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Embedding EfS in Teacher Education through a Multi-Level Systems Approach: Lessons from Queensland
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Evans, Neus; Ferreira, Jo-Anne; Davis, Julie; Stevenson, Robert B. – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2016
This article reports on the fourth stage of an evolving study to develop a systems model for embedding education for sustainability (EfS) into preservice teacher education. The fourth stage trialled the extension of the model to a comprehensive state-wide systems approach involving representatives from all eight Queensland teacher education…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries
Researching the Impact of Teacher Professional Development Programmes Based on Action Research, Constructivism, and Systems Theory
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Zehetmeier, Stefan; Andreitz, Irina; Erlacher, Willibald; Rauch, Franz – Educational Action Research, 2015
This paper deals with the topic of professional development programmes' impact. Concepts and ideas of action research, constructivism, and systems theory are used as a theoretical framework and are combined to describe and analyse an exemplary professional development programme in Austria. Empirical findings from both quantitative and qualitative…
Descriptors: Action Research, Constructivism (Learning), Faculty Development, Qualitative Research
Assisting School Management Teams to Construct Their School Improvement Plans: An Action Learning Approach
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Van Der Voort, Geoffrey; Wood, Lesley – South African Journal of Education, 2014
This article reports on a first cycle of a larger action research study conducted to determine how Circuit Teams could support School Management Teams of underperforming high schools towards whole-school development. Although it is a mandated requirement by the Department of Education, none of the four schools involved in the study had developed a…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Educational Change, School Effectiveness, High Schools
Contextual Learning Issues [in HRD].
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1995
These five papers are from a symposium that was facilitated by Michael Leimbach at the 1995 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development (HRD). "Developing Systems Thinking Ability in Organizations" (Carol Ann Zulauf) reports a study that examined the relationship between cognitive complexity, locus of control, and selected…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Career Development, Graduate Study
Education for Sustainability: An Agenda for Action.
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Executive Office of the President, Washington, DC. – 1996
Understanding the principles of sustainability and the interdependence of the environment, the economy, and social systems can help individuals learn to make the changes necessary to become effective stewards of natural resources and the environment. This document describes three broad policy recommendations as to how Americans can build concepts…
Descriptors: Action Research, Conservation Education, Ecology, Educational Change
Issues around Teaching Competencies in a Family Literacy Program. Action Research Monograph.
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Miller, Susan Finn – 1999
Issues surrounding teaching competencies in family literacy programs were examined in a study of two well-established Even Start sites in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The program, which served 34 ethnically diverse adult learners, offered 25 hours of adult basic education, general educational development (GED), and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Competency Based Education, Educational Needs