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Georgy Petrov – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2025
This case study explores the practical application of project-based learning (PjBL) within a first-year business management module designed to address the unique challenges faced by widening participation students. It examines how embedding employability skills such as problem-solving, communication, teamwork and critical thinking directly into…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Job Skills, Business Education, Student Needs
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Yolcu, Ayse – Research in Mathematics Education, 2021
This paper examines the formation of citizens and their differences in and through the contemporary mathematics education reforms in Turkey. The analysis focuses on how internationally designated mathematical competencies assemble with the nation-specific trajectories and revitalise cultural priorities. Curricular techniques, which aim at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Educational Change, Global Approach
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Wrentschur, Michael – Educational Action Research, 2021
Forum Theatre is an interactive theatrical form of the 'Theatre of the Oppressed' (TO). I refer to Forum Theatre in this contribution as a dramatic and participatory research approach which -- despite its specific nature -- shares many similarities with approaches taken in action research and participatory research. Procedures and methodological…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Social Justice, Audience Participation, Participatory Research
Adidi, Dokpesi Timothy; Irabor, Benson Peter – Online Submission, 2019
The idea of good governance is central to democratic consolidation; and there can be no good governance without a vibrant democratic order that is participatory. Citizenship education is a tool for enhancing participation of the citizenry in the affairs of governance and all that pertains to the socio-economic and political life of the people as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Progressive Education, Democracy, Citizenship Education
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Lin, Cong; Jackson, Liz – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2019
In order to facilitate cooperation to solve problems within a nation-state, a new approach which conceptualizes citizenship in terms of shared fate has been promoted to potentially ameliorate the tensions identified between civic liberty and solidarity. Proponents of an emphasis on shared fate frame it not in terms of a particular shared national…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Cooperation, Problem Solving, Citizenship
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M. Winter; David Overend – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2023
Leadership is an elusive and widely debated concept across disciplinary boundaries and is often contested in scholarship of learning and teaching. This article troubles models and conceptualisations of leadership in Students as Change Agents (SACHA), an interdisciplinary challenge-based course offered at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Leadership Training, Foreign Countries, Change Agents
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Menon, Sanskriti; Hartz-Karp, Janette – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2019
Resolving urban challenges or 'wicked problems' is a dilemma for most governments, especially in developing countries, and India is a case in point. Collaborative, dialogue-based approaches have been posited as critical to addressing wicked problems. This would require a reform of Indian cities' governance systems to enable citizens to be embedded…
Descriptors: Democracy, Urban Areas, Problems, Governance
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Nam, Chaebong – Social Studies, 2022
Hull-House was a unique social experiment by which Jane Addams realized her egalitarian vision for a shared civic life. Facing soaring social problems of the early twentieth century, Hull-House's most important mission was to help new immigrants learn the rule of self-government and become successful drivers of it. Hull-House was an unusual group…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Citizen Participation, Social Problems
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Sara Schley; Stephanie W. Cawthon; Carol E. Marchetti; W. Scot Atkins – Journal of Faculty Development, 2021
The Access to Inclusion project designed and implemented a semester-long professional development program that provides a scaffolded, applied approach to strengthening inclusive teaching with respect to students with disabilities in higher education. Faculty in higher education often do not have the training or ready access to teaching strategies…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Access to Education, Faculty Development, Curriculum
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Kulinski, Alexa R. – Art Education, 2018
To be awake means to have active attention, particularly the attention to carry a project into effect and execute a plan (Greene, 1977). Additionally, to be wide-awake requires a level of consciousness that provokes reflection and awareness in the quest for meaning, which can in turn contribute to the formation of self and ability to make sense of…
Descriptors: Creativity, Student Motivation, Middle School Students, Assignments
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Conefrey, Theresa; Smyth, Davida – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2020
Many students view their classes as separate and disconnected from each other and their lives beyond the classroom. Additionally, STEM students may fail to understand how concepts and formulas of introductory classes relate to practical applications of upper-division coursework and may perceive required general education courses as even less…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Portfolios (Background Materials)
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Lambert, Karen – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2020
Background: Recent critiques of twenty-first century physical education (PE), and by association physical education teacher education (PETE), position the discipline as largely uncontested, unproblematised and uncritical. This critique encourages researchers to re-consider the nature of PE and what it means to move, be moved, value movement or be…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Physical Education
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Soonets, Silvia; Mena, Aliz Beatriz; Dorbessan, Bernardo; Micucci, Franco; Olaizola, Carlos – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2020
The learning process in architecture at Universidad Simon Bolivar is based on confronting students with practical or theoretical situations to let them acquire knowledge about the discipline. The core of this process is on design studio courses, and from the early stages of the program they have to discover for themselves the role of architecture…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Architectural Education, Course Descriptions, Design
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Michael B. Sherry; Ann M. Lawrence – English Journal, 2019
In this article, the authors begin this inquiry by describing their research with a class of middle school writers who played "Quandary," a free online educational game designed to teach argumentation, as part of a unit on writing arguments for environmental action. Regarding the subject area of English language arts (ELA), research has…
Descriptors: Video Games, Technology Uses in Education, Language Arts, Middle School Students
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Jacoby, Barbara – Journal of College and Character, 2017
The "new student activism," as it is often called, is a hot topic in higher education as well as in the popular press and social media. As a college student in the late '60s and early '70s, a long-time student affairs professional, a scholar and practitioner of service-learning, and an academic teaching a course on social change, the…
Descriptors: College Students, Activism, Social Change, Service Learning
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