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Jennifer Dobbs-Oates – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
This article describes the circumstances, process, and decisions which led to Purdue University's definition of experiential education. The motivation for creating the definition came from a realization that though experiential education was a common practice at the university, it was not visible to nor well understood by university…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Definitions, Intention, Learning Experience
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Valentina Nachtigall; David Williamson Shaffer; Nikol Rummel – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
A highly authentic learning setting is likely to trigger positive motivational and emotional reactions due to its emphasis on promoting the acquisition of knowledge that is connected and transferable to real-world phenomena outside the learning environment. However, a high level of authenticity is usually accompanied by a high level of complexity…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Difficulty Level, Teaching Methods, Educational Theories
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Elizabeth A. Jach; Teniell L. Trolian; Benjamin S. Selznick – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
The authors posit that sustained, broad adoption of applied learning is essential to the continued viability of higher education. They define applied learning, delineate research-proven benefits, and illustrate applied learning in practice. In addition, they consider facets to catalyze movement toward leveraging applied learning: leadership for…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Definitions, Educational Practices
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Becky Mathers; Joseph Johnson; Alan Kaufmann; Nicholas Sinni; Eli Louis; Eva Henneman – Turkish Journal of Education, 2024
This study explores the experiences of STEM teachers who participated in professional development (PD) workshops focused on supporting the use of a socioscientific issues (SSI)/socioTransformative constructivism (sTc) framework as an avenue to incorporate SSI into lessons and empower students to become agents of change outside the classroom. The…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science and Society, Learner Engagement, Personal Autonomy
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Jennifer Darling-Aduana; Laura K. Rogers; David S. Woo – American Journal of Education, 2025
Purpose: Despite the expansion of virtual learning during COVID-19, many questions remain unexplored on how to provide quality online instruction outside of a crisis-schooling model. Research Methods: The study takes place within a virtual school affiliated with the largest online curriculum provider in the United States. Using observations of…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Educational Practices, Electronic Learning, COVID-19
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Kahne, Joseph; Cortés, Carlos E. – Social Education, 2023
The authors feel there is a need of a new and different kind of classroom conversation about free speech--one that not only considers the legal and aspirational dimensions but also weighs the practice and impact of speech in daily life. Two factors make this new conversation particularly urgent. First, the avalanche of social media communication,…
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Authentic Learning, Democracy
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Katrien Van Poeck; Malena Lidar; Eva Lundqvist; Leif Östman – Environmental Education Research, 2025
In the face of the global sustainability crisis, schools and teachers are called on to transform education and implement educational innovations to strengthen sustainability education. One of these innovations is 'open schooling': educational practices that involve students in identifying, exploring, and tackling real-world sustainability problems…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Teaching Methods, Sustainability, Open Education
Calhoon-Dillahunt, Carolyn; Coppola, Shawna; Warrington, Amber; Yagelski, Robert P. – National Council of Teachers of English, 2022
How writing is conceptualized has consequences, especially in educational settings. Yet, despite decades of research and scholarship on writing, writing instruction, and writing assessment, misperceptions about writing and its purpose in schools persist. This position statement is directed primarily toward an external audience of school…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Educational Policy, School Administration, Writing Attitudes
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Stephen Secules – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2023
This paper examines specific problems of educational practice that I, an undergraduate engineering educator and education researcher, have encountered in creating an interdisciplinary engineering project course. I reveal my process of theorising about problems of practice to position engineering educators' pedagogical theorising as worthy of…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Undergraduate Study, Interdisciplinary Approach, Problems
Ryan Louis Riley – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Implementing ambitious teaching practices is a student-led teaching style that emphasizes being student-centered instead of a teacher-centered teaching approach. This qualitative descriptive study looks at how special education teachers describe their use of authentic activities, social context, and classroom culture in the implementation of…
Descriptors: Special Education, Special Education Teachers, Program Implementation, Teaching Methods
Jessie Webb – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In 2013, a new set of science standards was introduced for K-12 science education, called the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), which focused on three dimensions of science learning that work together: disciplinary core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and science and engineering practices. These standards are novel in their emphasis on…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Engineering Education
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Samantha Bothe – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
Little is known about how preservice teachers learn the technological pedagogy and digital skills expected for graduate teaching. This article examines how digital technologies are incorporated into Initial Teacher Education in Victoria, Australia, specifically the Bachelor of Education, and identifies development opportunities for Technological…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Digital Literacy, Technological Literacy
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Britte Haugan Cheng; Tiffany Lee Clark; Carrie D. Allen; Antero Godina Garcia; Déana Scipio; Kristin De Vivo, Contributor – Lucas Education Research, George Lucas Educational Foundation, 2023
This paper provides a background on recent research related to learning and instruction, focusing on two mechanisms essential to deeper learning: (1) inclusion of authentic learning contexts and (2) valuing student voice as part of instruction. The authors point to ways that culturally responsive and related pedagogies leverage these same two…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Student Projects, Active Learning, Student Centered Learning
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Melissa Rae Goodnight, Editor; Rodney Hopson, Editor – Studies in Educational Ethnography, 2024
"Theories Bridging Ethnography and Evaluation" is the first of two volumes examining the connections between ethnography and evaluation in educational spaces. These volumes wrestle with pressing justice issues in today's societies while elucidating three themes--transformative, intersectional, and comparative--for guiding contemporary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Educational Practices, Social Justice
Deborah Baker – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This descriptive correlational case study sought to identify professional development recommendations for full-time community college faculty teaching within a guided pathways environment. Community college faculty across an urban, multi-college district in the southwestern United States were surveyed about their current learner-centered teaching…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Guided Pathways, Faculty Development
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