Case studies of two novices at a large midwestern university trace their development from student teacher to first-year teacher in secondary English classrooms, focusing primarily on their conceptions of literature and the relationship of these conceptions to their classroom practices. Data included in-depth, semi-structured interviews, observation in student teaching seminars and during student teaching and first year of teaching, and written artifacts. Both subjects pointed to several major...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Beginning Teachers, Case Studies, English Instruction, English Teacher Education,...
This paper defines service-learning as an individual or group act of good will for a person, group, or community, based on planned educational outcomes. Philosophically, ideas of service-learning emerged in the Progressive Education Movement and later in the philosophy of reconstructionism. A university goal should be development of students' sense both of social responsibility and of what is learned by contributing to society. To attain this goal, the university needs to provide access and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Foundations of Education,...
This paper addresses critical questions concerning the educational needs of African American students with behavior disorders. These include: the historical context; effects of reform and restructuring movements on this population; the unresolved issue of defining "seriously emotionally disturbed" or "emotional or behavior disorder"; the failure of special education to meet the needs of these students; various models of intervention programs (including the psychodynamic,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavior Disorders, Black Students, Definitions, Educational Change, Educational...
Concentrating on the adoption and implementation of educational technology, this paper outlines and compares the conceptual definitions of educational technology (ET) and information systems (IS). Adoption and implementation models and frameworks are discussed, and similarities and differences between IS adoption and implementation and educational change are considered. ET and IS definitions focusing on devices, people, knowledge, and processes suggest a theoretical linkage between ET and IS...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adoption (Ideas), Definitions, Design, Educational Change, Educational Technology,...
This project researched theoretical self-study, i.e., how to improve, support, and facilitate the ability of a student teacher to learn to reflect on his/her learning and development through large (n=80) and small (n=5-8) group work and supervision where the basic idea is to foster professional growth of the student teacher. In the supervision model (n=10), fourth year students were asked to answer questions about close cooperation in supervision in regard to their most important goals, the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Feedback, Foreign Countries,...
A discussion of the relationship between second language acquisition (SLA) and foreign language learning (FLL) focuses on how theory influences language teaching. It is noted that SLA research has brought new interest in teaching materials and methodologies to many in the foreign language profession, but that there are also many who, impatient with efforts to define constructs, elaborate theories, and build a research base, are ready to accept simple solutions to complex problems. Current...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Educational Trends, Error Correction,...
The purpose of PACE is to bring together individuals who have been responsible for new, innovative, and exciting developmental physical education programs. The following summaries are included: "Literacy in the Gym" (Tami Benham); "Activity Ideas for Fundamental Movement Skill Development" (Thomas H. Green); "Creative Movement Activities: A Challenge for Older Students" (Vicki Nicholes); "Track & Field Activities for Kids" (Gregory Wilson);...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Childrens Games, Class Activities, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Dance...
The perceptions of elementary school teachers, principals, and supervisors about classroom management strategies required of teachers when using alternative task structures and interactive instructional strategies were studied. A questionnaire developed by the researchers was administered to 34 kindergarten through grade 5 teachers, 7 principals, and 3 supervisors involved in a staff development program in the Knox County (Tennessee) School System, Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP)....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Classroom Techniques, Educational...
The existing body of learning style (LS) research was reviewed from the standpoint of its applicability to adult populations. It was discovered that most existing LS research has been conducted on populations of school- and college-age students in classroom settings and does not consider self-directed, informal, or incidental learning. The following problems/issues relevant to the transferability of existing LS research to adult populations were identified: (1) developing unity and coherence in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Cognitive Style, Educational Research, Foreign...
If the discussions of communication can be divided into those concerned with a description or theory and those concerned with prescription, then it must be understood that the former can never by itself improve communication. As a field, communication studies does not yet know enough about prescriptive language theory; that is, theory concerned with the practical application of language in real life situations, such as in law enforcement or air traffic control. Typically, textbooks are both...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Problems, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer),...
Recent graduates of College Student Personnel programs from five universities were surveyed on their job search process, reasons for choosing their current job, their experiences with institutional policies, and ethical and political situations they encountered as new professionals. The results indicated that between 26% and 44% of these new professionals experienced some dissatisfaction with the job search process and their current job. With attrition in the field approaching 50%, it is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitude Measures, Counselor Training, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Job...
While learning to quilt, and subsequently seeing quilting everywhere, one teacher decided to make a quilt with the theme of herself as a teacher. Quilts are stories told in visual form, and connections exist between curriculum theory and quilting. During a Master's program, the teacher learned about various curriculum theorists and was amazed at the intertextualities that could be made with quilting. Margorsh Maruyama's three categories (1974), the hierarchist, the mutualist, and the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Constructivism (Learning), Graduate Study, Higher Education, Journal Writing, Methods...
Brain Gym is an educational curriculum that promotes whole brain learning through movement repatterning to improve students performance and attitudes about the learning process. This study of Brain Gym in relation to classroom climate and academic performance was conducted with 28 fourth-grade students in a midwestern urban parochial school. Participants were in a class taught in a traditional way by a traditional teacher who considered Brain Gym an interruption in her scheduled class...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Movement...
The human resource development (HRD) profession needs to continue to develop its core theories and to understand that theory building is a scholarly process. Theoretical constraints affecting HRD are that HRD is a relatively young academic field of study and that most academic fields are applied and draw upon multiple theories in articulating their disciplinary base. Presently, there is no universal view or agreement on the theory or multiple theories that support HRD as a discipline. HRD is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Economics, Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Psychology,...
Vocational education and training (VET) research in Australia has changed dramatically in the last 10 years. In a 1993 report titled "No Small Change," VET research was characterized as a fragmented activity that was underfunded and had little or no relevance to policy or practice in the VET sector. Since that time, increased funding through the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) has been highly successful in increasing the overall quantity of research. The quality of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Developed Nations, Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Educational Trends,...
In colleges and universities business students learn about organizational communication in order to function well in the business environment of which they will become a part. Although the organizational environment or culture is inextricably interwoven with the academic discipline of speech communication, the field of organizational communication entails much more. Literature is reviewed to examine recent research on organizational communication and to see how the academic world prepares its...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Research, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Literature...
Outcomes of guidance can be assessed at these three levels: individual, where they are immediate; organizational, where they are intermediate; or societal, where they are ultimate. They may result in learning outcomes, school effectiveness, economic benefits, or social benefits. Various designs of outcome evaluation are described and recommendations are made as to which design is appropriate based upon the objectives of policy and the type of evidence available. A review of literature finds...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Guidance, Career Information Systems, Community Benefits, Economic Impact,...
For the past decade, the practice of evidence based research (EBR) in treatment decisions has been a standard in the medical field, and is quickly becoming a standard of practice in other human service fields. Counselor educators are faced with the necessity to begin to implement EBR into their teaching and scholarship, but have limited knowledge and resources with which to begin this integration. Using Reynolds' (2000) steps for integrating EBR with counseling, a five-step plan that counselor...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Counseling, Counselor Educators, Counselor Training, Medical Services, Research,...
Debate over the benefits and detriments of adult education faculty being integrally involved in K-12 teacher preparation programs has grown as increasing numbers of U.S. colleges and universities eliminate or consider eliminating their adult education graduate programs. The debate centers around the following positions: (1) adult education faculty should be involved in teacher preparation programs based on theoretical connections between K-12 and adult education learning theories; (2) adult...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives,...
This research documented an innovative technique called Classroom Reflections (CR) that could successfully develop teacher candidates (TCs) abilities as reflective practitioners. Elementary and secondary TCs used their drawing of a critical incident first to analyze their own practice and then with others to construct deeper meaning. TCs were in a yearlong preparation program for returning adults in which they did courses and field concurrently. Data for two years will be reported. Raters...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Preservice Teacher Education, Reflective Teaching, Elementary School Teachers,...
The main purpose of this paper is to explore and discuss the main characteristics of project-based online learning (PBOL) for a graduate enchased Web-based course, Designing and Developing Distance Education, to promote the critical learning skills of online learners to engage them in projects designed to be realistic, intriguing and relevant real life experiences, to promote PBOL to model how theory translate into practice in higher education, to integrate PBOL by proposing situate learning in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Web Based Instruction, Online Courses, Multicultural Education, Distance Education,...
"EFF HOT (Highlights on Teaching Topics) Topics" is a publication of the EFF (Equipped for the Future) Center for Training and Technical Assistance. Each issue concentrates on a specific topic, highlighting examples of actual practice and offering strategies and tools for using EFF in the classroom. In this issue, "HOT Topics" focuses on the standard "Use Math to Solve Problems and Communicate" and addresses these questions: What does research say about teaching...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Theory Practice Relationship, Mathematical...
Trying to implement interdisciplinary geoscience curriculum materials in geography and science education we asked how they fit into teachers' existing practices, their needs for support and strategies to plan instruction. The focus of our case study has been the identification of the goals teachers pursue with the materials, of strategies for customizing and using them in the classroom and of the features of the local context that help to enact an interdisciplinary geoscience curriculum. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Earth Science, Science Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Case...
A first-year teacher thrust mid-term into a mixed-grade geometry class in a tough high school struggles to sort out what works and does not work to engage the 120 students in meaningful learning. The students are largely from low-income urban families and demonstrate a broad range of abilities and motivation. The purpose of this study is to describe the effectiveness of various teaching strategies and techniques in building learning skills within the context of a mixed-grade geometry class. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Beginning Teachers, Multigraded Classes, Mixed Age Grouping, Geometry, High School...
Using a case study, the complex challenge of making mathematics education research accessible to secondary mathematics teachers was addressed with two questions. How can we design a method that will meet the challenge of making research usable for mathematics teachers? And what would this method be? To address this challenge we describe a process and product that emerged from using the stages of design-thinking. We invite fellow researchers to join us in the collective mission of bridging the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Teaching, Teaching...
This article is based on research on experiential learning and vocational teachers. The author describes his analysis of curricula for the vocational teacher education and explains the education´s purpose, content, and methods. In 1975, education dramatically changed from an academic tradition with dissemination of many disciplines to a holistic education with focus on educating teachers who would function in practice, not only have theoretical knowledge of pedagogy. The author discusses...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Experiential Learning, Vocational Education, Curriculum, Teacher Education,...
Interviews, teacher journals, achievement measures, and observations gathered data on an Ontario high school technology education program that integrated community-based projects. The community- and project-based approach resulted in experiential learning, student risk taking, and integration of theory and practice. (SK)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, High Schools, School Community Relationship, Student Projects,...
A variety of developments in nursing education in Australia including some innovative and exciting models, educational enterprises between education and industry, and evidence of developing strengths in research and professional alliances on a national level have been discussed recently. This paper presents Simulation to Practice as an example of an educational program that can maximise skill mastery for nurses in mental health fields as practised by Deakin University in Victoria, Australia....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Nursing Students, Nursing Education, Mental Health, Problem Solving, Foreign...
Difficulties characterizing developmental college students are reviewed within the context of motivational theories of learning. The author highlights problems of low self-efficacy and inadequate self-regulated learning for developmental college students. The author argues that the use of Facebook, a widely-used social networking technology, may be helpful in improving low self-efficacy and self-regulated learning by increasing connection with the instructor, increasing social contact with...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Theory Practice Relationship, College Students, Self Efficacy, Higher Education,...
The application of adult education principles and theories in the workplace was examined through a study of adult education activities in the following workplace settings over a period of 10 years: the Indiana State Department of Health; the Indiana State Department of Correction; a business in the private sector; and the Indiana State Commission on Persons with Disabilities. The following were among the more than 30 different concepts or principles of adult education identified in the 4...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Case Studies, Corporate Education, Educational Practices,...
This study interviewed 18 graduate students in higher education programs nationwide concerning their experiences in an administrative internship. Specifically, the study addressed the following issues: connections made by students between the internship and classroom experience; student outcomes from the internship experience; and differences in internship experiences between students at the master's (n=10) and doctoral (n=8) levels. The interview protocol included questions related to the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Education, College Administration, Experiential Learning, Graduate...
This workbook, one of six professional development manuals for adult education (AE) teachers, explores instructional methodologies to promote student success, the theories behind them, and their applications in the self-paced, open-entry/open-exit AE classroom. The pretest and posttest appear first. Each of the seven units begins with a list of objectives and then provides instructional material. Unit 1 provides a theoretical background on how learning occurs and what characteristics of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Acceleration (Education), Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult...
This document consists of the three 1999 issues of a journal reporting new research in early child development conducted by the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Articles in the Winter 1999 issue focus on the transition to kindergarten and first grade, including adjustment issues; educational practices reflecting training on transition; school readiness; readiness to teach; rights and responsibilities of schools and families;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Child Development, Child Health, Cultural Differences, Early Childhood Education,...
This study concerns the theory and practice of international marketing in higher education with the purpose of exploring a conceptual model for understanding international students' needs in the context of a four-year college in the United States. A transcendental phenomenological design was employed to investigate the essence of international students' needs within their study experiences and explore a conceptual model that can explain these needs. Qualitative data were collected from 12...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Students, Theory Practice Relationship, Higher Education, Student Needs,...
Composite evaluation by one group of student nurses undertaking a pre-registration diploma nursing course within one university setting highlighted a general perception among respondents that they only participated in "rote" learning to pass the examination. It appeared that little knowledge was retained or used in their nursing practice. Views of students and lecturers were sought on whether the prescribed assessment strategy of a "seen" examination does in fact restrict...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Nursing Education, Rote Learning, Retention (Psychology), Qualitative Research, Semi...
This paper explores the lived experiences of a diverse student cohort enrolled in a master's degree educational-leadership program. The program's global focus was on the quality of teacher education, prospective teachers' workplace preparedness and leaders in the workforce in higher education. Internationalization, real-life experiences and student voice served as an enacted intervention curriculum for an educational leadership course designed to reveal the gap between theory and practice. An...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Instructional Leadership, Design, Intervention, Student Empowerment, Expectation,...
Background: This paper is based on a graduate course entitled, "Toward an integrative approach to equity in higher education" offered at a Canadian university for the first time in 2002. The course attempted to integrate critical pedagogy theories with notions of embodied learning in order to develop an integrative praxis of educational equity. The paper discusses the unique learning processes undertaken by the authors, including the instructor. Focus of discussion and arguments: The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Theory, Equal Education, Altruism, Social Change, Learning Processes,...
Brain-Based Learning (BBL) can be viewed as techniques gleaned from research in neurology and cognitive science used to enhance teacher instruction. These strategies can also be used to enhance students' ability to learn using ways in which they feel most comfortable, neurologically speaking. Jensen (1995/2000) defines BBL as "learning in accordance with the way the brain is naturally designed to learn" (p. 6). Perhaps the most important aspect of BBL is that it encompasses and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Multiple Intelligences, Brain, Educational Strategies, Learning Strategies, Theory...
Given that feminist poststructuralism disrupts countless notions many of us have been "raised" with, conceptualizing what feminist poststructuralism might mean for understanding and enacting environmental education research and practice can be difficult. This paper articulates understandings and assumptions of poststructuralism and explores how it has enabled me to come to know in a way that I would not otherwise. I am not claiming that feminist poststructural research necessarily...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Feminism, Postmodernism, Environmental Education, Educational Research, Theory...
Creating first hand experiences of urban cultures that focus on reflection and leave profound impressions on students while providing the framing for future cycles of experiential learning is a complex and difficult dynamic to navigate. The way urban manifestations of a different culture are directly experienced varies depending on the circumstances of a concrete cross-cultural encounter and the student's subjective interpretation of it. To suggest a tentative framework within which the elusive...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Study Abroad, Experiential Learning, Urban Culture, Urban Education, Urban Areas,...
An analysis was conducted of the results of a formative evaluation of the LiteracyLink "Workplace Essential Skills" (WES) learning system conducted in the fall of 1998. (The WES learning system is a multimedia learning system integrating text, sound, graphics, animation, video, and images in a computer system and includes a videotape series, a workbook text, and a Web site. The program addresses basic skills in reading, writing, communication, and mathematics in a workplace context....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Computer Software, Computer Uses...
Work-based learning (WBL) is one response of education and training institutions to criticisms they have failed to adapt to changing economic times and the changing nature of work. Formal educational institutions are challenged by the perception that they are inadequate to the task of preparing the present and future work force with the necessary knowledge, skills, and dispositions required in post-industrial workplaces; discourses focusing on learning that occurs outside formal educational...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Developed Nations, Discourse Communities, Educational Change, Educational Principles,...
This document provides some guidance to those who are exploring the connections between service-learning and evaluation. Categories are defined in the document by highlighting the following seven questions: (1) What do I need to know about the important issues involved in evaluating my service-learning program? (2) Do you have a model of evaluation I can look at? (3) Do you have an instrument I can use? (4) If you cannot send me the answer (an instrument or completed design), where can I go for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Research, Information Sources,...
A workshop was conducted to give participants an opportunity to explore how to apply a different paradigm for learning in organizations. The workshop agenda was as follows: presentation of the theory and supporting research; experiential activities to apply the paradigm in academic and organizational settings; small group discussion aimed at developing a model for increasing learning capacity; and large group synthesis and a closure activity during which participants were asked to volunteer to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adoption (Ideas), Adult Learning, Diffusion (Communication), Educational Research,...
Significant developments have occurred in the field of professional development (PD) in Australia's vocational education and training (VET) sector in the past 10 years. During the early 1990s, work-based learning (WBL) became the preferred model for PD in the VET sector. Research sponsored by the National Staff Development Committee of the Australian National Training Authority in 1993 identified action learning as an appropriate methodology for structuring national VET sector PD programs....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Action Research, Adoption (Ideas), Definitions, Educational Practices, Educational...
Service learning is valuable in connecting students with the world outside the classroom, resulting in a more just society for the future. However, many so-called service learning projects develop no clear link between service and learning, and lose their potential for turning students into agents of social change. Using the National Association of Secondary School Principals/Quest model for service learning as a guide, and applying principles of cultural studies and experiential learning, a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Consciousness Raising, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education,...
The Equipped for the Future (EFF) initiative asked adult learners to describe the knowledge and skills needed to fulfill their roles as parents, citizens, and workers and identified these four purposes: to provide access to information; to give voice to their ideas and opinions, to take action to solve problems, and to provide a bridge to the future by enabling them to continue to learn. These needs were used to develop a model--called the EFF Quality Model--which is the subject of this...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult...
For all students, the ability to write, to use a word-processing program, and to unite the two skills in a synergistic blend of form and content has become a key factor in achieving academic success. This book presents teachers with a framework for helping them help students achieve this success. Divided into two parts, the book provides teachers with guidance for incorporating computers into the writing classroom and for making computers "the" essential tool for writing and writing...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Classroom Techniques, Constructivism (Learning), Learning Activities, Secondary...
This chapter addresses questions about the utility of family work as a separate discipline distinct from other helping professions. Empirical evidence is presented that supports the effectiveness of family involvement in treating childhood and school problems, psychotic disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, physical health problems, dissociative disorders, and substance-related disorders. The evidence suggests that incorporating family work into counseling is effective because it allows...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories, Family...
These proceedings comprise 33 presentations. They are "Glaser or Strauss?"(Babchuk); "Reframing Participation in Adult Education Programs" (Babchuk); "Multicultural Adult Education as Discourse in the Social Construction of Reality" (Baptiste); "Political Construction of Adult Education" (Baptiste, Heaney); "Development of Resilience in Adult Women" (Boer, McElhinney); "Play as a Component of the Adult Educational Experience" (Cooper);...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Citizenship Education, Community...
