education Canada asked Tom Thompson, president of Olds College and a prime mover behind the Community Learning Campus (CLC): What were the lessons learned from this unusually ambitious education project? Thompson mentions six lessons he learned from this complex project which include: (1) Dream big, build small, act now; (2) Keep a low profile at…
Descriptors: Profiles, Foreign Countries, Administrative Principles, Change Strategies
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Lynch, Eleanor W. – Young Exceptional Children, 2013
In this article, the author focuses on diversity and working with families in the early childhood field. She has chosen to look to the potential for improvements in the future. It is impossible to predict the future, but there are strategies that can help ensure that practices in early intervention and early childhood special education (EI/ECSE)…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Teacher Attitudes, Early Childhood Education, Cultural Pluralism
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Charungkaittikul, Suwithida; Henschke, John A. – International Review of Education, 2014
Today's world may be characterised as the dawn of the new millennium of the learning society, where knowledge is considered as a country's most valued asset and primary source of power. In the increasingly intense competition among international communities, Thailand has been respected for advancing the concept of transforming communities, cities…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Educational Strategies, Change Strategies, Sustainability
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Lloyd, John Wills; Lloyd, Patricia A. – Remedial and Special Education, 2015
Since 1966 when we began our careers in special education, we and others in our cohort have seen substantial changes in our discipline. In our personal experience, we had the opportunity to work together in situations that led us to focus on practices and procedures that produced better outcomes for our students, and better outcomes for students…
Descriptors: Success, Special Education, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Educational Practices
Le Mouillour, Isabelle – Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2012
The European credit system for vocational education and training (ECVET) has benefited from the development of national qualifications frameworks and the learning outcomes approach to qualifications. It has also profited from the mutual trust and transparency created by successful learning mobility and lifelong learning experiences. The year 2012…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Program Implementation
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Smith, Karen – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2012
Faced with the challenges of the changes in: higher education, educational developers' roles and the use of innovation to stimulate change, this study aimed to synthesise literature dealing with the diffusion of innovative learning and teaching practices in higher education to determine what lessons could be learnt. The findings suggest that the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Innovation, Best Practices, Educational Practices
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Macfarlane, Kym; Lewis, Patricia – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2012
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a complex field comprised of practitioners who possess disparate qualifications and understandings. While this diversity provides richness in terms of practice possibilities, it can also be challenging in terms of the divisions produced by different disciplinary and philosophical approaches. This is…
Descriptors: Activism, Early Childhood Education, Children, Foreign Countries
Roldan Tapia, Antonio Rafael – Online Submission, 2012
ELT (English language teaching) in Spain is witnessing the arrival of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and English is changing from a goal-oriented school subject to a medium of instruction for content subjects. What is taking place in our system is influenced by what has previously happened elsewhere. Two research episodes have…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Bilingual Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Tucker, Marc S. – National Center on Education and the Economy, 2012
This is the first in a series of reports from the Center on International Education Benchmarking (CIEB) exploring the leading vocational and technical education systems from around the world to draw out what makes these systems great and what other countries can learn from them. This first report was based on a visit of several days to Singapore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Benchmarking, International Studies
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Garza, Encarnacion, Jr.; Murakami-Ramalho, Elizabeth; Merchant, Betty – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2011
This case study follows the work of principal Laura Martinez as moving from leading Stevens Elementary for 9 years, and now opening a new P-8th grade academy in the same south Texas urban, inner-city district. The purpose of this case study was to observe successful leadership and the principal's strategies both in her previous and present school,…
Descriptors: Leadership, Principals, Leadership Effectiveness, Organizational Change
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McGrath, Simon; Lugg, Rosemary – International Journal of Educational Development, 2012
Much of VET policy internationally draws on a toolkit that has been seriously questioned for its logic, international relevance and effectiveness by considerable amounts of academic research. Reflecting primarily on our experiences of leading a complex, multi-country policy study, we develop an account that seeks to explore ways in which the…
Descriptors: Evidence, International Education, Educational Change, Vocational Education
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