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Marieke Schaper – Educational Theory, 2025
Fostering transformative experiences is a central goal of education. In this article, Marieke Schaper examines the relationship between doubt and transformation in education, specifically problematizing the idea that doubt can serve as a catalyst for transformative experiences in the classroom. Schaper's thesis is that doubt is not valuable by…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Transformative Learning, Credibility, Learning Experience
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Omidian, Taha; Ballance, Oliver James; Siyanova-Chanturia, Anna – Language Teaching, 2023
Accurate description of language use is central to English for academic purposes (EAP) practice. Thanks to the development of corpus tools, it has been possible to undertake systematic studies of language in academic contexts. This line of research aims to provide detailed and accurate characterization of academic communication and to ultimately…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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St. Amant, Kirk – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2021
Unexpected developments in an environment often drive the evolutionary process. This is as true for the evolution of societies as it is for species. The effective evolution of education will involve knowing what the key adaptation factors are and making them central to how educators respond to shifts in socio-pedagogical environments on local,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, School Closing
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Potgieter, Ferdinand J. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2018
This paper explores Anatheism as a pedagogically justifiable theory for teaching our learners how to acquire new memories about life- and worldview diversity, as well as religious diversity, and also how to accompany each other so that whosoever wants to, may return home to a more credible God after they might have started to doubt the credibility…
Descriptors: World Views, Cultural Pluralism, Teaching Methods, Religion
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Payne, Phillip G. – Journal of Environmental Education, 2019
"The Journal of Environmental Education" ("JEE") has produced and circulated different forms of knowledge for 50 years, mostly for a North American readership and, most recently, a globally-extended English-speaking audience. A critical theory of theory in environmental education (EE) and its research (EER) is needed in looking…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Critical Theory, Periodicals, Climate
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Haynes, Bruce – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2018
This article is an initial exploration of possibilities opened up by considering trust relations as central to the teaching of history in schools. It is an extension of an investigation into epistemological problems to see whether "trust" is a more fruitful concept to use than "truth" in dealing with those problems and is based…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Epistemology
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Jacobs, George M.; Chau, Meng Huat; Hamzah, Nurul Huda – rEFLections, 2022
This article argues that language students and teachers are changemakers and that, in keeping with progressivist philosophy and the bottom-up social paradigm, they can play a powerful role in creating a better world. As our understanding of the world continues to increase, both students and teachers can use this increased understanding to initiate…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Mutsvairo, Bruce; Bebawi, Saba – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2019
From diplomatic spats between Qatar and Saudi Arabia to ubiquitous deceptive "news" updates purportedly sent by the Eritrean government urging all men to marry two wives or risk imprisonment, the future of fact-based reporting appears uncertain as mass media recipients world over become accustomed to consuming "fake news."…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, News Reporting, Deception
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Glisson, Lane – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2019
This article describes a discussion-based approach for teaching college students to identify the characteristics of ethical journalism and scholarly writing, by comparing fake news with credible information in a strategically planned slideshow. Much has been written on the need to instruct our students about disinformation. This librarian shares a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, College Students, Ethics, Journalism 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
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Baggaley, Jon – Distance Education, 2015
This article examines the current interest of educators in flipped learning. Although this concept has developed in the online and distance education literature over two decades, numerous current writers are attributing it to an idea formed in 2007 by two K-12 teachers in Colorado, USA. The mechanisms that generate such myths are examined, with…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Homework, Technology Uses in Education
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Rafferty, Patricia D. – Journal of Management Education, 2013
This article forms part of an exploration into how graduate students experience group work. A single case, embedded study was completed in 2011, which reveals insight and understanding into the manner in which part-time MBA students experience group work assignments and how these experiences contribute to their perception of positive group work…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Business Administration Education, Part Time Students
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Stephens, Keri K.; Mottet, Timothy P. – Communication Education, 2008
Organizations continue to use technology to train and share information. This study focused specifically on how trainers and trainees interact in the mediated Web conference training context. Using the rhetorical and relational goal theory of instructional communication, this 2x2 experimental study tested the effects of trainer-controlled and…
Descriptors: Credibility, Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Technology, Web Based Instruction
Behrstock, Ellen; Drill, Karen; Miller, Shazia – Learning Point Associates, 2009
The aim of this paper is to explore the demand side of the market for educational research. That is, what types of educational research do teachers find useful for advancing their instructional practice and under what conditions do they access the research currently available? Although teachers have mixed opinions--both positive and negative--of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Focus Groups, Researchers, Teaching Methods
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Mazer, Joseph P.; Murphy, Richard E.; Simonds, Cheri J. – Learning, Media and Technology, 2009
Research suggests that teachers who personalize their teaching through the use of humor, stories, enthusiasm, and self-disclosure are perceived by their students to be effective in explaining course content. This experimental study examined the effects of computer-mediated teacher self-disclosure on perceptions of teacher credibility. Participants…
Descriptors: Course Content, Credibility, Computer Mediated Communication, Self Disclosure (Individuals)
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