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Kokkos, Alexis – Journal of Transformative Education, 2014
This article attempts to examine the views of European adult educators toward transformative learning (TL) theory. First, I explore the relevant attitudes of my colleagues in Greece, which appear to be quite positive. Then, through a literature review, I assume that the scholars in other European countries have a limited interest and a quite…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adult Educators, Teacher Attitudes, Learning Theories
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Taylor, Christopher – Studies in American Indian Literatures, 2010
In Native American literary studies today there is a gap between the variety of criticism being produced and the metacritical debate about what Native literary criticism should look like. A review of recent issues of "Studies in American Indian Literatures", for example, will discover a wide variety of approaches, some relating literary…
Descriptors: American Indian Literature, Writing (Composition), Nonfiction, Literary Criticism
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Larsen, Marianne A. – Journal of Education Policy, 2010
The belief in the central role of the teacher has a long and comparative history. This article aims to critically analyse the discourse of the centrality of the teacher by both historicising and problematising the ideas and practices associated with this discourse. First, the article describes the discourse as it was taken up during the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Role, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Competency Testing
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Pini, Monica E.; Gorostiaga, Jorge M. – International Review of Education, 2008
The purpose of this study is to explore teacher education policies in different countries of Latin America and North America through the comparison of policy documents. The training of teachers, a key component of education, faces educational challenges as a result of various reform policies in different countries. Critical discourse analysis…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Policy, Criticism, Discourse Analysis
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Gregory, Katie – Research in Dance Education, 2005
This critical analysis focuses on the movement vocabulary and interaction of dancers in selected sections of the filmed version of "White Man Sleeps" (1988) by Siobhan Davies. The choreography is divided into five distinct parts, in accordance with divisions in the musical accompaniment from which the piece takes its name, a suite of…
Descriptors: Movement Education, Foreign Countries, Art Criticism, Dance