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Direct linkAnn-Kathrin Hoffmann Ed.; Marc Fabian Buck Ed. – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2024
The second of two volumes dedicated to this little-explored topic continues to gather international perspectives to critically assess how Waldorf education has been perceived and discussed in both public and academic arenas. Both books thereby challenge the historic concept of Waldorf education as an international movement championing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reputation, Progressive Education, Educational Trends
Harward, Donald W., Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
For those ready to participate in making transformative changes, "Transforming Undergraduate Education" provides evidence and case studies that suggest how steps can be taken and progress made. For those who are currently leading their campuses through a change in culture, this book offers support and encouragement. And for those who are…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Case Studies, Educational Change, General Education
Download full textUNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2014
The case stories presented in this publication focus on young people from vulnerable communities that the Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education (ASPBAE) members are actively engaged with and who have been mobilized in ASPBAE programs for youth leadership and capacity development. Their narratives showcase the successes of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Education, Empowerment, Case Studies
Kooy, Mary, Ed.; van Veen, Klaas, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
In the continuing global call for educational reforms and change, the contributors in this edited collection address the critical issue of teacher learning from diverse national contexts and perspectives. They define "teacher learning that matters" as it shapes and directs pedagogical practices with the goal of improving student learning. Student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Teaching Skills, Teaching Methods
Wurdinger, Scott D.; Potter, Tom G. – 1999
Adventure education has its own set of unique questions that help to define what it is and how it differs from other fields of education. Adventure education has grown rapidly over the past several decades, and with its evolution, many critical topics for deliberation have emerged. This book contains 15 chapters, each arranged in a debate format…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Educational Attitudes, Educational Practices, Educational Principles
King, C. Judson, Ed.; Douglass, John Aubrey, Ed. – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2007
In the spring of 1957, the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) at the University of California, Berkeley was formally established as an organized research unit, enabled by an initial grant from the Carnegie Corporation and making it the first academic enterprise in the United States focused on higher education policy issues. Since then,…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Higher Education, International Studies, Global Approach
Finkin, Matthew W., Ed. – 1996
This collection of excerpts from essays, reports, judicial decisions, and the professional literature presents a survey of the issues concerning tenure in higher education and advances the case for retaining tenure as a means to guarantee academic freedom. Individual chapters include excerpts and commentary on the meaning of tenure, focusing on…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Faculty, Colleges, Court Litigation
Marsick, Victoria, J.; Bitterman, Jeanne; van der Veen, Ruud – 2000
This paper explores a common assumption: that education must be made an open, interconnected chain of learning opportunities, available to people from cradle to grave, i.e., a "learning society." Learning is examined in the following three distinct, but interrelated, domains: the domain of work; the domain of the community; and the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning
Altbach, Philip G., Ed.; Peterson, Patti McGill, Ed. – 1999
This collection of nine essays focuses on the challenges of providing higher education to growing numbers of students around the world. The essays include: (1) "Global Challenge and National Response: Notes for an International Dialogue on Higher Education" (Philip G. Altbach and Todd M. Davis); (2) "Global Challenges and the Chinese Response"…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Attitudes, Educational Change, Educational Planning
Slovene Adult Education Centre, Ljubljana (Slovenia). – 1993
This book presents the views of 88 experts on adult education from 32 developed and developed countries, compiled through a mailed survey. (Respondents represent about 45 percent of the 195 experts who were mailed surveys; about 16 percent of the respondents were female.) The survey participants' answers to the following six questions are included…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Andragogy, Comparative Education
Nash, Andrea, Ed.; And Others – 1989
This collection of writings, photographs, and drawings is intended for new readers of English as a second language. The writings are produced by English literacy students or are excerpted from published works by immigrant and American authors and include personal narratives and essays on home countries, work, education, and language. An…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, English (Second Language), Freehand Drawing, Immigrants
National Center for the Early Childhood Work Force, Washington, DC. – 1994
This report presents the results of a national forum on the compensation of child care workers which sought to develop strategies to break the link between what parents pay for child care and what child care providers earn. A total of 56 policymakers, researchers, economists, and child care advocates met for 2 days to review current child care…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Compensation (Remuneration), Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Dudgeon, Carolyn; And Others – 1995
These three essays focus on the creation and sustenance of learning communities among students and instructors at the college and university level. The essays are: (1) "Creating and Sustaining Learning Communities" (Carolyn Dudgeon), which emphasizes a seamless educational continuum for lifelong learners in a collaborative, caring…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, College Instruction, Community, Computer Assisted Instruction
Green, Madeleine F., Ed. – 1997
This collection of 16 essays examines forces transforming higher education around the world, including demands for greater access to higher education, funding problems, the conflicting requirements of various constituencies, and pressures to contribute to a country's economic and social development. The essays include: (1) "Forces for Change"…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrators, Educational Attitudes, Educational Change
McDermott, John F., Jr., Ed.; And Others – 1980
Following an introduction in which the concept of culture in its various aspects is defined, this 1980 book deals with major ethnic groups in Hawaii in the order of their arrival in the state, with a chapter devoted to each. The story of each group discusses the history of immigration, traditional culture, stereotypes that need clarification, the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Chinese Americans, Cultural Differences
