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Horn, Klaus-Peter – British Journal of Religious Education, 2016
What professionalisation means has to be clarified in relation to the terms profession, professionality and professionalism. Is it about an occupation becoming a profession or about the individual development of professionality or about the formation of a professional identity? These questions are discussed systematically from the point of view of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Educational History
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Burns, Anne; Freeman, Donald; Edwards, Emily – Modern Language Journal, 2015
The overarching project of the conceptual and empirical contributions in this special issue is to redraw boundaries for language teacher cognition research. Our aim in this final article is to complement the foregoing collection of articles by conceptualizing ontologically and methodologically past and current trajectories in language teacher…
Descriptors: Language Research, Meta Analysis, Thematic Approach, Concept Mapping
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Wilcox, Susan; Leger, Andy B. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2013
In this paper we report on research we conducted to begin the process of identifying threshold concepts in the field of postsecondary teaching. Meyer & Land (2006) propose that within all disciplinary fields there seem to be particular "threshold concepts" that serve as gateways, opening up new and previously inaccessible ways of…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Higher Education, Concept Formation, College Faculty
Fitzgerald, William M. – 1972
This paper traces the growth of the concept of a mathematics laboratory and reviews recent research and developments in this field. The first section quotes several interpretations of the term and discusses some of the activities advocated by its proponents. The second section quotes extensively from E. H. Moore (1902) and McLennan and Dewey…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Concept Formation, Educational Development, Experiential Learning
Hoyt, Kenneth B. – 1975
The volume gathers together in one source a collection of Kenneth Hoyt's published and unpublished speeches, articles, and papers which trace the development of Hoyt's ideas on career education. Following an introductory section, Part 2 deals with stages in the development of career education concepts: defining career education, career choice,…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Career Development, Career Education, Concept Formation
Chenault, JoAnn; Mermis, William L. – 1976
Commissioned by the Office of Career Education (OCE), this monograph provides a perspective from which the OCE could (1) examine the human services education model implemented by the authors, and (2) consider its possible usefulness in OCE's future planning and development. The focus is on the potential alliance of career education and human…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Education, Concept Formation, Cooperative Planning