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The Impact Of Curriculum-Based External Examinations On School Priorities And Student Learning, John H. Bishop
The Impact Of Curriculum-Based External Examinations On School Priorities And Student Learning, John H. Bishop
John H Bishop
[Excerpt] The first major prediction of the theory is that an increase in the extrinsic rewards for learning will cause student effort and achievement to increase. The primary extrinsic reward for achievement in high school is a higher probability of completing college. Thus the extrinsic rewards for learning in high school depend on the size of the payoff to college and on how contingent college admissions decisions are on achievement in high school. Time series data suggests that changes in college selectivity and payoff may have contributed to the ups and downs of student achievement during the postwar period. The …
Neera Desai (1925-2009): Pioneer Of Women’S Studies In India, Professor Vibhuti Patel
Neera Desai (1925-2009): Pioneer Of Women’S Studies In India, Professor Vibhuti Patel
Professor Vibhuti Patel
The front runner of Women’s Studies in India and the creator of a model women’s studies centre that combined the ethos of women’s studies and women’s movement at the SNDT University, Mumbai, Neera Desai passed away on 25 June, 2009.
Gender Mainstreaming In Social Protection By Vibhuti Patel, Professor Vibhuti Patel
Gender Mainstreaming In Social Protection By Vibhuti Patel, Professor Vibhuti Patel
Professor Vibhuti Patel
Gender mainstreaming has become a buzzword in development discourse in the 21st century. The volume under review is a timely publication in the context of the ever increasing pauperisation and immiserisation of millions of people, especially women and children. Naila Kabeer has performed a daunting task in examining the effect of economic globalisation on gender relations for a large majority of the poor around the world and the affirmative actions taken by the nation states.
National Curriculum Standards: Let’S Think It Over, Christopher Tienken, David Canton
National Curriculum Standards: Let’S Think It Over, Christopher Tienken, David Canton
Christopher Tienken
No abstract provided.
Rethinking Critical Literacy In The New Information Age, Panayota Gounari
Rethinking Critical Literacy In The New Information Age, Panayota Gounari
Panayota Gounari
This article looks at new information and communication technologies (ICTs) as sites of public pedagogy in that they produce particular forms of knowledge and literacies and reproduce representations that are always mediated through specific social relations. Public pedagogy as a process that constitutes a broader category beyond classroom practices, official curricula, and educational canons, extends to all sectors of human life, including virtual spaces. No longer restricted to traditional sites of learning such as educational or religious sites, public pedagogy produces new forms of knowledge and apprenticeship and new narratives for agency and for naming the world. Virtual spaces as …
Conversations In Equity And Social Justice: Constructing Safe Schools For Queer Youth, Donn Short
Conversations In Equity And Social Justice: Constructing Safe Schools For Queer Youth, Donn Short
Donn Short
No abstract provided.
Proud Voices, P. Mannix Mcnamara Dr., E. Devaney, E. O Grady
Proud Voices, P. Mannix Mcnamara Dr., E. Devaney, E. O Grady
Dr. Patricia Mannix McNamara
No abstract provided.
How Do We Teach Sexual Health In The Pacific Classroom?, Cresantia Frances Koya Vaka'uta
How Do We Teach Sexual Health In The Pacific Classroom?, Cresantia Frances Koya Vaka'uta
Cresantia Frances Koya Vaka'uta
Paper developed for Teachers’ Curriculum Skills Workshop on SRHE in Fiji and Tonga 2009 – 2010 “Sensitizing teachers to the teaching of Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Pacific”. This curriculum development workshop aimed at changing mindsets and providing some basic skills in developing cultural appropriate and faith-based activities using (a) Integrated Across-the-curriculum approach; and (b) Expressive Arts.