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Naujokaitiene, Justina; Passey, Don – European Education, 2019
This article explores influences on the development of collaborative learning practices in schools. Evidence from three cases in three countries is detailed and analyzed, using a theoretical framework concerned with school curricula: aims and intended learning outcomes; syllabus, learning and teaching methods; and assessment. In each of the three…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Comparative Education, Educational Objectives, Course Descriptions
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Labrador de la Cruz, Belén – International Journal of English Studies, 2019
This study explores the different uses of the word "little," its equivalents in Spanish and its teaching to young Spanish learners. First, it aims at analyzing the lexico-grammatical behavior of "little" in a corpus of children's short stories, where its prevailing use, preceding countable nouns, has been found to be much more…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Spanish, Computational Linguistics, Translation
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Strand, Virginia C.; Abramovitz, Robert; Layne, Christopher M.; Robinson, Howard; Way, Ineke – Journal of Social Work Education, 2014
There is a growing imperative to prepare MSW social work students for trauma-informed evidence-based practice. Given strong recommendations and promising developments within social work education and practice in this regard, a clinical elective for the advanced-year MSW student that combines the guiding principles of trauma theory and…
Descriptors: Trauma, Course Objectives, Counselor Training, Social Work
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Zwerling, Philip – Community Literacy Journal, 2009
Hidalgo County, Texas, is one of the poorest in the country. The population in the Lower Rio Grande Valley is 85% Mexican-American. Underprepared for college and juggling full time jobs, their own children, and sometimes dysfunctional extended families, students often do not expect to succeed. I recently taught a Creative Writing course which…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Creative Writing, Service Learning, Mexican Americans
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Vanderpool, Nathalie A.; Parcel, Guy S. – Journal of Medical Education, 1979
As part of the Introduction to Patient Evaluation course at the University of Texas Medical Branch, freshmen medical students visit a local elementary school to: observe variations of cognitive, physical, and social development; note variations through interactions; and interact with small groups of children. (LBH)
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cooperative Programs, Course Descriptions
Burgess, Joanne – 1979
The purpose of the mini-course described in this training manual is to provide parents with information and techniques that emphasize the importance of reading to children and to increase their proficiency in handling the task. The manual includes descriptions of the complete course, its objectives, recommended readings, lists of handouts and…
Descriptors: Children, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Early Childhood Education