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Direct linkRajendran, Charlene – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2019
Southeast Asia's location as a crossroads between East and South Asia, marks it as a region deeply entrenched in difference, with a history of complex identities. Apart from indigenous cultures that have survived the tides of change, there are several deeply embedded cultural influences from near and far that constitute what is local. Education…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Theater Arts, Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences
Download full textBurns, Mary – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2013
What will technology-based teacher professional development look like in
the next few years? In this article, teacher training curriculum designer Mary Burns presents her 5 top picks from the professional learning technologies now emerging around the world: (1) IPTV; (2) Immersive Environments; (3) Video; (4) Social Media; and (5) Mobile…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Television
Lew, Jamie – Teacher Education and Practice, 2012
Children of immigrants are the fastest-growing segment of the nation's children population. According to the U.S. Census (2007), approximately 16.4 million children, more than 1 in 5, are children of immigrants, most of whom are school-age population (aged 3-17 years). This large demographic shift is fundamentally changing the nation's schools and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigration, Immigrants, Teacher Education
Singh, Sukhmani; Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2012
Immigrants are a fast-growing segment of the United States population. Presently, some 39.9 million immigrants call America home (Passel & Cohn, 2012; U.S. Census Bureau, 2011b). Today, immigrants come from all over the world, but most new Americans originate in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia. It is because of the mass migration of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Demography, Immigrants, Immigration
Smith, Nancy McK.; Pickert, Sarah – Journal of International Special Needs Education, 2011
Children with disabilities live in every country of the world. Training personnel to provide education and rehabilitative services to these children, no matter where they live, is a continuing challenge for the profession. This paper describes a human development course in a program designed for an international religious organization based in…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Preservice Teacher Education, Assignments, Teacher Education Programs
Saltman, Kenneth J. – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2006
This article illustrates how global corporate education initiatives, though profit-motivated, sometimes function both as an instrument of foreign policy and as a manifestation of a broader imperial project. According to neoconservative scholars, as well as their critics, the events of September 11, 2001, allowed the implementation of pre-made…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Curriculum Design, Corporate Education
Shin, Joan Kang – English Teaching Forum, 2006
This article offers ten suggestions for teaching young learners between the age of 7 and 12 based on language-teaching principles. They include supplementing activities with visuals, realia and movement; involving students in making visuals and realia; moving from activity to activity; teaching in themes; using stories and contexts familiar to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Young Children, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedElton, Lewis; Manwaring, Gaye – Higher Education, 1981
The experience and experiments in helping to develop a training program for academic staff at Universiti Sains Malaysia and the model of staff training associated with this program are described. This is used as a basis for staff training for universities in the South East Asian region. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Correspondence Study, Developing Nations, Faculty Development
East-West Center, Honolulu, HI. – 1989
For the United States perhaps the most pressing issue today is the need to increase the national capacity to understand and interact with the peoples and economies of Asia and the Pacific. The East-West Center (Honolulu, Hawaii) has undertaken a project in this direction, the Consortuim for Teaching Asia and the Pacific in the Schools (CTAPS).…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Asian Studies, Curriculum Enrichment, Curriculum Study Centers
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1985
Science educators from Bangladesh, China, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Korea, and Sri Lanka met to: (1) review current experiences in the preparation of science teachers and teacher educators and their continuing education in the nine countries, as well as to consider major trends, issues, and problems related to the training and…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and Oceania. – 1979
Linkages between local schools and teacher education institutions are considered an essential factor in preventing isolation of these institutions from the realities of field situations. Participating directly in educational reform programs is an effective strategy that teacher education institutions can use in making their innovations relevant to…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Developing Nations, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Assessment
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1973
The report presents data and discussion on U.S. education across sectors, as well as the work of the Office of Education. Among topics covered are a progress report by the Commissioner of Education; Office of Education management; the career education in educational reform; higher education, including student financial aid and the Talent Search…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Career Education, Educational Change, Higher Education
