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Research on globalization and education involves the study of intertwined worldwide discourses, processes, and institutions affecting local educational practices and policies. The four major theoretical perspectives concerning globalization and education are world culture, world systems, postcolonial, and culturalist. Critics of current global trends support educational alternatives that will preserve local languages and cultures, ensure progressive educational practices that will protect the poor against the rich, and protect the environment and human rights.
Published: 2008
Updated: Oct. 27, 2008
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The authors review literature since 1997 of the effect of beginners' teachers conceptions and practice. The review includes the first approach using theoretical assumptions, the second approach analyses effects through teachers' report' and the third approach explores multiple data sources.
Published: 2008
Updated: Oct. 26, 2008
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The article encourages teachers' to strengthen their teaching abilities for diverse students. It describes two teachers from California, and describes their high expectations, their engagement of students by building on what they know and what interests them, the teachers' relation to their families and communities, and those who can envision diverse students as constructive participants in a multicultural democracy.
Published: 2008
Updated: Oct. 26, 2008
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Published: 2008
Updated: Oct. 06, 2008
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The article examines the collective goals, functions and teachers' change in professional representations or repertoire of actions through collective activity. The study relates to a frame work to data collected from new teachers in the induction year in Scottish secondary schools.
Published: 2008
Updated: Sep. 21, 2008
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This case study surveyed and interviewed a group of recently graduated teachers who had worked as teachers during their education. The interest was on their experiences of M.A. thesis research as well as the integration of theory and practice during the education.
Published: 2008
Updated: Sep. 21, 2008
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The article describes a qualitative and quantitative studies regarding practicum in New Zealand. This research interprets data from a beginning teacher survey to examine school-level variation within the semi-structured national guidelines for induction programs. A discussion of survey design and distribution, pedagogical practices reported in New Zealand induction are reviewed. Interesting patterns surfaced regarding mid-year entrants and older beginning teachers in their second year of practicum studies.
Published: 2008
Updated: Sep. 21, 2008
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The educational attainment of pupils influenced by teachers' competence is important in mathematics education. Eighty 80 BA student first year student completed an attitude survey as well an online mathematics competence test. They answered 28 randomly generated questions. Students were then asked to rank teacher attributes. Though 98% of the students ranked basic numeracy skills as the most important, 65% of the cohort did not possess these skills. Moreover 95% suggested confidence was important, but confidence levels were found to be low even among students with higher than minimum entry requirements to the undergraduate primary teaching program.
Published: 2008
Updated: Sep. 21, 2008
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This article reports on research on the deeper understanding that the universities contribute to professional learning of teachers. The claim was made is that the learning that takes place across the boundary of the workplace and university has the possibility of helping learners to resolve issues that the workplace alone does not provide them with the resources to resolve.
Published: 2008
Updated: Sep. 11, 2008
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The subjects of the Finnish research project that sought to describe student teacher's perspectives on research-based approach were part of a special group of students, worked as teachers without being officially qualified to do so before they entered teacher education. The research was carried out as a web-based survey (n = 113). The questionnaire was based on the structure of the curriculum of the teacher education programme, including items from each part of the curriculum. The subjects were asked about both attitudes and experiences. the students appreciate the research-based approach as the main organising theme of teacher education.
Published: 2008
Updated: Sep. 11, 2008