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Julia Reckermann, Editor; Philipp Siepmann, Editor; Frauke Matz, Editor – English Language Education, 2024
This book innovatively connects the two fields of oracy and practice-oriented empirical research in English language education. It creates synergies and proposes innovative approaches to the study of oracy in the context of learning and teaching English as a second, additional or foreign language. The book also develops a contemporary and holistic…
Descriptors: Oral Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Jager, Sake, Ed.; Kurek, Malgorzata, Ed.; O'Rourke, Breffni, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2016
Trinity College Dublin was proud to host, in April 2016, the Second International Conference on Telecollaboration in Higher Education, with the theme "New Directions in Telecollaborative Research and Practice." Over two and a half days, 150 participants offered 95 research presentations, posters, and "problem shared" sessions.…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Cooperation, Higher Education, Educational Research
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Matus, Claudia; Infante, Marta – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2011
In this article we analyze discourses of "diversity" in colleges of education in Chile. We contend that the use of discourses of diversity, as reproducing the separation between mainstream subjectivities and those uncontained by the category of normal, is one of the ways universities align themselves with the rules of a democratic…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Democracy, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Avalos, Beatrice – 2000
This paper examines improvement in teacher education in Chile, which had an excellent system of teacher education until the 1970s. Educational change targeting elementary and secondary schools did not affect teacher education institutions, and there was no power to initiate such change. The national government pushed improvements by offering to…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy
Avalos, Beatrice – 1999
This article is based on experiences in the field of teacher education and attempts to induce institutional change from a ministerial (hence, political) location. The first section considers the international context in relation to education and discusses how quality is conceptualized in policy documents. The second section looks at how concerns…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Educational Quality
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Montecinos, Carmen; Cnudde, Verlee; Ow, Maili; Solis, Maria Cristina; Suzuki Emy; Riveros, Marta – Teaching and Teacher Education, 2002
Describes the process and outcomes of a collaborative self-study by five Chilean teacher educators interested in improving their supervision of student teachers, examining problems they encountered as first-time writers of a self-study report. Guidelines for scaffolding supervisees' reflectivity are included (e.g., attend to supervisors' and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education