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Bridging Marketing Theory and Practice for Consumer Behaviour Master's Students: A Case Study from Sweden
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Sundstrom, Malin; Hagberg, Johan – Industry and Higher Education, 2010
This paper describes the planning, implementation and outcome of a graduate-level consumer behaviour course taught in autumn 2008 at the University of Boras in Sweden. The course was jointly developed by marketing academics and business representatives in order to combine research-oriented studies with practical experience in a retail context. The…
Descriptors: Marketing, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Consumer Education
East Carolina University Uses Simple Technology to Link Its Students with Peers Overseas
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Fischer, Karin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Just 1 percent of East Carolina University undergraduates study overseas. But thanks to a pair of enterprising faculty members, a growing number of students are having international experiences without ever leaving the Greenville, North Carolina campus. The university's Global Understanding program uses inexpensive and relatively unsophisticated…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Global Approach, Study Abroad, Partnerships in Education
Evaluation of Education Programs Developed by the Public and Private Alliance between the Coffee Growers Committee of Caldas and the State Government of Caldas, Colombia. Final Report
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Moore, Audrey-Marie Schuh; Florez, Ana; Grajeda, Eva – Academy for Educational Development, 2010
This evaluation of progress in tackling the problems of access, quality, equity and completion of primary and secondary education examines the results of an alliance between the Coffee Growers Committee of Caldas (CGC) and the Department of Caldas, Colombia. The evaluation team employed a retrospective approach to understanding the social,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Metropolitan Areas, Partnerships in Education
Teamship Development.
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Wylie, Sally – 1999
The early childhood education department at Humber College in Toronto has developed a model for team collaboration that has been successful for 10 years. This model provides for the development of teamwork skills by their students by engaging them in assignments that require collaboration with college instructors and professionals outside the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Relations, Cooperative Learning, Early Childhood Education
Civic Engagement through Civic Agriculture: Using Food to Link Classroom and Community
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Wright, D. Wynne – Teaching Sociology, 2006
The maximization of productivity and labor efficiency has been a hallmark of the American agriculture and food system. The result of these twin processes is an industrial, concentrated, and consolidated provisioning system that produces cheap and plentiful food. Many view this model as a panacea for providing food to a modern industrial workforce,…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Rural Areas, Agriculture, Sustainable Development
Educating the Reflective Practitioner for Catholic Secondary Schools.
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Carey, P. S.; Carter, D. S. G. – 1993
This paper reports on the conceptualization and first year of implementation of a model of preservice teacher education and training established at the University of Notre Dame Australia to meet the specific needs of the Catholic education system. In setting up an appropriate model, the notion of the graduate teacher as one who is critically…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Church Related Colleges, Competency Based Teacher Education, Foreign Countries