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Bloomfield, Corey; Harreveld, Bobby; Fisher, Rickie – Smart Learning Environments, 2022
The rigid architectures inherent within formal schooling continue to influence young people's disengagement from education. Globally and locally, policy makers have proposed education reform and innovation, politicians have legislated for education change, yet still the problem of disengagement remains. This paper investigates one community's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Architectural Education, Learner Engagement
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Harris, Anne; Ammermann, Mark – Teaching Education, 2016
Traditional ties between "arts" education (that is, discipline-based arts subjects and activities in schools) and an emergent notion of "creativity" in educational discourses and policy documents are loosening, with implications for both. While creativity seems to be on the ascent, the arts may not be as fortunate; creative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Art Education, Educational Policy
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Cannizzo, Fabian – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
This article explores the role that universities play in shaping the relationship between academics and their work. Drawing on Miller and Rose's interpretation of our present era as being characterised by "Advanced Liberal" governance, this article demonstrates how discourses seeking to govern academic labour enrol ideals about the…
Descriptors: College Role, Discourse Analysis, Governance, College Faculty
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Ryan, Juliana – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
A number of Australian universities have established and sponsored interdisciplinary communities of practice (CoPs) to develop teaching and learning. CoPs are popularly defined as groups of people who share a passion for something and, together, learn how to do it better. Without further specification, this definition is of limited use in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Interdisciplinary Approach, Discourse Analysis
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Green, Wendy; Whitsed, Craig – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2013
Academics at the coalface of teaching and learning often feel undersupported, underprepared, and underconfident in "internationalizing the curriculum" (IoC). The formal, structured programs designed by institutions to meet the needs of academics for continuing professional learning (CPL) in our rapidly changing sector fail to engage many…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Professional Continuing Education, Global Approach
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Morin, Olivier; Simonneaux, Laurence; Simonneaux, Jean; Tytler, Russell – Journal of Biological Education, 2013
Scientific expertise and outcomes often give rise to controversy. An educational response that equips students to take part in such discussions is the teaching of socially acute questions (SAQs). With SAQs, the understanding of uncertainty, risk and how knowledge is developed is central. This study explores the way in which students from different…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Thinking Skills, Science and Society, Environmental Education
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Johnston, Robbie – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2007
Research findings from a longitudinal, classroom-based study of Bachelor of Education students in Tasmania suggest that three dominant discourses of schooling are powerful shapers of pre-service teachers' pedagogical decisions in relation to the teaching of SOSE (studies of society and environment). These discourses appear to inform teaching…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Educators, Preservice Teacher Education, Longitudinal Studies
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Gordon, Katherine; Lee, Alison – Literacy & Numeracy Studies, 1998
Discusses outcomes of a research project analyzing the relationship between academic literacy specialists and a subject specialist from a nursing faculty engaged in a collaborative curriculum development project at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. Focuses on how participants in this partnership negotiated a working relationship…
Descriptors: College Students, Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Discourse Analysis
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Stewart, Robyn – Australian Art Education, 1996
Defines a narratological approach to art education research as one that integrates autobiographical writings, interviews, and other voices into the construction of Neonarratives (literally "new stories"). Includes guidelines for conducting this research and a thematic approach to analyzing narrative data. Provides graphs and diagrams of…
Descriptors: Art Education, Biographies, Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis