In spite of the fact that historical issues are challenges of political education, Japanese educational studies have not been able to properly deal with them. One of the reasons is that Japanese educational researchers have accepted without question the presence of nationalistic understanding of history as the most important cause of the difficulties in East Asia, while supporting textbook lawsuits over the last few decades. On this point, it is unreasonable to compare Japan with Germany which...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Research, Asian Culture, Foreign Countries, Intellectual History,...
In this article, the author revisits the interlinked conceptualizations of globe, of an unconscious, and of the child, which subtly shape repetitively appearing issues that educational research now entails, confronts, and works through. By looking exclusively at institutional structures, educational policy, or classroom-based interactions, the author examines strategies of world-forming, their critique, fracturation, and seepage as a site of the politics of education. In the first section, she...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Research, Politics of Education, Educational Policy, Educational...
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a fast pace and affecting academia and professional practice in many ways. Paradigms such as just-in-time learning, constructivism, student-centered...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to...
The "ISSS Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. (Individual papers contain references.) [For the 2009 proceedings, see ED504973.]
Topics: ERIC Archive, Social Studies, Proverbs, Social Justice, Global Approach, Photography, Visual Aids,...
There has been a worldwide growth of interest among governments and international agencies in cross-national studies of the quality of education. However, such studies require careful planning, and have far-reaching implications for all concerned. Ministries of education should only become involved if they are prepared to actively engage in designing the studies and managing the impact of the research. In 2004, UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) and Germany's...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Educational Planning,...
Project aims were to learn what college freshmen knew of the late 19th and 20th century presidents and to determine the students' writing level. During the first class of each of five semesters, students enrolled in an American History Since 1865 course were asked to write one paragraph about any president in the time period 1865-1981. Due to time constraints, the report contains summaries of student evaluations of four presidents only: Richard M. Nixon (the most written about president in the...
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A description of a joint class simulation in trade policy undertaken by an international economics class and a political science class at Davidson College (Pennsylvania) is presented in three sections. Section I describes the structure of the simulation. Students were divided into groups of United States auto manufacturers, the United Auto Workers, foreign auto manufacturers, foreign governments, U.S. suppliers, U.S. car dealers, consumers, and politicians. The issue of whether American...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economics, Economics Education, Educational Research, Foreign Policy, Higher...
During the 1985-86 academic year, 340 freshmen and seniors at The Ohio State University (OSU) participated in the OSU Global Awareness Survey. The students were self-selected from a randomized sample of all freshmen and seniors at the University. The survey instrument was a modified version of the "Measures of Global Understanding" survey designed by the Educational Testing Service for a national survey in 1980. This report describes and analyzes OSU students knowledge about the world...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Foreign Culture, Foreign Policy, Global...