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Benn, Roseanne, Ed. – 1998
This document contains 43 papers presented at a conference on research in teaching adults at the University of Exeter, England, in 1998. Among the papers are the following: "Reconstructing Academic Practice: Research and Teaching in a University School of Adult Education" (David Boud); "Re-searching Adult Education Practice:…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Students, Andragogy
National Inst. for Educational Research, Tokyo (Japan). – 1995
This document summarizes proceedings of a meeting held in September 1995. The purpose of the meeting was to gather educators and policymakers in order to establish criteria concerning links between educational research and decision making. Twenty participants from the following countries attended: Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Botswana, Brazil,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1996
This publication reports on a 1994 forum on integrating research on college and university faculty and presents the commissioned papers and findings of the forum along with references to relevant research on faculty. A description of the forum notes that it addressed the lack of integration in current policy discussions about college and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Demography, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Quigley, Martyn, Ed. – 1994
These proceedings contain papers from the 1994 annual meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group. Papers are divided into the following sections: (1) invited lectures; (2) working groups; (3) topic groups; (4) ad hoc groups; and (5) reports on ICMI (International Committee on Mathematical Instruction) studies. Papers include: (1)…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Constructivism (Learning), Cultural Context, Educational Change
Armstrong, Paul, Ed.; And Others – 1994
The following papers are included: "Valuing Change and Changing Values" (Armstrong); "Raybouldism, Russell, and New Reality" (Benn, Fieldhouse); "The Move to Self-Assessment" (Boud); "Hijacking Experience and Delivering Competence" (Bryant); "The Professional Development Model of APEL [Assessment of Prior Experiential Learning]--Some Problems of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Developed Nations
Barcelona Council (Spain). – 1990
This report presents 28 conference papers, which represent different thematic and scientific perspectives designed to create an educating city theory. The translated titles of the articles include the following: (1) "Foreword" (P. Maragall); (2) "Introduction" (J. Trilla Bernet); (3) "Conceptual Itinerary Through the…
Descriptors: City Government, Cultural Differences, Educational Environment, Educational Responsibility
Carey, Doris, Ed.; And Others – 1991
The more than 100 papers in this collection describe examples of successful technology integration in teacher education. The applications are extremely diverse, including computer-assisted instruction, hypermedia, interactive video, computer simulations, telecommunications, and more. The applications also represent the range of instructional and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Ringbom, Hakan, Ed. – 1983
At irregular intervals, beginning in 1977, Swedish-Finnish conferences on contrastive and applied linguistics have been arranged in Stockholm and Turko/Abo. This volume presents most of the papers given at the 1982 conference. Papers include: "Free Recall of Mixed Language Lists. Error Patterns in Bilingual Memory" (Karin Aronsson, Anja Metsola,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Communication Skills, Comprehension, Error Patterns
Rutkowski, Edward, Ed. – Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society, 1981
The papers in this document present three themes: history of higher education; educational thought; and education and reform. "The University of Illinois' Long Search for a Permanent Campus in Chicago, 1946-1963: The Relationship between the Politics of Influence and the Conflicting Images of an Urban University" (G. A. Sprague) begins part 1 and…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Catholic Schools, Educational Facilities Planning, Educational History
Reagan, Timothy, Ed. – 1984
This collection of conference papers addresses selected philosophical and social questions being faced by contemporary educators. Papers and presenters are: "The Computer Revolution, the Technological Fallacy, and Education" (Keith L. Raitz); "Some Bits and Bytes: A Response to Raitz" (Robert J. Skovira); "The Public…
Descriptors: Competition, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Cultural Pluralism
Southwell, Beth, Ed.; And Others – 1984
This document contains 53 plenary and contributed papers presented at the eighth Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME) meeting. Two plenary addresses focused on mathematics research in Australia and Japan, and problem solving and symbolism. Contributed papers were classified under 13 headings including: teaching and learning theory; cognition;…
Descriptors: Algebra, Cognitive Processes, Computers, Concept Formation
Pitts, Marcella R., Ed. – 1981
Concerns about the current educational technology movement are discussed in these four papers which were presented during a seminar of 20 representatives from 10 Council for Educational Development and Research (CEDaR) member institutions. The first by Marcella Pitts and E. Joseph Schneider provides an overview of the educational technology…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Managed Instruction, Educational Media, Educational Research
Hairston, Maxine C., Ed.; Selfe, Cynthia L., Ed. – 1981
Nine selected papers presented at the Texas Writing Research Group's 1981 conference are offered in this collection. The papers discuss (1) sources of linguistic interference among American minorities; (2) contributions of discourse analysis to composition; (3) emerging notions of heuristic (investigative), eristic (controversial), and protreptic…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, History, Language Variation
California State Polytechnic Univ., Pomona. – 1978
The 1976 Claremont, California, symposium to exchange and clarify ideas regarding the study and implementation of new alternatives to quality cultural education focused on two main concepts. The first was the concept of transcultural education design; the second, that cultural uniqueness in our society results from the capability to be responsive…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Clearinghouses, Cultural Background, Cultural Pluralism
National Academy of Education, Washington, DC. – 1978
The document consists of a report by the chairman of the Committee on Anthropology and Education and six essays commissioned by the committee. In addressing the need to support educational anthropology programs, the report suggests: creation of a national fellowship program for graduate students; interchanges among educational anthropology…
Descriptors: Agencies, Cognitive Development, Educational Anthropology, Educational History
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