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Success of Student Internship in Engineering Industry: A Faculty Perspective
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Prabhu, B. Vittaldasa; Kudva S., Aditya – Higher Education for the Future, 2016
Student internship plays a major role in transforming the engineering interns to ready-to-use professionals. Learning at the workplace has become a challenge for the interns due to several issues. A knowledge gap analysis has been depicted considering all stakeholders of the internship, including the intern, faculty, institution and the industrial…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Engineering Education, College Faculty, Teacher Role
Resources and Readiness: Exploring Civic Education Access and Equity in Six New York High Schools
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Wolff, Jessica R.; Rogers, Joseph R. – Center for Educational Equity, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2019
This new report from the Center for Educational Equity offers insights into the resources and practices necessary to prepare students for civic participation in accordance with students' constitutional rights. The pilot study on which the report is based documented major disparities in learning opportunities among the study schools, including in…
Descriptors: High Schools, Civil Rights, Citizen Participation, Student Rights
The Impact of SimVenture on the Development of Entrepreneurial Skills in Management Students
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Williams, Dina – Industry and Higher Education, 2015
The purpose of this study was to bridge a gap in our understanding of the role business simulation games can play in the development of entrepreneurial capabilities in undergraduate students. While entrepreneurship education has come a long way from being a branch of business and management studies, to its current status as a core discipline in…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Computer Simulation, Entrepreneurship
Honors in Honduras: Engaged Learning in Action
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Folds-Bennett, Trisha; Twomey, Mary Pat – Honors in Practice, 2013
A significant challenge in honors education is providing experiences through which students deeply engage ideas and content so that their analytical abilities and core beliefs and values are transformed. The College of Charleston Honors College aimed to stimulate critical thinking and examination of core values through a more holistic approach to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Honors Curriculum, Critical Thinking, Values
Harnessing the Potential of Constructive Develop-Mental Pedagogy to Achieve Transformative Learning in Social Work Education
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McCusker, Pearse – Journal of Transformative Education, 2013
This project starts with the contention that social work education must challenge students to reframe their knowledge and assumptions to prepare them for working with oppressed groups and develop emancipatory practice. Using transformative learning theory, constructive developmental pedagogy and related approaches, it explored the extent to which…
Descriptors: Social Work, Transformative Learning, Developmental Psychology, Teaching Methods
The Impact of Antioch Education through Experience Abroad.
Abrams, Irwin – Alternative Higher Education: The Journal of Nontraditional Studies, 1979
A preliminary analysis of questionnaire data indicates, along with academic outcomes, a significant impact of work and study abroad programs on subsequent behavior. Educational and job decisions were influenced, as well as thinking about values and American identity. Focus is on the Antioch Education Abroad program and its participants.…
Descriptors: College Graduates, College Students, Educational Assessment, Experiential Learning