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Vasinda, Sheri, Ed.; Szabo, Susan, Ed.; Johnson, Robin D., Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2015
The theme for the 58th annual conference of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER) was Bridging Cultures Through Literacy. In the first section of the Yearbook, Parker Fawson's presidential address captures the unique nature of ALER and its role in his professional development, and then moved beyond to capture the changing…
Descriptors: Literacy, Literacy Education, Reading Comprehension, Common Core State Standards
Schiro, Michael Stephen – SAGE Publications (CA), 2007
This book presents a description of the major curriculum philosophies that have influenced educators and schooling over the last century. The author analyzes four educational visions (Scholar Academic, Social Efficiency, Learner Centered, and Social Reconstruction) to enable readers to reflect on their own educational beliefs and allow them to…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Ideology, Social Change
Doyle, Michael P., Ed. – 2000
Chapters of this collection show that students benefit from a research-based teaching environment, and that students who have the opportunity for research complete their science programs in greater numbers than those who do not. The chapters of section 1, "Achieving Excellence," are: (1) "The Role of Research at Undergraduate Institution: Why Is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Political Science, Research, Research Universities
Provenzo, Eugene F., Ed. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2006
Eugene Provenzo, a nationally recognized scholar in the social and cultural foundations of education, has edited this collection of significant readings relevant to western traditions of education. Focusing on modern and postmodern ideas, this book includes selections from scholars of education ranging from John Dewey and William James to…
Descriptors: Social Class, Educational Philosophy, Cultural Pluralism, Anthologies
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Ellis, John R. – 1975
In this 1975 Oration of the Society for Health and Human Values, the author, an international medical educator, reviews the changing attitudes to human values in medical education as experienced at the London Hospital Medical College. Proposed is a broad, general approach to the whole patient, socially and behaviorally as well as biologically and…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Health, Humanization, Medical Education
Graves, Judy, Ed. – 1973
The purpose of this monograph is to present the thoughts of a small group of medical educators and administrators on the expansion of medical education's scope and responsibilities, basic conditions for progress, and medical education's obligations to the nation's health. In Chapter 1, the health delivery system of the future is discussed. Chapter…
Descriptors: Books, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Graduate Study
Taylor, Peter C., Ed.; Gilmer, Penny J., Ed.; Tobin, Kenneth, Ed. – 2002
This book comes at a time when epistemological reform is sweeping through the global community of science education. Since the 1970s, the theories of knowing embodied in the teaching activities of school science teachers have been undergoing a major transformation toward more learner-sensitive standpoints. Undergraduate science teaching however,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Innovation, Postmodernism, Science Education
Standley, Jayne M.; Jones, Jennifer – American Music Therapy Association, 2007
"Music Techniques in Therapy, Counseling, and Special Education" is the culmination of the first author's research in the skill development of prospective music therapists and music educators during graduate and undergraduate preparation. Standley studied the abilities and progress of students across multiple clinical music therapy and music…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Music Education, Music, Teaching Skills
Bressler, Marvin; And Others – 1973
This document presents the product of more than 2 years of study by the Commission on the Future of the College of Princeton University. It attempts to convey something of the Commission's respect for the strengths of the undergraduate programs and to offer realistic suggestions about how it might be made even stronger. Following the letter of…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Planning, Faculty
Goldberg, Mark F. – 2000
Nineteen well known figures, with a common interest in disadvantaged learners, are interviewed. Many are respected members of educational institutions with expertise in teacher unions, undergraduate education, school reform, achievement gaps, research universities, preschool education at home, and teacher training. The authors of…
Descriptors: Authors, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduate Study
Nespor, Jan – 1994
Physics and management are disciplines deeply implicated in the domination of the physical and social world. This book is the product of ethnographic fieldwork that studied physics and management programs as points of entry that give access to larger processes that constitute and reproduce disciplines and center around the incorporation of…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Cognitive Structures, College Programs, Higher Education
Brooks, Sean, Ed.; Knowles, Alison, Ed. – 1995
This book provides a comprehensive guide to graduate and undergraduate programs focusing on social change that are recommended by Food First, a non-profit research and education center with a mission of empowering citizens to address the root causes of hunger, poverty, and environmental decline. Listings provide the name and address of the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Global Education, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Ben-David, Joseph – 1972
This essay is an attempt to view American higher education as a social system with a discernible structure and characteristic ways of functioning. Chapters 1, 2, and 3 describe the system as a whole, its units, and the functioning of the system in comparison with other systems of higher education. Chapters 4 and 5 deal with undergraduate…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Graduate Study
Powell, Joan, Ed. – 2001
This book provides graduates and undergraduates with detailed information about progressive programs for current and future activities in a variety of fields. Each entry contains a description of the program with faculty and program contact information. Listings include programs in agriculture, anthropology, area studies, development studies,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Global Education, Graduate Study, Higher Education
College Board, New York, NY. – 1992
This directory is intended to provide students and their advisors with authoritative information on 3,171 colleges and universities in the United States as well as supplementary information. The information was gathered in the winter and spring of 1992 through the College Board's Annual Survey of Colleges with descriptions subsequently verified…
Descriptors: College Admission, College Choice, College Programs, Colleges
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