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Formal Education

2023
This chapter takes a close look at patterns of covert violence within U.S. schools. There is an unusually large number of middle-aged U.S. teachers (with no previously known serious medical problems) who have suffered sudden health emergencies—including death—in their classrooms, as well as numerous cases of students who have inserted a harmful ...
Erez C. Miller, Efrat Kass
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Formal and Non-Formal Education

2020
Social entrepreneurs convert social problems into opportunities, create businesses, and transform entrepreneurial experience into social changes. Therefore, it is important to understand the formation of social entrepreneurs as creators of social innovations. This chapter tries to understand how the formation of social entrepreneurs occurs. The authors
Lucimar da Silva Itelvino   +1 more
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Non-formal vocational education in Uganda: Practical empowerment through a workable alternative [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Educational Development, 2013
This article reflects on the potential of non-formal vocational education in Uganda to improve the quality of life of those excluded from formal education. Based on an exploration of humanizing development theorists Sen. Freire and Nyerere, together with
George Ladaah Openjuru, Jacques Zeelen
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Rethinking Formalisms in Formal Education

Educational Psychologist, 2012
I explore a belief about learning and teaching that is commonly held in education and society at large that nonetheless is deeply flawed. The belief asserts that mastery of formalisms—specialized representations such as symbolic equations and diagrams with no inherent meaning except that which is established by convention—is prerequisite to applied ...
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Computing and community in formal education

Communications of the ACM, 2020
Culturally responsive computing repurposes computer science education by making it meaningful to not only students, but also to their families and communities.
Michael Lachney, Aman Yadav
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Effects of a Formalized Diabetes Education

Acta Medica Scandinavica, 1983
A previous study of patients attending a diabetic out‐patient clinic indicated that their metabolic control was inadequate and their knowledge of diabetes and diabetes management was generally low. In an attempt to improve the situation, we organized a five‐day education programme comprising formal lessons about diabetes, diet and nutrition. Altogether
S G, Karlander, K, Kindstedt
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