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Boughey, Chrissie – Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
This paper responds to a question posed by [Shay, Suellen. 2012. "Educational Development as a Field: Are We There Yet?" "Higher Education Research and Development" 31 (3): 311-323. doii:10.1080/07294360.2011.631520] about the status of knowledge building in the field of Educational Development. In her paper, Shay critiques…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Educational Practices
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Tesar, Marek; Hytten, Kathy; Hoskins, Te Kawehau; Rosiek, Jerry; Jackson, Alecia Y.; Hand, Michael; Roberts, Peter; Opiniano, Gina A.; Matapo, Jacoba; St. Pierre, Elizabeth Adams; Azada-Palacios, Rowena; Kuby, Candace R.; Jones, Alison; Mazzei, Lisa A.; Maruyama, Yasushi; O'Donnell, Aislinn; Dixon-Román, Ezekiel; Chengbing, Wang; Huang, Zhongjing; Chen, Lei; Peters, MichaelA.; Jackson, Liz – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
What is the future of Philosophy of education? Or as many of scholars and thinkers in this final 'future-focused' collective piece from the philosophy of education in a new key Series put it, what are the futures--plural and multiple--of the intersections of 'philosophy' and 'education?' What is 'Philosophy'; and what is 'Education', and what role…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
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Creamer, Elizabeth G.; Mutcheson, Ryan B.; Sutherland, Michelle; Meszaros, Peggy S. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
One principal way to judge if the activity or program described in a practice-oriented publication is worth replicating is to consider the strength of its foundational component. A strong foundational component supports the credibility of an initiative by demonstrating that it was designed with an understanding of other similar initiatives and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Literature Reviews, Periodicals, Content Analysis
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Kirchschlaeger, Peter G. – Education and Society, 2012
This article suggests future directions for policy, practice and research in the area of human rights education. These suggestions are based on an attempt of a critical overview of recent policy studies, of actual developments in human rights education and of some of the available research on human rights education. This attempt of an overview of…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Civil Rights, Citizenship Education
Sampson, James P., Jr., Ed.; Bullock-Yowell, Emily, Ed.; Dozier, V. Casey, Ed.; Osborn, Debra S., Ed.; Lenz, Janet G., Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This publication is based on the 2016 Society for Vocational Psychology (SVP) Biennial Conference, that was held at the Florida State University on May 16-17, 2016. The conference theme was "Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice in Vocational Psychology." The conference content and the resulting edited book are based on the…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Integrated Activities, Theory Practice Relationship, Vocational Education
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Macaskie, Jane; Lees, John – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2011
This paper challenges the neglect of psychotherapeutic methods in therapy research and discusses the use of methods arising directly from therapy practice to generate research data. Recent developments in therapy research culture are critiqued in order to contextualise the present contribution. The research design and methodology evolve from the…
Descriptors: Research Design, Research Methodology, Data Analysis, Psychotherapy
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Smith, Karl A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2010
The social basis of learning is a concept that has been embraced by the higher educating community. Since the 1980s, there has been exciting growth and the development of specific practices that better engage students in academic content. The purpose of this review of the social basis of learning is to summarize contributions on this topic to the…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Cooperative Learning, Educational Practices, Literature Reviews
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Black, Paul; McCormick, Robert – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2010
In introducing the articles in this issue, Black and McCormick are struck by two features. The first is that they comprise a rich set of resources for stimulating further thinking about tertiary education. The second, which follows from the first, is that they raise possibilities for further development of this field. They draw attention, in…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Postsecondary Education, Formative Evaluation, Reflection
Quinnell, Rosanne; Russell, Carol; Thompson, Rachel; Marshall, Nancy; Cowley, Jill – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2010
Connecting discipline scholars with the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is accepted as an essential part of professional academic practice across the higher education sector irrespective of discipline. To connect meaningfully with teaching practice, SoTL needs to be translated by the discipline scholar and narratives related to the…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Intellectual Disciplines
Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education, 2006
The Eisenhower Professional Development Program's primary goal is to support professional development for teachers that will improve classroom practice and, ultimately, student achievement. A multiyear evaluation of the Eisenhower Program sought to provide information to help the Eisenhower Program, and other professional development efforts,…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Professional Development, Teaching Methods, Program Effectiveness
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This document contains three papers from a symposium on change and the consultant that was conducted during a conference on human resource development (HRD). "A Theory of Consultancy" (Daniel R. Boroto, Douglas A. Zahn, Darren C. Short) presents an emerging theory of consultancy that is based on an analysis of thousands of videotaped…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Consultants, Educational Practices
Frasier, Mary M. – 1992
This chapter examines trends and issues concerning inequities in participation by ethnic/minority children in gifted education programs. The first section provides a brief historical perspective on past trends and issues concerned with the identification of gifted ethnic/minority students. Theories of cultural deficits, cultural differences,…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Access to Education, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Appleton, Ken, Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2006
Reflecting recent policy and standards initiatives, emerging research agendas, and key innovations, this volume provides a contemporary overview of important developments and issues that have that have in recent years shaped elementary science education pre-service courses and professional development, and practices that are shaping future…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teacher Education, Science Education, Professional Development
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Jenni, Roger W.; Mauriel, John – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2004
An eight-year study of 49 schools purporting to practice and apply Quality Management (QM) techniques and processes uncovered some revealing differences between what respondents thought "should be" happening in these schools and what they reported was happening. The gaps uncovered could be recognized as differences between rhetoric and…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Educational Research, Total Quality Management, Administrative Principles
Klapan, Anita – 2002
One of the main problems facing andragogy is that its systematic nature is more the result of other theoretical deliberations than those of its own. Until the mid-19th century, andragogy founded its development mainly on prevailing communal, social, economic, political, and cultural conditions in various countries. In the 1950s, andragogy turned…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Adult Learning, Andragogy
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