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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Purpose of education"”.
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The purpose of education in an era of high-stakes testing
This study sought to determine the beliefs of curriculum directors within the public school districts of Indiana with regard to the purpose of education and to the impact of high-stakes testing. The six cultures of curriculum described by Joseph et al. (2000) were utilized to provide the lens …
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Schools deciding the purpose of education: Policy enactment in a context of goal-expanding, high-stakes accountability reform
ABSTRACT Schools deciding the purpose of education: Policy enactment in a context of goal-expanding, high-stakes accountability reform Javiera Marfán Sánchez New shared challenges across the globe are pressing educational systems towards pursuing an expansion in the range of goals to pursue, …
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Educating for Democracy: Reviving Rhetoric in the General Education Curriculum
… part, a response to arguments that claim higher education fails to prepare students with fundamental communication skills necessary for everyday life and indicative of "educated" persons. Though the validity of such arguments is contestable, they nonetheless reflect fundamental inadequacies in …
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Depopulation and Education in a Mexican Migrant Town: Schools in Villa Juarez, San Luis Potosi, 1942-2000
<p>While educational systems have been governed by the policies of the nation-state and have been contained within state borders, the transformations brought about by the economic, social, and political repercussions of globalization have added layers of complexity to issues in education. This is …
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Conversation as Pedagogy in the Teaching of Art
… develop their own style and philosophy of teaching, it is proposed that this teacher serves as an example of a particular philosophical stance. As such, he serves as an example of how art can be taught when the teacher is dedicated to the philosophy that ""the purpose of education is to …
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An investigation into the implications of formally accrediting training offered by non-governmental organisations : a case study approach
In this study, the implications of formalising previously non-formal NGO training were investigated. The literature suggested that there might be sociological, pedagogical and epistemological issues that would impact on the process. The sociological concerns centred on how formalisation might …
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History of Immigrant Female Students in Chicago Public Schools, 1900--1950
This dissertation uses historical analysis of the 1900--1950 era of Americanization, immigration, and school response. The study group is female students primarily from Chicago's major immigrant communities: Irish, Jewish, Italian, and Polish. Previous histories on immigrant education used ethnic …
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A Missing Piece: Monasteries as Centers for a Literate Christian Education in Late Antique Palestine
Research into the history of education provides powerful insights for answering a philosophical question of central importance: namely, what is the purpose of education. While recent research has emphasized looking to the past few centuries, investigating the educational practices of ancient …
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Being in Deep, Authentic, Dramatic Celebration: Narratives of Community Cultural Workers for Social Change
<p>The common discourse in the field of education in the United States during the years 2002 through 2013 centered on the approach of making schools accountable for their students' performance, while aiming to bring proficiency to all students regardless of their socio-economic background. Prior to …
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Distinguishing a Western Women's College: A History of the Curriculum at Colorado Women's College, 1909–1967
… students to its campus in 1909, making it one of only a handful of women's colleges in the American West, where coeducation predominated. This dissertation describes and interprets the curriculum offered at CWC in the period from 1909 to 1967. The analysis of the curriculum is divided into six …
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Pueblo Voices: Defining the Role of Pueblo Education
… and contemporary educators regarding the role of Pueblo education is essential to positive school change. With this premise in mind, I conducted extensive interviews in an attempt to understand more clearly what parents, traditional elders, and other Pueblo community members perceived the role …
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Changing School Culture to Engage Disengaged Students
… students by changing the culture (Schein, 2010) of an increasingly diverse Alberta school. Educational leaders beliefs and assumptions about the purpose of education and the roles of teachers and students will impact their beliefs about student engagement (Vibert & Shields, 2003) in both …
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INSPIRED TEACHING: An Exploration of Enacting the Curriculum, Deepening Social Justice Consciousness, and Creating an Ethos of Caring in Saskatoon Secondary Classrooms
This thesis is an open-hearted exploration of inspired teaching through the lived and shared experiences of secondary urban public school teachers. This exploration includes appreciations of the deeper purposes of education, understandings of critical pedagogy in action as well as stories of …
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Young People’s Education and Mental Health: Interdisciplinary Research, Evidence, and Impact
… investigates young people’s mental health and education based on six peer-reviewed papers from five research projects. Methodologically, these papers range from a systematic review, a systematic scoping review and four qualitative research studies, using secondary data, focus groups and/or …
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Perennial Educational Tensions: Saint Gregory Palamas’s Approach to Byzantium’s Exothen and Kath’imas Educational Traditions & Its Consequences for Thinking with Byzantium in a Contemporary Context
The purpose of this dissertation is to help fill a long-standing gap in the field of history of education with respect to studies on the Eastern Roman Empire of Byzantium. In particular, this study examines a crucial episode in the thousand-year tension between the exothen (pagan/secular) and …
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Curriculum Becoming in the Assemblage of Lower Secondary Education in Ireland
… for major curriculum reform in lower secondary education in Ireland. This thesis is concerned with mapping the becoming of this new curriculum. It proffers the emerging changes through a focus on the following areas of interest: a. The assemblage of lower secondary education in Ireland. b. The …
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Cultivating a Culture of Success in Catholic Secondary Schools in Tanzania
… can make a bigger difference to his or her educational success than most other school variables" (Darling-Hammond, 2006, p. 19). Quality education as a result of quality teaching has been a subject of discussion in many countries (Karras, & Wolhuter, 2010). According to Nyerere (1967), "the …
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A Case Study of Selected Preservice Teachers Regarding the Origins of Their Perspectives on the Commonplaces of Education and the Impact of Foundations Studies on Those Perspectives
<p>Problem. Many educational foundations scholars claim that teacher education programs focus on the how of instruction (student teaching and methods courses) instead of the why of education (foundations studies), and that preservice teachers’ pre-college perspectives about education are not …
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Multiple Intelligences and Their Impact on Science Instruction on One Second Grade Classroom
… American schools provide various levels of instruction geared to the potential mathematician, writer, scientist, and historian. But what is the purpose of education in the United States? Some would argue it is the preparation of tomorrow’s workforce and the development of problem-solving …
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