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James K. Daly; Shea Richardson – Teacher Educator, 2024
The transformation of teacher education programs is needed. To be authentic and sustainable, efforts at transformation need to be grounded in shifting power and policy making away from just the university to shared decision making among stakeholders. This paper examines what are seen as first steps towards this objective. The effort described here…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teacher Education Programs, Stakeholders, Participative Decision Making
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Malhotra, Shrishti – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2019
This article attempts to locate the 'English-Speaking' class in contemporary India. By unpacking different aspects of one such class in Mumbai, it sheds light on the ways in which students, teachers and those who run the class view the 'English-Speaking' course and the ability to speak 'good English'.
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Attitudes
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Martinez-Cola, Marisela; English, Rocco; Min, Jennifer; Peraza, Jonathan; Tambah, Jamesetta; Yebuah, Christina – Teaching Sociology, 2018
What happens when the outside world begins to affect the classroom? Is the classroom supposed to be neutral, objective, and devoid of feelings? Or is it a space where students and teacher meet for healing, understanding, and critical thinking? From news reports of police brutality to highly publicized acts of racial aggression, students are…
Descriptors: Sociology, Teaching Methods, Antisocial Behavior, Critical Theory
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Kramer-Vida, Louisa; Levitt, Roberta; Kelly, Susan P. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2012
On their way to a state English board meeting, Susan Kelly, a curriculum director, and Louisa Kramer-Vida, a university professor, used their travel time as an opportunity to converse about pedagogy (McAdamis 2010). Specifically, they reflected about enhancing K-12 writing in a suburban, middle class school district. "We need to introduce a…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Middle Class, Kindergarten, Educational Change
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Baxter, Arthur; Tate, Jim; Hatt, Sue – Higher Education Quarterly, 2007
Recent widening participation policies have been subject to a number of criticisms; they focus on aspirations rather than differences in performance; they place less value on the aspirations of the "disadvantaged" comparing them to a middle class norm; they subordinate what was a radical agenda to the demands of the economy and so…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Student Attitudes, Student Reaction
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Somers, Cheryl L. – American Secondary Education, 2006
This study evaluates the effectiveness of an experiential approach to teen pregnancy (TP) prevention called "Baby Think It Over," a computerized infant simulator, on adolescents' attitudes and behaviors regarding teen pregnancy and sexuality. Recently, a more realistic model called "Real Care Baby" was developed. The small amount of research on…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Prevention, Sexuality, Pregnancy
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Kansuzian, L. V.; Nemtsov, A. A. – Russian Education and Society, 2000
Examines the survey results that studied college students' attitudes toward choice of profession, studies, and humanities education at the Bauman State Technical University (Moscow, Russia). Determined that these students were more willing to undergo career changes and were preoccupied with how their learning will be applied. (CMK)
Descriptors: Career Change, Careers, College Students, Evaluation
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Lindsey, Alfred J. – Scholar and Educator, 1982
The importance of teaching consensus values to minority group children is stressed. Public educators are urged to spend instructional time in preparing youth to share in American society and culture and in teaching mastery of the skills necessary for success, rather than to concentrate on developing cultural pluralism. (PP)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnicity
Savage, John A. – 1977
The experiences and observations of Teacher Corps teacher interns in four different cultural settings are related. The community characteristics, social and cultural values, and coping techniques of the inservice teachers in each of these locales are described. The sites chosen for these case studies were a Native American reservation, an…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, Change Agents, Community Characteristics, Coping
Moely, Barbara E.; And Others – 1995
Motivational beliefs of children in grades 5 through 8 (ages 10 years, 9 months to 13 years, 7 months) were assessed in a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study. Children attended a nonsectarian, private school in which the method of evaluating academic performance changed over grades from an individualized, mastery-oriented approach to a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Beliefs, Cross Sectional Studies