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Lanigan, Mary L. – Communication Teacher, 2023
This activity helps students conceptualize and apply systems theory principles to a family communication context by having them create personal whole systems using paper, string, index cards, and the floor. In completing this exercise, students see how their subsystems interact and emerge as something greater than the sum of their parts. They also…
Descriptors: Communications, Systems Approach, Feedback (Response), Teaching Methods
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Cameron Guthrie – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2024
Business schools have a responsibility for educating global citizens capable of understanding and addressing the major societal challenges of the 21st century. However, working on complex societal problems within business school curricula remains a challenge. This teaching brief presents a learning project that helps instructors introduce…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Business Schools, Experiential Learning, News Media
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Wanju Huang; Kerrie Douglas; Tiantian Li; Audeen Fentiman – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2023
This paper discusses the instructional design experiences and processes shared by a multi-disciplinary group--including more than a dozen faculty, staff, and students--while developing a series of online courses on Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) for professional engineers, a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The team…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Engineering Education, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Alvarez-Hernandez, Luis R. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2021
It is imperative to consider the significance of intersectionality in social work practice and education because of its purpose of understanding and addressing multiple forms of oppression. This article proposes a tool, the Intersectionality Analysis Cluster, which could be used across the social work curriculum and various academic degree levels…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Power Structure, Teaching Methods
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Pazicni, Samuel; Flynn, Alison B. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
Systems thinking approaches underscore a holistic view of the components comprising a dynamic system, including their connections and interdependencies as well as their interactions with other systems. Compelling international calls have been made recently to infuse chemistry education with systems thinking so as to not only better illustrate…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills
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Trundle, Kathy Cabe; Hagevik, Rita; Wheeler, Laura; Vela, Katherine N.; Parslow, Michelle; Joy, David N. – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2023
Social connections are crucial for today's middle and high school students. We address this social need through a 3-H Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Cycle. Through the Three Sisters Garden activity presented here, we teach secondary school students about biodiversity and sustainability as we integrate the arts into STEM (STEAM). Students…
Descriptors: Gardening, Middle School Students, High School Students, Learning Activities
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Linabary, Jasmine R.; Long, Ziyu; Mouton, Ashton; Rao, Ranjani L.; Buzzanell, Patrice M. – Communication Teacher, 2016
Systems theory has been a staple in organizational communication textbooks since the field's inception (Miller, 2015; Poole, 2014). Nevertheless, the authors' classroom experiences have revealed that systems theory may not seem applicable to students due to its complicated nature. While examples and cases can help students make sense of the…
Descriptors: Organizational Communication, Teaching Methods, Systems Approach, Learning Activities
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Murphy, Kathleen C.; Dilip, Meghna; Quattrucci, Joseph G.; Mitroka, Susan M.; Andreatta, Jeremy R. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
A summer workshop was offered to inner-city high school students to explore the sustainability of their consumer choices using a systems thinking model. Students learned about related environmental or health issues due to the manufacturing, use, or disposal of common household products. Then, in the laboratory, they performed experiments to…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Chemistry, Science Education, Summer Programs
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Reavis, David – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2019
When an organization's need for technology changes, users expect solutions to provide sophisticated and complex functionality regardless of the size of the organization's budget or available resources. In exploring candidates for filling software needs for nonprofit organizations, one of the best tools is the request for proposal (RFP). This case…
Descriptors: Proposal Writing, Nonprofit Organizations, Decision Making, Web Sites
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Kirby, Erika L. – Communication Teacher, 2016
Courses: Communication and Diversity, Intercultural Communication, Gender Communication. Objectives: After completing this semester-long activity, students should be able to (1) articulate a systems-of-oppression (privilege??oppression) approach to thinking about difference; (2) confront and "interact differently" with one social…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Disadvantaged, Social Justice, Intercultural Communication
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Mette, Ian M.; Bengtson, Ed – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2015
This case was written to help prepare building-level and central office administrators who are expected to effectively lead schools and systems in an often tumultuous world of educational accountability and reform. The intent of this case study is to allow educators to examine the impact data management has on the types of thinking required when…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, School Based Management, Educational Administration, Administrative Organization
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Shlasko, Davey – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2015
In social justice education a tension sometimes emerges between the complex ideas we want participants to grapple with and the relatively straightforward activities we use to communicate those ideas. We adapt learning activities to meet participants' evolving needs and to communicate emerging theories and analyses, but sometimes adjusting an…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Disadvantaged, Social Justice
Fry-Ahearn, Betty; Collins, David – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2016
A grant from the School Leadership Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education during 2008-14 provided the opportunities and resources for SREB to bring together its cutting-edge knowledge base, field experience, and substantial bank of publications and training materials in the closely related fields of school improvement and school…
Descriptors: Principals, Low Achievement, Administrator Education, Educational Improvement
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Brymer, Eric; Renshaw, Ian – Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 2010
Participation in outdoor education is underpinned by a learner's ability to acquire skills in activities such as canoeing, bushwalking and skiing and consequently the outdoor leader is often required to facilitate skill acquisition and motor learning. As such, outdoor leaders might benefit from an appropriate and tested model on how the learner…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Skill Development, Student Centered Curriculum, Ecological Factors
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Resnick, Mitchel; Wilensky, Uri – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 1998
Argues that role-playing activities can be a powerful tool in mathematics and science education, particularly in the new sciences of complexity (i.e., the study of complex systems). Two role-playing activities are described, each designed to help students develop better intuitions on how complex phenomena can arise from simple interactions, and…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Group Activities, Group Dynamics, Learning Activities
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