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The Impact of an Integrative STEM Educational Approach on Wonder within a Catholic School
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Carrie Kavanaugh Brun – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This action research study explored the challenge of evoking wonder among fourth graders within one Catholic School, using an integrative STEM educational approach. Cognitive constructivism, social constructivism, and situated learning theory guided this qualitative case study. Twenty-one students learned about the Fibonacci sequence and Golden…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Catholic Schools, Psychological Patterns, Learner Engagement
Cross-Cultural Mindfulness: Examining the Processes and Outcomes of a Multidisciplinary Study Abroad Experience
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Tammy Gilligan; Michele Kielty – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2025
Mindfulness has become a popular topic of intellectual and experiential study in multiple disciplines, including healthcare, business, education, and various human service professions. We designed a study abroad experience where undergraduate and graduate students from various human service disciplines engaged in academic study, personal…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Metacognition, Study Abroad, Interdisciplinary Approach
Broadening Constructionism through Visual Modelling: My Self as Subject and Object
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Clayson, James E. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
In this personal essay, I explain how my use of visual modelling has the capacity to broaden constructionism in five important ways. (1) It introduces new techniques for students to describe and document, in a personal way, what they are actually doing in modelling. (2) It introduces the big ideas of mathematical modelling and computational…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Visual Aids, Mathematical Models
Nature as Mentor: Catalyzing First-Year Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Transition through a Biomimicry First-Year Seminar
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Bidwell, Deborah; Smirnoff, Dimitri – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2022
University students crave immersive, collaborative, interdisciplinary, applied learning contextualized to real world sustainability challenges. Liberal arts and sciences institutions are particularly well positioned to respond. Here we report on our high impact, cross-disciplinary, biomimicry-themed firstyear experience (FYE) curricula. Biomimicry…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, First Year Seminars, Liberal Arts, Interdisciplinary Approach
From Isolation to Collaboration: Creating an Intentional Community of Practice within the Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Writing Process
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Ciampa, Katia; Wolfe, Zora M. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
The purpose of this retrospective case study was to examine the implementation of peer-review practices in a doctoral dissertation proposal course. Twenty-eight doctoral candidates' perceptions of peer feedback on the dissertation writing process and themselves as academic writers were explored through our anecdotal notes from class discussions,…
Descriptors: Proposal Writing, Writing Processes, Misconceptions, Interdisciplinary Approach
The Counselling Self-Efficacy Scale for Teachers: Action Research
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Seema, Riin – Educational Action Research, 2021
The action research describes the process of how the Counselling Self-Efficacy Scale for Teachers (CS-EST) was developed and explores its suitability as a teaching and learning tool using a pilot study of 178 students at Tallinn University, Estonia. The study integrated action research, interdisciplinary project-based learning, scale development…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Action Research, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries