Cities and the Creative Class Richard Florida∗ Carnegie Mellon University Cities and regions have long captured the imagination of sociologists‚ economists‚ and urbanists. From Alfred Marshall to Robert Park and Jane Jacobs‚ cities have been seen as cauldrons of diversity and difference and as fonts for creativity and innovation. Yet until recently‚ social scientists concerned with regional growth and development have focused mainly on the role of firms in cities‚ and particularly on how
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THE REVISED BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM The Revised Basic Education Curriculum (RBEC) is on its 7th year of implementation this school year 2005-2006 with slight modifications‚ with emphasis to rubrics/student performance as basis of grading system. Teachers are required to prepare their syllabus based on the objectives of the revised Basic Education Curriculum. Lesson plans were also patterned and organized to meet the objectives of the implemented curriculum. All test items; tables of specifications
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A Brief Overview of Progressive Education During most of the twentieth century‚ the term "progressive education" has been used to describe ideas and practices that aim to make schools more effective agencies of a democratic society. Although there are numerous differences of style and emphasis among progressive educators‚ they share the conviction that democracy means active participation by all citizens in social‚ political and economic decisions that will affect their lives. The education of engaged
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Behavioral Curriculum Model Susan McIntosh CE420: Curriculum Development Professor Katherine Berry October 20‚ 2012 Give me a dozen healthy infants‚ well-formed‚ and my own specified world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select -- doctor‚ lawyer‚ artist‚ merchant-chief and‚ yes‚ even beggar-man and thief‚ regardless of his talents‚ penchants‚ tendencies‚ abilities‚ vocations‚ and race of his ancestors.
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3.3- LEARNER-CENTERED APPROACH/CURRICULUM Introduction: • The term learner-centered approach focusing on the student’s learning and what they do to achieve this‚ has widespread usage. • Implementing learner-centered approach involves changes in three areas: 1. Curriculum Design‚ 2. Teaching and Learning Methods and 3. Assessment Practices. Learner-Centered Approach to Curriculum Design • A learner centered approach to curriculum design gives • A Learner-Centered
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Curriculum Changes and Innovations BLUEPRINT This chapter describes how the curriculum for Basic Education evolved from 1973 to 2010. It describes the changes and innovations implemented as necessitated by the changing factors in our country’s political‚ social‚ economic‚ cultural and technological environments. The discussions include an analysis of the processes and outcomes in accordance with the prevailing national development agenda. It also presents some best practices and lessons learned
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theories as derived by Smith‚ Ricardo‚ J.S. Mills‚ Walras‚ Marshall and Clark‚ in order to contrast and analyze Joseph A. Schumpeter’s theory of “creative destruction” that is a key feature of capitalism as we understand it today. The claim that this paper is aiming to raise is that despite the realism of classical competitive theory and Schumpeter’s “creative destruction”‚ they have been replaced by the neoclassical assumptions that competition remains in a stationary state. It is neoclassical thought
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2. The Taba Model Hilda Taba’s model starts with the curriculum and the teacher’s outlook of what should be taught how‚ and then tests it on the students before declaring it effective. Therefore‚ she believed that teachers who teach or implement the curriculum should participate more than the authority in designing and developing curriculum. She used “grass root approach in her model. So she believed that the teachers should first create specific teaching- learning units‚ and a hospitable environment
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Research report: November 2010 Creative clusters and innovation Putting creativity on the map Caroline Chapain‚ Phil Cooke‚ Lisa De Propris‚ Stewart MacNeill and Juan Mateos-Garcia Disclaimer This work contains statistical data from ONS which is Crown copyright and reproduced with the permission of the controller of HMSO and Queen’s Printer for Scotland. The use of the ONS statistical data in this work does not imply the endorsement of the ONS in relation to the interpretation or analysis
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or analytical. A spiral curriculum is the assumption that children are not always ready to learn. Readiness to learn is the core of a spiral curriculum. A spiral curriculum tries to expose students to a wide variety of ideas. A spiral curriculum is not a circular curriculum because it does not stay at the same difficult level as time goes on. In a spiral curriculum if the student does not fully understand the curriculum that day; then the teacher moves on in the curriculum. Education website rubric:
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