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John Andrew Cordell – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The modern psychological investigation of passion started with the study by Vallerand et al. (2003). The construct of passion has been applied to sports, gambling, and performing arts. The application of the construct of passion to the field of teaching has been very limited. This study uses Vallerand et al.'s definition of passion to consider the…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Collaboration
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Doria, Nicole; Biderman, Maya; Sinno, Jad; Boudreau, Jordan; Mackley, Michael P.; Bombay, Amy – Canadian Journal of Education, 2021
Indigenous peoples in Canada continue to face health care inequities despite their increased risk for various negative health outcomes. Evidence suggests that health professions students and faculty do not feel their curriculum adequately prepares learners to address these inequities. The aim of this study was to identify barriers that hinder the…
Descriptors: Barriers, Inclusion, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations
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Shakila Dada; Cathy Flores; Kirsty Bastable; Kerstin Tönsing; Alecia Samuels; Sourav Mukhopadhyay; Beatrice Isanda; Josephine Ohenewa Bampoe; Unati Stemela-Zali; Saira Banu Karim; Legini Moodley; Adele May; Refilwe Morwane; Katherine Smith; Rahab Mothapo; Mavis Mohuba; Maureen Casey; Zakiyya Laher; Nothando Mtungwa; Robyn Moore – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Over 8 million children with disabilities live in Africa and are candidates for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), yet formal training for team members, such as speech-language therapists and special education teachers, is extremely limited. Only one university on the continent provides postgraduate degrees in AAC, and…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Curriculum Development, Technology Uses in Education
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la Velle, Linda; Stenhouse, Elizabeth; Sutton, Carole – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2018
Typical characteristics of Master's-level education usefully complement the development of professional attributes leading to improved outcomes for those professions. These include critical reflection on one's own practice, scholarship and research, and also that of others. This requires access to and engagement with a well-organized and verified…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Masters Programs, Outcomes of Education, Graduate Study
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Craig, Cheryl J. – Journal of Educational Research, 2012
The author examines 1 experienced teacher's image of teaching and how it was purposely changed--through external intervention and against the individual's will--from the view of teacher as curriculum maker to the view of teacher as curriculum implementer. Laura's account of the "butterfly under a pin" image, a version of the…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Role, Educational Change, Professional Autonomy
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Shawer, Saad – Professional Development in Education, 2010
This qualitative study examined the impact of classroom-level teacher professional development (CTPD) and curriculum transmission on teacher professional development and satisfaction. Based on work with English-as-a-foreign-language college teachers and students, data analysis showed that CTPD significantly improved student-teacher subject,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Faculty Development, Professional Continuing Education
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Menter, Ian; Hulme, Moira – Educational Research, 2012
Background: Teacher education in Scotland has developed its own trajectory for many years and this distinctiveness appears to have increased since the creation of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. Teachers' pay and conditions were addressed in 2001 by the agreement "A teaching profession for the 21st century." This agreement led to a…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Curriculum Development, Schools of Education, Teaching (Occupation)
Kelly, Patricia J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Cultural competency training has been present in academic medicine for many years but interest has resurfaced when the Institute of Medicine released a report on health care disparity and called for curriculum improvement in medical education to eliminate the disparity in health care in the United States. This new interest, reinforced by medical…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Curriculum Development, Program Effectiveness, Competence
Pullen, Carol H. – 1989
An analysis of policy implementation by the Geriatric Education Centers (GEC) program is presented, using a model developed by Sabatier and Mazmanian (1980). A policy by the Bureau of Health Professions to expand education and training efforts in geriatrics and gerontology led to the creation of four GECs in 1983. By 1989, 38 centers had been…
Descriptors: Aging Education, Aging (Individuals), Allied Health Occupations, Curriculum Development
Georgia Univ., Athens. Office of Instructional Development. – 1989
This document reports on the second of a projected series of conferences, for University of Georgia faculty, having the theme of "faculty renewal" (rather than the older "faculty development") as the major focus. Following a brief introduction, the proceedings open with the keynote speech, "Meeting the Challenge of…
Descriptors: Burnout, College Faculty, Curriculum Development, Educational Quality
Miller, George E. – 1980
The history of educational research programs, development, and teacher training efforts in medicine is traced. Many claim that the first organized effort to study and evaluate the broad spectrum of the teaching and learning processes in medicine was developed as the Project in Medical Education at the University of Buffalo in 1955. Commitment by…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Development, Educational History, Educational Research
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Smith, Bob; And Others – Higher Education Research and Development, 1997
A project in a health sciences department of one Australian university, designed to encourage faculty collaboration on student assessment issues, became a program of personal and collective review giving insight into the processes and dynamics of curriculum and professional development. The project, its processes and products, and implications…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Change Strategies, Cooperation, Curriculum Development
Quay, Richard H., Comp. – 1982
A bibliography of materials authored, coauthored, or edited by Paul L. Dressel on programs and principles in the evaluation of higher education is presented. Entries are from 1939 through 1980. Topics include the following: curriculum development, external and nontraditional graduate programs, professional development for institutional…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Instruction
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Harris, Marilyn F.; And Others – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1997
In a summer faculty development workshop, seven faculty in different pharmacy disciplines (biochemistry, therapeutics, pharmacy management, pharmaceutics, pathophysiology, pharmaceutical analysis, pharmacy administration) clarified critical thinking objectives for their courses, practiced this approach in a faculty workshop, and piloted the…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Assignments, Biochemistry, Business Administration
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Wartman, Steven A.; Davis, Ardis K.; Wilson, Modena E. H.; Kahn, Norman B., Jr.; Kahn, Ruth H. – Academic Medicine, 1998
The interdisciplinary general-curriculum project was designed to develop innovative preclinical generalist curricula in ten medical and osteopathic schools and to encourage generalist careers. After two competitive cycles, much has been learned about interdisciplinary collaboration, recruitment and retention of community preceptors, faculty…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Choice, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Curriculum Development
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