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Geelan, David R. – 1997
This paper explores questions about the ways in which students, teachers, administrators, and parents negotiate new sets of roles and expectations for schooling in the innovative climate of a new middle school. A new school in an Australian city has implemented a coordinated package of approaches including integrated curriculum, portfolio…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Epistemology
Labinger, Jay, Ed. – 1995
The papers contained in this proceedings from the 1995 Society for Literature and Science Conference are organized into sections with the following themes: (1) Metaphor and Science; (2) The Technological Invasion of the Living Space; (3) Autobiographies and Biographies of Scientists; (4) Science and 19th Century Literature; (5) Visions of the…
Descriptors: Art, Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Cybernetics
Perkowitz, Sidney, Ed. – 1996
The papers contained in these proceedings from the 1996 Society for Literature and Science Conference are organized into sections based on theme. Some of these themes are: (1) Secularizing Enlightenment; (2) Eugenics and the Politics of Knowledge; (3) Reading the Discourses of Psychology; (4) Women and Medicine; (5) The Rhetoric of Public Health;…
Descriptors: Art, Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Cybernetics
Mendrinos, Roxanne – 1994
This guide to using the tools of online databases, telecommunications, and CD-ROM technology in the educational environment provides a practical introduction to the concepts and importance of information literacy and high technology resource-based learning. It also describes the drawbacks and advantages of these tools from an educator's viewpoint.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Databases
Gilbert, Eben N., Jr. – 1992
A study assessed the perceived effectiveness of cognitive theories of motivation on correctional educators in Tennessee in facilitating teacher attitude and performance as compared to noncognitive models. The Performance Motivation Questionnaire obtained demographic information and responses to items on motivational concepts and practices.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Correctional Education
Bruffee, Kenneth A. – 1993
This volume explores the role and implications of collaborative learning for the mission and future of higher education and college teaching. Part I discusses the implications of nonfoundational social constructionist thought for colleges and universities. Nonfoundational notions of knowledge and social relations argue that knowledge has no…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Science
Papert, Seymour – 1993
Seymour Papert, who holds the Lego Chair for Learning Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, looks back over a decade during which American schools acquired more than three million computers and assesses progress and resistance to progress. Stories about visionary teachers who have used computers to enrich learning provide a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education
Davis, Fran; Nemiroff, Greta Hofmann – 1992
Both Women's Studies courses and the mainstreaming of Women's Studies material within the regular disciplines are essential pedagogical strategies for making curriculum responsive to the gendered context of schools, but it is also important to formulate a gender-fair model of education. After explaining the need for and benefits of gender-fair…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Critical Thinking, Educational Change, Educational Discrimination
Hamm, Russell L. – 1981
An examination of the grounds for fundamental beliefs about education and the basic concepts, doctrines, and practices that express such beliefs is presented. The overall objective of the book is to provide teachers with an insight into why and what they are teaching, and how these purposes relate to the school, the values of the community, and…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices, Educational Theories
Shaffer, David Williamson; Gee, James Paul – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2005
In his recent bestseller The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman argues that countries like the United States can no longer compete in the global economy on the basis of making and selling commodities. Their competitive edge increasingly comes from how well they produce products, services, and technologies that are new . . . special . . .…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Standardized Tests, Creative Thinking, Competition
St. Clair, Robert N. – 2000
Modern Western European ways of thinking are based on a print culture that uses verbal metaphors, and indigenous ways of thinking are based on an oral culture that uses visual metaphors. Visual metaphors provide a dominant mode of information processing and are used among indigenous groups to share cultural knowledge, yet Western culture is…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Students, Cognitive Style
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Arthur, Chris – Religious Education, 1995
Observes the philosophical and methodological aspects of Religious Studies. Considers the limitations of approaching religious thought and experience from a rationalist-scientific perspective. Includes a historical overview of the phenomenology of religious education with brief summations of leading theorists. (MJP)
Descriptors: Christianity, Educational Theories, Educational Trends, Epistemology
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Lowe, Roy – Paedagogica Historica, 1996
Discusses the implications of postmodernism for the field of the history of education, specifically from the point of view of theory and methodology. Briefly reviews theoretical applications and their leading adherents in Britain. Concludes that postmodern theory should make historians more self-reflective. (MJP)
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Philosophy
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Cole, Ardra L.; Knowles, J. Gary – Teacher Education Quarterly, 1996
Drawing on one educator's experiences as a beginning professor, the article discusses the prospects of teacher education reform and beginning teachers as change agents, commenting on values conflicts within schools of education and between them and broader university communities, politics of epistemology, and reward structures in schools of…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Change Strategies, College Faculty, Educational Change
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Cherryholmes, Cleo H. – Social Education, 1990
Criticizes the National Commission on Social Studies in the Schools' report, "Charting a Course: Social Studies for the 21st Century," for its contradictions, traditionalist views, positivistic approach to social science, and failure to identify ways to teach democratic values. Suggests that the report qualifies as an updated version of…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides
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