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Ramona Coleman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This exploratory study, in which the participants portrayed a critical role, aimed to discover the perceptions of professional development in changing educator practice at the secondary level with middle school teachers in an urban school district. The data collection process included semi-structured interviews with nine secondary teachers via…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Urban Schools
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Goldhawk, Andy; Waller, Richard – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2023
This article discusses the findings of research into further education (FE) lecturers' and middle managers' perceptions of what constitutes effective professional development. This focus addresses an area of paucity in the literature that requires attention in this historically under-funded, yet evermore burdened, education sector which can ill…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Middle Management, Teacher Attitudes
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Stanley Richards; Nancy Zuckerbrod; Kristin De Vivo, Contributor; Kate Felsen, Contributor; Courtney Paulger, Contributor; Denis Udall, Contributor – Lucas Education Research, George Lucas Educational Foundation, 2021
This paper provides an overview of the research landscape for the kind of professional learning needed for project-based learning to succeed. The evidence is clear that such professional learning must ensure teachers are active, self-directed learners who receive support that is meaningful and relevant to their experiences and context. The authors…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Advanced Placement Programs, Inquiry
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Yarbrough, Jillian Ruth – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2018
With innovations in technology, adult educators can begin to create learning opportunities in very expansive terms. But, innovative, technologically advanced learning environments still benefit from a solid foundation in adult learning theory, instrumental theories like John B. Watson's Behaviorism, Lev Vygotsky's Social Development Theory, Jack…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learning Theories, Andragogy, Adult Education
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O'Hara Tompkins, Nancy; Weikle, Mary Foltz; Keath, Adam; Northrup, Karen; Childers, Susan; Grant, Josh; Sirk, Hannah; Wittberg, Richard – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2019
Classroom-based physical activity (CBPA) is an emerging strategy for increasing youth physical activity, as well as improving academic achievement and on-task behavior. This paper describes the rationale, development, implementation, and evaluation of a professional development training designed for classroom and physical education teachers to…
Descriptors: Barriers, Faculty Development, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Kim, Minkee; Lavonen, Jari; Juuti, Kalle; Holbrook, Jack; Rannikmae, Miia – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2013
In inquiry-based science education, there have been gradual shifts in research interests: the nature of scientific method, the debates on the effects of inquiry learning, and, recently, inquiry teaching. However, many in-service programs for inquiry teaching have reported inconsistent results due to the static view of classroom inquiries and due…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Active Learning, Science Instruction
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Furman, Nate; Sibthorp, Jim – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2013
Experiential learning techniques can be helpful in fostering learning transfer. Techniques such as project-based learning, reflective learning, and cooperative learning provide authentic platforms for developing rich learning experiences. In contrast to more didactic forms of instruction, experiential learning techniques foster a depth of learning…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Adult Education, Adult Students, Experiential Learning
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Kazempour, Mahsa; Amirshokoohi, Aidin – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2014
The literature on professional development is replete with studies that utilize survey, interview, and classroom observation data, primarily collected post professional development experience, to explore teachers' knowledge, beliefs, and actions; however, we lack a clear understanding of teachers' learning process and reflections during the…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Inquiry, Active Learning, Science Instruction
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Coryell, Joellen E. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2013
Intentionally designing international perspectives into adult educator preparation programs is a step toward developing instructors' social and instructional cache of understandings about learning, knowledge, and facilitative methodologies that transcend their own Western cultural influences. In a class offered through an MA in adult learning and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, Transformative Learning, Multicultural Education
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McLeod, Naomi – Professional Development in Education, 2015
This paper explores whether teachers' habits and assumptions about their practice can be enhanced by continued professional development through nurturing self-awareness of lived experiences. Within the paper a practical understanding of critical reflection as a process is explored and particular attention is given to Moon's assertion that one…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Participation, Young Children, Reflection
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Bektas, Fatih – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
This study aimed to explore learning styles of the professional mountaineers. The research was carried out according to the survey model. The research group composed of 61 professional mountaineers (n[subscript (men)] = 45, n[subscript (women)] = 16) who attended Advanced Snow Ice Education Camp in Rize on September 1-7, 2012, the last camp of…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Athletes
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Busch, Carsten; Conrad, Florian; Steinicke, Martin – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2013
Joseph Campbell's Monomyth not only provides a well-proven pattern for successful storytelling, it may also help to guide teams and team leaders through the challenges of change and innovation processes. In project "HELD: Innovationsdramaturgie nach dem Heldenprinzip" researchers of the University of the Arts Berlin and the Berlin…
Descriptors: Video Games, Educational Games, Creative Activities, Systems Approach
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Koutrouba, Konstantina; Karageorgou, Elissavet – Improving Schools, 2013
The present questionnaire-based study was conducted in 2010 in order to examine 677 Greek Second Chance School (SCS) students' perceptions about the cognitive and socio-affective outcomes of project-based learning. Data elaboration, statistical and factor analysis showed that the participants found that project-based learning offered a second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Student Projects, Questionnaires
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Roberts, Cynthia; Coghlan, David – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2011
Drawing on their experience in a Midwest healthcare system, the authors propose a model of leadership development through action learning that embraces "concentric collaboration" at its core. The present study suggests that the process of concentric collaboration can serve to strengthen the skills of the individual leader as well as…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Experiential Learning, Cooperation, Organizational Change
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Poell, Rob F.; Yorks, Lyle; Marsick, Victoria J. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2009
The authors describe research aimed at developing a more comprehensive framework for project-based learning in work contexts. This grows out of a cross-cultural reanalysis of data from two previous studies using two different frameworks: actor-centered learning network theory and a critical pragmatist lens on action reflection learning. Findings…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Work Environment, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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