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Nauman, April D. – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2018
After reading about the successful Finnish education system, a group of American educators traveled to Finland on an 8-day study tour of three cities to observe several schools and talk with educators there. In this reflective paper, the author describes and analyzes certain aspects of Finnish education as compared with public education in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reflection, School Culture, Foreign Culture
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O'Connor, John S.; Lessing, Avi D. – Schools: Studies in Education, 2015
In this essay, John S. O'Connor and Avi D. Lessing discuss the increasingly reductive and routinized nature of contemporary schools and the costs such an approach holds for students and teachers alike. The current approach is especially troublesome in light of the rich history of progressive voices, such as Paul Diederich, who have cautioned…
Descriptors: High Schools, Progressive Education, Educational Methods, Educational Practices
Maine Community College System, 2017
The Maine Community College System (MCCS or "System") is comprised of seven colleges, nine campuses, and six off-campus centers that are located within 25 miles of over 90% of Maine's population. The colleges offer one-year certificate and two-year associate degree programs that are designed to lead to direct employment or transfer to a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Associate Degrees, Certification, Postsecondary Education
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Berchini, Christina N. – Current Issues in Education, 2013
Not surprisingly, in an increasingly neo-liberal context of international competition for educational prestige, conversations about teaching and teacher preparation have taken hold across the globe. Further complicating these matters is that ideas about teaching, learning, and learning to teach cannot be understood or analyzed in a vacuum; that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Teacher Education Curriculum, Teacher Education Programs
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Gunter, Helen M. – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2012
Based on over twenty years of empirical and intellectual work about knowledge production in the field of educational administration, I examine the origins and development of the canon, methodologies and knowledge workers in England. I focus on the field as being primarily concerned with professional activity and how and why this was established…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational History
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Ray, Louis – Journal of Negro Education, 2012
Charles H. Thompson is best known as the founder and the first editor-in-chief of "The Journal of Negro Education" (1932-1963). Throughout his career, Thompson sought to extend educational opportunity in ways that were "for the good of Negro education as a whole." His main concern was in educating future leaders for service in African American…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Educational Opportunities, African American Education, African American Students
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McMillan, Leah K. – International Review of Education, 2010
The end of the Cold War ushered in a paradigmatic shift in international development discourse whereby a human rights-based approach to development was generated. This shift has stimulated the pegging of international development policy to the objectives of the human rights regime. However, in attempting to unify development and human rights…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Definitions, International Education, International Programs
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Roebben, Bert – British Journal of Religious Education, 2009
Religious education at school should be more than just the acquisition of knowledge. It should not only provide cognitive facts on how religious people act according to their moral and religious convictions, but also on how learners can gain as much profit as possible from these facts in order to build their own identity as religious…
Descriptors: Religion, Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Spiritual Development
Dunkel, Torsten – European Journal of Vocational Training, 2009
The merging of the Bologna and the Copenhagen processes into a single European education area appears appropriate, especially as general, vocational, adult and academic education are to be integrated in a future European Qualification Framework (EQF). This is the backdrop to the following description of the Bologna process, which was originally…
Descriptors: Diversity (Institutional), Educational Change, Regional Cooperation, Foreign Countries
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Maher, Charles A. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1982
The Goal-Oriented Approach to Learning (GOAL), a procedure to actively involve handicapped adolescents in the mainstreaming process, was evaluated with 11 learning disabled high school students. The procedure consisted of four steps: goal setting, goal attainment scaling, selection of classroom instructional strategies, and evaluation of goal…
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Educational Objectives, High Schools, Learning Disabilities
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Jorgenson, Estelle R. – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2002
In his essay, "Aims in Music Education: A Conceptual Study," Constantijn Koopman criticizes the lack of attention to the aims of music education and the confusion of aims and methods in some music education writing. Leaving aside questions relating to the philosophical merits or otherwise of blurring boundaries between aims and methods or the…
Descriptors: Music Education, Educational Philosophy, Role of Education, Educational Objectives
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Szolnoki, John F. – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1994
The educational principles of the Peto system of conductive education for students with motor disabilities are presented. A "conductor" undertakes the process of upbringing and education simultaneously. Learning begins with a sequential task analysis of daily activities, initially started with conscious, rhythmical intention and the…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Educational Methods, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy
Hendrickson, Leslie; Sattel, Susan F. – 1976
This volume contains descriptions of 40 educational programs in the Eugene, Oregon, public schools. This data was collected from interviews with personnel in each program and from the district's budget work-book. The program descriptions cover educational legislation that pertains to each program, program objectives and methods, resources, staff,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Legislation, Educational Methods, Educational Objectives
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
Of the educational work of the Young Women's Christian Associations only a part is done in the educational departments. The whole association is an educational project. For specific pieces of education, it organizes educational committees and departments in those associations that are large enough, and classes in those that do not maintain…
Descriptors: Committees, Organizations (Groups), Educational Methods, Educational Objectives
Gamson, Zelda F. – 1989
The history of CAEL under its various names (Cooperative Assessment of Experiential Learning (1974-77), Council for the Advancement of Experiential Learning (1977-84), and Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (1985-present) is documented. Chapter One analyzes the context in which CAEL was founded, looking at nontraditional education in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational History, Educational Methods, Educational Objectives
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