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Fleener, M. Jayne; Barcinas, Susan J. – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
This paper explores futures learning strategies enacted by ecosystem building futurists working with organizations and communities for social transformation and adaptation to uncertain futures. The research is based on interviews with futurists who work as ecosystem builders to understand the "what," "how," and "why"…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Lifelong Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Change
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Karaman, Pinar; Demirci, Ibrahim; Özdemir, Atilla – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2019
This study examines the structural relationship among motivation, deep learning approach, and academic achievement of middle school students in Turkey. Participants were 746 seventh grade and eighth grade students enrolled in public middle schools in Sinop and Ankara, Turkey. Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire, Study Process…
Descriptors: Correlation, Student Motivation, Academic Achievement, Middle School Students
Hunter, Jodie – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2012
This paper reports on the use of lesson study as a professional development tool. In particular the paper focuses on the way in which the teachers increased their understanding of how tasks, classroom activity and teacher actions scaffolded student learning of early algebraic reasoning of equivalence and the commutative principle. Teacher voice is…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Teaching, Faculty Development
Sharma, Sashi – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
Data reported in this paper is part of a larger study which explored form five (14 to 16 year olds) students' ideas in probability and statistics. This paper presents and discusses the ways in which students made sense of task involving independence construct obtained from the individual interviews. The findings revealed that many of the students…
Descriptors: Probability, Statistical Studies, Statistics, Transformative Learning
Wilson, Arthur L.; Kiely, Richard C. – 2002
Empirical research on adult learning conducted by Jack Mezirow in the 1970s was revolutionary and groundbreaking and contributed to the creation of a critical theory of adult learning. His influence has remained at the forefront of adult education theory for over two decades. It is timely to consider whether other empirical research has…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Andragogy