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Hansen, Andrew – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2021
The task of moral formation has long been an important purpose of higher education in the United States. However, pluralism and lack of moral consensus within secular universities present significant challenges to accomplishing this task. One possible solution is Christian study centers, which offer thick moral cultures that can form students at…
Descriptors: Christianity, Moral Development, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy
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Matzner, J. – Journal of Dance Education, 2015
While recovering from a serious illness, the author looked for dance classes that would help in regaining flexibility, balance, and core strength. Finding no local dance classes that could accommodate the deconditioning experienced from almost two years of physical inactivity and disuse due to bedrest, the author wondered if there were other…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Dance Education, Teaching Methods, Pilot Projects
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Gelfer, Jeffrey I.; Krasch, Delilah J.; O'Hara, Kathleen S. – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Teacher shortages are a pervasive global issue that is expected to continue, especially in low-performing, high-needs schools [O'Connor, E. A., Malow, M. S., & Bisland, B. M. (2011). Mentorship and instruction received during training: Views of alternatively certified teachers. "Educational Review," 63(2), 219-232]. In an effort to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Alternative Teacher Certification, Graduate Students, College School Cooperation
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Brunila, Kristiina – European Educational Research Journal, 2012
This article focuses on the aim of creating a flexible and self-centred self by means of entrepreneurial and therapeutic education. It is an analysis that uses documents from project-based educational programmes as well as interviews with young adults and the people who work with them in these programmes. The data are examined using a Foucauldian…
Descriptors: Therapy, Young Adults, Entrepreneurship, Interviews
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Brook, Angus; Lynch, Sandra; Debono, Moira, Sr. – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2013
In 2011 members of the School of Philosophy and Theology at The University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA) Sydney campus, designed two standards rubrics as part of a project aimed at undertaking research within the area of assuring graduate attributes and capabilities in Australian universities. The standards rubrics designed were oriented towards…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Liberal Arts, Standards, Scoring Rubrics
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Diana, Thomas J., Jr. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2013
A primary goal of all teacher educators is to provide preservice teachers with meaningful professional development opportunities that will help them succeed in making the transition into their own classrooms. Through these experiences, individuals develop the requisite knowledge and skills to become effective classroom leaders capable of…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Professional Development, Transitional Programs, Teacher Education Programs
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Mulcahy, Dianne – Journal of Education Policy, 2016
This article seeks to augment an emerging interest in education policy research in enactment theorising, to explicitly consider the role and contribution of materiality in this theorising. Guided by the notion of policy "matters," the article takes as its empirical context a major policy initiative, the Building the Education Revolution…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Role, Educational Research, Policy Analysis
Teacher Education Accreditation Council, 2011
The Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC), founded in 1997, is dedicated to improving academic degree programs for professional educators--those who teach and lead in schools, pre-K through grade 12. TEAC accredits undergraduate and graduate programs, including alternate route programs, based on (1) the evidence they have that they…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Academic Degrees, Professional Associations, Schools of Education
Teacher Education Accreditation Council, 2012
The Teacher Education Accreditation Council's (TEAC's) "Guide to Accreditation" is primarily for the faculty, staff, and administrators of TEAC member programs. It is designed for use in preparing for both initial and continuing accreditation. Program personnel should understand and accept all the components of the TEAC accreditation process…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Formative Evaluation, Distance Education, Glossaries
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Ling, Lorraine M. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2009
This article provides a critical examination of a variety of approaches to induction focusing especially upon Australia and other Pacific Rim countries. The question of the purposes induction serves for graduate teachers, experienced teachers and education systems is addressed in terms of whether it is a technical exercise which preserves the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Mentors
Teacher Education Accreditation Council, 2011
The Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) "Guide to Accreditation" includes a full description of TEAC's principles and standards, the accreditation process and audit, and detailed instruction on writing the "Brief." This revision includes expanded information on (1) preparing an "Inquiry Brief Proposal" and the audit of the "Inquiry…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Glossaries, Federal Regulation
Alter, Jamie; Coggshall, Jane G. – National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, 2009
This Issue Brief, written through a collaboration between two federally funded technical assistance and research dissemination centers, the New York Comprehensive Center (NYCC) and the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (TQ Center), describes what "teaching as a clinical practice profession" means to those in the field of teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching (Occupation), State Policy, Clinical Supervision (of Teachers)
Smith, Gregory A.; Sobel, David – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010
Place- and community-based education--an approach to teaching and learning that starts with the local--addresses two critical gaps in the experience of many children now growing up in the United States: contact with the natural world and contact with community. It offers a way to extend young people's attention beyond the classroom to the world as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teaching Methods, Place Based Education, School Community Relationship
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Kapitzke, Cushla; Hay, Stephen – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2011
This article examines shifts in educational and social governance taking place in Queensland, Australia, through Education Queensland's Industry School Engagement Strategy and Gateway Schools program. This significant educational initiative is set within the context of Queensland's social investment agenda first articulated in its education policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Industry, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education
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Maxwell, Bruce – Ethics and Education, 2008
This paper challenges a pervasive curricular justification for educationally acquainting young people with stories of genocide and other moral horrors from history. According to this justification, doing so favours the development of psycho-social soft skills connected with interpersonal awareness and the establishment and maintenance of positive…
Descriptors: United States History, Death, History Instruction, Ethics
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