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Horton, Karla B. – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2022
This article describes the use of service-learning--with a focus on civic engagement, academic performance, and personal growth- using a mock organization. This format of service -learning is utilized in an undergraduate macro-level practice social work course. This article describes the application of the mock organization and provides insight…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Service Learning, Civics, Social Work
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Fulton, Beverley – Industry and Higher Education, 2021
A comparison of the skills and qualities required in entrepreneurship and those expected in event management suggests similarities between the two disciplines and similar challenges for educators. While there has been increased interest in the education of entrepreneurs, discussion of events management education remains scarce. This account of…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Experiential Learning, Learning Activities, Hospitality Occupations
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Jordan, Alvaro; Knochel, Aaron D.; Meisel, Nicholas; Reiger, Kelsey; Sinha, Swapnil – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2021
Combining the excitement from the maker movement and the novel creation of deployable makerspaces, we review the development of the Mobile Atelier for Kinaesthetic Education (MAKE) 3D. MAKE 3D is a mobile makerspace platform that can be deployed anywhere there is electricity to create a curricular spectacle of digital fabrication in particular…
Descriptors: Art Education, Shared Resources and Services, Learning Activities, Technology Uses in Education
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Cheeptham, Naowarat; Mahara, Star; Antoine, Misty; Insuk, Chadabhorn; Loy, Kara – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2020
Over the past ten years, a western-Canadian university has offered an annual on-campus summer science and health science camp for Aboriginal youth. The goal of this camp has been to enhance pathways to science and health science careers for high school students aged 13-15 years-old. The camp's core curriculum exposes youth to science and health…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Camps, Foreign Countries, Educational History
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Zoi Simopoulou; Alette Willis; Lorena Georgiadou – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2022
Opportunities for working, volunteering, and studying abroad have become popular in higher education as vehicles for the development of cultural awareness and global citizenship. However, such experiences on their own do not guarantee the development of such attributes. What appears to be essential to maximizing the benefits of educational…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Study Abroad, Cultural Awareness, Global Approach
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de Rosa, Cecilia; Nadeau, Andrew; Hernandez, Emilio; Kafeero, Fred; Zahiga, Jacques – International Journal of Training and Development, 2016
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) utilizes training as a major component of the support it provides to its member countries in Africa. In the past, stand-alone training events targeting individual actors were the norm. However, an external evaluation indicated that this type of training scores low in terms of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agricultural Education, International Organizations, Delivery Systems
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Erikson, Malgorzata; Erikson, Martin G.; Punzi, Elisabeth – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
Conventionally, quantitative surveys are used for student evaluations in higher education, but the validity of this practice has been questioned. In the present study, we investigated a qualitative method for evaluating a bachelor's programme. Forty-one first-year students and twenty-eight third-year students on a bachelor's programme in Public…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Bachelors Degrees, Undergraduate Students, Public Administration Education
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Kiselev, N. N.; Kiseleva, E. V. – Russian Education & Society, 2015
An analysis of pedagogical expert reviews at children's therapeutic recreation camps in Novosibirsk Region shows that it is necessary to implement an expert review system that plays a supporting and developmental role. Such a system should allow teams of teachers to submit their work to expert review and to move forward by reflecting on their…
Descriptors: Therapeutic Recreation, Recreational Programs, Foreign Countries, Specialists
Anthony, Glenda; Hunter, Roberta – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2013
"Learning the Work of Ambitious Mathematics" project was developed to support prospective teachers learn the work of ambitious mathematics teaching. Building on the work of U.S. researchers in the "Learning in, from, and for Teaching Practice" project, we investigate new ways to make practice studyable within the university…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Instruction
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Fleischer, Hakan – Educational Research Review, 2012
The aim of this article is to review cross-disciplinary accumulated empirical research on one-to-one computer projects in school settings as published in peer-reviewed journals between 2005 and 2010, particularly the results of teacher- and pupil-oriented studies. Six hundred and five research articles were screened at the abstract and title…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods, Literature Reviews
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Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Obeidat, Osama M.; Lansford, Jennifer E. – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
The present study evaluates a major education reform in Jordan--the implementation of public kindergartens--and provides an example of how evaluation can be incorporated into education reform. In the context of education reform in Jordan, 532 public kindergartens have been created over the last five years. A stratified random sample of…
Descriptors: Young Children, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
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del Canto, Pablo; Gallego, Isabel; López, José Manuel; Medina, Esunly; Mochón, Francisco; Mora, Javier; Reyes, Angélica; Rodríguez, Eva; Salami, Esther; Santamaría, Eduard; Valero, Miguel – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2011
In the present paper, we describe the work being carried out by a group of professors so as to implement the follow-up and feedback processes of the activities students do throughout the first academic years in their Engineering studies. Not to mention, this project is within the EHEA (European Higher Education Area) framework. Our results show…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Followup Studies, Engineering Education, Learning Activities
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Hettler, Shannon; Johnston, Linda M. – Journal of Peace Education, 2009
The authors review the types of experiential peace education programs available to teens in the US and provide a classification guide for educators, parents, other concerned adults and teens who may be interested in developing conflict, peace and/or violence prevention knowledge, skills and attitudes. The authors identify experiential programs in…
Descriptors: Prevention, Peace, Conflict Resolution, Youth Programs
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Larose, Simon; Cyrenne, Diane; Garceau, Odette; Brodeur, Pascale; Tarabulsy, George M. – New Directions for Youth Development, 2010
This chapter reports findings from the evaluation of an academic mentoring program for late adolescents that highlight the role of exposition to structured activities and mentors' use of some behavioral strategies. Specifically, different types of interactions in mentoring (such as discussing personal projects, resolving academic problems, and…
Descriptors: Mentors, Late Adolescents, Learning Activities, Interpersonal Relationship
Kissane, Barry; McConney, Andrew – Online Submission, 2010
"Maths by Email" (MbE) is a free fortnightly email newsletter produced through a partnership between CSIRO Education and the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI), with funding from the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). The principal aim of MbE has been "to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Program Evaluation, Newsletters, Foreign Countries
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