The purpose of this study was to examine different aspects in research on Vocational Teacher Education (VTE) through the review of relevant international literature. These aspects included issues that need to be investigated, namely, the effect of national development movements on VTE, the absence of theoretical frameworks of VTE, the relationship with developmental innovations of Vocational Ed…
This article presents the various challenges concerning inclusion issues that regular classrooms teachers encounter on a daily basis. Theoretical ideas are presented. A teacher's actual experience and classroom strategies used are described in detail.
Thirty-three years ago, I visited Professor Harold Dunkel (1965) at the University of Chicago. I was exploring graduate school options and had made an appointment with Dunkel to talk about curriculum studies. He told me to find another field. He agreed with Dwayne Huebner's (1999) then recent assessment that the field of curriculum studies was moribund if not dead. He didn't see a future there.…
The nature of educational change is explored with a view to stressing its importance in the matrix of recent trends. It is argued a) that educational change has as its primary impetus some social, political, economic, or scientific need or dissatisfaction conflicting with the status quo, b) that educational reformers in the 60s and 70s failed to change the public schools because they ignored th…
The purpose of this paper is to establish the necessity to fully and effectively integrate the sub-disciplines of educational foundations, such as psychology and philosophy, in addition to the natural and social sciences, within medical and health-related educational programs. This is particularly pertinent in Catholic and other religiously affiliated institutions of higher education and profes…
In this paper I argue that assessment data can be helpful to teachers for practising effective pedagogy, but it can also inhibit effective teaching when it is used to control their practice. Effective pedagogy is defined as giving each learner the resources they need to progress successfully and confidently through school. The paper first introduces the Reading to Learn professional learning pr…
The purpose of this study was to understand the effectiveness of sexuality education training on the parents in the group regarding their sex knowledge, awareness of sexuality education, attitude towards sexuality education, self-efficacy in sexuality education, communication effectiveness and communication behavior in the hope that they would be able to talk to children about sex issues. Th…
Teacher education programs must develop strategies for ensuring that teacher candidates comprehend the wide range of information literacies, demonstrate skills related to those literacies, and integrate literacies into instructional activities. The school, college, department of education (SCDE) must now address state, regional, and national standards, including NCATE 2000, that specify informa…
With the maximum use of the technology such as geographic information science (GIS), remote sensing (RS), and global positioning systems (GPSs) in geography courses, along with its integrative perspective on the social and life sciences and an emphasis on student-centered education, problem solving, and sustainable and environmental education, geography is undergoing a process of revival and re…