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The Challenges of Collaborative Learning across the Border--Canada and the United States: Divergent Paths/Intertwined Futures
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Parham, Claire Puccia – History Teacher, 2014
For The past two years, Siena College and Loyola International College for Diversity and Sustainability (LCDS), formerly Loyola International College, have jointly taught a comparative Canadian/ U.S. history class. Concordia University, an English language university, has more than 46,000 students and offers 433 undergraduate and graduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, College Instruction, Higher Education
"University and High School Are Just Very Different": Student Perceptions of Their Respective Writing Environments in High School and First-Year University
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Soiferman, Lisa Karen – Online Submission, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate the challenges faced by first-year students as they negotiated the transition from the writing environment of high school to the writing environment of university. The research for the dissertation was undertaken using a mixed-method explanatory design. This yielded a description of students'…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Barriers, Writing (Composition), Mixed Methods Research
Gendered Literacy Experiences: The Effects of Expectation and Opportunity for Boys' and Girls' Learning
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Sanford, Kathy – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2005
The research reported in this article intends to contribute to an understanding of how out-of-school literacies can influence the present and future learning of adolescents. Evidence suggests that students, boys particularly, are becoming literate in many ways through out-of-school activities (e.g., video games, Internet browsing, chatrooms), but…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Video Games, Literacy, Expectation