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Topics: Course Descriptions, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness,...
The notion of national unity through a single official language is defended by policy makers, who point out the practical and financial drawbacks involved in teaching in the vernacular in multilingual nations. Findings from grassroots-level case studies in Senegal, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Malawi, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka attest to the complexity of the participants' perceptions and desires. Additional comparative data from other countries echo these studies and underscore the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Educational Policy, Educational Research,...
The literature on the development of college students is discussed, and recommendations are offered for developing a course on student development theory and research. The following observations about the literature are considered: (1) the literature on the college student is actually two separate literatures, one focused on outcomes and the other on development, and there are few links to guide meaningful synthesis; (2) the literature is largely monocultural, focusing on white upper and middle...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Curriculum, College Students, Curriculum Development, Developmental Stages,...
Although research efforts into improving reading fluency and general reading performance through fluency training have enjoyed a resurgence in recent years, basal reading approaches still dominate reading instruction, and fluency is rarely viewed as an important component of the instructional package. Several models of reading fluency instruction make fluency an integral part of the regular reading curriculum. For example, the Oral Recitation Lesson incorporates aspects of repeated readings,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Education, Instructional Improvement, Models, Oral Reading, Reading...
Ten strategies used to facilitate use of research to inform practice in urban schools are reviewed in this digest. The strategies are: (1) using ongoing, building-based staff development (SD) programs to translate instructional research into practice; (2) planning SD programs collaboratively with district personnel to ensure their relevance to local needs; (3) incorporating training components that use demonstrations, practice, feedback, and coaching; (4) including opportunities for teachers to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Collegiality, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary...
A proposed three-dimensional model for identifying the gifted conceives of giftedness as a combination of characteristics. It emphasizes the different qualities of the characteristics as well as the fact that such characteristics exist in degrees or levels, thus helping to avoid thinking of giftedness or its components as being either wholly present or wholly absent in any individual. The model, visualized as a cube, incorporates the three characteristics that are important to achieve a high...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Ability Identification, Affective Behavior, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted,...
This paper addresses many theories of learning and human development which are very similar with regards as to how they suggest learning occurs. The differences in most of the theories exist in how they treat the development of the learner compared to methods of teaching. Most of the major learning theories taught to educators today are based on decades of research; thus, they are decades old. The time has come to unify many of the theories of learning and development into one that takes into...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Learning Theories, Multiple Intelligences, Educational Psychology, Psychologists,...
The increased focus on the role of research in the social service sector, pressure for practitioners to engage in research and the demand for integration of research and practice challenges faculties about ways in which to engage social work students in research. This paper evaluates a research based practicum program within a social work faculty at one Canadian university aimed at meeting this need. The objectives of the practicum include providing opportunities to integrate research...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Social Work, Counselor Training, Focus Groups, Practicums, Online Surveys, Theory...
This article describes a Framework that can be used to help bridge the gap between theory and practice in adult learning. The Framework promotes practice informed by three strands important to adult literacy work: social theories of literacy, social-constructivist learning theory and principles of adult learning. The Framework shows how five key factors can be utilised to establish existing learner knowledge onto which new learning can be built, identify relevant and effective learning...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Adult Basic Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Adult...
This article deals with implementing project work in the teaching of English as a foreign language in Greek state primary schools. Theoretical foundations for project-based learning are presented and applied in the classroom, difficulties encountered are discussed, and benefits resulting from student participation in project work are suggested. The article purports to be pragmatic in focus, linking theory with practice, and providing practitioners with a tool for effectively implementing...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Student Projects, Second Language Instruction,...
Higher education that presupposes a specific conception of justice does well in preparing students to make claims of justice from specific perspectives or positions. However, civic leadership students with a strong background in specific conceptions of justice are often not equipped with necessary skills, dispositions, and habits to exercise leadership in ways that can manage political contestation associated with competing claims of justice. Civic leadership for justice hinges on the ability...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Leadership Training, Social Justice, Social Theories, Higher Education, Civics,...
The gap between theory and practice has become a critical issue in the effort of improving the learning of mathematics. Beliefs may have been one of the contributing factors to the widening of the gap between theory and practice. Therefore, examining the relationship between beliefs and practices in mathematics is crucial to gain an overview of the preparation of potential teacher candidates and the development of teacher education in the future. This study aims to examine the relationship...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Student Attitudes, Beliefs, Teaching...
The research object is the activity-based learning theory. The purpose of the study is to prove the assumption that the subject-object approach as a direction of the learning theory is the most effective one in the context of development of modern paradigms of linguistic education. The authors believe that the main content of the learning activity should be the learning of generalized modes of action in the field of scientific concepts and the qualitative changes in the intellectual and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Linguistic Theory, Theory Practice Relationship, Intellectual Development, Scientific...
This paper discusses translation problems awaiting Turkish students as well as the creative solutions they develop in overcoming them. It consists of two parts; The first part studies the barriers concerning translation procedures from the perspective of translation theory and Turkish translation history; The second parts analyses the impact of translator training programmes by submitting a case study to disclose in what way they shape and affect creative decisions of trainees in dealing with...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Barriers, Creativity, Translation, Training, Language Skills,...
In this study we investigated the research designs employed to study the interdisciplinary profession of school librarianship during a time period of notable changes across both the Pre-K-12 and school library domains. To conduct this work, we analyzed all 217 articles published in "School Library Research" (SLR) and "School Libraries Worldwide" (SLW) from 2007 through July 2015. Results point to the high variability in research designs employed and limited inclusion of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Research Design, School Libraries, Library Research, Content Analysis, Journal...
Addresses the question of how researchers find out what happens in schools and why. The compatibility of environmental education and teacher thinking is examined. The issue of teaching methods relating to voice, language, and relationships as they are relevant to the debate of environmental education methods is also raised. (AIM)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Environmental Education, Field Studies,...
This Digest of a larger report with the same title examines the application of learning theory to the quality of learning in undergraduate college classrooms. Relevant theories are identified, including theories which address college students' attributions for success or failure, self-efficacy, social constructivism, conscientization, multiple intelligences, and learning styles. The knowledge base supporting these theories, as applied to college students, is briefly summarized. Specific...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attribution Theory, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style, College Instruction,...
This document contains 10 papers on vocational education and training and related research that were developed for a 1998 European research report titled "Training for a Changing Society." The following papers are included: "Research on Transition" (B. Clasquin, F. Gerardin, V. Toresse); "Objectives, Realisation and Organisation of Continuing Vocational Education and Training" (Dieter Munk, Antonius Lipsmeier); "Training and Employment Opportunities for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communications, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged,...
This collection offers insights into what a democratic vision of literacy looks like in practice. Building on the work of teacher and literacy scholar Jay Robinson, the 10 essays in the collection explore the relationships between literacy and society. The essays pay tribute to Professor Robinson, who retired in 1966 from the University of Michigan's English and Education program. Following a foreword by Jacqueline Jones Royster and an introduction by Professor Robinson, his students, and the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Theory, Democracy, Higher Education, Language Role, Literacy, Rhetoric,...
The California Educational Research Cooperative (CERC) is a partnership between county and local school systems and the School of Education at the University of California, Riverside. The annual report of this organization is presented. The report details the missions and goals of CERC and its effort to bring professionals and research scholars together so as to form a link between research and practice. The report describes the research cycle, detailing the steps taken throughout the cycle and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annual Reports, Cooperative Programs, Educational Cooperation, Educational...
Constructivism has received considerable attention in educational scholarship, practitioner preparation, and policy formation. This Digest identifies major forms of constructivism, considering issues and challenges that surface when implementing constructivist approaches to preservice and inservice teacher education. Constructivism is an epistemology, a learning or meaning-making theory, that offers an explanation of the nature of knowledge and how humans learn. It maintains that individuals...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cognitive Development, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Secondary Education,...
This study is designed to gauge the impact that school reform and restructuring is having on the functions of school counselors. It explores how school counselors will work as the new century begins, and projects how changes in roles and responsibilities may impact school counselor training programs. The Delphi research method was used to forecast future trends among counselors in schools affiliated with the Coalition of Essential Schools. Preliminary results indicate school reform has caused...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Role, Delphi Technique, Educational Change,...
The first in a series of guides on the inclusive classroom that offers teachers research-based instructional strategies with real-life examples from Northwest classrooms, this publication focuses on the educational needs of students with learning disabilities in inclusive classrooms. It highlights methods for teaching mathematics and science, and suggests ways to foster collaborative relationships with special education teachers and families of students with learning disabilities. These...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning,...
This paper examines the use of professional reading groups as a strategy to help college and university administrators stay informed and meet administrative challenges. It reports on a study of 26 institutions by the American Council on Education, which examined the process of large-scale institutional change. This study's findings support reading groups as an institutional change strategy and identified the following important change strategies: leaders who make a clear and compelling case for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Case Studies, Change Strategies, College Administration, Educational Change, Group...
These two newsletters of The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT) present articles concerned with research on the education of gifted and talented students. The articles are: "NRC/GT: Research Should Inform Practice" (E. Jean Gubbins); "Building a Bridge: A Combined Effort between Gifted and Bilingual Education" (Valentina I. Kloosterman); "Talent Development for Everyone: A Review of 'Developing the Gifts and Talents of All Students in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Mathematics...
This paper examines the issue of national curriculum standards within the context of social studies education. The paper explores both the recent "conservative-liberal" consensus in favor of (at least) the idea(l) of national curriculum standards and the nascent opposition movements to national curriculum standards growing within both the pedagogical/political Left and the pedagogical/political Right. Focusing on the perspective of the radical Left, the position of the author as well...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Standards, Critical Theory, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary...
A project provided training and guidance to Northampton Community College (NCC) staff in implementing the "new" adult learner skill competencies. Two workshops were held to serve 29 staff in Monroe, Wayne, and Pike counties in Pennsylvania. Among the topics covered were defining and introducing portfolios to adult learners, individualizing instruction, accessing resources, relating learning to daily living, the competencies, and teaching in real-life context. The staff members then...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Students, Daily Living Skills, Educational Resources, Guides,...
A study explored the role of the workplace trainer in the building of training/learning cultures in workplaces in Australia. Following a literature review, stage 1 data collection involved observations and interviews in 18 enterprises in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia where trainers were facilitating learning with one or two employees/learners. Five key functions and 32 trainer actions were identified and formed the nucleus of stage 2, a telephone interview survey of 350...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Developed Nations, Education Work Relationship, Educational Environment, Educational...
For many years, Robert Boyd has focused on the deeper emotional and spiritual dimensions of learning that many have suggested are underdeveloped in dominant conceptions of transformative learning. Boyd's work is grounded in the field of depth psychology, which is based on a fundamental belief in the powerful role that the dynamic unconscious plays in shaping people's thoughts, feelings, and actions on a day-to-day basis. Boyd's view of transformative learning is grounded in Carl Jung's concept...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Learning, Andragogy, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Critical...
This paper seeks to bridge two United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) themes in education: learning to know and learning to do. The paper discusses the place of each theme in art education, interpretting "learning to know" as art's reflective component and "learning to do" as art's productive component. It provides a short history of productive and reflective art education in the Netherlands and furnishes a comparison of concepts in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Art Activities, Art Education, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education,...
This volume is part of a series of 18 monographs service learning and the academic disciplines. This collection of essays focuses on the use of service learning as an approach to teaching and learning in political science. Following an Introduction by Richard M. Battistoni and William E. Hudson, the four essays in Part 1, "Service-Learning as a Mode of Civic Education," develop a theoretical framework for understanding service learning; titles include: "The Decline of Democratic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Citizen Role, Citizenship, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, College Students, Community...
Children are entitled to grow up in secure and nurturing environments that include caring adults; safe streets; decent shelter; adequate nutrition; access to health care and education; and advocacy on their behalf against the toxic influences of society. Far too many children are being referred to special education and mislabeled and medicated. Policy and practices need to be in place that address the real needs of children without doing them unintended harm. This implies avoiding fads and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Childhood Needs, Children, Counselor Role, Government Role, Integrity, Labeling (of...
A growing body of research supports a purposeful and transparent approach to learning. Within the field of cognitive science, learning is defined as a purposeful, goal-directed activity. An ongoing goal-setting process is integral to effective learning. Purposeful and transparent learning builds on learners' prior knowledge and experiences to construct new knowledge. Once learners' goals have been established, they begin a process of self-assessment. Purposeful and transparent learning means...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Cognitive Ability, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Research,...
Drawing upon recent research, this article reviews the theory underlying the use of socioscientific issues (SSI) in science education. We begin with a definition and rationale for SSI and note the importance of SSI for advancing functional scientific literacy. We then examine the various roles of context, teachers, and students in SSI lessons as well as the importance of classroom discourse, including sociomoral discourse, argumentation, discussion, and debate. Finally, we discuss how SSI...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Scientific Literacy, Theory Practice Relationship, Discussion (Teaching Technique),...
As a social studies program coordinator at a regional-sized institution, the author typically has between 20-25 preservice candidates enrolled in his annual undergraduate methods course. However, he usually has only one to two in-service candidates each year who require an advance methods course focused on such items as the historical influences, contemporary trends, and research within the social studies field. Recently, the single student in this course was Jonathan Frye, a graduate student...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Graduate Students, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Action Research,...
The article intends to simplify the different aspects of podcasting. The article covers types of podcasts; the pedagogical benefits of podcasting; the connection between theory and podcasting; answers to questions, queries, and apprehensions. Before trying out a new tool, it is important to understand why we do things the way we do. A crucial part of using any tool or technology is to understand, test, and determine the pedagogical appropriateness of it for specific context. Through the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Students, Theory Practice Relationship, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology,...
In this paper we will demonstrate how powerful "Bildung" is as a tool in modern university teaching. The concept of "Bildung" was originally introduced by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (Kant 1787, 1798, 1804) and the Prussian lawyer and politician Wilhelm von Humboldt (Humboldt 1792, Bohlin 2008). From 1810 "Bildung" was a key concept in German university teaching where the main purposes were to give the students: 1. advanced teaching based on research, 2....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Scientific Research, Foreign Countries, Intellectual History, Mathematics Education,...
This qualitative study examines alternative arts-based education in two urban educational settings for underrepresented or marginalized youth. In particular, the authors use postcolonial and feminist theories to create borderland spaces where marginalized youth can develop strong identities, establish a community mindset, and cultivate leadership skills through supplementary arts education programs. Our goal with this work is not only to empower youth but also to bridge the gap between...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Art Education, Change Agents, Urban Education, Nontraditional Education,...
At the dawn of the 21st century, there has been an increased focus on social justice and educational leadership (Bogotch, Beachum, Blount, Brooks & English, 2008; Marshall & Oliva, 2006; Shoho, Merchang & Lugg, 2005). This paper explores and extends themes in contemporary educational research on leadership preparation in terms of social justice and its importance for both research and practice on a national and international level. In particular, we examine various considerations in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Social Justice, Educational Research, Leadership Training, Instructional Leadership,...
Organisational change in UK higher education has resulted in control of the student learning environment passing from specific disciplines such as psychology to central management teams and university-wide course frameworks. This poses the general question of how disciplines can exert influence upon broad pedagogic issues, when their control extends only to relatively local matters, and the specific methodological problem of how action researchers can investigate topics of general importance...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Organizational Change, Higher Education, Educational Environment,...
In the growing body of research on the practice of training and development, several studies suggest that use of research-based findings in practice is low. The present study was designed to better understand the research-practice gap by exploring these questions: (1) Which published sources in the field are practicing professionals reading? How frequently do they read these materials? (2) Which conferences and meetings do practicing professionals attend? How frequently do they attend these...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conferences (Gatherings), Theory Practice Relationship, Professional Development,...
This study examined the relationship between the male and female students' academic achievement in the subject of television in urban and rural technical colleges in Delta State. There are two research questions and one null hypothesis formulated to guide the study. The population for the study consists of 731 students of the six technical colleges in the Delta State offering Television Technology as a subject. No sampling was conducted due to the small number of students involved in the study....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Technical Institutes, Human Capital, Gender Differences, Academic...
Chairing the annual Mountain Plains Adult Education Association Conference for 250 adult educators in Coeur d'Alene this past spring provided an opportunity for the author to offer a hands-on, conference planning experience to graduate students. Wanting to try something outside the typical classroom experience, the author organized a special topics course on conference planning which could provide experiential learning that not only espoused but also employed adult learning principles in an...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Graduate Students, Experiential Learning, Adult Learning, Educational Principles,...
This qualitative research study explored the experiences of students who had attended a co operative (co-op) education program, with a focus on what makes the experience meaningful to them. Utilizing a basic interpretive research design, students who graduated from a co-op program were interviewed using an open-ended interview protocol. Both male and female students were selected based on graduation date and came from a wide range of program types. Findings for this study were examined through...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Cooperative Education, Research Design, Qualitative Research,...
This article argues cultural anthropology would make a good partner to service-learning pedagogy because it offers students a theoretical approach for understanding community life and its power structures. Anthropologists have been dealing with power vis-a-vis the people they study using concepts relevant to the reflection process in service-learning. A liaison between anthropology and service-learning would help orient students toward systemic change in society. This responds to a desire among...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Culture, Anthropology, Service Learning, Theory Practice Relationship, Community...
Insects are ideal models for demonstrating an array of biological and ecological concepts and the application of biology to solve real-world problems. Integrating service-learning, a pedagogy bridging theory and practice, into the entomology curriculum at the University of Georgia provides students an opportunity to participate in developing and implementing entomological programs for communities, both domestically and abroad. This research project seeks to develop, implement, assess, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, World Problems, Qualitative Research, Outreach Programs, Service Learning,...
Neoliberal ideologies influence both the content and pedagogical approach of educational leadership programmes. This article proposes an alternate pedagogy, one which privileges the experiential nature of the leadership and challenges students to critique prevailing ideologies within education. The authors describe the reshaping of a compulsory, foundational academic paper within a Masters of educational leadership programme to focus on the phenomenon of leadership more explicitly. They...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Ideology, Leadership Training, Instructional Leadership, Teaching Methods,...
Dynamic Ecological Analysis (DEA) is a model of practice which increases a teams' efficacy by enabling the development of more effective interventions through collaboration and collective reflection. This process has proved to be useful in: a) clarifying thinking and problem-solving, b) transferring knowledge and thinking to significant parties, and c) encouraging critical self-reflective practice and growth within a team of practitioners in the field of special education. Key factors...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Transformative Learning, Disabilities, Group Dynamics, Reflective Teaching, Theory...
The impact of faith on counseling outcomes has been a topic of interest in recent years, however many counselors are not familiar with faith development theory and little practical information on how to integrate that theory into practice is available. This article reviews Fowler's (1981) theory of faith development and offers concrete suggestions for interventions that may be appropriate for typical university and college counseling centers. A clinical vignette illustrates application of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Beliefs, Spiritual Development, Catholic Educators, Counseling Services, College...
School library literature has illuminated several structural barriers (such as lack of time and role perception conflict) that impede many school library media specialists (SLMSs) from fulfilling their student assessment role in practice, and specialists have identified technology as a mediating artifact that could aide in an expansion of that role. The purpose of this study is twofold: (1) to interrogate a middle school's information literacy assessment system for internal disturbances...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Simulation, Ethnography, Role Perception, School Libraries, Media...
