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Showing 1 to 20 of 269 for “"Educational reform"”.
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Teachers as Change Mediators in Educational Reform
In theory, sustaining and scaling instructional reform hinges on teachers' ability to introduce new ideas, tools, and practices into their local environment and to provide concrete models of change for their peers. Yet, in spite of the critical role teachers play in propagating reform, no …
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Context counts : leading educational reform in New Zealand secondary schools
Educational leadership and organisational literature is replete with syntheses of effective leader behaviours, change sequences and reform models, yet few studies explore the nuanced manner in which individual leaders make sense of and respond to the dynamic influences shaping their thinking and …
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Educational reform as a development strategy : the experience of Ghana
… economic growth. Consequently, Ghana introduced educational innovations aimed at providing qualified personnel to facilitate economic growth and thus accelerate national development. But these measures proved ineffective. Therefore, in 1973, the country's educational priorities were reappraised. …
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The Institutionalization of Educational Reform: Sustaining an Effective Educational Program
… factors associated with sustaining an effective educational program. The primary research question was: How did the Bright Beginnings: Fantastic Follow Through program sustain itself for more than 25 years? The secondary research questions asked in this study were: (a) what role did the school …
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Teachers' stages of concern about a school-wide educational reform
… and Dossette (1973), using a school-wide educational reform. Furthermore, changes in teachers' concern profiles as a function of education levels, teaching areas, hours of reform-related training, and adoption-proneness were studied. In particular, teachers' concern profiles about …
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It's Our School Too: Youth Activism as Educational Reform, 1951-1979
Activism has the potential for reform (Howard, 1976). Unlike previous studies on high school activism this study places a primary focus on underground newspapers and argues that underground newspapers allowed high school students to function as activists as well as educational reformers. In order …
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Layers of Influence in Educational Reform: A Comparison between China and Europe
… states no longer contributed to the direction of educational reform. I thought I would find that global economic forces, the integration of labor markets and the statistical assessment of these relationships were determining the direction of reform. What I found was that national models of …
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Perceptions of beginning secondary teachers and principals on selected educational reform recommendations
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The impact of educational reform on the Wolverhampton School of Art and Design
The thesis examines the impact of education reform on the Wolverhampton School of Art. Investigations cover the school from the early 1850's to the mid 1950's in four stages of its development: the Government School of Practical Art for Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire, the Municipal School of …
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Edward Alexander Sutherland and the Seventh-day Adventist Educational Reform: the Denominational Years
… was one of the most notable and successful educational reformers of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He served the church for sixty years, fifty-three of them as president of four Adventist colleges. This study has been delimited to his years of denominational employment, 1890 through 1904, …
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From textbook adoption to implementation: investigating teacher agency amid educational reform in Vietnam
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Meeting the challenges of educational reform through spatial design in the twenty-first century
<p>This paper looks into the issue of Saudi Arabia becoming an active player within globalization. The context of entering into globalization for Saudi Arabia is harnessing the tenets of higher education. In its history Saudi Arabia traditionally practiced gendersegregated education. Saudi Arabia …
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Educational Reform and Innovation: A Study of the New Comprehensive Secondary School in Cali, Colombia
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:54:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7624205.pdf: 7044246 bytes, checksum: 68e38ac5fcdab6244e88b9a02068c629 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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Social studies reform in Illinois: Teachers' perceptions of the Illinois educational reform package of 1985
… of social studies teachers in two non-contiguous Educational Service Center Regions in Illinois to answer the research question, ""How does a sample of informed social studies teachers in Illinois view the 1985 state school reform package as it relates to social studies in Illinois?"" Findings …
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Shanghai kindergarten teachers' beliefs about engagement in Developmentally Appropriate Practice in the context of educational reform
… quality early childhood education, curriculum reform has been implemented for over one decade in Shanghai kindergartens (specifically, since 2004). The reform guidelines largely align with the principles of Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) issued by the National Association for the …
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