Opening up education: Changing teacher-pupil relations
Article Abstract:
The current format of the schools is described as a static format wherein the teachers speak and the students listen, in a factory like setting. It is believed that a number of social factors are prevailing now which sustains the alternative to the existing form of schooling, and the current style of learning be taken from the educators and be handed over to the learners.
Publication Name: Current
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0011-3131
Year: 2004
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Redesigning schools: Getting small schools
Article Abstract:
The effort to create five smaller schools from one larger one and the challenges included trying to accommodate students who were in advanced classes in the larger school with the less interested students of smaller schools. It is proposed that the challenges came from the newly assigned teachers and from the parents who were happy with the larger schools.
Publication Name: Current
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0011-3131
Year: 2003
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Getting up to speed: U.S. schools have come a long way since connecting to the Internet was their chief technology challenge
Article Abstract:
A review of the role of technology in American schools reveals the successes, possibilities, and challenges that go along with innovation in the field of education.
Publication Name: Current
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0011-3131
Year: 2007
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Step closer to super-union. Women continue to earn less than men
- Abstracts: Beholding angel visions. The empire watchers strike back; the Ministry of Defence is picking historians' brains
- Abstracts: Developing a million-pound drug habitat. Seven up to meet challenge. Athens of the north or just another pretty face?
- Abstracts: United goals are a net gain for the city. Conversion to another code. Can Fianna Fail?; the Irish general election's two horse race
- Abstracts: Dumbing down rife, poll reveals. Red tape has made comrades of us all. The great betrayal or the great hoax?