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Whyte, Shona – 1994
This study tested a refined version of the discourse domain hypothesis, which defines the discourse domain as a topic area in which second language learners demonstrate extensive, current, and important knowledge, including both cognitive and affective dimensions. The study tested the results of previous studies, which showed that learners show…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Higher Education
Clough, Michael P.; Berg, Craig A. – 1995
This article aims to: (1) improve novice and experienced science teachers' understanding of contemporary pedagogical research, its value in improving classroom practice, and how to effectively communicate this in an interview; (2) improve administrators' interviewing practices so that exemplary candidates stand out from other candidates; and (3)…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Interviews
Linn, Patricia L. – 1993
This paper examines the role of work in a psychology work/study curriculum at Antioch College (Ohio), and argues that the view of student's work that is described may represent a missed opportunity to help students learn. Students, through interviews and journal entries, provided their opinions regarding if and in what ways their classes…
Descriptors: College Students, Cooperative Education, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
Hendrick, William Edward – 1984
The bureaucratic nature of school organizations is now commonly acknowledged. According to Carlson's description of four types of service organizations, school organizations are "domestic" rather than "wild" in that they do not have to compete with peer organizations for their own survival. To investigate the historical…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Boards of Education, Bureaucracy, County Programs
Applebee, Arthur N. – 1989
A study was designed to provide an initial context for framing the most pressing questions in the teaching of literature. To do this, the teaching of English in the high school classrooms of teachers whose departments were considered excellent by other professionals in education was examined. The issues that emerged in the programs with…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Observation Techniques, Educational Development, Educational Improvement
Willower, Donald J.; Smith, Jonathan P. – 1986
Data were collected from two public secondary schools located in the northeastern United States in order to search for indicators of culture peculiar to each school. Culture was defined in terms of shared norms, values, beliefs, traditions, and patterns of activity. One school was small, was located in a rural area, enrolled about 500 students in…
Descriptors: Athletics, Behavior Standards, Educational Environment, Informal Organization
Willower, Donald J.; Stetter, Michael W. – 1984
Much recent research on educational organizations, including that of Meyer and Rowan (1977, 1978), has depicted them as ritualistically legitimated, internally loosely-coupled systems. Willower, however, has argued (1982) that legitimization of schools by their communities is not merely ritualistic but is ordinarily problematic. To examine…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Educational Malpractice, Educational Research
Knapp, Michael S. – 1980
The retrospective case history is a little-used, but very valuable tool in organizational theory research. It is particularly useful in illuminating variables in an organization's development which, in controlled experimentation, would require prohibitively long periods of time to materialize. Additionally, the technique is useful for generating a…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Case Studies, Community Colleges, Educational History
Yamamoto, Masayo – 2001
Most of the population of Japan remains ethnically Japanese. For this reason, bilingualism has never been a subject of significant concern in Japan. With the recent influx of new groups of non-Japanese speakers into Japan, the society is becoming more multilingual. This book introduces the way languages are used in Japanese interlingual families,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Family Role, Foreign Countries
Simpson, Kirk; Freeman, Ruth – Health Education Research, 2004
In relation to health promotion and education, the use of post-positivist and constructivist approaches has been gathering strength in recent years. Despite this emerging tradition, little has been done to explore what this sort of approach actually represents, particularly in terms of health promotion in schools, professional organizations and…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Health Education, Health Promotion, Focus Groups
Diaz-Greenberg, Rosario; Nevin, Ann – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2003
The purpose of this paper is to better understand how critical pedagogy and multicultural education can help meet the challenges that world language teachers experience in the teaching of culture. The authors believe that eliciting and understanding the voices of foreign language student teachers is essential to help them learn to mediate their…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Critical Theory, Multicultural Education, Second Languages
Allen-Meares, Paula; Hudgins, Cynthia A.; Engberg, Mark E.; Lessnau, Barbara – Research on Social Work Practice, 2005
Objective: The purpose of this article was to examine how an initiative of 10 collaborative projects focused on children and youth have applied principles of participatory research, collaboratories, and technological solutions. Method: The study analyzed multiple forms of qualitative data, including semiannual formative evaluations and…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Educational Technology, Social Work, Technology Integration
2002
This document contains three papers on strategic human resource (HR) development. "Strategic HR Orientation and Firm Performance in India" (Kuldeep Singh) reports findings from a study of Indian business executives that suggests there is a positive link between HR policies and practices and workforce motivation and loyalty and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Case Studies, Competition, Cooperative Planning
Heller, Anne; And Others – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1995
This study investigated the utility and effectiveness of a simple dictation test for placement of students in a university's summer English-as-a-Second-Language program. The dictation test was explored as an alternative to the traditional oral interview, which had shown some problems of interrater reliability and consistency, resulting in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dictation, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Ojanen, Sinikka – 1995
This paper discusses the challenges facing teacher education programs to produce highly sensitive student teachers who are motivated to reflect on their own work, to develop during the preservice process and later as teachers within the professional frame of reference, and to capture a coherent picture of the course of professional development.…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education