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Basso, A.; Chiorri, C.; Bracco, F.; Carnasciali, M. M.; Alloisio, M.; Grotti, M. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2018
Improving the interest of high-school students towards chemistry (and science in general) is one of the goals of the Italian Ministry of Education. To this aim, we designed a context-based activity that actively involved students in six different laboratory experiences interconnected by a case study of the murder of Miss Scarlet, from the famous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Secondary School Science, Chemistry
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Oleg, Yavoruk – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The article deals with interdisciplinary aspects of learning in the case of physics and psychology. It describes the lab-based academic course focused on: observation and experimentation; discovery of new scientific facts; measurement; identification of errors; the study of psychological characteristics of people (time perception, the reaction…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Physics, Psychology, Teaching Methods
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Sanft, Rebecca; Walter, Anne – PRIMUS, 2016
St. Olaf College recently added a Mathematical Biology concentration to its curriculum. The core course, Mathematics of Biology, was redesigned to include a wet laboratory. The lab classes required students to collect data and implement the essential modeling techniques of formulation, implementation, validation, and analysis. The four labs…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Undergraduate Study, Mathematics Instruction, Biology
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Brookman, Helen; Horn, Julia – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2016
This article draws on a pedagogical case study in order to reflect on the value of using a Humanities disciplinary practice (the "close reading" of literary studies) as a method of educational enquiry and to provide a worked example of this approach. We explore the introduction of a pedagogic strategy--students writing abstracts for…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, English, Humanities Instruction, Literary Criticism
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Cater, Melissa; Fox, Janet; Fletcher, Bobby Jr. – Journal of Extension, 2012
Louisiana 4-H Seeds of Service School Gardens, a K-12 Learn and Serve Grant program, provides a descriptive view of how school gardens along with classroom instruction link curriculum to outdoor classrooms. The purpose of the process evaluation was to describe curriculum implementation fidelity, reach of the gardening program to participants, use…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Extension Education, Gardening, Grants
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Charles, Maggie – English for Specific Purposes, 2012
This paper reports on the feasibility and value of an approach to teaching EAP writing in which students construct and examine their own individual, discipline-specific corpora. The approach was trialed in multidisciplinary classes of advanced-level students (mostly graduates). The course consisted of six weekly 2-h sessions. Data were collected…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, English for Academic Purposes, Writing (Composition)
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Perez, Roque Jimenez; Lopez, Jose Maria Cuenca; Listan, D. Mario Ferreras – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
This paper describes a research project into heritage education. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective from within the field of Experimental and Social Science Education, it presents an analysis of teachers' and administrators' conceptions of heritage, its teaching and its dissemination in Spain. A statistical description is provided of the…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Social Sciences, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
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De Werk, G.; Kamp, L. M. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2008
This paper evaluates the sustainable development graduation track at TU Delft. This track can be followed by all students of TU Delft. It consists of an interdisciplinary colloquium "Technology in Sustainable Development", 300 h of self-chosen courses on sustainable development and a graduation project in which sustainable development is…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Sustainable Development, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires
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Karal, Hasan; Bahcekapili, Tugba – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2010
During the phase of developing new technologies and models to be used in education and for their integration, not only the technical studies and research but also the human factor which is a significant factor for the education system should be taken into consideration. Hence, a reflection concerning the answer to the question of "To what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Collegiality
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Galan, Jose Ignacio Pichardo; Puras, Belen Molinuevo; Riley, Robin L. – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2009
Although lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people have achieved a great level of legal equality in Spain, social equality is still to come, especially for adolescents. This article reports results from three different studies. The first, in 2005, using a multidisciplinary approach, confirmed that homophobia is present in secondary…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, Sexual Identity
Vogel, Linda R. – Online Submission, 2011
The Office of Indian Education (OIE) in the U.S. Department of Education funds competitive grants for Native American school leadership preparation programs in order to improve the education of disadvantaged students identified under the 2001 "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) reauthorization of "Elementary and Secondary Education…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Oral Tradition, Federal Legislation, American Indians
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Smith, Nick L.; Brandon, Paul R.; Lawton, Brian E.; Krohn-Ching, Val – American Journal of Evaluation, 2010
This is the first examination of exemplary evaluation under a new editorial approach, in which the authors are attempting not only to report how the evaluation was conducted and to explain the rationale for design and implementation but also to examine the conditions, events, or actions that might have contributed to its exemplary status. This…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Program Evaluation, Grants
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Linder, Jurgen; Ekholm, Kristina Schuldt; Jansen, Gunilla Brodda; Lundh, Goran; Ekholm, Jan – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 2009
The number of patients with difficulty in resuming work after long-term sick leave has increased in several European countries including Sweden. The general aim of this study was a comprehensive description--based on multidisciplinary diagnostics and assessments--of patients with the common feature of marked difficulty in resuming working life…
Descriptors: Physicians, Quality of Life, Psychiatry, Patients
Aricak, Osman Tolga – Online Submission, 2007
This research investigated the vocational self-esteem (VSE) of Turkish university students in different fields. This study compared the vocational self-esteem of candidates of different professions. The Vocational Self-Esteem Scale and the Personal Information Questionnaire, developed by Aricak (2001), was administered to 779 students from 13…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Interests, Investigations, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Muhar, Andreas; Vilsmaier, Ulli; Glanzer, Michaela; Freyer, Bernhard – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe experiences with the initiation of transdisciplinarity in academic case study teaching with special reference to regional planning, based on the case study "Leben 2014 (Life 2014)--perspectives for regional development in the national park region Ober-pinz-gau, Salzburg".…
Descriptors: Regional Planning, Cooperation, Parks, Foreign Countries
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