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Potsi, Autoanneta – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2016
This book explores the Capability Approach (CA) as an alternative critical lens through which to regard early childhood education (ECE) curricula. The CA framework is a counter narrative to the narrow instrumentalism that reduces education to a mere process of academic skills acquisition for a future workplace. Primarily the book draws on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Ability, Curriculum Design
Contract Research Corp., Belmont, MA. – 1975
This booklet is intended to aid curriculum developers in designing and conducting pilot or field tests that yield useful information and sound evidence about the effectiveness of new curricula. Although it was prepared specifically for use by projects funded by the Curriculum Development Branch of the federal Bureau of Occupational and Adult…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Experimental Curriculum
Gilchrist, Christina L.; Hughes, Georgia K.; Holloway, Joseph L. – Appalachia Educational Laboratory at Edvantia (NJ1), 2005
The purpose of this report is to document the pilot testing of two culturally responsive curriculum units (CRCUs) and inform AEL/Edvantia staff about how the units could be improved. Culturally responsive curriculum units are based on five principles of culturally responsive teaching: (1) high expectations; (2) cultural competence; (3) active…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development, Culturally Relevant Education, Units of Study
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Needelman, Brian A.; Ruppert, David E. – Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, 2006
Comprehensive professional development is rarely offered to graduate students, yet would assist students to obtain employment and prosper in their careers. Our objective was to design a course framework to provide professional development training to graduate students that is comprehensive, minimizes faculty workload, and provides enculturation…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Graduate Students, Professional Development, Research Methodology
Spokane School District 81, WA. – 1977
During the 1975-76 school year the Nystrom Map and Globe Study Skills Program was pilot tested by approximately 1,400 students in three elementary schools in Spokane, Washington. The program is a continuous progress program based upon a series of sequential instructional objectives. Major objectives of the program were to help students develop…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Educational Testing, Elementary Education