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Toomela, Aaro, Ed.; Kikas, Eve, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2012
The Soviet Union collapsed more than 20 years ago, but the traces left in occupied countries by this monstrous system still affect the lives of millions of people. Under the glittering surface of newsworthy events that regularly appear in the mass media, there are many other wounds hard to heal. The system of education is one of the social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Russian, Finno Ugric Languages
Lynch, Patrick D. – 1973
In 1971 and 1972 a group of Ecuadorean evaluators planned and carried out an evaluation of the new textbooks for reading, mathematics, and sciences in the first grade classrooms of 88 schools. A field experiment was designed in which each school was assigned to a test condition: (1) obligatory use of all the textbooks and guides, (2) use of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Arithmetic, Comparative Education, Grade 1
Phelps, E.; And Others – 1987
These materials were developed in the course of research on "Cognitive Growth through Peer Collaboration." Materials were developed and adapted for teaching spatial reasoning and logical reasoning to fourth grade students. The document contains: (1) descriptions of the various tasks involved; (2) outlines of each of the activities which were…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
National Center for Educational Communication (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC. Div. of Practice Improvement. – 1972
New educational products, broadly defined as validated output from education R&D programs designed for practical application, are listed. Some of the products are directed toward educational problems of critical importance; others address themselves to instructional or administrative topics of lower current priority. The products, nominated by…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Arithmetic, Communication Skills, Curriculum Development
Nemirovsky, Ricardo, Ed.; Rosebery, Ann S., Ed.; Solomon, Jesse, Ed.; Warren, Beth, Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2005
This book re-examines the dichotomy between the everyday and the disciplinary in mathematics and science education, and explores alternatives to this opposition from points of view grounded in the close examination of complex classroom events. It makes the case that students' everyday experience and knowledge in their entire manifold forms matter…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Science Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Instructional Design
Barnard, Henry, Ed. – American Journal of Education, 1860
This textbook is the eighth volume of the bound periodical, "American Journal of Education." This journal was established to enter into a range of education-related discussion and investigation. This volume includes No. 20, March 1860 and No. 21, June 1860. Among the topics covered in these issues are: school architecture; teaching…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, History Instruction, Geography Instruction, Natural Sciences