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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
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2019
This paper provides information about noncredit instruction in the California Community Colleges and updates the 2009 paper "Noncredit Instruction: Opportunity and Challenge" to incorporate subsequent changes from the last decade. Since the passage of SB 361 (Scott, 2006), noncredit instruction has seen significant changes, including the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Noncredit Courses, Educational Finance, Misconceptions
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Candy, Sara – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2011
This article discusses the RSA Opening Minds competence framework, an innovative curriculum to meet the needs of young people as future employees, lifelong learners and as citizens of the twenty-first century.
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Learning Processes, Competence, Curriculum Development
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Jones, Craig H.; Slate, John R. – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2009
In this article, we discuss the development of online courses in higher education in terms of the in- structional quality and economic costs. In our conceptual analysis, we point out problems in developing online courses with sufficient quality due to limited funds being made available for online course development. Moreover, economic costs exist…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Instructional Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Economics Education
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Parry, Arthur E.; Horton, Marshall J. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 1997
Part-time faculty are critical in providing a sense of the marketplace to guide curriculum improvement. If adjuncts are not given a greater role, market forces will dictate curriculum change, albeit slowly and inefficiently. (SK)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Curriculum Development, Economic Factors, Higher Education
Watson, Donald; And Others – 1965
The task of matching people to jobs is made difficult by the cumulative effects of change. Flexibility of the labor force has decreased because of the lack of low skill jobs and the increased employment of women and minority groups. Oregon's research efforts, prompted by need for data by public and private sectors, was directed at ways of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Economic Factors
Hodgetts, A. B.; Gallagher, Paul – 1978
A rationale for Canadian studies and outlines of appropriate content for various grade levels are presented. The book is designed to help teachers, curriculum planners, and teacher educators in preparing effective Canadian studies programs. Chapter I offers a discussion of the need for pan-Canadian understanding. Canadian studies can help young…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Civics, Cognitive Objectives, Comparative Education
Klassen, Frank H., Ed.; Collier, John L., Ed. – 1972
The articles in this collection present international perspectives on change and innovation in teacher education. It is divided into six topic areas. Part one offers views on the social and economic implications of teacher education. In part two the problems and challenges for reform in teacher education in East Africa, Poland, France, Italy, and…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Competency Based Teacher Education, Curriculum Development, Developing Nations
LeMelle, Tilden J.; LeMelle, Wilbert J. – 1969
This study is a normative inquiry into a rationale and design for the development of black higher education. It is also an analysis of the current status and potential for development of the black American community, inasmuch as educational renewal is tied up with all aspects of social development. Black higher education is reassessed in order "to…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Community, Black Education, College Curriculum
Murwin, Scott; Murray, Michael – 1978
As part of Project Open (see related documents listed below), unified arts and industrial arts curricula were developed and implemented at Ona Junior High School in West Virginia. The unified arts program combines the four subject areas of art, home economics, music, and industrial arts. It is a two-year required course for all seventh and eighth…
Descriptors: Art Education, Communications, Course Content, Curriculum Development
Wheeler, Jeanette D. – 1981
One of five modules in the foundation series of the 16-module series designed to train vocational education curriculum specialists, this module is intended for use in classes or individual study arrangements at the preservice or inservice level by students with varying amounts of experience in vocational education. (These modules are revised…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Teacher Education, Cooperative Education