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Vansieleghem, Nancy; Kennedy, David – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2011
Philosophy for Children arose in the 1970s in the US as an educational programme. This programme, initiated by Matthew Lipman, was devoted to exploring the relationship between the notions "philosophy" and "childhood", with the implicit practical goal of establishing philosophy as a full-fledged "content area" in public schools. Over 40 years, the…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Children, Relationship, Program Content
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Hasrati, Mostafa; Tavakoli, Parvaneh – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2015
This article reports the results of a mixed-methods approach to investigating the association between globalisation and MATESOL in UK universities. Qualitative and quantitative data collected from academic staff through eight emails, four interviews and 41 questionnaires indicate that the globalised context of higher education has affected these…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Masters Programs
Frazee-Brookman, Lauren; Stahmer, Aubyn; Stadnick, Nicole; Chlebowski, Colby; Herschel, Amy; Garland, Ann F. – Grantee Submission, 2015
This study characterized the use of research community partnerships (RCPs) to tailor evidence-based intervention, training, and implementation models for delivery across different childhood problems and service contexts using a survey completed by project principal investigators and community partners. To build on previous RCP research and to…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Intervention, Delivery Systems, Agency Cooperation
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Durden, Tonia R.; Mincemoyer, Claudia C.; Gerdes, Jennifer; Lodl, Kathleen – Journal of Extension, 2013
In recent years much attention has focused on the role of enhancing a teacher's professional knowledge and skills in helping to improve the quality of early care experiences for young children birth-5. In the study reported here, an environmental scan of the early childhood professional development programs offered within the Extension system…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Faculty Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
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Miller-Day, Michelle; Pettigrew, Jonathan; Hecht, Michael L.; Shin, YoungJu; Graham, John; Krieger, Janice – Health Education, 2013
Purpose: As interventions are disseminated widely, issues of fidelity and adaptation become increasingly critical to understand. This study aims to describe the types of adaptations made by teachers delivering a school-based substance use prevention curriculum and their reasons for adapting program content. Design/methodology/approach: To…
Descriptors: Prevention, Teaching Methods, Drug Education, Grade 7
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Bathmaker, Ann-Marie – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2013
What is meant by "knowledge" in vocational education qualifications and who decides? These are significant questions in a context where "skill" is the prevailing discourse. This paper reports on a research project, undertaken in 2010-2011, which investigated the role of national stakeholders in defining knowledge in vocational…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Qualifications, Stakeholders
Hammer, Patricia Cahape – West Virginia Department of Education, 2013
A review of the research on teacher professional development identified an emerging consensus on important contextual and implementation characteristics that can promote or inhibit teachers' use of new knowledge and skills in their classroom practice. Findings suggest that professional development is best viewed as one component in an overall…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Faculty Development, Context Effect, Literature Reviews
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Ling, Guangming; Wolf, Mikyung Kim; Cho, Yeonsuk; Wang, Yuan – ETS Research Report Series, 2014
Although English-as-a-second-language (ESL) programs for matriculated students have been a presence in U.S. higher education since the 1940s, little has been documented in the literature concerning ESL courses, ESL placement tests, and the procedures in which incoming students are placed into appropriate classes.The present study takes three…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Higher Education, Program Content
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de Salas, Kristy; Lewis, Ian; Dermoudy, Julian – Australian Educational Computing, 2014
Within existing ICT degrees there is a widely-held belief that content must be tailored for different "kinds" of students--often two differing student groups: a technical group requiring detailed Computer Science knowledge and a separate group requiring less technical, more strategic ICT knowledge and skills. Our institution has produced…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Science, Information Technology, Technological Literacy
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Hughes, Robert, Jr.; Bowers, Jill R.; Mitchell, Elissa Thomann; Curtiss, Sarah; Ebata, Aaron T. – Family Relations, 2012
Although numerous online family life education programs have been developed over the past few years, there has been little discussion about best practices in the development of these programs. This article presents a framework to assist family life educators in the development and improvement of online programs from the initial problem analysis…
Descriptors: Prevention, Instructional Design, Program Content, Best Practices
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Hachfeld, Gary A.; Bau, David B.; Holcomb, C. Robert; Craig, J. William – Journal of Extension, 2013
Dwindling public funding as well as greater competition for grant dollars create a challenge for Extension. For Extension to remain a financially viable organization, educators have to be able to produce substantive, measurable program outcomes and impacts. Evaluative data can inform program development and delivery, and helps administrators…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Program Development
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Roskos, Kathleen; Neuman, Susan B. – Reading Teacher, 2013
Joseph Schwab, a curriculum theorist, described four commonplaces, or universals, of teaching: content, students, milieu and teachers. This article considers how the Reading Standards of the ELA-CCSS are shaping these commonplaces in the teaching of reading. The organization of the Reading Standards, for example, focuses on two broad grade bands,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, State Standards, Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education
Koury, Amanda S. – University of Pittsburgh Office of Child Development, 2013
This Special Report is a summary of the author's original paper, "It's About Time: Extending Learning to Narrow the Achievement Gap." The family income of students is a consistent predictor of academic achievement across the United States, where an achievement gap between the most and least affluent students has long persisted and shows…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Extended School Year, Summer Programs
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Oyo, Benedict; Kalema, Billy Mathias – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
Africa is known for inadequate access to all sorts of human needs including health, education, food, shelter, transport, security, and energy. Before the emergence of massive open online courses (MOOCs), open access to higher education (HE) was exclusive of Africa. However, as a generally affordable method of post-secondary education delivery,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Sustainability, Open Education, Online Courses
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Paul, Cynthia S.; Vaidya, Sheila R. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2014
What does it take to change a school's mathematics achievement profile from low to one that is proficient and advanced? Is this transformed achievement profile sustainable? Such is the story presented here, in this three-phase case study of a K-8 urban charter school's mathematics program. The first phase discusses the school's…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mathematics Achievement, Case Studies, Profiles
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