The globally expanding community of educators involved in the teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) is being pushed to adapt to diverse educational contexts, engendering tension and dislocation.
Children who experience emotional distress during and after disaster emerge with fears of separation from their family, worry about the loss of educational opportunities, experience unfamiliar tensions and pressures within the household, endure a lack of emotional support at the family level, and become burdened with increased workloads.
Admissions have become so laden with competition and tension that educational institutions are reviewing the process.
Nevertheless, in individuals' stories, the tension between educational beliefs is noted, for example, between the models of teacher as authoritative source of knowledge (Leng 2005) and of the teacher as facilitator, helping the student to make their own discoveries in learning (Wilson 1996; Honebein 1996).
The evaluation of classroom-based educational interventions is fraught with tensions, the most critical of which is choosing between focusing the inquiry on measuring the effects of treatment or in proximately utilizing the data to improve practice.
"One of the ongoing tensions is balancing the educational goal with the goal of always honoring the memory of the victims," Ms. Bloomfield added.
Instead, the future legislator was interested in how educational policy in the Congo reflected tensions in Belgian political life — between Catholics and secularists, and between the French and Flemish halves of the country.
In that way, that's the way the company's model tries to resolve some of the underlying and inherent tensions in the American educational system between autonomy and accountability.
She was charged with working with university administrators and the faculty of arts and sciences to more clearly define the role of Columbia College within the university after years of tensions over its financial and educational autonomy.
While the argument can be made for improving the design through better task-technology alignment, this study also highlights inherent tensions between Web 2.0 and educational practices.
