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Turning Marketing Classrooms and a Student Organization into an Engine of Economic Empowerment
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Raska, David; Weisenbach Keller, Eileen – Marketing Education Review, 2021
To assist marketing students during their college experience we developed, over the course of 10 years, an innovative approach to teaching that connects classroom education, career finding, and job-skill development. We linked two required courses, one student organization, and many companies together to create the Underground Agency. The Agency…
Descriptors: Marketing, Teaching Methods, Career Choice, Job Skills
Enterprise Placements: Factors Which Support Learning and Prolonged Attainment in Students
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Gazdula, Joe; Atkin, Chris – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2017
This article investigates the learning and academic attainment of undergraduate education students on enterprise placement projects in a longitudinal mixed-methods study. By observing the placement learning and analysing previous and subsequent attainment of a second- and third-year group it adds to the ontology of purpose for enterprise in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Longitudinal Studies, Mixed Methods Research, Praxis
Four Cases of a Sociocultural Approach to Mobile Learning in "La Clase Mágica," an Afterschool Technology Club
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Prieto, Linda; Arreguín-Anderson, María G.; Yuen, Timothy T.; Ek, Lucila D.; Sánchez, Patricia; Machado-Casas, Margarita; García, Adriana – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
This paper presents four projects in which mobile devices are used to support authentic learning in an afterschool technology club, "La Clase Mágica" (LCM@UTSA), designed to motivate underrepresented elementary school children in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The implementation of mobile devices into our LCM@UTSA is…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Teaching Methods
The Extent of the Contribution of the Educational Environment of Najran University in Developing Creative and Innovative Enterprises among the University Students
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Nimer, Ameen Mohammad – Journal of Educational Issues, 2016
This study aims at identifying the reality of stimulating educational environment for creativity at the Najran University (NU), and the importance of the availability of certain influencing factors, which in turn contribute to the provision of innovative and creative projects. Reviewing the literature and related studies, the importance of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Environment, Creativity, Innovation
Science Notes: The Clubbers' Guide--School Biology Clubs
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Howarth, Sue – School Science Review, 2014
The STEM team at the University of Worcester support STEM activities in schools in Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Part of this help includes suggesting activities for STEM clubs. As the biologist on the team author, Sue Howarth was asked by teachers for ideas to use in biology clubs. This article was prompted by feedback that these ideas might…
Descriptors: Clubs, STEM Education, Biology, Learning Activities
Entering the Arena: The Figured Worlds Transition of Preservice Teachers
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Saunders, Jane M.; Ash, Gwynne Ellen – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2013
The article describes a semester-long project that draws on Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games" as a resource and over-arching theme for preservice teachers taking a content area literacy course. We examine how preservice teachers learn to connect written texts to content area (disciplinary) literacy and consider ways to prepare them for…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Student Projects, Adolescent Literature