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Byers, Patricia – College Quarterly, 2010
This Ontario-based qualitative study examined secondary school and college textbooks' treatment of trigonometric representations in order to identify potential sources of student difficulties in the transition from secondary school to college mathematics. Analysis of networks, comprised of trigonometric representations, identified numerous issues…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Transitional Programs, Textbooks, Foreign Countries
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Villalba, Ernesto – College Quarterly, 2008
The paper discusses the concept of schools as "multi-purpose learning centres", proposed by the European Commission in the year 2000 as part of the Lisbon Strategy to improve competitiveness. This concept was arguably the "European vision" for school education and was meant to drive the modernization of school education.…
Descriptors: School Activities, Foreign Countries, Educational Objectives, Competition