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Alfdaniels Mabingo – Journal of Dance Education, 2025
How do dancers, drummers, and singers cultivate connections, collaborations, and co-becoming through dance-making and staging African dances in higher education? This critical question provoked inquiry into processes and experiences of creating and staging African dances in higher education contexts. Taking the philosophy of Ubuntu and the…
Descriptors: African Culture, Dance Education, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Teaching Methods
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Bevins, Stuart, Ed.; Lehane, Louise, Ed.; Booth, Josephine, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
The core practice of professional scientists is inquiry, often referred to as research. If educators are to prepare students for a role in the professional scientific and technological community, exposing them to inquiry-based learning is essential. Despite this, inquiry-based teaching and learning (IBTL) remains relatively rare, possibly due to…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Education, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences
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Hsu, Funie – CATESOL Journal, 2017
The colonial legacy of English instruction has become especially relevant within the field of TESOL. While it is promising that increasing attention is being paid to the issue of colonialism and its historical and contemporary impact on the teaching of English, educators might be left without a clear sense of how to traverse the precarious path of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Policy, Second Language Instruction
Gershon,, Walter S., Ed.; Appelbaum, Peter M., Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2019
Originally published as a special issue of Educational Studies, this volume demonstrates the ways in which sound considerations can significantly contribute to educational foundations. Regardless of their origin or interpretation, sounds are theoretically and practically foundational to educational experiences. As the means through which…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Educational Experience, Foundations of Education, Educational Policy
Nero, Shondel; Ahmad, Dohra – Routledge Research in Education, 2014
This book draws on applied linguistics and literary studies to offer concrete means of engaging with vernacular language and literature in secondary and college classrooms. The authors embrace a language-as-resource orientation, countering the popular narrative of vernaculars as problems in schools. The book is divided into two parts, with the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Applied Linguistics, Case Studies, Higher Education
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Maureen Tam – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2014
Purpose: This paper was written for practitioners in higher education, including academics and instructional designers who are engaged in curriculum revision. It aims to examine the notion of outcomes-based education, survey the literature and provide a critical review of the outcomes-based approach to quality assessment and curriculum improvement…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Educational Quality, Higher Education, Curriculum Development
Smith, Earl Bradford – Multicultural Education, 2009
With the increase in ethnic diversity in the United States, many educators have recognized the need to expand their knowledge of multicultural education in the public schools. The success or failure of multicultural education depends upon the effective preparation of teachers and administrators. These teachers must be competent in the courses they…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness
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Smith, Barbara Leigh; MacGregor, Jean – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2009
Purpose: In the USA, as elsewhere, there is an ongoing need to improve quality in higher education. Quality improvement models from business have not been widely embraced, and many other approaches to accountability seem to induce minimal compliance. This paper aims to contend that learning communities represent a viable alternative in the quest…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Educational Improvement
Hausman, Jerome J. – 1991
A literature review of material from 1965 to the present that influenced the art education field, including publications outside of art education, is identified. "The Process of Education" by Jerome Bruner (1965) is discussed initially. An analysis of how the Pennsylvania State Seminar (1965) called for art educators to make an effort to…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Teachers, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Splitter, Laurance J.; Sharp, Ann M. – 1995
This book presents a philosophical perspective to elementary and secondary teaching based on the idea of the classroom as a community of inquiry and the idea of "Philosophy for Children." Together these provide a methodology and a content for teaching and improvement of thinking. Thinking is conceived as an enterprise which is both affective and…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Philosophy
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Lally, Jim – Teaching Sociology, 1981
Presents a strategy for simplifying the problem of how to approach important questions in the philosophy of science as they apply to sociology. Specifically, the article outlines an axial model for studying and teaching about relationships among various epistemological positions in contemporary sociology. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Models, Philosophy
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Furedy, John J.; And Others – Teaching of Psychology, 1981
Emphasizes that the philosophy of psychology (which deals with issues such as the role of theories and the conflict between mechanistic and purposivistic explanations of behavior) is too often emphasized in college-level psychology courses. Presents rationale and suggests methods for teaching such a course. (DB)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Philosophy
Najimy, Norman C. – Teacher, 1980
Described is a grammar program, "The Drama of Grammar," which engages students in exploring language through active participation in numerous activities. It is based on the recognition that children already know and use the language system, and builds on that knowledge. (KC)
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Elementary Education, Grammar, Learning Activities
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Hawkins, David – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1985
Some questions about the relevance of the philosophy of mathematics to mathematics teaching and to early mathematics learning are discussed. Books by Lakatos, Davis and Hersh, and Kitcher are referred to extensively, with comments on a variety of instructional practices. (MNS)
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Manipulative Materials, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction
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Schmid, Will – Music Educators Journal, 1979
The author explores some of the possibilities and problems involved in teaching musical composition, describes three approaches to songwriting, and offers suggestions for ways teachers can reinforce efforts of student songwriters. (KC)
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Musical Composition, Positive Reinforcement
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