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Kaupp, Angela – Journal of Religious Education, 2023
Students often complain that the content of their studies is not practice-oriented enough because they do not recognize the importance of theory. This theory-practice problem has long been discussed in teacher education. Explicit research on religious educationĀ (RE) is only just beginning. This article tries to evince some connectors between…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Teacher Education, Higher Education, Religious Education
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Gabriel, Rachael – Urban Education, 2011
In 1999, Ball and Cohen proposed a practice-based theory of professional education, which would end inadequate professional development efforts with a more comprehensive approach. Their work has been referenced over the past decade, yet there have been limited attempts to actualize their ideals and research their implications. In this article, I…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods
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Huddy, Avril; Stevens, Kym – Research in Dance Education, 2011
This paper describes a teaching model, "The Teaching Artist", developed to address the pedagogical and cultural divide between the traditional dance teacher and the dance artist who teaches: traditionally, one teaching about dance and the other, teaching through dance. The "Teaching Artist" model was developed through the…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Teacher Education, Teaching Models, Preservice Teachers
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Osborne, Carol; Piver, Patricia – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2011
Advocates for teacher education reform are calling for university faculty to become more in tune with conditions in the schools. Linda Darling-Hammond (2006), for one, says that "the enterprise of teacher education must venture out further and further from the university and engage ever more closely with schools in a mutual transformation…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Change, Middle Schools, College School Cooperation
Ajayi, Lasisi – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2011
Critical reflection is defined as an educational imagination that allows candidates to look at themselves and their situations with new eyes, and in the process, become conscious of the multiple ways they can interpret, critique, challenge, confront, and reconstruct teaching. This study examines the effectiveness of using explicit instruction in…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Methods Courses, Literacy, Theory Practice Relationship
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Lovat, Terrence; Dally, Kerry; Clement, Neville; Toomey, Ron – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
Recent research in fields as diverse as educational philosophy and psychology, as well as in the neurobiological sciences, has underlined the need to reassess many of the assumptions that underpin the role of the school, the teacher and education in general. The work of the philosophers such as Carr and Kristjansson could be interpreted as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foundations of Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Adoption (Ideas)
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Reid, D. Kim – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1998
This commentary on C. Addison Stone's paper on the scaffolding metaphor for the learning disabilities field identifies issues in the metaphor's use and concludes that effective special education has been inhibited by isolation of interventions from theory and by the way teacher education is structured. Use of the scaffolding metaphor to refocus…
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Interpersonal Communication, Learning Disabilities, Metaphors
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Scheuermann, Brenda; Webber, Jo; Boutot, E. Amanda; Goodwin, Marilyn – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2003
Discussion of personnel preparation in autism spectrum disorders considers areas of concern including the current teacher shortage and attrition among special education teachers, noncategorical versus categorical teacher training, lack of scope and depth of most autism training models, clashes in theoretical orientations, and interactions with…
Descriptors: Autism, Elementary Secondary Education, Needs Assessment, Preservice Teacher Education
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Kline, Frank – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2000
This article summarizes the journal's special issue on intervention research for students with learning disabilities with emphasis on common themes in the preceding papers: (1) modeling in instruction, (2) the provision of feedback, (3) instruction for generalization, and (4) teacher preparation. (Contains one reference.) (DB)
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education, Feedback, Generalization
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Ritchie, Stephen M. – Science Education, 1999
Describes a case study of an experienced provocateur-teacher in which the teacher's theory for science learning and teaching during teacher-student interactions was inferred from classroom observations, teacher-student discourse, and stimulated recall interviews. The teacher's instructional moves were interrelated with the components of his…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Cognitive Structures, Foreign Countries
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Cary, Lisa J. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2004
In response to Cochran-Smith and Lytle's (1998) call for Other ways of researching and thinking about educational research and the recent call by the US Secretary of Education to reform "teacher-training" programs (Schoicet 2002), this article presents a research study focusing on a reform effort in teacher education. The study moved…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Professional Development, Educational Research, Teacher Education
Judge, Sharon – 2001
This final report of Project Prepare, a federally funded program at the University of Tennessee, describes the critical features and specific goals of the project, as well as program evaluation methods and results. The program was funded to develop a personnel preparation program for early childhood specialists that emphasized an…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Intervention, Family Programs, Higher Education
Lollis, Sylvia R. – 1996
A practicum was designed to increase the number of primary teachers who possess a more current reading and writing philosophy and would implement theory-driven teaching practices. The problem addressed in the practicum was that primary reading and writing instruction did not reflect current research, theory, and practices. Many classroom teachers…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Emergent Literacy, Graduate Study, Higher Education
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Lester, Nancy B.; Mayher, John S. – English Education, 1987
Presents the problem of teachers who are unwilling to examine critically their teaching practices, evaluate their efficacy, and make changes where necessary in the face of criticism, and suggests that part of the problem lies in the way teacher educators model teaching styles. (JC)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Creative Thinking, Educational Theories
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Ministry of Education, Lisbon (Portugal). – 1996
This report, containing both English and Portuguese text, describes the historical background and current state of preschool education systems in Portugal, and presents recommendations on guideline consolidation in the implementation of a common preschool education policy. Part 1 of the report, "Historical Background," discusses the…
Descriptors: Classification, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Guides
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