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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"transforming education"”.
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Transforming Education: Engaging Students in the Second Decade of the 21st Century
… there is an increasing awareness that the U.S. education system, once the bedrock of American prosperity, is no longer adequate for students to be successful as employees and citizens now, or in the future.</p> <p>Policy makers are also increasingly fearful that the United States risks its …
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Transforming education in an era of climate change. From economic growth to degrowth discourses and cases of eco-logical practices in education.
… explores socio-ecological transitions in education that seek to problematise mainstream ‘growthmanship’, or, put simply, economic growth policy discourse in education. Building on a growing literature stemming mainly from ecological economists, as well as social and climate scientists on …
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MICA optical : a low-cost, educational Michelson interferometer
… that provide widespread access to online educational tools, such as edX and Coursera, are transforming education. The MICA (Measurement, Instrumentation, Control, and Analysis) Project, developed by MIT's BioInstrumentation Lab, is a similar initiative that aims to provide students with …
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Up-setting the Apple Cart: Mitigating Potentially Disabling Barriers in Education
… disabling barriers for students within the educational setting. In addition to the survey data, follow-up interviews were conducted with five select survey participants. The interview participants were selected based upon their assenting and/or dissenting opinions/responses, as well as their …
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Technology Partnership Curriculum Initiative: A Descriptive Case Study of its History, Development, and Implementation
… tools of reformers, have had a minor effect on transforming education because the power of pedagogy has been ignored (Cuban, 1993). Teachers in the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) system voiced similar concerns about curriculum documents. Additionally, they felt that their 2-4-day in-service …
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Exploring emotional and behavioural difficulties : using children's, parents' and professionals' perspectives to support inclusive educational experiences
This dissertation explores the educational inclusion experiences of children identified as having Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (EBD) in four Irish primary schools from the perspectives of the children, their parents, teachers and special needs assistants (SNAs). It is set against the …