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Melanie Kinskey; Dana Zeidler – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Socioscientific issues (SSI) have been found to improve scientific literacy skills among K-12 students. Existing literature shows, however, that elementary preservice teachers are reluctant to implement SSI due to a lack of confidence with subject matter knowledge and knowledge of instruction concerning SSI. Previous research has focused on…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Communities of Practice, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Logan Rutten; Danielle Butville; Boaz Dvir – Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
Although teachers make frequent decisions about whether and how to address difficult topics, they typically do so with minimal support. This article reports a case study of an inquiry community of 20 educators who engaged in practitioner inquiry as professional learning for addressing the difficult topics that they teach within their curricula or…
Descriptors: Political Issues, School Districts, Communities of Practice, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Whitney McIntyre Miller; Lisa Hilt; Rabab Atwi; Nick Irwin – Journal of Peace Education, 2024
In 2020, Euphrates Institute piloted the Peace Practice Alliance (PPA), a virtual six-month program that brings together an international cohort of peacebuilders to learn peace leadership theories and develop related skills and practices. The program framework is based on integral peace leadership, which focuses on four interrelated areas of…
Descriptors: Peace, Teaching Methods, Leadership Training, Communities of Practice
Wangda Zhu; Ying Hua – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
During the COVID-19 quarantine, we conducted a field-setting pre/post-test randomized experiment (n = 115), creating a community using the social media application Instagram to enhance students' interactions with their peers and immediate physical environments in a large, introductory online course in environmental psychology. We used the…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Social Networks, Social Media, Cooperative Learning
Elise DeCamp – Environmental Education Research, 2024
This paper begins with a broader discussion of the current efforts to address the gap in integrating the topic of climate change across university curricula. This context informs the study's primary objective of evaluating the efficacy of a two-phase faculty learning community (FLC) and student climate literacy assessment model, designed and…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Climate, Program Effectiveness, Communities of Practice
Rebecca Buchanan; Liliana Herakova; Leah Hakkola; Mollie Ruben – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Research on communities of practice (CoP) focused on teaching have shown that they are valuable venues for collaborative sensemaking for practitioners. This article reports on a study examining how members of an equity focused CoP at a predominantly white institution in the United States co-constructed meaning around issues of equity through…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Equal Education, Social Justice, Predominantly White Institutions
Joseph Kahne; John Rogers – Social Education, 2024
A diverse democracy brings together people whose differences include partisan leanings, life experiences, histories, religious beliefs, racial identities, and sexual orientations to address common problems and build a shared future. Social studies educators can help prepare youth to pursue this goal by advancing core commitments to respectful and…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Democracy, School Role, Communities of Practice
Wenyangzi Shi; Zohreh Shahbazi – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the rapid transition to online quantitative education, leading to unique challenges and opportunities in assessments for both students and instructors. Focusing on undergraduate students and teaching staff at a Canadian university, this study investigates and compares their experiences and perspectives regarding…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Online Courses, COVID-19, Pandemics
Kanitta Lungkapin – THAITESOL Journal, 2024
During COVID-19, online education was utilized globally to bridge geographical and temporal gaps; however, this posed new challenges. In this context, instructors continued to play a crucial role in shaping students' educational experiences and promoting student achievement. Consequently, addressing the issues that can help students adapt to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, COVID-19, Pandemics
Jeremy Stoddard; Jais Brohinsky; Jason A. Chen; Derek Behnke; M. Shane Tutwiler; Janice Robbins – Grantee Submission, 2025
This paper explores how PurpleState, a political simulation designed to foster skills and knowledge for informed civic participation, develops students' abilities to counter or resist the effects of political polarization and partisanship. Throughout the simulation, which has been implemented in Virginia and Wisconsin, students are asked to…
Descriptors: Simulation, Political Attitudes, Political Science, Teaching Methods
Katy E. Chapman, Editor; David E. Beard, Editor – Online Submission, 2025
As a discipline, international education focuses on developing an international consciousness. There are moral and ethical, as well as pragmatic, consequences of the development of an international consciousness: In terms of ethics and morality, international education inculcates positive attitudes towards international understanding and global…
Descriptors: International Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Professional Associations, Decision Making