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Lesley Powell, Editor; Adam Cooper, Editor; Trent Brown, Editor; Simon McGrath, Editor – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2024
This edited volume explores how youth and informal sector workers in the global south are pioneering learning and livelihoods that exist at the intersections of, and beyond, the boundaries of the state, market, and other formal institutions. Underpinned by research undertaken in the global south, this book discusses how we might better theorise,…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Vocational Education, Informal Education, Foreign Countries
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Kendra V. Saunders; Belinda Rudinger – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Emerging adults with autism encounter a series of complex systems with different protections under existing legal frameworks. As this occurs, the responsibility for advocating for their rights and needs transfers from educators and families to students themselves. The demands present in higher education settings increase exponentially as students…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Self Advocacy, Ecology
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Yoh, Taeho – College Student Journal, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate motivational attitudes toward participating in physical activity among international students attending colleges in the United States. Five-hundred twenty-one students participated in this study. The results indicated that the factors of organic development ("keeping good health and physical…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Physical Activities, Quality of Life, Recreation
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Russell-Bowie, Deirdre – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2009
Community engagement has been used for many years to enhance and strengthen teacher education courses, preparing student teachers with real life learning experiences as they work with community groups in mutually beneficial projects. This research examines a community engagement project that involved 13 undergraduate creative arts students who…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Teaching Skills, Creative Thinking, Creativity
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Kidwai, Khusro; Munyofu, Mine; Swain, William J; Ausman, Bradley D.; Lin, Huifen; Dwyer, Francis – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2001
Animation is being used extensively for instructional purposes; however, it has not been found to be effective on measures of higher order learning (concepts, rules, procedures) within the knowledge acquisition and knowledge integration domains. The purpose of this study was to examine the instructional effectiveness of two visual scaffolding…
Descriptors: Animation, Undergraduate Students, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Computer Assisted Instruction
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Christensen, Carol A. – Educational Psychology, 2005
There is a strong relationship between orthographic-motor integration related to handwriting and students' ability to produce creative and well-structured written text. This relationship is thought to be due to the cognitive load which results when attention is required by writers to write letters and words on the page. Lack of automaticity in…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 9, Written Language, Handwriting
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Whittle, Sue R.; Murdoch-Eaton, Deborah – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2005
This study reports on a 4 year project conducted to detect any alteration to students' experience and self-confidence in key skills resulting from the introduction of Curriculum 2000. The project involved 460 first year medical students who left school before the introduction of Curriculum 2000 and 478 who had experienced the new curriculum.…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Medical Students, Information Technology, Foreign Countries