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Juliette Clara Bertoldo – Prism: Casting New Light on Learning, Theory & Practice, 2022
In associating death with education, this paper explores how the death register, and in particular the denial of death, is reflected in the treatment of contemporary education, aiming to construct the future as an object of knowledge for providing certainty and authority. Through a reading of Gert Biesta's theoretical considerations, I discuss how…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Foundations of Education, Death, Futures (of Society)
OECD Publishing, 2017
How might we know whether our schools or system are set up to optimise learning? How can we find out whether we are getting the most from technology? How can we evaluate our innovation or think through whether our change initiative will bring about its desired results? Teachers and educational leaders who grapple with such questions will find this…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Environment, Educational Assessment, Educational Principles
Loukkola, Tia; Peterbauer, Helene – European University Association, 2019
Universities across Europe are calling for a more student-centred, inclusive university environment bringing together all actors of the university community, while also implementing measures to achieve such a cultural shift. Members of the EUA [European University Association] Learning & Teaching Thematic Peer Groups are -- each based on their…
Descriptors: Universities, Peer Groups, Educational Environment, Teaching Methods
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Tony Scott – College Composition and Communication, 2016
In an era of normative austerity in US higher education, composition is being transformed by budget cuts, retrenchment, and marketization. Nevertheless, the field’s scholarship continues to compartmentalize questions concerning the material terms of practice away from questions of curricular philosophy. Because composition has not developed a…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, College Faculty, Political Influences
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Roose, Deborah – AILACTE Journal, 2016
For decades, teacher educators and others have looked critically at the way teachers are initially prepared and during the last ten years the calls for reform in teacher education have become even more frequent. Some programs have responded to those demands and made substantial and long lasting changes. This qualitative study reports on data…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Change, Qualitative Research, Administrator Attitudes
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Ghosh, Ranjan – Comparative Education Review, 2015
The article explores Rabindranath Tagore's ideas on child education, focusing on Tagore's notion of the child, method and nonmethod in education, a deep understanding of education in relation to the child's surroundings, and the ways in which Tagore envisaged the relationship between the child and the teacher--the "guru-shishya"…
Descriptors: Profiles, Change Agents, Child Development, Educational Environment
Kaput, Krista – Education Evolving, 2018
For the past 35 years, the prevailing narrative about America's public education system is that it is "broken." Reform efforts have failed to find a fix because they fundamentally misunderstand this reality: the system is not broken. It is doing exactly what it was designed to do--educate the masses in a standardized fashion that…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Evidence, Public Education, Educational Change
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Carmos, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2022
This book contains the full text of papers and posters presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2022), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (WIARS). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Development, Educational Change, Educational Trends
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Hallonsten, Olof – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2012
Proliferating excellence gold standards in the global academic system tend to obscure the far-reaching diversification of academic missions, practices, ambitions and identities brought by massification. This article approaches this topic by a review of theory on academic scholarship and how it has changed in the wake of academic massification and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Theories, Scholarship, Research
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Male, Trevor; Palaiologou, Ioanna – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2012
The history of leadership in educational settings that has a principal focus on student learning is one dominated by Western cultures, particularly those in the USA; also, it has developed two near-identical models of leadership commonly known as "instructional" or "learning-centred". This paper explores the relevance of these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Educational History, Epistemology
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Lythcott, Jean – Educational Forum, 2015
This article describes a professional development program that inspired some high school teachers to drastically reshape their teaching of chemistry toward a more learner-centered practice. Through interviews, they identified a freedom to explore and a sense of being trusted and respected as key aspects that supported this new approach. Rather…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Performance Factors, Teacher Education
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Sojourner, Russ – Journal of Character Education, 2014
Russ Sojourner is the Schools of Character Director for the Character Education Partnership (CEP) in Washington, DC. In this article he begins by saying that Daniel Lapsley and Charles Murray's articles presented in this issue of "Journal of Character Education" are clearly concerned about the compelling (and daunting) challenges facing…
Descriptors: Values Education, Ethical Instruction, Educational Environment, Ethics
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Leung, Ching Yin; Andrews, Stephen – ELT Journal, 2012
Whenever high-stakes assessment/curriculum reforms take place, new textbooks appear on the market. These textbooks inevitably play a significant mediating role in the implementation of any reform and on teaching and learning. This paper reports on a small-scale study which attempts to investigate the role of textbooks in the mediation of a…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Foreign Countries, High Stakes Tests, Educational Change
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Coffield, Frank – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
In the last four years McKinsey and Company have produced two highly influential reports on how to improve school systems. The first McKinsey report "How the world's best-performing school systems come out on top" has since its publication in 2007 been used to justify change in educational policy and practice in England and many other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Public Education
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Brooks, Charmaine; Gibson, Susan – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2012
While professional development (PD) has always been central to the teaching profession, increasingly traditional models of PD are out of step with contemporary ways of learning. Commiserate with the literature, we see the field moving along a continuum which reflects changes in what, how and when teachers learn. Following a brief sketch of the…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Instructional Design, Influence of Technology, Web 2.0 Technologies
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