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Sumita Srivastava; Hans Kaushik; Shweta Khemani; Jaspreet Kaur – Review of Education, 2025
Entrepreneurial education plays a vital role in equipping students with the skills and mind-set necessary for success in the dynamic business landscape. While existing literature acknowledges the importance of entrepreneurial education, there is a lack of specific guidance on how courses can be designed to effectively cultivate entrepreneurial…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Business Education, Educational Improvement, Systems Approach
Julia E. Palozzi; Nevin J. Harper; Nancy Shackelford – Environmental Education Research, 2025
In this review, approaches to teaching and learning in environmental education were explored at a conceptual level to understand the diversity of pedagogies in the discipline. We applied systems thinking to make conceptual parallels between ecology (physical environment, plant species, traits, plant strategies) and education (environmental…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Teaching Methods, Environmental Education, Learning Processes
Steven J. Holochwost; Dennie Palmer Wolf; Eleanor D. Brown – Arts Education Policy Review, 2025
Access to arts education in the United States continues to be inequitably distributed as a function of socioeconomic status and race. In response, arts practitioners and policymakers have worked to expand access to arts education among children from lower-income households and racially or ethnically minoritized (REM) backgrounds. In so doing, they…
Descriptors: Art Education, Equal Education, Low Income Students, Minority Group Students
Rupcic, Nataša – Learning Organization, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to highlight challenges and opportunities that surround the process of learning with an emphasis on higher-order learning and learning as behavior. Higher-order learning has been conceptualized as learning behavior that can be learned. Design/methodology/approach: The holistic framework regarding higher-order…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Systems Approach, Holistic Approach, Critical Thinking
Lee, Nicolette – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
System models are commonly used in tertiary education as a mechanism for describing the interacting components of educational phenomena, but have hitherto been uncritically accepted. This paper provides a critical review of existing systems models, including the 3P model defined Biggs, and outlines their conceptual challenges. A revised model…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Systems Approach, Models, Curriculum Research
Chan, Benjamin Tak-Yuen – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2009
Adult and continuing education practitioners are the core group of staff that enable the lifelong learning enterprise. However, there are few studies that look into the domain of practice of these practitioners, which is shaped by the organisation and its wider external milieux. Research on this topic naturally calls for the elucidation of…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Continuing Education, Educational Theories, Educational Practices
Sahin, Abdurrahman – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2007
This study reinvestigates the systems approach, which is, among educators, a well-recognized approach reflecting the fundamental discourses of the industrial order. The pervasive discourses of the industrial order that failed to invite a holistic view for students have led to a conceptual division. This systemic thinking has thus started viewing…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Curriculum Evaluation, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching
Sugai, George; Horner, Robert R. – School Psychology Review, 2006
Educators and psychologists are concerned about problem behavior. Fortunately, effective interventions and practices have been documented for addressing this problem behavior. However, sustained and expanded uses of these interventions and practices have not been consistent or widespread. One promising approach to the systemic and sustained…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, School Psychologists, Systems Approach, Teachers

Vander Kolk, Charles J. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1982
The rehabilitation of visually impaired persons can be conceptualized by a human systems approach. This paper explaines seven levels of human systems, related factors, and 10 assumptions that lead to high standards for rehabilitation workers and organizations. The concepts are applied to work with clients and use in rehabilitation agencies.…
Descriptors: Models, Rehabilitation, Systems Approach, Theories
Byrne, Nicole – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2007
Factors identified by 16 participants during in-depth interviews as influencing selection of speech pathology as a career were described using the Systems Theory Framework (STF, Patton & McMahon, 2006). Participants were highly likely to identify factors from the individual and social systems, but not the environmental-societal system, of the STF…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Systems Approach, Cognitive Structures, Speech Language Pathology

Donnellon, Anne; And Others – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1986
Organized action need not depend on group consensus. Karl Weick's theory argues that only minimal shared understanding is needed and that common ends and shared meanings may be outcomes of organized action, not prerequisites. This paper reveals four communication mechanisms that generate and sustain equifinal meaning (multiple routes to a single…
Descriptors: Action Research, Communication Research, Group Behavior, Organizational Communication
Maher, Charles S.; Bennett, Randy E. – Diagnostique, 1983
The paper describes a systems framework for special education program evaluation that promotes adaptation of program evaluation methods, procedures, and techniques to problems and nature of special services delivery. Use of the framework as an organizing device helps provide definition and direction to special education program evaluation.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Evaluation, Special Education

Rhodes, Lewis A. – Educational Leadership, 1985
Discusses insights gained through the production of a videotape entitled "School Improvement Through Staff Development" by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Addresses both the tape's subject matter and methods of communicating that matter. Second article in series; for part I, see EA 518 619 (Educational…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Material Development, Staff Development, Systems Approach
Boutwell, Richard C. – Journal of Instructional Development, 1978
Discusses the adoption of a notation system that is generalizable to all instructional designers and will allow and encourage a common communication base. Ten instructional design models are discussed as systems approaches to instructional design. (JEG)
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Instructional Materials, Models, Scientific Methodology

Kagan, Sharon L.; Neuman, Michelle J. – Educational Leadership, 2003
Basics crucial to the successful functioning of early child-care and education programs are infrastructure and system. Infrastructure refers to the supports of finance, governance, accountability, professional development and training, and quality-assurance mechanisms. Systems make the parts function by eliminating redundancies and maximizing…
Descriptors: Child Care Effects, Early Childhood Education, Partnerships in Education, Systems Approach