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Cannata, Marisa – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2007
The organizational context of charter schools may facilitate the formation of a strong teacher community. In particular, a focused school mission and increased control over teacher hiring may lead to stronger teacher professional communities. This paper uses the 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey to compare the level of teacher community in…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Collegiality
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Bloomfield, Peter; Mackintosh, Margaret; Costas, Barry; Dell, Eric; Graham, Sally; Quinn, David; Trodd, Lyn – Education 3-13, 2007
The elements of global education should be at the heart of all learning and teaching. In ITE we often protect "our subject" in the belief that it should have more prominence in the curriculum and more teaching time in school. In this article a group of ITE tutors comment on their learning about global education and its inclusion in their…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Global Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
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Knox, Marie; Bigby, Christine – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2007
This study explores meanings of family care held by seven families that include a middle-aged adult with intellectually disability. In-depth interviews were conducted with members of each family--the person with intellectual disability, parents, siblings, and sibling spouses. Participants described care as simply getting on with their lives, as…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Midlife Transitions, Family Life, Family (Sociological Unit)
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Afonso, Ana S.; Gilbert, John K. – International Journal of Science Education, 2006
Framed by a "personal constructivist" perspective, this study analyses visitors' use of spontaneous memories in understanding different types of interactive exhibits, the nature and sources of the retrieved memories, and the way that visitors relate an exhibit analogically to memories of previous exhibits. One hundred and thirteen…
Descriptors: Semantics, Exhibits, Constructivism (Learning), Museums
Kossek, Ellen Ernst; Leana, Carrie; MacDermid, Shelley; Pitt-Catsouphes, Marcie; Raskin, Patricia; Secret, Mary; Sweet, Stephen – Sloan Work and Family Research Network, 2006
This module offers students opportunities to examine the theories and research associated with a range of different disciplines that focus on relationships between family life and work life. The module is organized around articles that have been nominated for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Work-Family Research. This award process identifies…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Periodicals, Family Life, Peer Evaluation
Howell, William G. – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2007
This paper examines the possibility that citizens' mediated and sporadic exposure to education research influences their policy attitudes. It reflects upon how citizens--who are not direct consumers of education research and who lack basic training in the modes of social scientific inquiry--use the paucity of information made available to them in…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Public Opinion, Educational Policy, Public Education
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Heinrich, E.; Bhattacharya, M.; Rayudu, R. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2007
Rapid technological change, increasing globalization and a changing world of employment with multiple roles during one's professional life are necessitating a change from knowledge to learning societies. Full participation requires lifelong learning skills, meaning the ability to solve problems, work both independently and in a team, communicate…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Portfolios (Background Materials), Global Approach, Lifelong Learning
Kofoid, Charles Atwood – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1910
This report is based in large part upon a personal examination of the fresh water and marine biological stations of Europe, made in the summers of 1908 and 1909. Its purpose is to put in convenient form for reference an account of the history, organization, equipment, and work of the various stations of Europe, and to indicate their relations to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biological Sciences, Marine Biology, Water
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Goodnough, Karen – Teaching Education, 2004
This paper describes how collaboration emerged in a school district-university partnership designed to foster teacher development in the context of elementary science education. The Teachers Researching Inquiry-Based Science project involved four elementary teachers, a school district science mentoring teacher, a school district science…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Projects, Action Research, Participant Observation
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Haigh, Gerald – Primary Science Review, 2003
ASE's Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme is designed and run by people--teachers--who understand the pressures. They realise that the solution to good professional development is not to give the teacher extra work to do, but to draw added value from the tasks which the teacher is engaged in already or soon will be--and,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Science Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Mentors
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Alungbe, Gabriel D. – Tech Directions, 2004
People everywhere in the developed world regularly drive on paved roads. Learning about the construction techniques and materials used in paving benefits technology and construction students. This article discusses the use of geosynthetic textiles in pavement construction. It presents background on pavements and describes geotextiles and drainage…
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Construction Industry, Textiles Instruction, Engineering Technology
Banks, Claretha H.; Parker, Jean; Thomson, Anita M. – Online Submission, 2006
The role of social setting in adult IT literacy has not been a topic of research in much of the current literature. The purpose of this proposed study is to compare and contrast the extent to which social setting influence adult IT literacy. Participants will receive IT literacy training at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR)…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Computer Literacy, Adult Education, Social Environment
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
This committee was appointed in August, 1916, and consisted of 17 members who are eminent in the educational, scientific, and commercial life of the nation. The committee was tasked "to inquire into the position occupied by natural science in the educational system of Great Britain, especially in secondary schools and universities, and to…
Descriptors: Departments, Educational Policy, Professional Education, Technical Education
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Barnaud, Cecile; Promburom, Tanya; Trebuil, Guy; Bousquet, Francois – Simulation & Gaming, 2007
The decentralization of natural resource management provides an opportunity for communities to increase their participation in related decision making. Research should propose adapted methodologies enabling the numerous stakeholders of these complex socioecological settings to define their problems and identify agreed-on solutions. This article…
Descriptors: Soil Science, Foreign Countries, Natural Resources, Conservation (Environment)
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Hebert, Terri R. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2007
The National Commission on Excellence in Education (1983) published "A Nation at Risk", declaring the mediocrity of American educational performances. Twenty-five years later, our nation still remains at risk even though the federal government, through the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, has attempted to create a…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, High Stakes Tests, Educational Practices, Interviews
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