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Rachel Bolstad; Keita Durie – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2024
Climate change presents escalating risks to young people and communities, including risks to the achievement of educational outcomes. In the years NZCER has been researching climate-responsive education, we have noted a steady increase in activity, interest, and concern about climate change amongst educational policymakers, school leaders, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Environmental Education, Educational Policy
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Goodwin, Adam; Chittle, Laura; Dixon, Jess C.; Andrews, David M. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
A multi-disciplinary academic unit at a Canadian university completed an evaluation of course syllabi used in its undergraduate programmes over the previous five years. This paper examines the reasons for the evaluation, the processes employed to collect and analyse the data, and how the results will be incorporated into the next steps of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Curriculum, Curriculum Evaluation, Course Descriptions
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Maudarbux, Mohammad Belall – International Review of Education, 2016
The growing debate on intercultural and interreligious dialogue has one major drawback: how to translate academic and theoretical contributions into practical tools for educators and policy makers. This paper aims to fill this gap by presenting a transferable "needs assessment model" based on five criteria and twenty measurable…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Religious Education, Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism
Weiss, Michael J.; Visher, Mary G.; Wathington, Heather – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2010
Over the last four decades, community colleges have played an increasingly important role in higher education. Today, community colleges enroll more than one in every three undergraduates nationally. Unfortunately, among students who enroll in community colleges with the intent to earn a credential or transfer to a four-year institution, only 51…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Effectiveness, College Outcomes Assessment, Institutional Characteristics
Sala, Teresa – 1976
Educational trends in Italy are investigated and case studies are presented of experimental courses in communications at five secondary schools. The study is arranged in five chapters. The first chapter examines the relationships among the creative process, the cultural context, and socio-economic influences. The second chapter presents the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communications, Comparative Education, Course Descriptions
Born, Warren C., Comp.; Buck, Kathryn, Comp. – 1978
This report presents the results of a survey of innovative foreign language curricula in U.S. colleges and universities undertaken in 1974-75 by the Modern Language Association. The survey results published comprise three sections: (1) seventy-seven detailed curriculum reports including topics that are career-related, community-related,…
Descriptors: Career Education, College Curriculum, College Language Programs, Course Descriptions