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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"Education, Philosophy of"”.
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A Case Study of the Evolution of High School Academies in a Large Suburban School System
… to study and recommend changes to the vocational education curriculum and two high school vocational centers. The task force met for thirteen months and concluded its study in a report entitled "Securing Our Students' Future in a High Tech Global Economy." The Division Superintendent presented …
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COUNTER-PROPAGANDA EDUCATION: A CRITICAL POSTMODERN PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
<p>Philosophy of education not only forms the background for curriculum construction and pedagogy but there is a connection between epistemology and education within the economic power structure of society in the United States (Aronowitz & Giroux, 1993/1991, p. 88). Public education in the United …
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"Capturing the Space in-Between: Understanding the Relevance of Professional ""Use of Self"" for Social Work Education Through Hermeneutic Phenomenology"
… on the interplay between the researcher's use of self as an instrument for inquiry, interpretation, and analysis. Through these processes, understanding of the phenomenon was enlarged. Theoretical and practical implications for social work education and practice are suggested in the dialogical …
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An Ideal -Typical Approach to Methodology in Comparative Music Education
The growing involvement of music educators with musics of the world's cultures prompts an increased need for a methodology by which to conduct fruitful research in comparative music education. Rather than relying on simple description of observed practices, a context needs to be established within …
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Anytime, Anyplace, Anybody: Lifelong Learning in a Tohoku Town
… policy is handled by Towa-cho bureaucrats is of concern to scholars in a variety of fields interested in the multidimensional dynamics of life at the local level. Japan specialists, cultural and applied anthropologists, political scientists, and educators alike will benefit greatly from this …
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Rethinking the Spiritual Dimension of Art Education: Exploring a Quaker Alternative Setting
In support of the premise regarding rethinking the spiritual dimension of art education, this qualitative study explored Scattergood Quaker high school at West Branch, Iowa, over a two-year period, 1998 to 2000. The main focus of the thesis addressed the following questions surrounding alternative …
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Idiots
… how mental retardation exists mostly in the eyes of the beholder. I served as a tutor for these school-aged children, and documented the interpretive activities among people who played major parts in their lives at the time of the study. Chief among the questions I ask is how mental retardation …
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Examining Children's Interests in Light of Parent -Centered Trends in Education
"The primary focus of this paper is to examine parent-centered educational trends from a ""child's best interests"" perspective. In my analysis I consider parent and state interests insofar as they factor into the interests of children; I also consider ways in which children's interests may be …
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John Dewey on Theory of Learning and Inquiry: The Scientific Method and Subject Matter
The dissertation concludes by showing that, educationally, Dewey's ideas of the scientific method have different meanings in different context. It analyzes the scientific method as empirical method, critical thinking, cooperative learning, and creative thinking, and shows the place of subject …
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Teaching Symbolic Rhetoric for Multicultural Education
The dissertation is an attempt to move the educational discourse on multiculturalism forward to meet the new challenges of an increasingly multicultural and global society. New conditions of rapid cultural change, intercultural engagement, and the instability of traditional notions of identity …
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The Spiritual Superintendent: An Exploratory Inquiry Into the Existence of a Spiritual Dimension in Selected Superintendents' Leadership
… studied to determine to what extent the notion of a spiritual dimension existed in the leadership style of the subjects. The study findings showed that a spiritual dimension did exist in the leadership style of the subjects studied and that such a dimension had a significant impact upon their …
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A Study of Juergen Habermas's Communicative Rationality: An Educational Interpretation
"The purpose of this study is to find an educational basis of the conception of rationality from the perspective based on Jurgen Habermas's idea of communicative rationality. The study starts from a critical review of the instrumental aspect of rationality first conceptualized by Max Weber's …
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Moral Education as Contextual: A Qualitative Study in an Early Childhood Classroom
Contextual moral education may be foundational, or at least complementary, to currently dominant direct moral education. It will be particularly appropriate to early childhood, being implicit but active. One implication is that meaningful cooperative learning may have to be universalized all over …
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An Inquiry Into a Plausible Source of the Differences Between Functionalism and Reproduction Theory in Education (Ideal Society)
The theories of educational functionalism and educational reproduction theory provide us contrasting explanations or descriptions of contemporary formal education. The main purpose of the paper is to explain the plausible sources of the differences between these two theories. To achieve the purpose …
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Formalism and Contextualism in Moral Education: An Analysis of Two Exemplars
The dissertation aims to analyze the theories of Lawrence Kohlberg and Carol Gilligan as representatives of the formalist and the contextualist traditions in moral theory. It first examines problems that each theory leaves unresolved and explicates the apparent conflict and tension that exist …
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Linear Structural Equation Models for Intention and Achievement in Mathematics: A Study of Sims Student Data
The main objective of this study was to identify and explain the effective variables on achievement at the junior high school level. The sample of U.S. eighth grade students from IEA's Second International Mathematics Study (SIMS) was analyzed using covariance structure analysis with the LISREL …
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A Structural View of Knowledge and A Constitutive View of Knowledge: An Analysis of Reproductive Education Theory
… the stability and change (or transformation) of existing social relations. The main focus of this dissertation is a critical examination of two debates within reproductive educational theory--structuralism (e.g., Bowles & Gintis's, 1976, 1980, economic structuralism; Althusser's, 1969, 1971, …
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Educational Process and John Dewey's Treatment of Thought as Qualitative
Within education, John Dewey's exposition of reflective thought has received considerable attention as uniquely informative of process. Explicit in Dewey's later works only are considerations of the qualitative which enliven and also prompt reevaluation of both the earlier treatment Dewey affords …
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Education in the National Interest
This dissertation is a philosophical examination of the democratic viability of educational policy devoted to serving "national interests." It begins with an interpretation of the 1983 educational reforms that received the greatest publicity with the U.S. Department of Education document A Nation …
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The Justification of Special Admissions Policies
This dissertation addresses the problem of presenting a satisfactory justification for special admissions policies using race or sex as often decisive criteria for entrance to higher educational and professional school opportunities. The issue of special admissions policies has engaged debate and …
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