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Lambert, Beverley, Ed. – 1992
This collection of 14 essays addresses the changes and challenges that the early childhood education profession in Australia has faced in recent years, and covers a wide range of important issues of particular relevance to the preparation of early childhood professionals. The essays are: (1) "The Changing Ecology of Australian Childhood"…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education
Social Science Education Consortium, Inc., Boulder, CO. – 1996
This book offers more serious consideration of content in the social studies curriculum by including content-specific chapters written by discipline experts. Interwoven with content coverage are numerous teaching-learning activities. The book is divided into three parts and an introductory chapter by James C. Schott and Laurel R. Singleton. Part…
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Higher Education, History Instruction, Preservice Teacher Education
Cheit, Earl F. – 1975
For well over a hundred years, the traditional academic disciplines have been coexisting somewhat restlessly with an array of professional schools that not only are relative newcomers to the campus scene but also are concerned with teaching young people how to do things as well as to think and understand. The schools for four of these useful…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Administration Education, Career Development, Educational Methods
Campbell, Robert E.; And Others – 1973
The book describes over 600 current career guidance methods, some of which have been subjected to rigorous evaluation. Designed to allow quick access to information needed to solve highly specific problems, the book describes important and potentially useful methods applicable to career guidance that are currently in practice or in the…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Guidance
Brosnan, Michael – 1997
Most large and mid-size cities suffer from alarming numbers of high school drop-outs. One man decided to do something about his city's high drop-out rate: He started the Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program (UCAP), an independent, public, middle school for teenagers at risk of dropping out. The details of that program are outlined here. The…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Environment, Educational Innovation, Educational Methods
Wickremasinghe, Walter, Ed. – 1991
This handbook presents individual overviews of the major aspects of the educational systems of about 100 countries with an emphasis on higher education. Each chapter, written by a scholar from that country, gives a descriptive, overall view of that country's education system and organizes the information into four sections: background, primary and…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Cultural Differences, Educational Development, Educational History
Brown, Jean Woodley – 1973
Explained is an experimental program to provide supplementary instruction within a humanistic framework for 90 children (in grades K-12) with handicaps such as learning or behavior problems, mental retardation, cerebral palsy, and deafness. Cited is the need to avoid stigmatizing labels and instructional grouping by providing adaptive skill…
Descriptors: Administration, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Methods, Exceptional Child Education
Vetterli, Richard – 1976
The first four chapters ("Progressive Education,""The Impact of Progressive Education,""The Remedies: Focusing on the Wrong Problems," and "Progressive Education Challenged") examine the deleterious effect that progressive education has had on student achievement and on society as a whole. The last five…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum, Discipline, Educational Change
Danchenko, A. M., Ed.; Vydrin, I. F., Ed. – 1973
A constant theme running throughout this book is that the principles of Soviet military instruction are fundamentally different from the principles of training in western military establishments. The overriding concern of this theme is that purposefulness and the Communist Party approach are the essence of the entire Soviet educational process.…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Educational Methods, Educational Problems, Foreign Policy
Owings, William A., Ed.; Kaplan, Leslie S., Ed. – 2003
This collection of writings presents leading research and key considerations to assist educational leaders in making decisions about new programs and new directions for their schools. Twenty-six chapters make up the book: (1) "Changing Demographics: A Call for Leadership" (Bud Hodgkinson); (2) "Media and Political Misrepresentation of Public…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Methods, Educational Technology
Magolda, Marcia B. Baxter – 1999
Constructive-developmentalism is a theory of learning that incorporates two major concepts: (1) that students construct knowledge by organizing and making meaning of their experiences, and (2) that this construction takes place in the context of students' assumptions about and creation of knowledge. A gap often exists between instructor and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Colleges, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Methods
Barnes, Judith M., Ed.; And Others – 1994
This collection of 10 papers is intended as a resource book integrating information on pediatric cochlear implants for educators, parents, implant teams, and rehabilitation specialists. The papers focus on the importance of providing an oral educational environment to maximize cochlear implant success. An introduction notes controversies in the…
Descriptors: Children, Cochlear Implants, Communication Skills, Deafness
Spodek, Bernard, Ed. – 1993
This handbook is a compendium of current research findings in early childhood education (ECE) and contains 33 essays, divided into 4 parts, by leading scholars in the field. After a brief introduction, part 1 addresses child development and early education in five chapters: "Cognitive Development and ECE"; "Motor Development and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Methods
Gamson, Zelda F. – 1989
The history of CAEL under its various names (Cooperative Assessment of Experiential Learning (1974-77), Council for the Advancement of Experiential Learning (1977-84), and Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (1985-present) is documented. Chapter One analyzes the context in which CAEL was founded, looking at nontraditional education in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational History, Educational Methods, Educational Objectives
Campbell, Duncan D. – 1977
This study is designed to provide adult educators with information relevant to adult education training. In the first of six chapters an overview of adult education in Canada is presented. The definition of adult education, its history in Canada, and models expressing adult education goals are reviewed. Chapter 2 examines descriptive and analytic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Course Content, Educational Methods