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Zhu, Zhiyong; Fan, Xiaohui – Chinese Education and Society, 2012
After the launch of the new curriculum reforms at the beginning of the new millennia, teachers were expected to transform their conceptions of education by absorbing ideas such as "dual subjectivity," "democratic equality," "scientific inquiry," "collaborative learning," and so on. What sorts of conceptions…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Student Relationship, Educational Change, Reflection
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Pantic, Natasa; Wubbels, Theo – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2012
This paper explores the substance of competence-driven changes in teacher education curricula by testing the possibility of using a framework distinguishing between the German pedagogical culture of "Didaktik" and the Anglo-Saxon Curriculum culture to describe the substance of these changes. Data about the perceptions of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Competency Based Teacher Education
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Hodkinson, Alan; Devarakonda, Chandrika – Research in Education, 2009
This paper details the development and operation of a system of inclusive education in India during the latter part of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century. Through a literature review and the employment of in-depth semi-structured interviews the study sought to determine how inclusion is defined and how the professional…
Descriptors: Interviews, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Inclusion
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Argos, Javier – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2000
Discusses proposals for the innovation and development of early childhood education practice, based on findings from case studies on the practical knowledge of four experienced female early childhood educators. Argues that improving early childhood education should be based on its reasons and purposes rather than content or method. (JPB)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Early Childhood Education, Educational Development, Educational Improvement
Powers, P. J.; Harris, Larry B. – 1991
This study was conducted to investigate eight teacher education faculty members' perspectives of concordance with existing and emerging knowledge during the actual development of a knowledge base. An instrument was developed by content analysis to measure faculty understanding and realization of 82 theoretical constructs in six domains: (1)…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Educational Development, Higher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching