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Alanna L. Peebles; Godfried A. Asante; Rati Kumar – Communication Teacher, 2025
In our globalized interconnected world, intercultural and interpersonal communication competencies are essential. Virtual reality (VR) narrative-based scenarios offer a unique opportunity to foster these competencies by simulating quality contact with people of different races, religions, and other identities. This activity had students meet and…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Computer Simulation, Personal Narratives, Technology Uses in Education
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Kristen A. Foltz – Communication Teacher, 2024
Storytelling plays a central role in human communication and in conflict. This activity can be used to teach students the importance of telling stories to better understand conflict or simply to practice storytelling. By engaging in mediations, students simulate the process of resolving conflict, practice storytelling, and improve their active…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Conflict Resolution, Mediation Theory, Skill Development
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William Hoffman – Communication Teacher, 2024
This activity leverages the use of a single case study to explain conflict mapping and find an optimal solution to the complicated challenges posed by the situation in Nauru, an island country that is now participating in seabed mining operations. In groups, students are given a chance to participate in two discussions: one within their respective…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Oceanography, Mining, Maps
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McElearney, Patrick – Communication Teacher, 2023
Undergraduate courses on small-group communication often cover group roles, group conflict, and conflict management styles. Although these concepts are valuable to learn, merely memorizing them does not address the practical skills students need to employ conflict management strategies when situated in group conflict. This activity provides a…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Conflict Resolution, Undergraduate Students, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Congdon, Mark, Jr.; Herakova, Liliana; Bishop, Jessica – Communication Teacher, 2018
Courses: Introduction to Communication, Introduction to Interpersonal Communication, Family Communication, Small Group Communication, Communication and Listening. Objectives: By this end of this activity, students will be able to identify and practice supportive and defensive communication; understand a dialogic approach to conflict; and…
Descriptors: Conflict, Interpersonal Communication, Family Relationship, Group Dynamics
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Rouse, Rob; Krummeck, Katie; Uribe, Olivia – Science and Children, 2020
Makerspaces are collaborative workplaces equipped with a variety of high- and low-tech tools and materials that individuals can use to create physical and digital products. In this article the authors take the perspective that integrating a makerspace into a school is a proactive, thoughtful, and time-consuming process. To help meaningfully…
Descriptors: Design, Creative Activities, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
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Dixon, Deirdre P.; Wales, Ana Maia; Pennington, Julia R.; Calega, Shannon – Management Teaching Review, 2019
The social change model (SCM) of leadership development defines all students as potential leaders. Service acts as a powerful means for developing leadership skills within our students. After the 20th anniversary celebration by the International Leadership Association of the SCM, the authors wanted to illustrate how practice can inform research as…
Descriptors: Social Change, Leadership Training, Program Descriptions, Theory Practice Relationship
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Baker, A. Minor; Guerra, Patricia L.; Baray, Sarah – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2018
Inspired by real-life events, this case describes the start of a seemingly solid working relationship between two elementary campus administrators and its demise as the result of inadequate communication and distrust. Initially, these two leaders benefit from differing supervision styles, but these differences eventually lead to increased tension…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Compliance (Legal), Leadership Effectiveness
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Irwin, Clare W.; Madura, John P.; Bamat, David; McDermott, Paul A. – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2017
This study used latent class analysis with data from the 2002/03 Head Start Impact Study to determine whether early childhood classrooms can be sorted into classroom quality groups based on their scores on multiple measures of quality, how many classroom quality groups could be identified, and what percentages of classrooms fall within each…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Scores, Child Care Centers
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Cowley, Philip; Stuart, Mark – Journal of Political Science Education, 2015
We have used a role-play exercise to help students understand the role of the whips in British parliamentary politics, a subject with which students often struggle. In itself, this proved a valuable learning and teaching tool, but we found it became even more useful when we incorporated a practitioner into the exercise. This overcame some of the…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Parliamentary Procedures, Learning Activities, Simulation
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Brewer, Sarah; Whiteside, Karin – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
The Cara Syria Programme has been developed to support Syrian academics who have had to abandon their academic positions due to the conflict in Syria and who have seen their careers compromised as a result. The Programme offers a means to re-establish their academic identities and develop new skills through participation in the learning activities…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Barakat, Maysaa; Brooks, Jeffrey S. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2016
There is ongoing debate about the benefits and dangers of globalization in education, yet it is not always clear how these dynamics manifest at the school level. Moreover, it is often unclear how leaders shape or respond to these dynamics in their day-to-day practice. This case highlights issues related to school culture and globalization as a…
Descriptors: Culture Conflict, Global Approach, Leadership, School Culture
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Delvou, Marjolein – Journal of Peace Education, 2011
On March 18th 2011 an independent jury of experts convened in Antwerp, Belgium, to select the laureate of the first Evens Prize for Peace Education from a shortlist of eleven organizations from all over Europe. After a long day of intense discussions, the jury agreed unanimously to award the prize to the "Escola de Cultura de Pau"…
Descriptors: Expertise, Recognition (Achievement), Conflict, International Relations
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Malin, Joel R.; Hackmann, Donald G. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2015
Dr. Edward White, Hillsborough High School principal, has decided to allocate faculty in-service time to address an unproductive chasm between academic and career and technical education programming within the school, which has created tensions among the faculty. On returning to his office after the professional development session, which was…
Descriptors: Principals, Career Education, Academic Education, Technical Education
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Johnson, Mark; Smyth, Keith – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to explore ways in which value pluralism in institutional learning-technology strategy can be exposed and managed with the use of learning activities involving stakeholder groups across and between educational institutions. Design/methodology/approach: The case-study of a series of national workshops on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Activities, Workshops, Program Development
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