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Katz, Bobbi – Teacher, 1977
Over the past several years, expert craftspeople have been coming into the schools, working with kindergartners through high school students and conducting special workshops for teachers and parents. Describes a program developed in Bergen County, New Jersey and called "Craftsmen in the Schools" in which each person can use the same materials to…
Descriptors: Ceramics, Craft Workers, Creative Activities, Guidelines
Valentine, K. B. – Western Speech Communication, 1977
Examines Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic similarities and offers a readers theatre program that could be derived from their work. Provides a short annotated bibliography of useful texts on corresponding arts. (MH)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Creative Dramatics, Interpretive Reading
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Storms, C. Gilbert – Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 1989
Describes elements in a teacher-training program for graduate assistants teaching business and technical writing at Miami University in Ohio, including preparatory seminars, apprentice-teaching with mentoring by master teachers, and supportive evaluation. Notes that these strategies can be adapted to other programs in which graduate students teach…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Higher Education, Program Content, Program Design
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Graves, Roger; And Others – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1994
Reports on a survey identifying the location, extent, and focus of technical writing programs at Canadian colleges and universities. Describes representative programs in some detail. Discusses the focus of these programs and the need for more programs. (SR)
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Carliner, Saul – Technical Communication, 1992
Cites reasons for pursuing a curriculum in technical communication, lists objectives a program should achieve, and outlines a four-part program that includes theory, professional skills, technical proficiency, and an internship. Lists schools offering programs in technical communication. (SR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Masters Degrees, Masters Programs, Professional Education
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Hunt, Peter – Technical Communication Quarterly, 1993
Argues that courses in technical communication must have high status, be flexible, use distance learning techniques, and meet the needs of inservice communicators to satisfy demand for technical communicators in Europe. Suggests those courses concentrate on composition, text-handling, elicitation, and specialized technical areas. Suggests courses…
Descriptors: Course Content, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Program Content
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Strohmaier, Mahla; And Others – ACA Bulletin, 1992
Describes the process followed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in implementing an oral communication across the curriculum core requirement. Discusses program adaptation, oral intensive guidelines, basic course structure, implementation recommendations, preparing faculty, identifying and meeting faculty need, and evaluation of pilot courses.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation, Program Content
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Perry, Chad – Management Education and Development, 1993
Management development is essential for the economic development of least developed countries (LDCs) in Africa. The collectivist culture of LDCs necessitates development of behavior skills and attitudes and a cyclic, experiential learning approach. (SK)
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Cultural Context, Developing Nations, Experiential Learning
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Nachlas, Joel A.; Cassady, C. Richard – European Journal of Engineering Education, 1999
Suggests that a chief contributor to the continued economic success of the western economies will be the productivity gains available through efficient preventative maintenance planning and argues for appropriate changes in engineering curricula. Describes the formulation of maintenance planning problems and illustrates with numerical examples the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Engineering Education, Higher Education
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American Annals of the Deaf, 2001
This directory provides information on schools and programs enrolling deaf and hard of hearing children and youth in the Canada. Part 1 lists programs by province and city and provides contact information. Part 2 is a services chart that provides such information as whether a program is residential, its enrollment, services offered, and…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Hearing Impairments
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Schwartz, Stephen W. – About Campus, 2001
In 1987 Marietta College created the McDonough Center, home of a unique program offering students the opportunity to study leadership in a formal way, as a complex phenomenon that can be defined, analyzed, learned, and improved. This article discusses the basic concepts and ideals that helped shape the program from its inception to the present.…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Higher Education
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Norcross, John C.; Kohout, Jessica L.; Wicherski, Marlene – American Psychologist, 2005
This article traces the evolution of graduate study in psychology in the United States and Canada during the past 3 decades. The authors summarize the 2003-2004 characteristics of graduate programs and departments in psychology and compare these data to those obtained in 1970-1971, 1979-1980, and 1992-1993. The most recent data were obtained from…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Psychology, Foreign Countries, Educational History
Bronte-Tinkew, Jacinta; Moore, Kristin Anderson; Shwalb, Rebecca – Child Trends, 2006
There is great variation in the content of out-of-school time programs and in the outcomes that these programs may influence. While school success is often the focus, other outcomes related to children's well-being also matter and are the focus of many out-of-school time programs. These outcomes fall within four research-based child outcome…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Academic Achievement, After School Programs, Mental Health
Lambert, Amber D.; Terenzini, Patrick T.; Lattuca, Lisa R. – Online Submission, 2006
This paper reports the effects of program characteristics and faculty activities on students' experiences and, ultimately, the development of students' analytical and group skills. Data come from nationally representative samples of 4,330 seniors, 1,243 faculty members, and 147 engineering program chairs on 39 campuses nationwide. Findings…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Academic Achievement, Engineering Education, Program Content
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Knapp, Doug; Benton, Gregory M. – Environmental Education Research, 2006
This study used a phenomenological approach to investigate the recollections of participants of an environmental education (EE) residential program. Ten students who participated in a residential EE program in the fall of 2001 were interviewed in the fall of 2002. Three major themes relating to the participants' long-term memory of the residential…
Descriptors: Semantics, Residential Programs, Program Content, Phenomenology
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