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Bautista Pérez, Nancy Yolanda – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2017
This article reports an action research project carried out with a group of 24 undergraduate students in a private university in Ibagué, Colombia. The study aimed to characterize the development of university students' sociocultural skills, to analyze their perceptions and to examine the teacher's procedures and possible implications required to…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Consciousness Raising, Focus Groups, Questionnaires
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Navin, Fiona; Hill, Angela; Doyle, Tanya – International Journal of Educational Research, 2012
Using the notion that research should "enlighten" policy responses, this paper considers the complex locational factors that affect and underlie patterns of Indigenous student mobility in Queensland, Australia. The paper presents data, captured through an action research project, to explore mobility "in and through" two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Mobility, Urban Schools, Indigenous Populations
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Cook, Kristin; Quigley, Cassie – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2013
In this study, we investigated the ways in which university students connected with science through the use of photovoice (Wang & Burris, 1994) as a pedagogical tool. Results indicated that students came to appreciate their connections to the science that operates in their lives as they reflected on and became empowered with regard to the…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Science Education, Science Teachers, Local Issues
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Bond, Hilary – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2010
This paper explores, with a qualitative framework, critical social theory and thematic analysis, the narratives of many Aboriginal elders of Mornington Island (Kunhanhaa) about their history and their potential to form productive kin-based relationships with visiting teachers in order to influence the curriculum and pedagogy delivered at the local…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Social Theories, School Community Relationship, Participatory Research
Hofstra Univ., Hempstead, NY. Dept. of Educational Administration. – 1982
By researching this project, a group of graduate students gained practical knowledge of administrative problems linked to declining enrollment while providing consultation for a Long Island, New York, school district. The two professors coordinating the project identified 13 component issues, each of which was assigned to a team of students; each…
Descriptors: Action Research, Community Surveys, Declining Enrollment, Educational Planning