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Supporting Quality Teachers with Recognition
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Andrews, Hans A. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
Value has been found in providing recognition and awards programs for excellent teachers. Research has also found a major lack of these programs in both the USA and in Australia. Teachers receiving recognition and awards for their teaching have praised recognition programs as providing motivation for them to continue high-level instruction.…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Merit Pay, Awards, Elementary Secondary Education
Art and Social Justice Education: Culture as Commons
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Quinn, Therese M., Ed.; Ploof, John, Ed.; Hochtritt, Lisa J., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Art and Social Justice Education" offers inspiration and tools for educators to craft critical, meaningful, and transformative arts education curriculum and arts integration projects. The images, descriptive texts, essays, and resources are grounded within a clear social justice framework and linked to ideas about culture as commons. Essays and a…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Art History, Critical Theory, Elementary Secondary Education
Political Economy as a Conceptual Framework for the Analysis of School-University Cooperation.
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Mahlios, Marc C.; Carpenter, Robert L. – Education, 1982
Uses political economy theory as a framework for analyzing the interorganizational relationship peculiar to school-university cooperative efforts. Examines specific cooperative projects in terms of domain and ideological concensus, interorganizational evaluation and work coordination; and their combined effect on resource maintenance/acquisition…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, College School Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Understanding Interdisciplinary Teamwork: Challenges for Research and Practice. Workshop Report.
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Gance, Laura Lee – 1998
In November 1997, the National Institute for Science Education (NISE) brought together for a two-day conference faculty members of NISE, individuals who have special expertise or experience pertaining to interdisciplinary collaboration and problem solving and representatives of research projects addressing the topic of interdisciplinarity. The…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Cooperative Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Influences
Attachment and Cognition.
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De Riuter, Corine, Ed.; Van IJzendoorn, Marinus H., Ed. – International Journal of Educational Research, 1993
The five chapters and epilogue of this special issue present theoretical and empirical contributions on the relevance of attachment theory to cognitive development and education. A literature review is followed by explorations of attachment theory and emotions, cognitive development, literacy, and the communication effectiveness of the mother.…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
What's Wrong with Our Schools? Malaise and the American Educational System.
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Hoyle, John R. – 1981
Most constructive critics of education agree that today's students are better than any in United States history. Yet problems like competency shortages and outmoded curricula remain. When schools were basically "socializers" (1885-1957), praise outstripped criticism--until 1957's Sputnik. In response, Congress initiated the National Aeronautics…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Community Cooperation, Community Education, Community Resources