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Michael Reynolds; Russ Vince – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2025
This essay explores the interplay between action learning and democracy in organizations, institutions and society. We start by reflecting on the history of democracy as an emancipatory discourse in management learning and education. We elaborate on critical reflection in action-based approaches to learning and identify key elements of critical…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Power Structure, Organizations (Groups), Democratic Values
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Phuc Diem Le; Karen Benson – International Journal for Academic Development, 2025
Critical reflection is pivotal for enhancing practice in peer observation of teaching (POT). Our analysis of educators' reflections in a developmental POT program revealed a deficiency in the level of critical reflection. In this paper, we reflect on the reasons behind this shortfall and changes made to enhance the scaffolding of critical…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Observation, Teacher Evaluation, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Maati Wafford – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2024
Action research is an essential practice that aligns deeply with how Montessori tasks educators with being scientists, saints, and servants. These three roles anchor educators' understanding and efforts as they seek to incorporate action research into Montessori pedagogy. In this article, the author offers a way to incorporate critical reflection…
Descriptors: Action Research, Montessori Method, Critical Thinking, Reflection
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Alexander, Patricia A. – Educational Psychology Review, 2023
The goals of this article are three-pronged. The first is to consider the perspectives and insights collectively offered by the four contributions to this special issue dealing with higher-order, critical, and critical-analytic thinking. The second is to build on the content of those contributions and on the literature from philosophy and…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking, Educational Philosophy, Educational Psychology
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Erika Kerruish – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2025
Critical thinking is embedded in national university graduate outcomes and included in international bodies' statements on higher education. At the same time, there are tensions surrounding critical thinking in higher education, such as its commodification, Eurocentrism, and relationship to rapidly digitalising cultures. Drawing from the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories
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Elizabeth Bifuh-Ambe – Thresholds in Education, 2024
This article describes how a secularized version of Lectio Divina is used within the classroom as a model for engaging in anti-racism and social justice discussions. Lectio Divina is an ancient tool for understanding texts. From its religious beginnings, it has been adapted to its secular forms for critical contemplative practice in twenty…
Descriptors: Racism, Social Justice, Empowerment, Advocacy
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Beth Link; Caitlin M. Black – Art Education, 2024
The authors have a lot in common. They are white, cis women, former K-12 art teachers, and recent doctoral graduates. They both entered their first classrooms with good intentions to create lessons reflecting diverse students. Yet, after a few years of teaching, they developed a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomachs. They developed a…
Descriptors: Art Education, Ethnography, Psychological Patterns, Inclusion
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Cari Din; Martin MacInnis – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2024
Cookbook-style laboratories (labs), where students follow recipes and confirm known results are common, yet years of science teaching and learning research indicate they do not help college students develop the habits of mind and skills of a scientist. We describe the rationale, challenges, and initial changes made in our teaching and learning lab…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, Science Laboratories, Active Learning
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Ruth Wallace; Sally-Anne Doherty; Elizabeth J. Cook – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2024
This practitioner reflection explores our integration of the Relational Employability Framework within the Health Research Project capstone unit of a Bachelor of Health Science degree. To address the historically low quality of student reflections, we incorporated image-based reflective activities to improve engagement and depth. These activities…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Employment Potential, Health Sciences, Visual Aids
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Ross, Courtney B.; Rocha Beardall, Theresa – Teaching Sociology, 2022
Contemplative practices are becoming more common in educational environments for attending to whole-student learning, fostering empathy, and promoting social justice and socially just pedagogues. This conversation explores how holistic approaches facilitate and expand the parameters of sociological pedagogy to integrate humanist pedagogies and…
Descriptors: Reflection, Metacognition, Empathy, Psychological Patterns
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Jessica van Horssen; Zoë Moreton; Gaspard Pelurson – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2023
This paper explores how video games can enhance learning in the higher education Humanities classroom through play and critical discussions. Through the observation of two case studies, it aims to highlight important concepts and considerations and serve as a platform for future research and debate. The first case study utilised Sid Meier's…
Descriptors: Video Games, Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education, Case Studies
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María Luisa García Underwood; Reshma Ramkellawan-Arteaga – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2024
This article addresses the challenges and importance of integrating discussions on race and social justice into the classroom. Considering recent legislative actions in various states aimed at restricting such discussions, the article presents an empowering framework designed to support educators in facilitating these conversations. This…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Culturally Relevant Education, Social Justice, Racism
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Peter M. Appelbaum – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
This dialogue with Janet Miller, from her early work in the 1980s through the present, explores a post-human response to situatedness and embodiment, and demonstrate possible things to consider when we want to avoid centering human experience--when we strive to steward a universe determined as much by the more-than-human participants in our…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Humanistic Education, Humanism
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Pope, Elizabeth M.; Shelton, Stephanie Anne – Qualitative Research Journal, 2023
Purpose: Qualitative research is well-established and widely adopted across a range of disciplines; however, there is little discussion of the teaching of qualitative research methods. What engagements there are primarily focus on methods rather than core concepts that inform ethical and effective use of those approaches. "Subjectivity"…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Teaching Methods
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Stone, Garrett A.; Powell, Gwynn M.; McGuire, Francis A. – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2022
The last day of a course is often viewed as awkward, abrupt, and even antithetical to a course's aims. More often than not, prime opportunities for reflection, reinforcement, reconciliation, and closure are typically subsumed to administrative tasks and end-of-course exhaustion. This paper summarizes the scant end-of-course literature, reviews the…
Descriptors: Leisure Education, Reflection, Review (Reexamination), Learning Activities
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