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In this important theoretical treatise, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning-that learning is fundamentally a social process and not solely in the learner's head. The authors…
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In March 1987, the AAHE Bulletin first published Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education. Since the Seven Principles of Good Practice were created in 1987, new communication and information technologies have become major…
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This article proposes a rationale for a transformative approach to education against the backdrop of an analysis of the current political scenario marked by neoliberalism and the effect of this ideology on educational policy and practice. The author…
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The authors argue that design-based research, which blends empir- ical educational research with the theory-driven design of learning environments, is an important methodology for understanding how, when, and why educational innovations work in…
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This study reconsidered school effects on college enrollment by focusing on strategies that schools use to facilitate college transitions. It also examined whether school strategies influence different outcomes for students from different…
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In this study, the authors developed and factor analyzed the Norwegian Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale. They also examined relations among teacher self-efficacy, perceived collective teacher efficacy, external control (teachers' general beliefs about…
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Community organizing is growing in importance as a means of achieving and sustaining urban school reform. The authors identify eight distinct areas in which community organizing groups are connecting community capacity to school improvement.…
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As universities begin to consider sustainability as a core value in education, there is a need to contemplate the role of transformative learning in higher education. Are current models of university education capable of facilitating action to…
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Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple-yet difficult-truth about how we can create actual change in public schools.
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The proliferation of policy think tanks and more broadly the rise of policy networks can be viewed as indicative of important global transformations in the nature of the state. That is, the emergence of new state modalities, with a shift away from…
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The international academic success of Finnish secondary schooling in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the triumph of the Finnish technology company NOKIA have stimulated national ambitions to improve higher education…
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Various explanations for low school achievement of minority students include those of cultural differences between teacher and student and low motivation of students because of cynicism regarding their chances in the labor market. These explanations…
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Students' perspectives on schools and learning, rather than being at odds with those of teachers, are remarkably simliar. But teachers who do not perceive this congruenece too often fail to engage students as co-conspirators in creating optimal…
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Focusing on parental networks-a central dimension of social capital-this article uses ethnographic data to examine social-class differences in the relations between families and schools. We detail the characteristics of networks across different…
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Many innovative approaches to education such as problem-based learning (PBL) and inquiry learning (IL) situate learning in problem-solving or investigations of complex phenomena. Kirschner, Sweller, and Clark (2006) grouped these approaches together…
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A new organizational form is emerging in companies that run on knowledge: the community of practice. And for this A new organizational form is emerging expanding universe of companies, communities of practice promise to radically company changes…
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Educational programs for gifted students face both philosophical and practical challenges from egalitarians. Some object that gifted schools inherently undermine a commitment to equality in education, while others observe that schools for talented…
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