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Camille Kandiko Howson; Martyn Kingsbury – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
Through an evaluation of an institution-wide curriculum change process, this paper analyses how strategic policy is variously enacted in departmental communities. Linguistic ethnography of public, institutional and internal policy documents illuminates departments' engagement with the change process. With curriculum change positioned as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Curriculum Development, Inclusion
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Clare Wilkinson; Amanda D. Webber – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2024
'Threshold concepts' have recently been identified as a key component for higher or university level teaching in science communication, concepts which can offer a 'transformative' experience amongst students, whilst also creating a sense of discomfort. In this research article, we examine data gathered via two qualitative focus groups and a…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Proficiency, Foreign Countries, Science Instruction
Montgomery, Catherine, Ed.; Fernández-Cárdenas, Juan Manuel, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
This book focuses on reconceptualising the teaching of STEM education through dialogue and transformative learning, presenting examples of research from Mexico and the UK. It centres on research which introduces critical pedagogies in the teaching of STEM, where in the past there has been an over-emphasis on content and a technicist perspective on…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, STEM Education, Transformative Learning, Foreign Countries
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Everett, Sally; Gunduc, Melisa; Junjunia, Maimoona; Kroener, Laura; Maise, Jakob; Scott-Hyde, Katrina; Salem, Lara; Simsek, Asli – Marketing Education Review, 2023
This paper reports a study coauthored with second-year undergraduate students that examines student experiences of undertaking real-life, client-set marketing assessments with an equality and inclusion remit. Students were set a marketing assessment with an explicit social justice focus, thereby prompting them to reflect on their own backgrounds…
Descriptors: Marketing, Transformative Learning, Consciousness Raising, Social Problems
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Rix, Jonathan; Paige-Smith, Alice – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2011
The need for reflection is widely written about and positioned as a key aspect of continuing professional development. This paper examines the manner in which practitioners are encouraged to be reflective within the English system and the barriers they face. It questions whether such a complex, reaffirming system can allow for genuine critical…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Ethnography, Educational Change, Barriers
Käpplinger, Bernd, Ed.; Lichte, Nina, Ed.; Haberzeth, Erik, Ed.; Kulmus, Claudia, Ed. – Online Submission, 2014
This book assembles over 50 papers from the 7th Triennial European Research Conference of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA), which was held from the 4th to the 7th of September 2013 at Humboldt-University in Berlin. The title of the conference was "Changing Configurations of Adult Education in Transitional…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Higher Education, Nontraditional Students