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Gnanakan, Ken – Oxford University Press, 2012
This book upholds the idea of learning and education as a means to individual development and social empowerment. It presents a holistic picture, looking at learning as an integral part of one's social and physical life. Strongly differing from existing classroom perspectives, the book analyses integrated learning at its broadest possible…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Holistic Approach, Role of Education, Individual Development
Viviano, Thomas – Online Submission, 2012
When speaking of educational leadership today there are many characteristics of leadership that are needed that perhaps were not necessary five, ten, or fifteen years ago. Technology's impact on how students learn and how teachers teach has had educational leadership think about more innovative ways in which to prepare, deliver, and assess…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Vocational Education, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Effectiveness
Chauncey, Caroline T., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2012
"Harvard Education Letter" is published bimonthly at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This issue of "Harvard Education Letter" contains the following articles: (1) Course Credits on the Quick: Controversial Online Recovery Programs Speed the Path to Graduation (Andrew Brownstein); (2) Collaborating to Make Schools More Inclusive…
Descriptors: School Culture, Credits, Newsletters, Online Courses
Gatto, Lynn Astarita – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Talk is at the heart of classroom instruction and, according to the vast research on classroom talk, the teacher that does most of the talking. Thus, an asymmetry of power is created between teachers and students. These asymmetrical relationships are most obvious in urban elementary classrooms where test prep literacy curriculum has become the…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Teacher Student Relationship, Ethnography, Case Studies
Kahn, Peter; Qualter, Anne; Young, Richard – Higher Education Research and Development, 2012
Theories of learning typically downplay the interplay between social structure and student agency. In this article, we adapt a causal hypothesis from realist social theory and draw on wider perspectives from critical realism to account for the development of capacity to engage in reflection on professional practice in academic roles. We thereby…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Social Structure, Student Empowerment, Social Theories
Bryan, Julia; Henry, Lynette – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2012
The extant literature documents the importance of school counselors' roles in school-family-community partnerships, yet no model exists to guide school counselors through the process of building partnerships. The authors propose a model to help school counselors navigate the process and principles of partnerships. They define partnerships; discuss…
Descriptors: Social Justice, School Counselors, Family School Relationship, Partnerships in Education
Schneider, Jenifer Jasinski; King, James R.; Kozdras, Deborah; Minick, Vanessa; Welsh, James L. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2012
During a teaching methods field experience, we initiated several processes to facilitate pre-service teachers' reflection, empowerment, and performance as they learned to teach students. Through an ethno-theater presentation and subsequent revisions to an ethno-theater script, we turned the reflective lens on ourselves as we discovered instances…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Preservice Teacher Education, Theaters, Reflective Teaching
Boyce-Tillman, June – Philosophy of Music Education Review, 2012
This paper will critique the values embedded in the Western classical tradition from a Foucauldian perspective. It will identify issues of power as a central problem for Western culture which is developing into a monoculture in which many people are disempowered. It identifies the role of the dialogic imagination in challenging the dominant…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Music Education, Classical Music, Christianity
Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2012
A group of states that is designing tests for the common academic standards has taken a key step to ensure that the assessments reflect students' readiness for college-level work: It gave top higher education officials from member states voting power on test-design questions that are closest to the heart of the college-readiness question. At its…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Advisory Committees, Voting, College Preparation
Sattler, Peggy – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2012
This paper explores the relationship between neoliberal ideology and the discourse and practice of education governance reform in Ontario over the last two decades. It focuses on changes in education governance introduced by successive Ontario governments: the NDP government from 1990 to 1995, the Progressive Conservative government from 1995 to…
Descriptors: Ideology, Governance, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
van Nijnatten, Carolus; Heestermans, Marianne – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2012
Background: Personal narratives are conditional for victims of sexual abuse to overcome their trauma. Counsellors can help victims with intellectual disability to take an active position in conversations about sexuality and to co-construct a personal narrative. Method: Using discourse and conversational analysis, we studied 4 conversations between…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Sexual Abuse, Mild Mental Retardation, Personal Narratives
Kearns, Sarah – Educational Action Research, 2012
This paper tells the story of how a model of action research was used to examine my own development and emerging identity as a researcher through the Master of Research programme at my employing university in Scotland. It is located within a context of increasing expectations on academics within vocational training departments of UK universities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Researchers, Self Concept
Busher, Hugh – Management in Education, 2012
Student voice is a key component in constructing discourses of respect, empowerment and citizenship in schools. It can help schools to become learning communities, rather than knowledge factories, that serve the needs of the majority of their members, the students, as successfully as possible and prepare them for future lives in a wide variety of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Student Empowerment, Educational Practices
Pandey, Shanta; Lin, Yuan; Collier-Tenison, Shannon; Bodden, Jamie – Health & Social Work, 2012
Approximately 10 million pregnant women around the world develop night blindness annually. In India, one in 11 pregnant women suffers from night blindness. This study used a nationally representative sample of 35,248 women from India between the ages of 15 and 49 who had given birth in the past five years to understand the effect of women's…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Females, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Datnow, Amanda – American Journal of Education, 2012
This article provides a context for understanding how social networks among teachers support or constrain school improvement in terms of instructional practice, professional development, and educational reform. It comments on the articles in this special issue, summarizing their contributions to the field. This analysis reveals several important…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, Teaching (Occupation), Social Networks, Teacher Role