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Clarke, Anthony; Erickson, Gaalen – Australian Journal of Education, 2004
This paper argues that there has been academic amnesia in the field of self-study with respect to the intellectual heritage underlying self-study as a way of understanding teaching practice. From Aristotle to Dewey, the concept of practical inquiry or deliberation has been a recurrent theme. However Schwab's exploration of the role of the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Research, Teacher Role, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Roach, Ronald – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2005
To get some notion of how deeply scholars have been affected by Hurricane Katrina, one might look to someone like Dr. Erma Lawson, a medical sociologist from the University of North Texas. Lawson, who has coordinated the assistance efforts for the Association of Black Sociologists, has not hesitated to call on colleagues, graduate students, civil…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Weather, Influences, Scholarship
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de Guzman, Allan B.; dela Rosa, Praxedes S. M.; Arcangel, Clotilde N. – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2005
This qualitative study is an attempt to describe how administrators, teachers and researchers in a select group of teacher education institutions (TEIs) in the capital of the Philippines collectively view globalization. Specifically, concepts of a globalized teacher education, impact of globalization in teacher education, and problems of teacher…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Educational Researchers
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Poveda, David; Martin, Beatriz – Language and Education, 2004
This paper presents an analysis of narrative participation frameworks in bicultural situations between "Gitano" (Spanish Gypsy) children and non-Gypsy Spanish ("payo") researchers in institutional and informal settings. Data were obtained in two contexts, a public school in a large urban city and a summer school in a mid-sized city. Narratives…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Summer Schools, Culturally Relevant Education, Multicultural Education
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Feldman, Daniel C.; Turnley, William H. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2004
This article utilizes relative deprivation theory to examine the careers of non-tenure-track instructors and research associates. Demographic status, motivations for accepting contingent employment, and standards of comparison used to assess the quality of the job were all related to the degree of relative deprivation experienced by adjunct…
Descriptors: Careers, Adjunct Faculty, College Faculty, Job Skills
Grotluschen, Anke – European Journal: Vocational Training, 2005
One critical learning theory that has survived is once again being acclaimed. Subject-scientific theory requires learners to be taken seriously. Their reasons and resistance need to be brought into the open. This requirement was too radical for schools since it does not allow a fixed syllabus. It has borne fruit, however, in continuing education.…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Constructivism (Learning), Critical Theory, Foreign Countries
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Conteh, Jean; Toyoshima, Saeko – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2005
Socio-cultural models offer great scope for scope for theorising the complex processes involved in teaching and learning, and of capturing the nature of the co-constructions, which are important factors in success for both teachers and learners. But the implications of this theoretical stance are perhaps, not fully recognised in the attendant…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Models, Social Influences, Cultural Influences
Snow-Gerono, Jennifer L. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2005
This research study aimed to describe the experiences of Professional Development School teachers who were living an inquiry stance toward teaching. Throughout this study, "living an inquiry stance toward teaching" was used in an attempt to describe teacher inquiry as a way of being and knowing for these PDS teachers more than methods for a…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Teacher Researchers, Inquiry, Teacher Attitudes
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Moses-Snipes, Pamela R.; Snipes, Vincent T. – Negro Educational Review, The, 2005
Today, it has become fashionable to discuss "closing the achievement gap." People know that an achievement gap exists. The question is, what can be done to close it? In 2005, approximately 50 years after the first Brown vs. Board of Education court case, the authors issue the official call for others to join them in researching the mathematics and…
Descriptors: Researchers, Cultural Awareness, Court Litigation, Mathematics Achievement
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Alimi, Modoupe M.; Ellece, Sibonile – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2003
The paper discusses the relationship between learning objectives and testing procedures in the Department of English at the University of Botswana, based on an examination of some course outlines and examination papers. Observations show that course designs are deficient in the articulation of learner outcomes. This deficiency is reflected in the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Test Items, Scholarship
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Woolfe, Jennifer; Stockley, Lynn – Health Education Journal, 2005
Objective: To test the feasibility and effectiveness of dietary change interventions in UK school-based settings. This overview draws out the main lessons that were learnt from these studies, for both practitioners and researchers. Design: A review and analysis of the final reports from five studies commissioned by the Food Standards Agency.…
Descriptors: Research Design, Physical Activities, Health Promotion, Nutrition
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Frost, David; Roberts, Julie – Teacher Development, 2004
The article provides an account of a school improvement project which began with a single teacher's classroom-based action research and subsequently involved a number of Hertfordshire secondary schools, their local education authority and the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education. Julie Roberts had used a learning preferences profiling…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Teacher Leadership, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers
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Halpain, Maureen C.; Jeste, Dilip V.; Trinidad, Geraldine I.; Wetherell, Julie L.; Lebowitz, Barry D. – Academic Psychiatry, 2005
OBJECTIVE: There is an urgent need for research training in psychiatry at early career stages, especially in geriatric psychiatry. The authors describe their first-year experience with the Summer Training in Aging Research Topics--in Mental Health (START-MH), a new federally funded national-level training program intended to offer intensive…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Mentors, Mental Health, Psychiatry
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O'Connor, Deborah L.; O'Neill, Brian J. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2004
Social work is committed to promoting social justice, inclusion and the empowerment of people. Qualitative research methods offer exciting possibilities for operationalizing this commitment. Drawing predominantly on constructivist and/or critical paradigms for understanding, qualitative research fosters a rebalancing of power within the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Feedback (Response), Constructivism (Learning), Qualitative Research
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Snelgrove, Sue – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2005
A critical question for me as a teacher/researcher in the field of inclusive education is how to reposition children with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities as participants rather than subjects in the debate. In this paper, I develop a methodology of inclusion that comprises an ethics of consent and a pedagogy for research participation…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Mental Retardation, Teaching Methods, Ethics
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