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Roberts, Daniel M.; Brown, Alisha M. B.; Edwards, Laura – Educational Action Research, 2015
Access to primary and secondary education in Tanzania has drastically expanded in the past two decades. In response to this success, its ministry is now targeting improvements in educational quality through additional reform. Yet teacher absenteeism, physical abuse, overcrowding, lecture-based pedagogy and a system of accountability based…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Teaching Methods, After School Programs
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Nie, Ming; Armellini, Alejandro; Witthaus, Gabi; Barklamb, Kelly – Research in Learning Technology, 2011
We report on the incorporation of e-book readers into the delivery of two distance-taught master's programmes in Occupational Psychology (OP) and one in Education at the University of Leicester, UK. The programmes attract work-based practitioners in OP and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, respectively. Challenges in curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Design, Industrial Psychology, Teacher Education Programs
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Edwards, Steven W.; Edwards, Rebecca – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2006
The UK-I-Can Program is an adaptation of the Amer-I-Can Program, introduced in 1988 to help individuals meet their full potential and improve the quality of their lives. The focus of the program is equipping young people with life management skills necessary to lead fulfilling and productive lives, based on the belief that individuals' self-esteem…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Pilot Projects, Foreign Countries, Self Determination