About half of the secondary school teachers in Malawi are professionally unqualified. Furthermore, the net enrolment of eligible pupils in secondary schools is at 36% per year. Hence, this study sought to establish factors affecting access to quality and relevant secondary education in Malawi with reference to coordination, collaboration, and feedback between secondary school teacher education ...

TNTEE Publications Volume 2, Nr 2, December 1999 We are faced with an interesting phenomenon in Germany: Seen from the inside, i.e. with regard to internal organisation, structures and curricula, teacher education has not been a very dynamic sector for decades. In the post-war period the major event was the almost complete universitisation of teacher education through the integration of the Päd...

Gifted education is not provided in many rural schools. Some teacher educators believe that one of the reasons for this is that gifted teachers and gifted teacher training programs are oriented to provide education applicable only to urban and suburban settings. This paper presents the results of a survey of representatives of teacher training institutions offering gifted education programs. Th...

Reform for “Quality Education” has taken place in Mainland China since the issue of “Summary of Reform and Development of Education in China” (1993). Despite the government’s intention to take care of all students, foster all-round development and promote students’ active learning, gaining high grades in examination remains the goal of learning for most students. Among other factors, the qualit...

There is scientific consensus that Mongolia is already facing the negative consequences of climate change. Raising public awareness and increasing education initiatives is one of the most important ways to adapt and mitigate climate change. The present research team reviewed the policies and provisions in support developing climate change education for sustainable development. To strengthen pub...

This article describes a preliminary study investigating whether a specific awareness and training for six teacher–paraprofessional teams would have an effect on the inclusion of six students with mild to severe disabilities in elementary general education environments. An experimental design employing a pretest–posttest control group with matched subjects was used to evaluate the effectiveness...

New technologies can be used to create new educational frameworks for learning that go beyond the standard schooling paradigm. This paper describes research and development efforts to investigate “teleapprenticeships,” interaction frameworks that support learning in the context of remote practice. The studies summarized here have focused on teleapprenticeships embedded in teacher education, exp...

The International Academy of Education (IAE) is a not-for-profit scientific association that promotes educational research, and its dissemination and implementation. Founded in 1986, the Academy is dedicated to strengthening the contributions of research, solving critical educational problems throughout the world, and providing better communication among policy makers, researchers, and practiti...

Agent technology has been suggested by experts to be a promising approach to fully extend Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS). By using intelligent agents in an ITS architecture it is possible to obtain an individual tutoring system adaptive to the needs and characteristics of every student. The general architecture of the ITS proposed is formed by the three components that characterize an ITS –...