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White, Simone; Murray, Jean; Goodwin, A. Lin; Kosnik, Clare; Beck, Clive – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
Teacher educators are an occupational group who appear to suffer from an identity crisis. They do not seem to be able to agree on what their role or professional learning needs are. This situation has dire consequences for the next generation of teacher educators who enter the field in the same rather haphazard and ad hoc way as the ones before.…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Beginning Teachers, Mentors, Professional Identity
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Hutton, Christopher – Language Sciences, 1997
Discusses the role of rule in language as well as the role of the linguist in preserving and/or altering the rules. The article lists three terms and the distinctions among them emerging from Harris's viewpoint: law of nature, rule, and regularity. (14 references) (CK)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Attitudes, Language Standardization
Cheng, Kai Ming; Yip, Hak Kwong – Human Development Network Education, 2006
This paper attempts to describe and analyze the development and reforms of secondary education in Hong Kong and Shanghai over the past 25 years. Comparing the two cities is useful in constructing a spectrum of possibilities on the one hand, and identifying some common themes in the development of secondary education on the other. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Educational Change, Comparative Education
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Walker, Allan; Dimmock, Clive – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2004
This article addresses the international positioning and role of the National College for School Leadership (NCSL). The article argues that the college stands as an initiator, exporter, importer and disseminator of leadership research and practice and that the role it adopts in regard to these will determine its international influence. The first…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training, Role Perception, College Role
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Liu, Ngar-Fun; Littlewood, William – System, 1997
Discusses two surveys conducted at the University of Hong Kong that measured students' willingness to adopt active speech roles in second-language classrooms. Findings reveal that students expressed a liking for communicative work at school and a preference for classes permitting students to do most of the talking, but that they had a low…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, College Students