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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Educational trends"”.
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An Historical Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools Policy on the Requirements for the Selection of Principals, 1983-2008
… local policy echoed and identified national educational trends in this time period.</p>
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Examining Children's Interests in Light of Parent -Centered Trends in Education
… 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 distinctly …
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Educational Materials in a Private School Setting: An Industrial Ethnography and Document Analysis of One School’s Presently-Used Educational Documents
… framework to perform a document analysis on educational classroom documents presently used at a single small, private boarding school. This school, where students are given an individualized curriculum and experience immersed in technology, frequently uses Google Apps for Education to share …
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A Descriptive Study of PLATO As A Proposition For Regular Education Classrooms
… for public schooling, multicultural education, educational trends and PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations). More specifically, the literature highlights the self-paced practice of PLATO. Since the luminescence of the healthcare referendum has grown dim, education has taken …
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The Postman Always Rings Twice: Neil Postman's Views on Education are Relevant Again in the 21st Century Classroom
… personal digital device and its impact on the educational sphere. First the past narratives that guided the American school system will be traced from colonial America through present day. Then Postman’s work will be examined in its historical moment to provide context from which current …
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Opening a can of worms : perceptions and practices of teachers in Newfoundland and Labrador incorporating the role of a therapist
Educational trends of inclusion and collaboration have led to changing roles of teachers, including an emphasis on personal support. To provide for social, emotional, and behavioural needs, teachers may adopt a therapeutic role. Many models for such support are proposed, with most models including …
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Current trends in clothing and textiles education: how they have affected selected Virginia home economics teachers
… to comment on their beliefs concerning current trends and their recommendations for future curriculum revisions. The teachers interviewed expressed a greater interest in meeting the needs of their students than in following current trends. In an apparent contradiction, they cited reasons for …
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Examining International-Mindedness in the International Baccalaureate Theatre Program
… is an IBO-generated image illustrating changing educational trends of the 1960s. Appendix C includes Zina O’Leary’s original checklist for textual analysis. Appendix D includes O’Leary’s original checklist pertaining to document analysis.
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Nigerian Pidgin: The Identity of a Nigerian Away from Home
… behaviors reflect broader socio-cultural and educational trends. Despite being Nigeria’s most widely spoken language, NP has historically been marginalized and perceived as a ‘broken’ form of English (Agheyisi, 1971; Akande & Salami, 2010). While previous research has examined NP’s role in …
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An international study of osteopathic practice
There is marked variation in educational background and practice among osteopaths around the world. The profession lacks unity, and frequently osteopaths of one geographical region, educational background, or practice style, do not acknowledge as colleagues, osteopaths of another location, …
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Vision and the Ideal Teacher: Implications for Educational Practice
… articulate how that vision has influenced their educational practice.</p> <p>Procedure. This study was conducted in the classroom setting using qualitative methods. The qualitative techniques were informal and formal interviews, non-participant observations, and personal journal entries.</p> …
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The New Endangered Species: Community-Anchoring Public Schools
… people at the margins are swept up in general educational trends, such as the risk of charter schools, siphoning students and funding from traditional, community-anchoring public schools and perpetuating systematic power and economic inequities, driven by political and philanthropic …
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Ideologies of deafness: Deaf education in Hispanic America
… Venezuela, in the areas of (a) language use; (b) educational trends; and (c) societal aims for the deaf population? The results of this research can help Latin American educators to re-evaluate deaf educational systems in use today, and educators of the deaf around the world. The Deaf in Hispanic …
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The Market Position of a University Relative to an "Ideal": A Study of Constituent and Faculty Perceptions
<p>Problem. Specialists in educational trends forecast declining enrollments for higher education until at least theend of the twentieth century. Because of these forecasts many educators have turned to marketing in aneffort to find assistance in meeting challenges raised by the prospect of …
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The Impact of Accreditation on the Teacher Education Curricula at Two Historically Black Colleges from 1920-1940
… needs to remaining current with national educational trends. Although governmental, state, and private organizations urged HBCUs toward the vocational curriculum, regional accreditors such as the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) did not endorse a particular curriculum …