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Walter, Pierre – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2012
This paper examines how two sites of adult learning in the food movement create educational alternatives to the dominant U.S. food system. It further examines how these pedagogies challenge racialised, classed and gendered ideologies and practices in their aims, curricular content, and publically documented educational processes. The first case is…
Descriptors: Food, Adult Learning, Ideology, Agricultural Production
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Erdem, Mukaddes – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2009
The study described looks at the effects of learning style profile of teams on the quality of materials developed in a collaborative learning process. The study was carried out on collaborative teams of four or five university students, formed through learner preferences. Learning styles of the teams were determined using Kolb's Learning Styles…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Printed Materials, Learning Processes, Profiles
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Turner, Steven L. – American Secondary Education, 2008
As secondary educators seek strategies to support reluctant and disengaged learners, a greater understanding of the learning sciences (how people learn) becomes more important. This article examines the emerging knowledge base on the learning sciences and investigates how what has been discoveries about how and why people learn have practical…
Descriptors: Sciences, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Secondary School Teachers
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Morgan, Kari; Cameron, Bruce A.; Williams, Karen C. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2009
This article explores student perceptions of social task development in an online group project and poses recommendations for implementation of group projects. Qualitative methods were used to analyze student perceptions of social task development in online group project. Respect, "being nice," follow the rules/follow the leader, communication,…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Learning Processes, Group Dynamics, Group Behavior