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Porter, Su; Couper, Pauline – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2023
There is increasing pressure on academic staff to enhance the graduate capabilities of students, rendering them employable as morally informed global citizens, in addition to enhancing their disciplinary knowledge, reflective practice and understanding. The BA Outdoor Adventure Education degree programme at Plymouth Marjon University, includes the…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Adventure Education, Foreign Countries, Conservation (Environment)
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Johnson, Willa M. – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2016
This essay explores classroom dynamics when students identify and connect their own painful experiences to structural racism or ethnocentrism exhibited in the Holocaust or parts of Jewish history. The intrusion of this proximal knowledge can be an obstacle to student learning. If engaged by professors, however, I argue that proximal knowledge can…
Descriptors: Jews, History Instruction, European History, Racial Bias
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Gonsalves, Allison J.; Danielsson, Anna; Pettersson, Helena – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
This article analyzes masculinity and experimental practices within three different physics communities. This work is premised on the understanding that the discipline of physics is not only dominated by men, but also is laden with masculine connotations on a symbolical level, and that this limited and limiting construction of physics has made it…
Descriptors: Masculinity, Physics, Science Instruction, Gender Bias
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Guerin, Eva; Arcand, Isabelle; Durand-Bush, Natalie – Qualitative Report, 2010
The primary goal of this investigation was to document, using the participatory paradigm, a female university student's experience with a feel-based intervention intended to enhance the quality of her academic experiences including her self-confidence and self-talk. In this unique qualitative case study, the student participated in a 15-week…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Intervention, Self Concept, Females
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Leenaars, Lindsey; Rinaldi, Christina M. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2010
This study examines the role of sex, gender role orientation, social representations of indirect aggression, and indicators of psychosocial adjustment in indirect aggression and victimization in an emerging adult sample. A total of 42 participants (19 men, 23 women) recruited are required to complete the questionnaires, along with 18 participants…
Descriptors: Aggression, Sex Role, College Students, Gender Differences
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Andrew, Martin – CALICO Journal, 2009
This paper qualitatively analyzes reflective data gathered from learners' electronic and paper writings about their cultural learning in and about New Zealand. The data comes from three intakes of learners in "Culture and New Zealand Society," a second-year course for migrant and international learners within a Bachelor of Arts in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Qualitative Research, Immigrants
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Sarmiento, Lilia E.; Vasquez, Sergio A. – Teacher Educator, 2010
A Latina college professor describes the family history-writing project she uses in her reading/language arts teacher preparation course. The project provides opportunities for Spanish bilingual teacher candidates to gain greater understanding of their cultural selves and to consider ways to successfully deploy that new insight as teachers in…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Identity, Classroom Environment, Bilingual Teachers
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Doll, Kevin; Kereakoglow, Sandra; Sarma, Arti Radhika; Hare, Jan – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2008
The purpose of this article is to evaluate a pedagological tool for student's study of death and bereavement. Previous research suggests that students may be more willing to discuss issues associated with death through written correspondence rather than through oral communication. However, despite these efforts there are still students who…
Descriptors: Grief, Journal Writing, Speech Communication, College Students
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Creme, Phyllis – Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 2005
This article addresses the controversial question of whether student learning journals should be assessed. It draws on a collaborative action research project into the uses of learning journals at the University of Sussex in which assessment was continually debated. The characteristics of learning journals in terms of pedagogic purpose, outcome…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Action Research, Student Journals, Journal Writing
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Hurst, Beth – Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 2005
Learning logs, or reading response logs, have long been established as an effective reading strategy that helps students learn from text (Atwell, 1987; Blough & Berman, 1991; Calkins, 1986; Commander & Smith, 1996; Kuhrt & Farris, 1990; Reed, 1988; Sanders, 1985). In this paper, the author describes her experiences using learning logs as a…
Descriptors: Reader Text Relationship, Reading Skills, Journal Writing, Student Journals
Katchen, Johanna E. – 1995
This paper examines the English listening journals of 23 Taiwanese university students learning English. The listening journal requires that students listen to one English language program a week, write a brief synopsis, and comment upon self-listening abilities and the program, including what s/he learned. Journals are graded according to effort…
Descriptors: Class Activities, College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Wong, Hebe; Storey, Peter – Language Awareness, 2006
A number of studies have examined the process and product of writing instruction under different conditions. Fewer studies have investigated the development of knowledge and its relationship to writing performance. While some writers may be able to draw upon knowledge of text in their writing, others do not possess this knowledge and yet others…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, English (Second Language)
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de Acosta, Martha – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 1995
Student journals contribute to service-learning by focusing student attention on elements of community service and providing an opportunity for reflection. A project in which upper-class college students mentored children in an urban school system illustrates how journal entries help students document observations, question, speculate, develop…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, College Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education