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Johnson, Jeffrey Alan – Journal of Political Science Education, 2008
This paper argues that the standard approach to teaching the history of political thought does not serve the ultimate goals of political theory education, and that alternative approaches are needed to make the history of thought appropriate for undergraduates. A history of political thought for life ought to enhance a person's capacity to act as a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Political Science, Models, Teaching Methods
Stokamer, Stephanie Taylor – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Civic competence is critical to the successful functioning of pluralistic democracies. Developing the knowledge, skills, and motivations for effective democratic participation is a national and global imperative that many higher education institutions have embraced through the teaching strategies of community-based learning and service-learning.…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Critical Theory, Research Universities, Learning Strategies
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Scime, A. – Computer Science Education, 2008
As computing makes the world a smaller place there will be an increase in the mobility of information technology workers and companies. The European Union has recognized the need for mobility and is instituting educational reforms to provide recognition of worker qualifications. Within computing there have been a number of model curricula proposed…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Global Approach
Eklund, Julie Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This multi-faceted study of dual credit programs in Texas was motivated by perceived discrepancies in dual credit data reporting and a lack of comprehensive, state-level information about dual credit student populations and coursework patterns. Using a P-16 framework, the author explored alignment issues that influence the delivery of dual credit…
Descriptors: Models, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Dual Enrollment
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Hartman, Nathan W. – Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 2006
It has been suggested there is a knowledge base that surrounds the use of 3D modeling within the engineering design process and correspondingly within engineering design graphics education. While solid modeling receives a great deal of attention and discussion relative to curriculum efforts, and rightly so, surface modeling is an equally viable 3D…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Design, Drafting, College Curriculum
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Walliss, Jillian; Greig, Joan – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2009
In 2008 the University of Melbourne began implementation of the Melbourne Model, its new vision for higher education in Australia. Six broad undergraduate university degrees have been introduced and graduate schools created. Students may now progress from an undergraduate generalist degree, with major, to a professional Masters. Alternatively,…
Descriptors: Architecture, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation
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Misco, Thomas – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2007
In this article, the author addresses the problem of content knowledge dominating the school curriculum and the resultant marginalization of sociocivic and moral dispositions. Given the problems associated with teaching dispositions directly, the author offers four curricular aims that collectively develop the attitudes required of democratic…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Ethical Instruction, Curriculum Development, Secondary School Curriculum
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Schippert, Claudia – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2006
In this article, the author focuses specifically on her teacher-body and its place in various dynamics of projection in the classroom in order to discuss how drawing on queer performativity can be a critical resource in teaching about normativity and otherness. Queer theory has challenged individuals to think more critically about their reliance…
Descriptors: Norms, Sexuality, Sex, Philosophy
Evenbeck, Scott E.; Jackson, Barbara; Smith, Maggy; Ward, Dorothy – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2010
Organizing for Student Success draws on data from more than 50 institutions to provide insight into how university colleges are organized, the initiatives they house, and the practices in place to ensure their effectiveness. Twenty case studies from 15 different campuses offer an in-depth understanding of institutional practice. Ultimately,…
Descriptors: Models, College Programs, Success, Institutional Characteristics
Hastings, J. Thomas; And Others – 1970
This report specifically assesses the courses described in Publication No. 4 of the Commission on College Geography, "New Approaches in Introductory College Geography", 1967. It does not attempt a comprehensive evaluation, and the testing instruments described are not models to be applied to all courses. However, it does demonstrate a…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Geography Instruction
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Burk, Nanci M. – Journal of American Indian Education, 2007
The U.S. dominant culture's values and ways of knowing depicted in college curriculum assume that American Indian/Alaska Native college students will assimilate to dominant cultural beliefs and values in order to acquire a degree in higher education. Representative of this hegemonic pedagogical paradigm is the prescribed basic communication course…
Descriptors: College Students, Public Speaking, College Curriculum, Multicultural Education
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Duchastel, Philippe C. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1981
The purpose of this paper is two-fold: first, it identifies a number of needs assessment issues and, second, it describes the operationalization of a needs assessment project based in one particular college setting. It confronts the realities of practice with the ideals of instructional modeling. (CE)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
King, Roger – Universities UK, 2008
The growth of private higher education has come as a surprise to most governments, which have tried to catch up in their regulatory and funding policymaking. In China, Malaysia and South Africa they have given legal recognition to previously disallowed private higher education and this has helped to fuel its subsequent growth. Some governments…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, Proprietary Schools, Models
Chickering, Arthur W.; And Others – 1977
The handbook is presented in four major parts. In part one Arthur Chickering sees college curricular change as a continuing process made necessary by conditions that are both internal and external to the college. In part two David Halliburton builds on Chickering's rationale, shifting the focus to the curriculum itself. Here he deals with the…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Kuchinke, K. Peter – Human Resource Development Review, 2007
The recent vehement and highly visible critique of the North American business school curriculum illuminates core tensions in the field of human resource development (HRD) related to the role and responsibility of the profession in for-profit organizations and the educative process by which future practitioners are prepared. If the business school…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Business Administration Education, College Programs
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