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Donna Davenport; Jessie Levey – Dance Education in Practice, 2024
Two dance educators, one from the independent sector and one from higher education, have cowritten this article to discuss the important links between independent studios and college dance programs. We provide the history, evolution, and goals of the DANCE 2050 think tank, which currently focuses on shared values in dance education across sectors.…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Program Descriptions
Jennifer Ash – Grantee Submission, 2022
In the Spring of 2019, the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University launched the National Center for Rural Education Research Networks (NCRERN) with funding from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. This overview describes NCRERN's mission of expanding the use of evidence-based decision-making in…
Descriptors: Professional Associations, National Organizations, Rural Education, Educational Research
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Jessica Shiller – Democracy & Education, 2024
This article describes the work of a civic education program in New York City schools called Youthbuilders, which existed from 1938 to 1948. Youthbuilders' aim was to engage youth in civic education projects and teach them about their place in a democracy and worked with them to support racial and social equality. Shortly after World War II, they…
Descriptors: Democracy, Educational History, Social Change, Citizenship Education
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Pufall Jones, Elizabeth; Hatfield, Daniel P.; Connolly, Nico – Journal of School Health, 2020
Background: Whole school, whole community, whole child (WSCC) approaches to education address contexts beyond school that influence young people's academic and life outcomes. These recommended approaches demand mobilization of an array of actors, but such mobilization is challenging. Little research has explored strategies for convening national…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Health Behavior, Health Promotion, Youth Programs
Rebecca Klein-Collins; Christina Sedney; Patrick Lane – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2024
The CAEL (Council for Adult and Experiential Learning) and the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) announce the inaugural winners of the Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) Equity Awards, recognizing strategies that have been proven to put CPL in reach of key adult learner populations and/or increase their CPL credit-earning.…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Adult Learning, Experiential Learning, Alaska Natives
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Hopper, Timothy; Rhoades, Jesse Lee – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2022
The second article (Part 2) builds on the theoretical and contextual foundation developed in paper one by exploring in more depth how to teach tennis based on the use of USTA modified equipment and Tennis Canada's play-practice-play program. Drawing on the enactivist cognitive approach to teaching tennis, this paper shows how tennis players,…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Educational Change, Racquet Sports, Physical Education
Bonnie Christine Gidzak – ProQuest LLC, 2020
A widespread atomic science public education movement in the United States during the late 1940s provided multiple media through which the basic science of the atom moved from scientific obscurity to expected public knowledge. During the first half of the twentieth century information about atomic science for the general public was limited and…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational History, Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Energy
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Salinger, Gerhard L.; Moye, Johnny J. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2021
This is the nineteenth in a series of articles entitled "The Legacy Project." The Legacy Project focuses on the lives and actions of leaders who have forged the technology and engineering teaching profession into what it is today. Members of the profession owe a debt of gratitude to these leaders. One simple way to demonstrate that…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Technology Education, Engineering Education, Professional Recognition
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Beauvais, Audrey; Goncalves, Susan; Barr, Emily; Di Yeso, Jaclyn; Berardino, Gail T. – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2020
Nurses are expected to provide spiritual care to patients. Even though standards provided by accreditation organizations, national nursing organizations, and the national RN licensure examination outline the expectation that nurses are to offer spiritual care to patients, the provision of spiritual care is often limited owing to time constraints…
Descriptors: Christianity, Health Services, Nursing Education, Patients
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Breetzke, Gregory D.; Hedding, David W. – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
In this paper we critically examine the research landscape in South Africa. We do this by documenting the progression and transformation of the country's National Research Foundation (NRF)-rated researchers from 2005 to 2015. Results indicate that most NRF-rated researchers in South Africa are white and male but this trend is slowly changing with…
Descriptors: Research Administration, National Organizations, Researchers, Blacks
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Esteban-Guitart, Moises; Rajala, Antti; Cole, Michael – Qualitative Research in Education, 2023
The article proposes and illustrates a methodological framework that aligns with the action-research models and utopian methodology in particular, although it represents a more substantial leap forward, especially regarding the distributed nature of decision making in the different processes of research/intervention, and its multiple and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Research Methodology, Decision Making, Intervention
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Kezar, Adrianna; Bernstein-Sierra, Samantha – AERA Open, 2019
This study examines the Association of American Universities Undergraduate STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) initiative and the ability of a national organization and its member institutions to reshape norms about the importance and value of teaching and dedicated efforts to teaching improvement. The study is framed with…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, STEM Education, Educational Improvement, Organizational Theories
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Danylenko, Oleksandr – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2019
The article is devoted to the problem on training of maritime specialists in universities of Great Britain; in particular, it is a question of training navigators. It was noted that there are dozens of maritime educational institutions and a long tradition of training maritime specialists in the country. The system of maritime education in the…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Marine Education, Navigation, Foreign Countries
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Porta, Carolyn M.; Mann, Erin M.; Amiri, Rohina; Avery, Melissa D.; Azim, Sheba; Conway-Klaassen, Janice M.; Golzareh, Parvin; Joya, Mahdawi; Mwikarago, Emil Ivan; Nejabi, Mohammad Bashir; Olejniczak, Megan; Radhakrishnan, Raghu; Tengera, Olive; Thomas, Manuel S.; Weinkauf, Julia L.; Wiesner, Stephen M. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Despite ongoing insecurity, Afghanistan has demonstrated improvement in health outcomes. Reasons for this success include a strategic public-private health service delivery model and investment in Afghan health care workforce development. Afghan universities have the primary responsibility for ensuring that an adequate health care workforce is…
Descriptors: Health Services, Public Health, Delivery Systems, Labor Force Development
Núñez, Elsa M. – Liberal Education, 2018
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has embarked on a sustained program to enhance the quality of student learning on campuses, while also supporting AAC&U members' efforts to bring liberal education to all sectors of society. This commitment to quality and equity in service to democracy forms the basis for…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Democracy, Equal Education, Liberal Arts
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