NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Publication Date
In 20259
Since 2024119
Since 2021 (last 5 years)540
Since 2016 (last 10 years)1264
Since 2006 (last 20 years)2324
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations1
Showing 2,176 to 2,190 of 2,324 results Save | Export
Beaty, Kevin James – Online Submission, 2008
This study investigates the current situation of Arabic education in the United States with an overarching question of, "What is the best way for a student of Arabic in the United States to achieve Superior proficiency?" This study focuses on two elite institutions of Arabic education in the United States. This study is based on 3 sources of…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Teacher Attitudes, Language Fluency, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Agosto, Vonzell – Journal of Negro Education, 2008
Freedom Schools, which operated during 1964 after the collaborative efforts of several Civil Rights organizations, provided an opportunity to understand how students can drive the curriculum to meet individual and collective needs within a community. The presence and use of poetry throughout the Freedom Schools was mysterious, given that it is…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Poetry, Cultural Education, Community Needs
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Harlin, Rebecca P. – Childhood Education, 2008
Today's children may be exposed to violence in their environment, through the media, at home, and in school. Some children live in countries at war, while others survive in neighborhoods where street gangs prevail. Most parents and children used to assume they could depend upon schools to be safe places, free from abuse and violence. Now it seems…
Descriptors: Violence, Bullying, Antisocial Behavior, Educational Environment
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Tuah, Jauyah; Harrison, Timothy G.; Shallcross, Dudley E. – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2009
The value teachers put on university-based outreach activities designed for 14-16 year olds that involves both practical and lecture activities are discussed. A variety of good reasons for attending are provided by the teachers but the role of a School Teacher Fellow in mapping the events to the curriculum is shown to be vital to the success of…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Outreach Programs, Chemistry, Science Education
Gismondi, Brian C. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Traditional parent-teacher conferences and student-led conferences are tools schools employ to convey student progress with parents. The student-led conference offers a valuable means for increasing student responsibility which allows students to take ownership in schooling, which in turn helped improve parent involvement and student motivation.…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Participant Observation, Parent Teacher Conferences, Parent Participation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Walliss, Jillian; Greig, Joan – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2009
In 2008 the University of Melbourne began implementation of the Melbourne Model, its new vision for higher education in Australia. Six broad undergraduate university degrees have been introduced and graduate schools created. Students may now progress from an undergraduate generalist degree, with major, to a professional Masters. Alternatively,…
Descriptors: Architecture, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Luescher, Thierry M. – Perspectives in Education, 2009
The racial desegregation of the student bodies of historically white universities in South Africa has had significant political implications for student politics and university governance. I discuss two key moments in the governance history of the University of Cape Town (UCT) critically. The first involves the experience of racial parallelism in…
Descriptors: College Students, Race, Racial Integration, Racial Segregation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Askell-Williams, Helen; Lawson, Michael; Murray-Harvey, Rosalind – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2007
Teacher education students' instructional metacognitive knowledge needs to be well developed to promote both their own learning and their prospective students' learning. In this study, we asked teacher education students to provide answers to the question "What happens in my university classes that helps me to learn?" Students identified…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Multivariate Analysis, Teacher Role, Student Role
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Webb, Michael – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2007
What can be learned from two films with "rock" and "school" in their titles, about rock in school and about music and schooling more broadly? "School of Rock" (2003), a "family comedy," and "Rock School" (2005), a documentary, provoke a range of questions, ideological and otherwise, surrounding the inclusion of rock in formal instructional…
Descriptors: Music Education, Rock Music, Music Teachers, Films
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Cramer, Susan R. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2007
Learning objects are instructional materials found on the Internet that can be used to illustrate, support, supplement, or assess student learning. Small in size, they can provide instruction that is just enough, just in time, just for you. Is it time to move your classroom into the twenty-first century? In this article, the author explores what…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Educational Technology, Internet, Technology Uses in Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Doering, Aaron – Distance Education, 2006
Adventure learning (AL) is a hybrid distance education approach that provides students with opportunities to explore real-world issues through authentic learning experiences within collaborative learning environments. This article defines this online distance education approach, outlines an AL framework, and showcases an AL archetype. In AL…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Adventure Education, Educational Environment, Internet
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Radinsky, Josh – Cognition and Instruction, 2008
Learning science includes learning to argue with "inscriptions": images used to symbolize information persuasively. This study examined sixth-graders learning to invest inscriptions with representational status, in a geographic information system (GIS)-based science investigation. Learning to reason with inscriptions was studied in emergent…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Cognitive Development, Plate Tectonics, Science Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
James, J. Joy; Bixler, Robert D. – Journal of Environmental Education, 2008
The authors conducted an ethnography investigating children's lived experiences in a 3-day residential environmental education (EE) program with 20 gifted 4th- and 5th-grade students. The authors also conducted participant observation and a series of interviews before, during, and after the trip. After the authors conducted the interviews and…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Participant Observation, Ethnography, Learning Experience
Schultz, Brian D., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
This book embraces the idea of listening to and learning from students. Although many educational theorists have long argued that incorporating children's perspectives about teaching and curriculum has the potential for increasing students' interest and participation in learning, their radical perspectives are still ignored or dismissed in theory…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Teaching (Occupation), School Activities, Educational Research
Maxwell, Lesli A. – Education Week, 2007
Coming just four days before the anniversary of the Columbine school shootings, the mass slayings by a student gunman at Virginia Polytechnic Institute last week revived vexing questions and raised familiar fears for educators across the country who grapple daily with ensuring the safety of their students and staffs. The April 16 killings provoked…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, School Safety, Student Behavior, School Security
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  142  |  143  |  144  |  145  |  146  |  147  |  148  |  149  |  150  |  ...  |  155