NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
National Survey of Student…1
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 147 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Toghyani Khorasgani, Amir; Rahmani, Jahanbakhsh; Keshtiaray, Narges – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
Education is the main factor of economic growth in a country, and the curriculum is the heart of any education system. This study focuses on the key roles of education and its relation to economic development as well as the curriculum as a core part of the entire educational drive of nations. In particular, the present study compares the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Economic Development, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Raphaël Gani; David Scott – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2024
Many social studies teachers have argued that the mandate to distinctively value Francophone and Indigenous perspectives is unjust without similarly valuing other perspectives within Alberta's K-12 social studies curriculum (Gani, 2022a; Gani & Scott, 2017; Scott & Gani, 2018). Rather than outlining why these two sets of perspectives need…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French Canadians, Geographic Regions, Teacher Attitudes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Dyjur, Patti; Braun, Rachel; Saito, Kevin; Kaipainen, Erin – Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, 2020
Like many higher education institutions, amplifying experiential learning (EL) is a priority for the University of Calgary. In order to capture the extent and complexity of EL that exists in an institution, it is crucial to have a common understanding of the concept. In 2018, the University of Calgary created the EL Working Group, tasked with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Experiential Learning, Definitions
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Monika Stelzl; Lynnee M. R. Pevie – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
In this collaborative professor-student contribution, an experiential nature-based university psychology course is described and discussed. Existing scholarship on experiential environmental education informed the course, with the overall aim of educating the "whole student". Experiential environmental education has been identified as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Environmental Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ruth Fielding; Angelica Galante; Gary J. Bonar; Meihui Wang; Yvonne God – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) indicates that education for global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity should be embedded at all levels of curricula. In this paper, we share findings from an analysis of curriculum documents in Victoria, Australia and Québec, Canada that identified learning related to this…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Sustainable Development, Objectives, International Organizations
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ergas, Oren – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2019
This paper explores a countermovement that is emerging within an educational climate that highlights accountability, standardisation and performativity. This countermovement has become manifest in a rapid rise in the implementation and research of contemplative practices (e.g. mindfulness, yoga) across educational settings. The paper explores the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Accountability, Metacognition, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Lekhi, Priyanka; Allen, Meghan; Leung, Fok-Shuen; Gilley, Brett; Rieger, Georg; Fox, Joanne A. – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2017
Students who engage in undergraduate research experiences acquire many benefits, including an understanding of how scientific knowledge is constructed, recognition that knowledge can be complex and uncertain, and the habit of viewing knowledge critically. This paper describes a first-year two-course sequence that provides multidisciplinary…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Curriculum Development, Interdisciplinary Approach, Delivery Systems
British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2018
The Ministry of Education role is to provide leadership and funding to the K-12 education system, through governance, legislation, policy and standards in British Columbia. It places student success at the centre of its mandate, by continually focusing on improving results and ensuring equity of access and outcomes for all learners. This year more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Annual Reports, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Pileggi, Victoria; Holliday, Joanna; de Santis, Carm; Lamarre, Andrea; Jeffrey, Nicole; Tetro, Maria; Rice, Carla – Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 2017
It is within the overlap of three gaps in the literature on feminist classrooms (lack of initiation, student representation, and evaluation) that the authors situate this paper. In conceptualizing this paper, they wanted not only to describe a context from which others can consider their own present or future offerings of feminist,…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Interdisciplinary Approach, Feminism, Transformative Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Francis, Nancy R.; Lathrop, Anna H. – Journal of Dance Education, 2014
Educational scholars agree that the relationship between curriculum development and practice is mitigated by complex political and cultural agendas (Goodson 1984; Vertinsky 2007). As a performing art form and physical activity, dance does not easily fit within the context of a typical school subject and is a site for ontological and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Curriculum, Dance Education, Curriculum Development
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Hollins, Martin; Reiss, Michael J. – Curriculum Journal, 2016
The last two decades have seen unprecedented interest in science curricula, with many governments seeing improvements in the performance of their school students in science as key to future economic prosperity. We present the results of an analysis of the curriculum documents for primary and secondary science in Australia (New South Wales and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Curriculum, National Curriculum, Comparative Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ferrier, Michelle Barrett – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2013
To prepare students for the changing media industry, educators must determine whether part of their mission is to prepare students to think and act entrepreneurially. This international study queries faculty who are developing media entrepreneurship courses. The study finds that while the courses take varied forms, the main objectives of the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Teacher Attitudes, Entrepreneurship, Cross Cultural Studies
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Paton, Valerie O.; Reith Charles C.; Harden, Karon K.; Abaurre, Rogério; Tremblay, Crystal – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2014
Narratives from 3 presenters at the closing session of the 2013 Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference demonstrate that higher education institutions and communities can forge deep and sustainable relationships to address the "wicked problems" in their countries and communities. University leaders in Nigeria described how students…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, College Faculty, College Students, Service Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Hughes, Andrew S.; Print, Murray; Sears, Alan – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
Governments, international organizations and academics have, in recent decades, expressed a sense of crisis in the practice of democracy based largely upon increasing levels of disengagement by citizens from even the most basic elements of civic life. One response has been to devise civics and citizenship education curricula for schools with the…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Democracy, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lebrun, Johanne; Lenoir, Yves; Oliveira, Anderson Araujo; Morin, Marie-Pier; McConnell, Anne Catherine – Educational Review, 2011
This article presents the results of a survey questionnaire involving 841 third and fourth year students enrolled in a French language Bachelors degree program in Elementary Education at four Quebec universities. The questionnaire dealt with pre-service elementary teachers' representations of the teaching and learning of four school subjects:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10