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Wollschleger, Jason – Teaching Sociology, 2019
Previous scholarship has demonstrated the value of high-impact practices of community engagement, inquiry-based pedagogy, and collaborative learning for engagement and learning in sociology courses, especially undergraduate research methods and statistics. This article explores the changes made to an upper-division undergraduate course focused on…
Descriptors: Assignments, Sociology, Teaching Methods, Learner Engagement
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Park, Vicki; Datnow, Amanda – Peabody Journal of Education, 2008
This article focuses on how the Success for All Foundation (SFAF)--the nonprofit intermediary organization that promotes Success for All--works with educators in schools to increase capacity for learning and instruction. Success for All is a comprehensive school reform model that primarily centers on early literacy intervention. Building on…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Educational Change, Learning Processes, Emergent Literacy
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Chang, Wei-Wen – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2007
As global interaction and cultural diversity become prominent, cultural competence has received more attention. To understand nonprofit organizations' (NPO's) international workers' learning process in terms of cultural competence, this study used a cultural competence attainment model as a theoretical framework, enlisted 10 Taiwanese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Nonprofit Organizations, Cultural Awareness
Jarvis, Phil; Esbin, Howard – Education Canada, 2006
Canada's $76.5 billion annual investment in education is paying dividends. A recent international survey ranked Canadian students "second" in reading literacy, "fifth" in mathematics and "fifth" in science. For nations and individuals alike, such mastery is intrinsic to success in the new knowledge economy. Yet,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Education, Nonprofit Organizations, Computer Simulation