Foundations for learner-centered education: a knowledge base. e-jurnal

Learner-centered education has a long history of development. Two of the first educators to put emphasis on the learner were Confucius and Socrates (5th to 4th centuries B.C.). Over two millennia passed before seventeenth century Englishman John Locke introduced experiential education (the idea that one learns through experience). Another two hundred years passed before European educators Pesta…

Vocational teacher education research: issues to address and obstacles to fac…

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…

TEACHER EDUCATION REFORM EFFORT FOR INCLUSION CLASSROOMS: KNOWLEDGE VERSUS PE…

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.

Reconsidering university-based teacher education. e-jurnal

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.…

Virtual reality & immersive technology in education. e-jurnal

Virtual reality, also known as VR, is an exciting but ill-defined field of discovery. The question of how technological advances in this field will impact education is difficult to answer at present with any degree of certainty, but is one that must be considered by educational researchers, teachers, and administrators. This position paper presents the foundational definitions and positions of …

Educational change: a dialectical becoming. e-jurnal

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 integration of select aspects of educational foundations as applied to he…

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…

Pedagogy, assessment and bureaucracy: Roles of data in literacy teaching. e-j…

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…

Teacher training in media education: curriculum and international experiences…

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Vol. 20, Issue 39

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1134-3478

Deskripsi Fisik

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

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TEACHERS, TECHNOLOGY AND TRAINING. e-jurnal

Children in special education too frequently are exposed to second-rate academic programs and inferior curriculums when compared to children in regular education. As a direct consequence, they show poor results on state examinations and are ill-prepared for future academic and workplace success. This article proposes rigorous ELITE Schools (Everyone Learning with Information Technology) as one …