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Higher education has created global citizens who wish to move seamlessly through learning in ways that transcend cultural and political boundaries. In North America, many issues in policy development and institutional administration prevent students from full participation. Transfer procedures as stated in course calendars vary widely. As the higher education market is increasingly driven by student...
These words of home-spun wisdom from an Aboriginal Australian woman capture the profound change that education has the potential to bring about in the lives of individuals and communities. People aspire to a better quality of life, to move beyond where they are today and leave behind situations which dehumanize them. Disadvantage, in a myriad of forms, often highly correlates with lack of education,...
This paper opens with a critique of the majoritarian, post-Enlightenment, scientific worldview, the assumptions it makes about human cosmologies and lifestyles and how, in turn, these assumptions influence the nature of educational systems. The critique focuses on how the experiences of minority cultures, particularly those cultures that are nomadic or pastoralist, challenge some of the fundamental...
Contemporary research in the field of teacher effectiveness has been developed in the frameworks of two distinct models: the process-product” model and the “teacher knowledge and beliefs” model (Campbell et al. 2003; 2004). The main assumption underlying the process–product model is that effective teaching behaviour can be accurately described and prescribed. Consequently, these models focus on observable...
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