This article considers the literacies of Health and Physical Education in the context of Australian education. It argues that much more than traditional literacy is involved and that emerging literacy theories offer ways of considering a broader range of literacies, including multiliteracies and body-as-text, and their place in the curriculum.
This chapter offers practicing educators' experiences and perspectives of equity in education. The authors explore personal issues within the current realm of education (preschool through graduate levels) in an attempt to offer insight into some of the inequities we experience today in the classroom and beyond. By engaging in this conversation, the authors attempt to learn from prior experience…
In addition to the existing two-semester system, the option of a credit system was for the first time offered to the students of the secondary (high school) education program in Kuwait in 1978. Earlier attempts which aimed at the quantification of the academic effectiveness of the two programs of secondary education have shown contradictory and inconclusive results. This paper reports the findi…
Although HBCUs predate the Civil War, Lincoln University in Missouri offered the first journalism major in the 1940s. The number of schools offering majors in journalism and mass communication proliferated after the enactment of the major civil rights legislation in the mid 1960s. Despite low starting salaries for majors, at least 40--approximately 40 percent--HBCUs belong to the Black College …
The purpose of this study was to determine students' communication in the college classroom through faculty-led methods of enhancing classroom participation. The students in this study perceived that faculty members work to engage them in various classroom activities and enhance their participation through discussions, debates, dialogue, group work, and presentations; students understood these …
As colleges of education prepare to meet NCATE standards they will find technically savvy allies and willing partners at their campus libraries. The information literacy and technology targets in the standards of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) parallel the information literacy standards developed by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). A…
This article traces the early and medieval Islamic scholarship to the development of critical and scientific thinking and how they contributed to the development of an Islamic theory of epistemology and scientific thinking education. The article elucidates how the Qur'an and the Sunna of Prophet Muhammad have also contributed to the development of Islamic epistemology and the production of the …
This study examined 24 elementary teacher education students' thoughts, feelings, and attitudes about university team teaching. More specifically, overall perceptions of course team teaching approaches, and their understanding of the course concepts, environments, and evaluations were investigated over the Spring Quarter, 2001. The data were collected using open-ended questions and were analyze…
The study aimed to determine the management philosophies of primary school principals. Stratification method of sampling was used in the study. The study sample consisted of 33 school principals and 132 teachers serving at primary education schools in Isparta in the academic year 2008-2009. The "Manager Philosophy Scale" developed by Tanriogen and Cermik (2002) was used in order to survey the v…
The devolution of decision-making powers from central level to the school level is currently an international trend in education reform. Together with certain structural reforms regarding shared decision-making, the South African government has also initiated programmes of curriculum reform and a general drive to improve the culture of teaching and learning in schools. This article describes th…