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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
Carnock, Janie Tankard – New America, 2016
Around 30 percent of families across New York State now speak a language other than English at home, resulting in 240,000 English language learners (ELLs) in the state's primary and secondary schools who speak nearly 200 different languages. This report looks at New York State's redesign of policies and practices to better support the education of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English Language Learners, Educational Practices, Educational Policy
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Blanchette, Sue – Social Education, 2012
Like many who entered the teaching profession in the 1970s, the author entered a profession that was in transition. Over the more than 30 years she spent in the classroom, the author has had a front row seat during this evolution. It has been a roller coaster ride at times, but she believes our schools will emerge stronger for it. Who we teach,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Classroom Environment
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Bamber, Veronica; Anderson, Sally – International Journal for Academic Development, 2012
Rather than a rational, technical activity, evaluation reflects the socio-political dynamics of the evaluative context. This presents a challenge for universities and the individuals within them, who may assume that plans or policies for evaluation will result in straightforward outcomes. This small-scale study in one institution looks at the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Segovia, Isidoro; Lupiáñez, Jose Luis; Molina, Marta; González, Francisco; Miñán, Antonio; Real, Irene – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2010
This article provides an overview of the role that interdisciplinarity plays in the Spanish education system. With this aim, we first describe the main conception of the term "interdisciplinarity" in texts written in Spanish, including other terms that have similar meaning. Then we review the role of interdisciplinarity in the Spanish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Concept Formation, Role Perception
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Vavrus, Frances – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
This article examines recent educational reforms in Tanzania by looking at the cultural politics of pedagogical change in secondary and teacher education. It presents an ethnography of a teachers college founded on the principles of social constructivism in a country where formalistic, teacher-centered pedagogy is the norm. Using data collected…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Participant Observation, Ethnography, Educational Change
Coffield, Frank – Adults Learning, 2008
This article considers what the learning and skills system would look like if, in line with the rhetoric of ministers, teaching and learning really were made the first priority of policy. The author draws out some of the implications for teachers and managers, and reflects on how the relationship between tutors and learners can be enhanced. He…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Teacher Student Relationship, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Hyland, Aine, Ed. – National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NJ1), 2011
The "Multiple Intelligences, Curriculum and Assessment Project" at University College Cork was a collaborative project carried out between 1995 and 1999. The key research question focused on whether Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences could be applied to, and enhance, aspects of curriculum and assessment at primary and…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Action Research, Foreign Countries, Multiple Intelligences
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Sadovnik, Alan R. – Sociology of Education, 1991
Presents Basil Bernstein's most recent model of pedagogic practice, connecting it to his theory of curriculum and pedagogy and to his overall structuralist sociological project. Points out unresolved questions in Bernstein's work. Demonstrates an area of applicative value in relation to the evolution of education in the United States. (NL)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Critical Theory, Educational History, Educational Policy
Safford, Philip L., Ed.; And Others – 1994
This collection of papers recognizes ways in which the context of educational policy and its implications for practice have, in combination with other influences, defined early childhood special education and influenced its development. An introduction by Philip L. Safford is presented. Subsequent papers have the following titles and authors:…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention