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Becoming an Agricultural Advisor -- the Rationale, the Plan and the Implementation of a Model of Reflective Practice in Extension Higher Education
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Gorman, Monica – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2019
Purpose: This paper argues the rationale for a model of reflective practice in the formation of young agricultural advisors and to use this model to inform a wider discussion on the importance of the different levels of reflection in agricultural extension higher education. Design/methodology/approach: The paper presents a model of four reflective…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Higher Education, Agricultural Education, Faculty Development
Action Learning in Postgraduate Executive Management Education: An Account of Practice
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Ruane, Meadbh – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2016
The merits of action learning as a change tool and enabler of deep learning are well recognised. However, there is a gap in the literature of participants' stories regarding their experiences on accredited postgraduate executive programmes underpinned by an action learning philosophy. The following account of practice addresses this gap and…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Management Development, Graduate Study, Graduate Students
R-NEST: Design-Based Research for Technology-Enhanced Reflective Practice in Initial Teacher Education
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Thompson Long, Bonnie; Hall, Tony – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
This paper reports research into developing digital storytelling (DST) to enhance reflection within a specific professional learning context--that of a programme of teacher education--while concomitantly producing a transferrable design framework for adaption into other, similar post-secondary educational contexts. There has been limited…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teachers, Intervention
The Role of the PBL Tutor within Blended Academic Development
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Donnelly, Roisin – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2013
The central idea of this study is using blended problem-based learning (PBL) in an academic development context with key roles emphasised: academic staff in the role of students and the academic developer as the tutor. The context is a module entitled "Designing e-Learning" on a postgraduate programme for academic staff in Ireland. It is…
Descriptors: Tutors, Problem Based Learning, Electronic Learning, Instructional Design
Travels around Identity: Transforming Cultures of Learned Colonisation
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McNiff, Jean – Educational Action Research, 2012
This paper is about: developing critical understandings about the nature and origins of one's personal and professional identity; learning how to transform uncritically internalised and potentially damaging conceptualisations of identity and identity formation; saying why it is important to do so; and considering what kinds of texts can show the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Practices, Social Change, Educational Change
Research-Teaching Linkages: Practice and Policy. Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the National Academy for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (3rd, Dublin, Ireland, November 11-12, 2009)
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Murphy, Jennifer, Ed.; Griffin, Carrie, Ed.; Higgs, Bettie, Ed. – National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NJ1), 2010
The third annual conference of the National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NAIRTL) was held at Trinity College Dublin on 11-12 November 2009, and was attended by over 300 delegates. The theme--"Research-Teaching Linkages: Practice and Policy"--was timely and generated some fascinating papers, workshops and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Health Promotion, Evidence, Program Effectiveness