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Zink, Robyn – Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 2010
Groups are ubiquitous in outdoor education and while there is a lot of literature on groups, there is limited examination of the assumptions made about groups and the effects these assumptions have on the practices of outdoor education. I utilise some of Michel Foucault's (1992) tools to investigate literature on outdoor education groups.…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Literature Reviews, Group Dynamics, Group Structure
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Wanat, Carolyn L. – Journal of School Leadership, 2010
This case study examined parent groups' involvement in school activities and their participation in decision making. Research questions included the following: (1) What is the nature of parent groups in schools? (2) What activities and issues gain parent groups' attention and participation? (3) How do parent groups communicate concerns about…
Descriptors: Parent School Relationship, Case Studies, Social Theories, Parent Participation
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Serrano, Jose Manuel; Pons, Rosa Maria – Intercultural Education, 2007
The present study focuses on the use of a cooperative methodology with university students during the last year of their degree programme. The task structure could be freely chosen, and there were no restraints on group decisions to deal with the classroom work. All the elements of cooperation were based on a reward structure. The results show…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Rewards, Cooperative Learning, Task Analysis