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Eib, B. J.; Miller, Pam – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2006
When faculty development is viewed as an ongoing need and when we approach faculty development as a long-term, continuous effort, community building becomes a part of the process. Carefully designed faculty development approaches can facilitate and create a culture that supports a thoughtful focus on teaching, while at the same time, nurture a…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Open Universities, Collegiality, Foreign Countries
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Saltman, Kenneth J. – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2006
This article illustrates how global corporate education initiatives, though profit-motivated, sometimes function both as an instrument of foreign policy and as a manifestation of a broader imperial project. According to neoconservative scholars, as well as their critics, the events of September 11, 2001, allowed the implementation of pre-made…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Curriculum Design, Corporate Education
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Quantz, Richard – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2006
In this three-part paper, Richard Quantz proclaims that it was the spirit of the free school movement that originally attracted him to the social foundations of education and to the philosophy of education. He wonders what has happened to the progressive movement--the one that embraced Ivan Illich's call to "deschool society" and called…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Progressive Education, Educational Trends, Educational Philosophy
Cinoglu, Mustafa – International Education Journal, 2006
This paper discusses privatization as policy tool to solve educational problems in Turkey. Turkey, as a developing country, is faced with many problems in education. Large class size, low enrollment rate, girl's education, high illiteracy rate, religious education, textbooks, curriculum and multicultural education are some of the important…
Descriptors: Private Education, Class Size, Private Schools, Multicultural Education
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Wilkinson, Gary – London Review of Education, 2006
This article outlines how the commercialization of structures and management in education risks accelerating the intensification of corporate marketing in schools. It is argued that marketing promotes materialistic values which are harmful to children and US and UK examples are offered to demonstrate how companies seek to use schools as…
Descriptors: Marketing, Integrity, Role of Education, Values
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Daza, Stephanie Lynn – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2006
Globalizing trends--underscored by neoliberalism, privatization and imperial legacies--are changing the nature and purpose of education across the world. "With these rules of the capitalist game," a Colombian student argues, "the public university in Latin America has been played." Manifestations of these trends, however, vary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes, Privatization, Foreign Policy
Orkodashvili, Mariam – Online Submission, 2007
The paper compares and contrasts higher education funding sources and systems in the U.S. and the UK. The issues raised in the paper pertain to the major challenge of academia: finding financial support in times of limited resources and enhanced competition. The issues discussed throughout the paper are: funding and quality assessment of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Financial Support, Foreign Countries
Ehrenberg, Ronald G., Ed. – Praeger, 2006
Public higher educational institutions, where about 80 percent of all college students and 65 percent of all four-year college students are educated, appear to be in serious trouble. In order to delve more deeply into this topic, the author invited a wide-ranging team of experts to examine changes in public higher education over the last quarter…
Descriptors: Public Education, Higher Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2008
For the thirty-first year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) sponsored the publication of these Proceedings. Papers were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Orlando, Florida. This year's Proceedings has two sections--Section 1 includes research and development papers and…
Descriptors: Professional Associations, Conferences (Gatherings), Communications, Research and Development
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