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Baker-Doyle, Kira J. – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2018
This article is a commentary essay that uses the connected learning framework (Ito et al., 2013) as a lens to explore the relationship between making, coding, and critical literacy in the context of literacy teacher education. Critical literacy theorists have argued that it is important to understand the perspective and positionality of an author…
Descriptors: Coding, Programming, Computer Science Education, Reflection
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McIntosh, Novea A.; Bowman, Connie L. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2019
This self-reflection article explores the collaboration with a nongovernmental organization serving underserved students in Malawi and a private Midwestern university educator preparation program which provided research-based pedagogical culturally responsive practices to teachers. Through strong partnerships, education programs can combine their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Curriculum, Rural Schools, Reflection
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Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2016
In this brief colloquium, the authors consider a reconfiguring of quality and how this has impacted on practice in an early years setting. They demonstrate how their move from a formal quantitative strategic plan for the setting to their current narrative version, known as "Violet's Story", contributes to the academic debate of quality…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Story Telling, Humanism, Models
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Marsh, Jeanne Cay – Research on Social Work Practice, 2012
John Brekke challenges the field and profession of social work to define and develop the "science of social work". This response to Brekke's paper identifies the premises undergirding a discussion of the science of social work related to (1) a definition of "science";; (2 ) an organizing principle for social work; (3) a…
Descriptors: Semantics, Social Work, Pragmatics, Reflection
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Pezzullo, Phaedra C. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2010
Erected around 500 BCE, Aeschines and Demosthenes referred to boundary-stones in speeches, noting that they were to serve as a warning to men who avoided military service, acted cowardly, mistreated their parents, or had dirty hands. Of course, women, slaves, and non-citizens also were forbidden from this significant political and commercial…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Rhetoric, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Martin, Lee – Gifted and Talented International, 2010
The history of science presented by Hisham B. Ghassib (2010) on his article, "Where Does Creativity Fit into a Productivist Industrial Model of Knowledge Production?," reveals the significance of knowledge generating action throughout human history. Ghassib's (2010) paper explores the embedded nature of scientific practise and in doing so offers…
Descriptors: Creativity, Sciences, Philosophy, Models
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Kalchman, Mindy – College Teaching, 2011
Assessing the potential impact and utility of course assignments are often a matter of informed, yet personal judgment. Here, in this article, doing our own assignments before assigning them to students is explored as a quality assurance measure and as a means to ensure an empathetic and critical approach to developing course work.
Descriptors: Assignments, Accountability, Higher Education, College Faculty
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Baker, Marshall A.; Robinson, J. Shane; Kolb, David A. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2012
Experiential learning has been a foundational tenant of agricultural education since its inception. However, the theory of experiential education has received limited attention in the permanent agricultural education literature base. As such, this philosophical manuscript examined Kolb's experiential learning process further, and considered the…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Agricultural Education, Learning Theories, Models
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Zembylas, Michalinos – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2011
This article addresses the dilemmas emerging from efforts to integrate human rights values within a peace education programme being carried out in a conflict situation. Although the article is largely theoretical, it is grounded in the author's reflections on a series of teacher workshops and his overall experiences conducting ethnographic…
Descriptors: Conflict, Ethnography, Peace, Teacher Workshops
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Kozubska, Joanna; MacKenzie, Bob – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2012
Here, we argue that action learning (AL) has been evolving into different variations, whose respective advocates appear to concentrate on one of the several components inherent in Revans' formulation of AL as L = P + Q. They do this--sometimes inappropriately--to the virtual or relative exclusion of other aspects, and this has consequences for the…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Classification, Stakeholders, Learning Theories