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From Research to Practice in Distance Learning Education: Strategies for Fostering Faculty Development and Improving Instructional Practice.

Year: 2000 • Source: eric.ed.gov • Listed PDF

A naturalistic inquiry was undertaken to explore current instructional practice in three distance education settings. Perceptions of researcher, practitioner, and participants engaged in a doctoral field research study w...
The Conundrum of Educational Provision and the Application of Performativity and Technology in Papua New Guinea.

Year: 2000 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Heidegger's philosophy of technology demonstrates how technology acts as an agent of performativity within the school system serving the interests of the state and global economy. Papua New Guinea provides an example of ...
Pilot Study of a Home-based Asthma Health Education Program.

Year: 2000 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Examines the influence of a home-based asthma health education program on parental coping and quality of life. Families (N=40) with children under 11 received either health education sessions or a booklet representing th...
The Role of the Medical School in Rural Graduate Medical Education: Pipeline or Control Valve?

Year: 2000 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Outcomes data from seven medical schools with successful special programs to increase the rural physician work force identify three core features: a strong institutional mission, targeted selection of students likely to ...
A Meta-Analysis Examining Effects of School Sexuality Education Programs on Adolescents' Sexual Knowledge, 1960-1997.

Year: 2000 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Analyzed findings from studies conducted from 1960-97 regarding the effects of school sexuality education on adolescents' sexual knowledge. The meta-analysis included 67 studies. The studies reported 72 outcomes regardin...
Curriculum with a Common Thread.

Year: 2000 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Introduces Project WRITE (World Resources for Integrated Thematic Education). Features six science-based units that include "American Revolution: People and Technology", "A Look Inside Ourselves", "Westward Ho!", "Animal...
Indigenous Peoples, Globalization, and Education: Making Connections.

Year: 2000 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Globalization pushes aside social, cultural, and ethical goals of education in favor of marketplace goals. Two stories of the indigenous Ju/'hoansi tribe in Botswana illustrate how even well-intentioned multicultural edu...
In Pursuit of Social Justice: Collaborative Research and Practice in Teacher Education.

Year: 2000 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Shares a longitudinal conversation among faculty over the meaning of social justice, investigating individual understandings of its meaning and finding commonalities necessary to teach for social justice. Participants un...
Manner in Teaching: A Study in Observing and Interpreting Teachers' Moral Virtues.

Year: 2000 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Presents a study, framed according to Aristotelian ethics, that combined philosophical analysis with empirical inquiry to examine the manner of a teacher's moral conduct, concluding that it is possible to systematically ...
A Reflective Essay Concerning Something Better: The Experiences of Appalachian Rural Trust Schools.

Year: 2000 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Examples from 10 Appalachian rural schools demonstrate how developing curricula around local interests builds on students' prior experience and makes education relevant, and how educational experiences that are intimatel...
The Teacher Educator as (Re)Negotiated Professional: Critical Incidents in Steering between State and Market in Australia.

Year: 2000 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Explores the kind of steering being used by Australian teacher educators confronted with developing competitiveness in higher education, arguing that changes compel teacher educators to renegotiate their professionalism ...
Using Unmediated Computer Conferencing To Promote Reflective Practice and Confidence-building in Initial Teacher Education.

Year: 2000 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Examined whether computer conferencing without tutor moderation could be successfully implemented between preservice teachers from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, considering the extent to which it raised p...
Youth Summits: Law-Related Education for Violence Prevention. ERIC Digest.

Year: 2000 • Source: eric.ed.gov • Listed PDF

The youth summit, which engages adolescent students, public officials, and lawyers in discourse and deliberation about critical social problems and legal issues, is becoming a popular method of law-related education. Thi...
Missionaries of the New Millennium.

Year: 2000 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Focuses on the determination of Catholic teachers to instill values and quality education into their students. Depicts teachers as educators of the future world as well as the future church. States that Catholic educator...
El Colegio Altamirano (1897-1958): New Histories of Chicano Education in the Southwest.

Year: 2000 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

New research on Chicano education from the perspective of Chicanos illuminates the struggle for equality and access. The establishment of community schools (escuelitas) by Mexican Americans in Texas was intended to prese...