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Baber, Ceola Ross – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1995
Presents a vision of multicultural education as a validating and inclusive process for non-European ways of knowing. Classifies multicultural education as inclusionary, emancipatory, liberatory, critical, and transformative. Briefly gives examples of each and identifies leading advocates of these approaches. (MJP)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizen Role, Civics, Community Involvement
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Gipps, Caroline V. – British Educational Research Journal, 1993
Argues that educational research and policymaking are hampered by increased intervention by governmental agencies and misrepresentation in the media. Asserts that current educational reform efforts are in conflict with research findings related to curriculum, learning, and assessment. (CFR)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Educational Researchers
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Quicke, John; Winter, Christine – British Educational Research Journal, 1994
Reports on an exploratory study of a metacognitive approach to teaching low achieving secondary students. Asserts that the research team hoped to examine a process whereby a dialog about learning processes would develop. Finds that all students indicated that they were able to focus on learning as a topic of conversation. (CFR)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Kay, Sandra – Design for Arts in Education, 1990
Argues that arts education should be a basic subject in the school curriculum because perception which is a key characteristic of art education is basic to intelligence. Outlines three phases of research concerning spatial ability and theories of perception. Highlights higher education's role in the relationship between arts education and general…
Descriptors: Art Education, Cognitive Development, Curriculum Development, Educational Philosophy
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Puk, Tom – Social Studies, 1994
Asserts that social studies teacher educators must help their students question the nature of knowledge in the social studies curriculum. Discusses epistemological implications of the social studies curriculum. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Epistemology
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Carter, Kathy – Educational Researcher, 1993
Explores the term "story" as it defines method and object of inquiry in teaching and learning, and explores story as a mode of knowing. Considers the political context of the story and issues of gender, power, ownership, and voice and the contributions of stories to case studies. (SLD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Research, Elementary School Teachers, Epistemology
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Schommer, Marlene – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1993
An epistemological questionnaire assessing student beliefs about simple knowledge, certain knowledge, quick learning, and fixed ability to learn was administered to more than 1,000 high school students. Results demonstrate some epistemological development during high school and suggest that epistemological beliefs predict grade point average. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Beliefs, Cognitive Development, Educational Attitudes
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Khan, Tariq; Yip, Y. J. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 1996
One trend in educational and cognitive learning theory being adopted by designers of computer-aided learning (CAL) tools and expert systems is case-based reasoning, or the use of previous examples or cases to solve new problems. This article examines principles of this method, including guided exploration, memory aids, and partially self-directed…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
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Long, David Alan – Teaching Sociology, 1995
Articulates an approach to teaching sociology that creates connections between the personal and political lives of the students and the sociological concepts studied. Includes descriptions of class assignments designed to induce alienation and empowerment. Considers pedagogical alternatives to traditional instruction. (MJP)
Descriptors: Activism, Consciousness Raising, Educational Innovation, Educational Objectives
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Rex, Lesley; Brown, David West; Denstaedt, Linda; Haniford, Laura; Schiller, Laura – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2005
In this essay, five researchers, who are also English educators, describe the research they have crafted to improve the quality of classroom literacy education. They begin by describing their common perspective afforded by linguistics, discourse analysis and related social theory. Their framework and studies describe their action-oriented…
Descriptors: English Teacher Education, Standard Spoken Usage, Literacy Education, Textbook Publication
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Tsai, Chin-Chung – Educational Technology & Society, 2005
Constructivist Internet-based learning environments are advocated by contemporary educators, but few studies investigated students' preferences toward the environments for learning a specific school subject such as science. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to develop a questionnaire to explore students' preferences toward constructivist…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Student Attitudes, Test Construction, Factor Analysis
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Van Oord, Lodewijk – Journal of Research in International Education, 2005
This article approaches the concept of culture from an anthropological perspective. It places various culture concepts in their historical contexts and discusses several models that are utilized in research in international education. It is argued that the lack of a theory is a major reason for the culture concept's proliferation. A theory is…
Descriptors: International Education, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Educational Philosophy
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Botturi, Luca – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2004
This paper introduces the Quail Model, a device for the classification and visualisation of learning goals. The model is a communication tool that can smoothen the discussion within a course design team, support shared understanding, and improve decision making. Its theoretical background mingles contributions from instructional design (Bloom,…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Models, Classification, Visualization
Seifert, Kelvin L. – 1995
This paper reviews four studies about the nature of professional thinking among teachers, and its relationship to parents' thinking about children and education. The main question addressed in the literature was when and why individual diversity of views appears more strongly in some individuals, but uniformity appears more strongly in others. The…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Cultural Awareness
Beyer, Landon E.; Liston, Daniel P. – 1996
The construction and reconstruction of public school and college curricula cannot be understood without an understanding of how they are intimately tied to larger social currents and cross-currents. This book attempts to provide a coherent yet inconclusive synthesis of the progressive tradition that challenges both the curricular status quo and…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Conservatism, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Curriculum
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