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Malone, Helen Janc – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2008
Although No Child Left Behind (NCLB) might have left an impression that only standardized tests and adequate yearly progress (AYP) mattered on the general public, the frustration over the narrow curricular focus also has created an opportunity in the education-policy realm, sparking conversations on what it takes to educate the whole child. This…
Descriptors: Suspension, Community Schools, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement
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Abraham, William J. – Christian Higher Education, 2006
This article explores the concept of education in such a way as to highlight the crucial place of fostering intellectual virtue and eliminating intellectual vice in teaching. Such teaching is inescapably a matter of discernment, trust, and luck. In this context a network of intellectual virtues provides an attractive vision of a well-rounded…
Descriptors: Theological Education, Social Change, Educational Objectives, Christianity
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Meszaros, Peggy S. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2007
This chapter presents the need for the journey of self-authorship and an overview of key concepts and terms explored in this volume.
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Self Actualization, Metacognition
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Pizzolato, Jane Elizabeth – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2007
Institutional and programmatic effectiveness in promoting self-authorship requires an understanding of how to assess self-authorship. (Contains 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Program Effectiveness, Self Actualization
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Little, Brenda; Harvey, Lee – Tertiary Education and Management, 2007
Increasing expectations are being placed on higher education institutions to ensure the economic relevance of research and knowledge creation as well as developing the skill needs of workers in modern knowledge-based societies. In the UK, workplace learning has long been a feature of higher education in certain subject areas, and in the late 1990s…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Work Experience, Intellectual Development, Foreign Countries
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Goldstein, William – Clearing House, 1969
The high school principal should be more a headmaster (in the intellectual sense) than an administrator. (CK)
Descriptors: Intellectual Development, Principals, Secondary Schools
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Winstead, Ann S.; Adams, Barbara L.; Sillah, Marion Rogers – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
Today's business climate requires that management recruits not only know the technical aspects of their jobs, but also possess communication, teambuilding and leadership skills. Most business school curricula, however, focus only on technical skills, and do not address the "soft skills" in a formal setting or on a consistent basis. As…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Basic Skills, Skill Development, Business Administration Education
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Heft, James L. – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2009
There are good reasons to be very careful about generalizations about Catholic higher education in the United States. Recall that the 220 or so Catholic colleges and universities are of very different kinds, very different sizes, with different student bodies, and are located in different parts of a country that sometimes have quite different…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Catholic Schools, Church Related Colleges, Differences
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Phillipson, Sivanes – Educational Psychology, 2009
Vygotsky speculated that parents play an important role in the intellectual development of their children, and that this role includes the transfer of expectations related to their children's academic achievement. Consequently, different parents can produce different contexts of academic achievement for their children. The participants were 215…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Parent Aspiration, Elementary School Students
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Lederhouse, Jillian N. – AILACTE Journal, 2008
Although high-needs schools rarely provide extensive scaffolding for beginning educators, liberal arts colleges that are committed to the moral and intellectual development of teachers can serve a pivotal role in helping their candidates choose such schools and commit to serving in them for the long term. This article describes ways in which…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Intellectual Development, Disadvantaged Schools, Teacher Education Curriculum
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Fowler, Jane; Zimitat, Craig – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2008
Common Time (CT) was a structured programme designed to enhance the social and academic engagement of a growingly diverse student body on a new campus that draws its population from a low-socioeconomic area. As a voluntary and non-remedial programme, it incorporated a range of formal and informal activities and processes to engage students. CT…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Academic Achievement, Intellectual Development, Partnerships in Education
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Trowbridge, Richard Hawley – London Review of Education, 2007
While research indicates that humans tend potentially to develop towards wisdom in later years, a review of mainly participant-determined groups and courses in 338 lifelong learning centers for older people shows little interest in wisdom or personal development activities. With the suggestion that this apparent lack of interest may be partially…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Lifelong Learning, Individual Development, Educational Methods
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Kruger, R. A. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2008
The "elemental" refers to the essentials of the contents that make them accessible to a child. The effects on a child of contents that are mastered are the "fundamental". In a fruitful didactic unlocking (presentation) it is possible for a child to achieve considerably more insight than merely an understanding of the learning…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Objectives, Learning Experience, Teaching Methods
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Garran, Daniella K. – History Teacher, 2008
Chartered in 1994 and opened in 1996, the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School (CCLCS) was among the first charter schools in Massachusetts. CCLCS strives to foster "intellectual development, academic achievement, project based learning, interdisciplinary studies, community partnerships, environmental studies, global awareness, and an ethical…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Charter Schools, Student Projects, Active Learning
Belford, Jules – Impr Coll Univ Teaching, 1969
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Intellectual Development, Teacher Responsibility
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