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Joel Parham – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2024
Between April and December 1915, Maria Montessori and her son, Mario Montessori, spent time in California. Historical accounts of this period have emphasized Montessori's participation in San Francisco's world's fair, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE), and identified this event as the crux of her travels. The following text and…
Descriptors: Photography, Montessori Method, Travel, Tourism
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Ibekwe, Fidelia – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2020
This article reports on an experience where arts-informed pedagogy was combined with the traditional lecture-style teaching in a course on information and communication theories delivered at the Masters level in the School of Journalism and Communication Sciences (EJCAM) at Aix-Marseille University in France. After the course content had been…
Descriptors: Information Theory, Communication (Thought Transfer), Masters Programs, Journalism Education
Hetland, Lois; Winner, Ellen; Veenema, Shirley; Sheridan, Kimberly M. – Teachers College Press, 2013
The first edition of this bestseller was featured in "The New York Times" and "The Boston Globe" for its groundbreaking research on the positive effects of art education on student learning across the curriculum. Capitalizing on observations and conversations with educators who have used the Studio Thinking Framework in diverse…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Art Education, Studio Art, Teaching Methods
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Acar, Erkan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
The purpose of this case study is to analyze a Turkish Student Association's (TSA) extracurricular activities involving interfaith dialog with respect to their contributions to students' academic and social development in a predominantly white, Catholic, liberal arts college located in the Northeastern United States. The study aims to explain how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religion, Religious Cultural Groups, Student Organizations
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Mon, Lorri – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2010
Education within Second Life frequently recapitulates the "sage on the stage" as students sit their avatars down in chairs in the virtual world and listen to or read an instructor's lecture while watching a slideshow. This conceptual article explores alternative active learning techniques supporting independent and collaborative learning…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Simulation, Teaching Methods
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El-Rady, Johnny – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2006
Classes of 100 students or more are not uncommon in higher education. With such large enrollments, it can be difficult for instructors to integrate active learning components to the traditional lecture format typically adopted in such large classes. To help address this problem, Johnny El-Rady discusses his use of an electronic classroom voting…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Active Learning, Exhibits, Biology