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Chrenka, Lynn – Phi Delta Kappan, 2001
Teachers using a constructivist approach to learning are not invisible, as Lawrence Baines and Gregory Stanley suggest in a December 2000 "Kappan" article. Rather, they are an integral part of an active, student-centered learning process. Assisted by teachers, learners select and transform information, construct hypotheses, and make decisions.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes
Starnes, Bobby Ann – Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 2000
Recollections of a small childhood neighborhood suggest that the theory and research on integrating curriculum and community can be implemented by sharing curriculum mandates or standards with students. Once they know what they need to learn, students can draw on shared experience to identify places and people in the community where they might…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Learner Controlled Instruction, Place Based Education
Peer reviewedMarshall, Carol Sue – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 1996
Explores constructivist teaching assumptions of early childhood teacher preparation programs: (1) active adult learning is valued; (2) educational reform begins in university classrooms; (3) translating best practices and research into teaching contributes to classrooms and student teacher supervision; (4) maintaining links to K-12 education…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adult Learning, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change
Download full textHerbert, Tom – 1995
This chapter examines questions about the nature of experiential learning and how the experiential process can be applied in the classroom. Experiential learning may be viewed as a continuum that ranges from passive students receiving transmitted knowledge to active students deeply involved in generating knowledge from their own experiences. The…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adventure Education, Curriculum Enrichment, Educational Environment
Lehner, Helmut – 2000
Our increasingly knowledge-based economy and business enterprises depend on education to produce experts who combine knowledge with depth of understanding. Current teaching methods produce students with superficial verbal and technical knowledge, but who may lack the insight of experts. To become experts, learners must have the opportunity to be…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Active Learning, Adult Education, Cognitive Style
Putnam, A. R. – 2001
Research on how the brain works has resulted in wider-scale adoption of the principles of problem-based learning (PBL) in many areas of education, including technology education. The PBL approach is attractive to curriculum developers because it is based on interdisciplinary learning, results in multiple outcomes, is integrated and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adoption (Ideas), Classroom Techniques, Competency Based Education
