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Koshmanova, Tetyana – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2006
This article addresses the issues of how cultural historical theory of activity can help design democratic teacher education classrooms aimed at developmental learning and dialogical, humanitarian thinking of students and prospective teachers. On the basis of retrospective analysis, the author begins by summarizing activity-based approaches to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Best Practices, Program Descriptions
Hansen, Henning; Hlawatsch, Sylke; Lucken, Markus – Online Submission, 2007
Trying to implement interdisciplinary geoscience curriculum materials in geography and science education we asked how they fit into teachers' existing practices, their needs for support and strategies to plan instruction. The focus of our case study has been the identification of the goals teachers pursue with the materials, of strategies for…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Earth Science, Science Curriculum, Foreign Countries
Gates, Gordon S., Ed.; Wolverton, Mimi, Ed.; Gmelch, Walter H., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2007
This collection of chapters presents research focused on emerging strategies, paradigms, and theories on the sources, experiences, and consequences of stress, coping, and prevention pertaining to students, teachers and administrators. Studies analyze data collected through action research, program evaluation, surveys, qualitative interviewing,…
Descriptors: Stress Management, Urban Schools, Student Behavior, Program Evaluation
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Özkan, Betul C.; Davis, Niki; Johnson, Natalie – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2006
In this study, we discuss the use of generative evaluation as an innovative approach in the analysis of qualitative interview data for evaluating simultaneous renewal of Iowa State University's PT3 grant. Goodlad's (1994) simultaneous renewal framework forms the basis of our argument. We focused on the CREATER+ model designed to explain the…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Teacher Education Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Qualitative Research
Ozkan, Betul C.; Davis, Niki; Johnson, Natalie – Online Submission, 2006
In this study, we discuss the use of generative evaluation as an innovative approach in the analysis of qualitative interview data for evaluating simultaneous renewal of Iowa State University's PT3 grant. Goodlad's (1994) simultaneous renewal framework forms the basis of our argument. We focused on the CREATER+ model designed to explain the…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Teacher Education Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Qualitative Research
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Scott, Ian; Fuller, Ian; Gaskin, Steve – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2006
Internationally, fieldwork is seen as intrinsic to geographical education. Fieldwork is here defined as any study of the environment that takes place outside the classroom. This paper extends a previous study of student perceptions of the impacts on their learning of a cancellation of fieldwork caused by an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in…
Descriptors: Geography, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Interviews
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McElhoe, Dennis L.; Kamberelis, George; Peters, Jerry L. – Qualitative Report, 2006
This study was undertaken to determine whether an evaluation model employing multiple methods of data collection and analysis might yield more useful information for improving lifelong learning courses than existing models. Major findings included: (1) learning satisfaction appears to be dependent on the instructional environment adults may be…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Lifelong Learning, Noncredit Courses, Evaluation Methods
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Nupponen, Hannele – Child Care in Practice, 2006
The aim of this paper is to produce an understanding of directors' work; perceptions of their role as managers in the centre; their experiences; and the nature of management within the context of the child care field in a complex social, legislative and economic climate. In the current context of the delivery of child care services in a…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Child Care, Child Care Centers, Foreign Countries
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Griswold, W. Gary – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2006
Little research has discussed how writing center tutors can help postsecondary students develop skill in reading. Via individual interviews, this investigator collected data from eleven writing center tutors at a large urban public university. Analysis of this data suggests that while nearly all of the tutors lacked specific knowledge of how…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Tutors, Interviews
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Myers, Susan D.; McMillan, Sally; Price, Margaret A.; Anderson, Connie Wilson; Fives, Helenrose – Journal of the National Association for Alternative Certification, 2007
Recruiting Educators through Alternative Licensure (Project REAL) is funded through the Transition to Teaching grant initiative. Project REAL is designed to enable university faculty and classroom teachers to work collaboratively within a professional development school model in order to provide secondary pre-service teachers with a high quality,…
Descriptors: Teacher Qualifications, Secondary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Alternative Teacher Certification
Dai, Mei-Fun Wang – 1995
The study reported in this paper intended to trace what Chinese children think about life and identify their naive theories. Fifty-eight 5-year-old children in Taiwan from 39 kindergartens were interviewed using a semi-structured instrument. Results indicate that preschool children have preconceptions about the concept of life even before entering…
Descriptors: Animals, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak – CUHK Papers in Linguistics, 1989
Assuming the relevance of the linear precedence to the scope interpretation of adult Mandarin, this study investigated the development of this principle in Mandarin-speaking children, with a view to providing a basis for further study of parametric variation. Three kinds of sentences were examined, all of which contained mutually commanding…
Descriptors: Children, Interviews, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Zora, Subhi; Johns-Lewis, Catherine – 1989
A study examined lexical density in interviews and conversation with the same subjects. Sixteen undergraduate and graduate students, members of religious, political, and/or cultural societies at Aston University (England), were interviewed in pairs by the university chaplain, who knew them. Immediately following each interview, the chaplain left…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Coupland, Nikolas; Coupland, Justine – 1988
A study examined the discourse sequences and routines through which older adults disclose their ages to others. Data are drawn from conversations between women, who were asked to "get to know each other," and interviews with 34 women and 6 men in an elderly day care center. The second source group was used only to support the distribution evidence…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Chronological Age, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Thomas, R. Murray – 1985
A three-stage model to diagnose and treat learning difficulties is presented. The three stages include: status assessment; cause estimation; and treatment recommendations. This paper concentrates on the first part of the second stage--that of generating likely causes for the learning difficulties in a given case. A list of questions is offered to…
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Etiology
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