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Barrett, Sarah Elizabeth; Nieswandt, Martina – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2010
The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify and explain the origins of physics and chemistry teacher candidates' beliefs about teaching about ethics through socioscientific issues (SSI). This study utilized a series of in-depth interviews, while the participants (n = 12) were enrolled in a 9-month teacher education program at an urban…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Urban Universities, Student Teacher Attitudes, Physics
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Stevens, Ken – Rural Society, 2009
Australia and Canada are large countries with small populations relative to their size, in which a not inconsiderable number of citizens live beyond major centres of population. In both resource-based economies, the provision of quality education in rural schools is an important part of the national social and economic infrastructure. This article…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Teacher Education Programs, Urban Universities, Educational Quality
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Daniel, Beverly-Jean – Teaching Education, 2009
This paper explores the efficacy of employing the cohort model of teacher education for preparing pre-service teachers to address issues of race within an urban university setting. The results of the research indicate that the cohort facilitates a degree of familiarity and support amongst the teacher candidates, provides exposure to diverse…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Urban Universities, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Teacher Attitudes
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Jacobs, Dale; Adams, Hollie; Morris, Janine – Composition Studies, 2010
English 302: Writing about the Arts is a practicum course offered at the University of Windsor for upper-level English undergraduate students. The course asks students to write about a variety of art forms and requires engagement with multiple genres of writing as a way for students to effectively order their experiences, reconstruct meaning in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Universities, Undergraduate Students, Content Area Writing
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Dippo, Don – Teaching Education, 2005
This paper begins with the observation that, for a variety of social, political, and economic reasons, many universities are beginning to rethink the nature of their relations with local communities and asks about the place of Faculties of Education in such processes of reconsideration. It describes recent initiatives at York University as…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Urban Universities, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
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Cameron, Cherylyn – Community College Review, 2005
Community college students who transfer to universities face innumerable challenges. While documented in the American literature on transfer, there has been relatively little published research on transfer in Canada. This paper explores the experience of nursing students transferring from three community colleges to a large urban university in…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Transfer Students, Student Experience, Community Colleges
Roberts, John P. L. – Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, 1994
Arts advocacy groups have managed to influence Canadian public policy and government priorities during a time of economic difficulty and have produced significant outcomes for the arts community. Legislation to establish an umbrella, national arts agency was defeated following criticism from arts groups. Advocacy groups will have to assume an even…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Art, Artists, College Faculty
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