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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"contemporary education"”.
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Roots of Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Education
… have long contended that the main purpose of education is to guide youth towards more authentic, fruitful ways of being in the world; this ancient wisdom continues to challenge educators to serve as effective role models (e.g., Aristotle, 1963; 1985; Maslow, 1993; Palmer, 1998). Yet, until …
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Black Girls Matter: The Impact of Historical Representation on Contemporary Education
… mental, psychological, physical, and <br />educational outcomes.</p>
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Development of School Bands in Illinois: 1863--1930
… and traditions of early bands to those in contemporary education.
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Media Literacy in the Hungarian Educational Policy Arena (1995-2012) = A médiaműveltség a magyar oktatáspolitikában (1995-2012)
… the position of media literacy in Hungarian education policy, the historical path of media literacy education in Hungary, and the roles of various actors in the development of media literacy education. The research project had three major questions: How and why did media literacy education in …
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Drama is Life! Exploring Ethno-Drama as a Model for Designing a 21st Century Secondary Drama Curriculum
… study proposes an innovative approach to drama education, which responds to these challenges. This response is Ethno-Drama, a model I have created to differentiate my pedagogical method from others, and which enables students of diverse backgrounds to explore the interplay of life and art. This …
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Experiences of precarity: Oral histories of K12 dance teachers in Delhi
… in K12 schools in Delhi of negotiating the contemporary education space; navigating the tension between artistic aspirations and making a livelihood through dance; of dealing with questions of class, caste, language, religion, ageing, and gender are vital to generating a multidimensional …
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Situating Critical Indigenous Worldview within Western Academic Traditions: Place-Based and Culturally-relevant Science Education for Human Empowerment and Environmental Sustainability
… and proven roots but have become marginalized in contemporary education. These ways focus on fostering the development of unique gifts and group cohesion, as opposed the fostering of independence and competition, the latter being two ideologies not found in Nature when it is in balance and …
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A Case Study in Online Instruction for a Non-Laboratory-Based Course in Herbaceous Plants
… outlined to compare traditional and distance education student outcomes, commonly referred to as the media comparison approach. This approach, as it pertains to the instructional design process, was outlined in-depth to provide an outline for future online courses in Herbaceous Plants. The …
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Negotiating the hidden curriculum of otherness: Black ethnically minoritised young people’s educational experience in predominantly White areas.
… (BEM) young people aged from 14-29 in education provision within predominantly white areas. It is based on interviews that were conducted between June 2015 and September 2016. The study highlights the key tension between the perceived progress made within society concerning racism, …
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Teachers' work in times of restructuring: On contextual influences for collegiality and professionality.
… intersection of teachers’ work and contexts of education. It departs from an interest in contextual influences on teachers’ work and professionality under restructuring. It is to be understood as a criticism of a widespread focus, sometimes met in research and in policy, on teachers as …
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Values in education policy-making with special reference to the FE Teachers' salaries structure and to the MacFarlane review of 16-19 provision
… the Burnham Reports, have shaped 16-f education provision by reference to the 1950-51 Further Education negotiations on the one hand and the 1979-80 Macfarlane Review of 16-19 provision on the other. A contribution is made to the debate on the theory of policy-making, based on the …
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Deliberation, Dissent, and Advocacy: A Rhetorical Study of Teachers' Lived Experiences with Education Reform
Contemporary K-12 education reform policies have focused heavily on the teaching profession through increased accountability measures and decreased job security. In the rhetoric of contemporary reform, teachers are often praised as heroes capable of overcoming any obstacles and at the same time …
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University teachers' perceptions and evaluations of ethics instruction in public relations curriculum
… perceived ethics instruction in public relations education to be essential, and they believed in a close tie between general morality and professional ethics. However, as the results of a quantitative survey suggested, foreign participants believed that ethics instruction helps students make right …
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The discursive construction of the concept of creativity in Australian education policy and practice
… to the conditions of possibility that inhere in education policy and practice. Three sites are foregrounded to conduct this analysis. The first is a range of policy documents, four specific to the Australian context and one global, where I use Foucault’s concept of homo economicus to analyse how …
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Digital Media's Transformative Role in Education: Beyond Potential to Essential
… digital media continues to be a major concern in contemporary education. The daily use of all forms of digital media is part of our lives and therefore becomes a key <em>component</em> of education. Educators must consider the process of digital media curriculum as a learning model and form of …
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Laboratório virtual de matemática: possibilidades para uma prática docente mediada por recursos digitais
… according to demands and possibilities of a contemporary education. The adopted methodological approach was Design-Based Research (DBR), whose cyclical nature allowed a continual evolution of the product, ensuring that each stage provided new insights that enhanced both the process and the …
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Shaping the undergraduate pain management curriculum in prehospital emergency care education: toward a curriculum and competency framework for South Africa
… One reason for this suboptimal management may be education that is misaligned with clinical and contextual needs. The knowledge gap is that Prehospital Emergency Care has not systematically developed evidence-informed competencies for pain management. Aim: This research aimed to develop a …
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Teacher Turnover and Performance of Private Secondary Schools in Tanzania: a Case of Dar Es Salaam
After decades of restricting private secondary education, the Government of Tanzania embarked on new policies in the mid 1980s to support its expansion. The private sector expanded very fast in response to the high demand at the time and is still expanding today. However the policy implementers did …
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A study of the job satisfaction of elementary teachers in open-space and traditional schools
… in various categories of the working force. Educational researchers have become increasingly interested in determining not only the degree of job satisfaction among teachers, but also the sources of teacher job satisfaction and dissatisfaction.One of the most controversial issues in …
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Selected Characteristics of Home Schools and Parents Who Operate Them
… a rapidly-emerging alternative to conventional educational systems. The purpose of this study was to identify selected characteristics of home schools and the parents who operate them.</p> <p>Method: The population used in this descriptive research was drawn from the files of the Hewitt Research …
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