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Kim, Jiin – Issues in Educational Research, 2021
The "Sustainable Development Goals" (SDGs) have signalled a new era for the vocational education agenda which had almost disappeared since the 1990s with the rise of universal primary education (UPE). However, there are voices of concern from academia pointing out the lack of alternative theoretical frameworks in current vocational…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Human Capital, Educational Theories, Individual Development
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Saban Bon; Bhornsawan Inpin – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
A wealth of literature has acknowledged that technology is at play in enhancing English as a foreign language (EFL) education and thus EFL teachers have been strongly encouraged to integrate technology into their instruction. To successfully integrate technology, they need expertise obtained through effective professional development (PD) modes,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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de Klerk, Edwin Darrell; Palmer, June Monica – Issues in Educational Research, 2020
It is vital that in-service teachers transcend their professional knowledge, towards a recurrently developing research base about transformative social justice issues. This paper provides a theoretical lens from a South African education policy perspective on how in-service teachers could develop professional knowledge about transformative social…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Teaching Methods, Social Justice, Educational Policy
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Okeke-Uzodike, Obianuju E. – Issues in Educational Research, 2021
The pace of global transformation places a great emphasis on the need for development, with higher education identified as a key agent in the development of a knowledge economy. Higher education systems have been challenged with providing the necessary skilled person-power to complement the changing labour market. Postgraduate supervision is a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Supervision, Graduate Students
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Hathorn, Conley; Dillon, Anna Marie – Issues in Educational Research, 2018
This paper is concerned with exploring the microsystem of teachers' experiences with education reform within the action research (AR) model for professional development (PD). Within the macrosystem of current major education reform in the UAE, it is timely to explore teachers' experiences of AR as PD to improve pedagogy. The process of engaging in…
Descriptors: Action Research, Faculty Development, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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H?ng, Ngô Vu Thu – Issues in Educational Research, 2019
Vietnam is undergoing a comprehensive educational reform. Innovation within the curriculum requires a content-based approach to be replaced by a competence-based approach in which critical thinking is stressed in educating primary school students. This study aims to determine the extent to which critical thinking is implemented in current primary…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Moral Development, Educational Change, Confucianism
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Yusuf, Marlizah; Taylor, Peter Charles; Damanhuri, Muhd Ibrahim Muhamad – Issues in Educational Research, 2017
Stimulated by my encounter with the strange term "hegemony"--a dominant ideology that is largely invisible to its adherents--I (first author) recently "returned" to my experiences of being in a secondary school chemistry class. Drawing on contemporary educational research paradigms, I designed an arts-based critical…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Critical Theory, Chemistry, Science Instruction
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Lim, Patrick; Pyvis, David – Issues in Educational Research, 2012
Using grounded theory research methodology, a theory was developed to explain how Singapore junior college science teachers implement educational reforms underpinning the key initiatives of the "Thinking Schools, Learning Nation" policy. The theory suggests Singapore junior college science teachers "deal with" implementing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Two Year Colleges, Grounded Theory
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O'Sullivan, Kerry-Ann; Carroll, Kay; Cavanagh, Michael – Issues in Educational Research, 2008
How teachers respond to a new syllabus, what they say and do within the challenging landscape of educational reform and curriculum implementation in the contemporary postmodern world attracts considerable research interest from scholars. The analysis of teachers' perceptions and actions presented here is set within the context of significant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Case Studies
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Perillo, Suzanne – Issues in Educational Research, 2006
Pedagogical change is posited as a crafting process constituted by the relational activity of social and material actors. A case study was used to investigate how pedagogical change becomes enacted in everyday practices in an independent boys' school in Australia. In comparison to a scripted implementation plan, the pedagogical change process was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Teaching Methods, Educational Change
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Davies, W. Martin – Issues in Educational Research, 2006
This paper reviews the literature on the use of intensive teaching formats in the tertiary sector. The paper begins with a summary of recent changes in higher education which have led to the consideration of intensive teaching as a mode of learning. The paper then addresses two principal issues: the advantages and disadvantages of intensive…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Educational Change, Acceleration (Education)
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Donnelly, Kevin – Issues in Educational Research, 2007
Since the development of the Keating Government's national statements and profiles, during the early to mid 90s, all Australian states and territories, to a greater or lesser degree, have adopted an outcomes-based education approach to school curriculum. Drawing on the writings of the US academic, William Spady, and in opposition to the more…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development, Outcome Based Education, Foreign Countries
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Tadich, Barbara; Deed, Craig; Campbell, Chris; Prain, Vaughan – Issues in Educational Research, 2007
Various explanations and solutions have been proposed over the last ten years in relation to the ongoing problem of student lack of engagement with the middle years' curriculum in Australia. Identified contributors to this problem include an irrelevant or trivial curricular focus and ineffectual teaching and learning strategies. In this paper we…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Case Studies, Grade 8, Middle School Students
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Cooper, Richard – Issues in Educational Research, 2007
This paper presents a positivist quantitative case study of four rural Queensland schools implementing the Queensland Studies Authority's outcomes based education curriculum. Queensland's school-based management system means that these schools are operating at distinctly different points along their implementation phase. This research shows how…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Outcome Based Education, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
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Bryer, Fiona; Main, Katherine – Issues in Educational Research, 2005
Three well-established issues for educational reform to insert middle schooling into the traditional primary-secondary tiers are (a) lack of preservice training of specialist middle school teachers, (b) the absence of clear positive educational outcomes linked to the promotion of middle schooling policy as a philosophy of teaching, and (c) the ad…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Educational Change