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Grazzini, Camillo – NAMTA Journal, 2013
This classic position of the breadth of Cosmic Education begins with a way of seeing the human's interaction with the world, continues on to the grandeur in scale of time and space of that vision, then brings the interdependency of life where each growing human becomes a participating adult. Mr. Grazzini confronts the laws of human nature in…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Educational Methods, Holistic Approach, World Views
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Vilches, Amparo; Gil-Pérez, Daniel – Science & Education, 2013
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and UNESCO have proposed that the International Year of Chemistry, 2011, should make a strong educational contribution to the goals of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. This emphasis is absolutely necessary because education for sustainability remains practically…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Sustainability, Scientific Concepts
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Crookes, Patrick A.; Else, Fabienne C.; Smith, Kylie M. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2015
Despite receiving growing international recognition and regard, the scholarship of engagement remains undervalued internally at academic institutions, especially in relation to career development and academic promotion. This form of scholarship presents difficulties relating to evaluation, assessment, and evidencing that are not generally present…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Higher Education, Scholarship
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Hall, Richard – Learning, Media and Technology, 2015
In understanding the changes that are impacting the global higher education sector, developing a critique of the relationships between technology and technological innovation, new managerialism and financialisation, and the impact of the secular crisis of global capitalism is critical. Moreover, it is important to critique these changes…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Class Size, Distance Education
Stephens, Maria Cecilia Noche – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The German Dual System is a model educational and employment approach that other nations could emulate. The ability of young apprentices to work and study at the same time to gain both practical and theoretical skills leads to more meaningful education and decreased dropout and youth unemployment rates. The collaboration of the government,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Career Readiness, Employment Qualifications, Education Work Relationship
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Hattie, John – Educational Leadership, 2012
Teachers give a lot of feedback, and not all of it is good. This article discusses how to ensure teachers are giving students powerful feedback they can use. For feedback to be effective, teachers need to clarify the goal of the lesson or activity, ensure that students understand the feedback, and seek feedback from students about the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Student Evaluation, Educational Methods
Hazel, Cynthia E. – APA Books, 2016
Positive youth development is a strengths-based, positive psychology approach to fostering adolescents' educational engagement and achievement. It focuses not just on students' academic development but also on their vocational, social, and emotional development. The positive youth development philosophy is at the heart of Cynthia Hazel's unique…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Academic Achievement, Holistic Approach, Social Development
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Zweig, Jacqueline; Stafford, Erin; Clements, Margaret; Pazzaglia, Angela M. – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2016
Wisconsin Virtual School, a state online learning program that offers supplemental online courses to partner districts in Wisconsin, administered a survey to its teachers in fall 2014 to learn more about their training experiences and challenges. More Wisconsin Virtual School teachers reported participating in training or professional development…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Teacher Surveys, Training, Teacher Competencies
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Johnson, LeAnne D. – Early Education and Development, 2017
Bringing effective practices to scale across large systems requires attending to how information and belief systems come together in decisions to adopt, implement, and sustain those practices. Statewide scaling of the Pyramid Model, a framework for positive behavior intervention and support, across different types of early childhood programs…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Early Intervention, Models
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Cole, Mike – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2017
Critical Race Theory (CRT) has a relatively long history in the United States, from where it originated, dating back to the 1980s. Its presence in UK academic literature, however, is more recent, having surfaced in the first decade of the twenty-first century. I focus in this paper on developments in CRT in the UK from January 2012 to January…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Theory, Race, Educational Practices
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Pilz, Matthias; Canning, Roy – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
The issue of modularising vocational education and training (VET) systems has been the subject of heated debate in many European countries. In particular, in Scotland the use of modules within the curriculum has been seen as either restrictive or liberating depending upon the theoretical stance taken. At a more pragmatic level modularisation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Learning Modules, Educational Practices
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Svitacová, Eva; Mravcová, Anna – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2014
The new phenomenon of global development education (GDE) has gradually penetrated the curricula in Slovakia. For the purpose of more comprehensively preparing future economic actors, who will operate in the new global economic and social environment, we have decided to incorporate this topic into the curriculum at the Faculty of Economics and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Education, Global Approach, Curriculum Enrichment
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Wolosky, Shira – Children's Literature in Education, 2014
The formative power of children's literature is both great and suspicious. As a resource of socialization, the construction and experience of children's literature can be seen as modes of disciplinary coercion such as Michel Foucault has anatomized. "Harry Potter", as a "craze" phenomenon, has attracted particular…
Descriptors: Discipline, Childrens Literature, Self Concept, Socialization
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Burns, Emma; Martin, Andrew J. – Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2014
Adaptability has been recently proposed as cognitive, behavioural, and emotional regulation assisting individuals to effectively respond to change, uncertainty and novelty. Given students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have known impairments with regulatory functions, they may be at particular disadvantage as they seek to…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Self Control, Student Adjustment, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Zaitseva, Natalia A.; Ilina, Elena L.; Nikolskaya, Elena Y.; Romanova, Marianna M.; Larionova, Anna A. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The importance and relevance of research of questions is determined by the intensive development of the tourism and hospitality industry, the consequence of which is the increase of business needs for skilled personnel. The purpose of this paper is to examine and assess the main strategic trends in educational technologies and methods used for…
Descriptors: Hospitality Occupations, Strategic Planning, Educational Trends, Educational Quality
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