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Wickersham, Carol; Westerberg, Charles; Jones, Karen; Cress, Margaret – Teaching Sociology, 2016
This research is an initial investigation into the ways community-based learning increase the cognitive skills central to the exercise of the sociological imagination. In addition to identifying a means to reveal that learning had occurred, we looked for evidence that the students were mastering sociological content, especially the concepts and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Participant Observation, College Faculty, Content Analysis
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Hess, Mary – Religious Education, 2010
One of the author's most vivid and early memories of "learning about religion" comes from when she was in seventh grade, and her math teacher scolded her and her friend for arguing about religion in the back of the room. Both of them were deeply steeped in family religious practice, and new to each other's traditions. That experience was…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Education, Religious Cultural Groups, Cultural Pluralism
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Walter, Pierre – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2012
This paper examines how two sites of adult learning in the food movement create educational alternatives to the dominant U.S. food system. It further examines how these pedagogies challenge racialised, classed and gendered ideologies and practices in their aims, curricular content, and publically documented educational processes. The first case is…
Descriptors: Food, Adult Learning, Ideology, Agricultural Production
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2010
Project CRISS[R] (CReating Independence through Student-owned Strategies) is a professional development program for teachers that aims to improve reading, writing, and learning for 3rd- through 12th-grade students. The implementation of Project CRISS[R] does not require a change in the curriculum or materials being used in the classroom, but…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Reading Fluency, Program Effectiveness
Werner, Kit I. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Relatively few studies have focused on two-year college BSN transfer students and the unique features that predict their educational outcomes. Conducting one-on-one interviews with seven students from one of three University of Wisconsin baccalaureate institutions who had transferred to a four-year institution from either a two-year University of…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Nursing Students, Transfer Students, Student Attitudes
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Chick, Nancy; Karis, Terri; Kernahan, Cyndi – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2009
This interdisciplinary project examined how students think and feel about their learning in race-related diversity courses. Students in four classes (literature, psychology, geography) reflected on cognitive and affective dimensions of their own and their classmates' learning. The Color Blind Racial Attitudes Scales (CoBRAS) confirmed qualitative…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reflection, Cultural Pluralism, Racial Relations
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Games, Ivan Alex – Learning, Media and Technology, 2010
This article presents the results of a three-year study of "Gamestar Mechanic" (www.gamestarmechanic.com), a flash-based multiplayer online role-playing game developed for the MacArthur Foundation's digital media learning initiative by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Gamelab in New York. The game's objective is to help children…
Descriptors: Design, Role Playing, Discourse Analysis, Thinking Skills