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Annica Gullberg; Kristina Andersson; Jenny Ivarsson; Henni Söderberg – Journal of Technology Education, 2025
Practical activities are at the core of learning in both engineering and science education programs. Hence, such activities are included as important practical learning experiences in each of these fields. During such learning experiences students are confronted by many different entities, from simple equipment to advanced instrumentation, all of…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Learning Activities, Psychological Patterns, Learning Processes
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Jenny Sjöholm; Kristina Trygg – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2025
This article looks at a challenge-based learning (CBL) approach that aims to engage students in sustainable transitions within urban and regional planning. Drawing on CBL, we focus on how living labs -- the idea of using a city as a site for user-driven innovation and development -- can be used as a site and methodology in education and research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Planning, Regional Planning, Metropolitan Areas
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Gelot, Ludwig – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
Scholars have developed original pedagogical approaches to impart the knowledge and skills required for professional life in the area of peace and development. Experience-based learning, simulations, games, and role-plays have been used with positive results. Yet most efforts tend to overly simplify and narrow down the learning experience in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peace, Experiential Learning, Simulation
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Ferreira, Caitlin; Robertson, Jeandri; Reyneke, Mignon; Pitt, Leyland – Marketing Education Review, 2023
Today's students will work in an increasingly diverse environment which requires the ability to understand and connect with consumers from different social groups and cultures. The expectations placed on marketing practitioners to connect with a multiplicity of consumers requires a nuanced understanding of the different lifestyles, lived…
Descriptors: Marketing, Business Administration Education, Diversity, Inclusion
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Claudia Gillberg – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2025
The purpose of this paper is to present an empirical CAL project, HOLD ON, which developed leadership towards social, economic and ecological sustainability. The latter became a target area in the 2018 reform of the Swedish preschool's national curriculum, Lpfo18. A "Whole School Approach" (WSA) and "Education for Sustainable…
Descriptors: Leadership, Sustainability, Democracy, Experiential Learning
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Gelot, Ludwig – Journal of Peace Education, 2019
Incomplete and insufficient university programmes in the field of Peace and Conflict Resolution have led to an important gap in knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA) among peacebuilders and peacekeepers. In theory, experiential learning through problem-based learning (PBL) and simulations should be able to address this gap. This article explores…
Descriptors: Peace, Teaching Methods, Conflict Resolution, Experiential Learning
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Xu, Yujun – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2021
This article explores how a third space could be constructed in an outdoor setting. It uses at-sea sail-training to substantiate the construction of a third space. It uses Yin-Yang philosophy to enrich existing theories of third space and experiential learning. The finding reveals that the thirdness of the oceanic space has a positive impact on…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Outdoor Education, Aquatic Sports, Philosophy
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Xu, Yujun – Sport, Education and Society, 2023
Is it possible for young people to develop intercultural understanding through an ocean-crossing sailing voyage? What would happen to intercultural communication in a tall-ship space? This article unpacks the process of interculturality construction and participants' identity negotiation within an ocean-sailing setting. It applies an analytical…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Experiential Learning, Outdoor Education, Aquatic Sports
OECD Publishing, 2021
Widespread school closures affected over one billion students during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The vocational education and training (VET) sector has faced particular challenges during the crisis, most notably the fact that the digital learning environments that most education institutions had to rely on during closures don't work…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Vocational Education, School Closing
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Andreas Larsson; Emelie Fälton; Karin Stolpe – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2024
In today's rapidly changing world, technology has profoundly impacted our daily lives, making it increasingly difficult to predict what skills will be necessary for the future. To address this challenge, 21st-century skills have been proposed as a framework for shaping future education, in which one of the skills is technological literacy. How the…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Vocational Education, Experiential Learning, Teamwork
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Persson, Kristin; Andrée, Maria; Caiman, Cecilia – Journal of Environmental Education, 2022
This study explores how fieldwork can contribute to the development of ecological literacy and draws on actor-network theory and science studies which imply an understanding of agency as being distributed. The aim is to explore the consequences of the human-nonhuman encounters in fieldwork practice for the growth of ecological literacy. The…
Descriptors: Ecology, Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, Field Trips
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Remneland Wikhamn, Björn – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2017
This paper will critically examine how the two influential pedagogical approaches of action-based learning and constructive alignment relate to each other, and how they may differ in focus and basic assumptions. From the outset, they are based on similar underpinnings, with the student and the learning outcomes in the center. Drawing from…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Alignment (Education), Masters Programs, Business Administration Education
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Hammarsten, Maria; Askerlund, Per; Almers, Ellen; Avery, Helen; Samuelsson, Tobias – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2019
Today, cities become more dense, green spaces disappear and children spend less time outdoors. Research suggests that these conditions create health problems and lack of ecological literacy. To reverse such trends, localities are creating urban green spaces for children to visit during school time. Drawing on ideas in ecological literacy, this…
Descriptors: Ecology, Literacy, Outdoor Education, Gardening
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Tracey Bowen; Maureen T.B. Drysdale; Sarah Callaghan; Sally Smith; Kristina Johansson; Colin Smith; Barbara Walsh; Tessa Berg – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: This study identifies gendered disparities among women students participating in work-integrated learning and explores the effects of the disparities on their perceptions on perceived opportunities, competencies, sense of belonging, and professional identity. Design/methodology/approach: A series of semi-structured focus groups were run…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, College Students, Work Experience Programs
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Piper, Laurence; Dahlquist, Karl; Sunnemark, Fredrik; Assmo, Per – Cogent Education, 2023
The article develops a model for how an academic discipline like Political Studies can embrace work-integrated learning (WIL) to the benefit of students, the discipline, and wider society by interpreting WIL in relation to discipline-specific forms of knowledge and knower. The model is of a new Master's in WIL in Political Studies (WIPS) at…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Political Science, Graduate Students, Masters Programs
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