Three education-related organisations have been communicating for years about working together to enhance the relationship between teaching, teacher education and research. The current policy context surrounding teaching in Australia is clearly one that calls for greater alignment across all components and stages of the teaching profession,…

This article examines teachers' perspectives on interculturality and diversity within the context of upper secondary vocational education and training (VET) in Finland. Increasing diversity in VET education challenges teachers' sense of interculturality and their readiness to interact with and treat the "other" fairly. Compared to other…

The purpose of this study is to determine the reasons of anxiety levels of high school students who learn French as a second foreign language. The sample of the study consisted of four hundred fifty-six students from two high schools in Denizli province in 2015-2016 academic year. In this study, the effects of variables such as learners' gender,…

This study employed survey research to investigate the differential relationships between dimensions of teachers' job satisfaction (e.g. salary) and their turnover intention, after controlling for demographic variables (e.g. school location). Five hundred and ten teachers from a northeastern city of China participated. The results of the…

The authors have investigated teachers' reactions towards an imposed reform initiated by the Israeli Ministry of Education in collaboration with one of two teachers' unions based on the messages and letters sent by high school teachers to an internet forum during a teachers' strike which took place between October and December of 2007. This study…

Borrowing her title from Parker Palmer's "Courage to Teach", Kathy Egawa revisits her own professional learning journey and contrasts traditional, one-size-fits-all professional development with her own more meaningful learning from teaching. Her stories and research from the field focus on 1) learning from students, 2) learning among colleagues,…

The teaching profession's response to the inexorable march of new technology into education has been a focus of research for some 30 years. Linked with the impact of ICT on measurable performance outcomes, teacher attitudes to technology and the impact on pedagogic practice have been central to that research, a research that has often seen…

The "T-MEDIA" project analysed and documented how teachers exploit the use of projection technologies--data projectors and interactive whiteboards (IWBs)--to support learning in secondary-school subject lessons. The research involved collaboration between university researchers and four pairs of UK teachers (of English, mathematics,…

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…

This chapter of the "Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, 1928-1930" focuses on the following topic areas as they relate to commercial education: (1) Introduction; (2) Trends revealed by enrollment statistics; (3) Research basis for objectives; (4) Commercial occupation surveys; (5) Office equipment surveys; (6) Job analyses; (7)…

The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) serves two important purposes for the educational community. The first purpose, at which SASS has been very successful, is providing data that describe and track over time the state of schools and staffing (the capacities of teachers, school libraries, schools, and school districts, and the organization of…

This Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1933 includes the annual report from the Commissioner of Education. In the Commissioner's portion of this report, the following topics are covered: (1) Public School Administration; (2) Educational Legislation; (3) Statistics of Education; (4)…

In its ever increasing series of international publications concerning education in other countries around the world, the Office of Education now brings to educators this timely research document describing teacher education in the Benelux Countries. No other single bulletin of this Office has been devoted to these three nations together. The…

The eighth compilation of research studies in education, presented herewith, covers the school year, September 1, 1933, through August 31, 1934. A total of 3,506 studies were reported by 117 institutions, several of which had not reported in earlier years. These included 469 doctors' dissertations, 2,763 masters' theses, and 274 studies reported…

The bulletin comprises a general survey in bibliographic form of current educational literature, domestic and foreign, received during the monthly period preceding the date of publication of each issue. This office can not supply the publications listed in this bulletin, other than those expressly designated as publications of the Bureau of…