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Developing Twenty-First Century Competencies through the Arts: A Case Study of A High Performing Secondary School Band in Singapore
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Tan, Leonard – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine the development of "21st Century Competencies" (21CC) through the secondary school band programme. The researcher used ethnographic research methods to document the lived musical experiences of students from a high performing secondary school band in Singapore, captured the voices of the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Secondary School Students, Music Activities, Foreign Countries
Adopting Team-Based Learning for In-Service Teachers: A Case Study
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Walker, Zachary M.; Zheng, Toh Guo; Mendoza, Redante; Lee, Elise – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2017
Team-based learning (TBL) is an instructional pedagogy that has gained recent popularity due to its effectiveness in disciplines such as medicine and business. However, TBL has not been widely adopted in teacher education based on reviews of research and practitioner based literature. The purpose of this case study was to assess the implementation…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Cooperative Learning, Inservice Teacher Education, Case Studies
Structural Barriers and Organizational Mechanisms for Training and Deploying ICT Champions in a School
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Woo, David James – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2016
The misalignment or contradiction between material and abstract resources within a school are structural barriers to systemic pedagogic innovation and effective teacher professional development. This article contributes a case study to the success stories of information and communication technology (ICT) integration in schools through alternative…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Educational Technology, Case Studies, Faculty Development
Rethinking the Impact of Activity Design on a Mobile Learning Trail: The Missing Dimension of the Physical Affordances
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Tan, Esther; So, Hyo-Jeong – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2015
This paper investigates the relationship between activity design and discourse on a mobile learning trail, considering the physical affordances of the real world platform in designing contextual learning experiences. We adopted a "context-oriented" and "process-oriented" pedagogical approach in designing the mobile learning…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Instructional Design, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
An Overview of Management Education for Sustainability in Asia
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Wu, Yen-Chun Jim; Shen, Ju-Peng; Kuo, Tsuang – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the holistic picture of sustainability curricula in Asian higher education. Design/methodology/approach: Content analysis was conducted based on Asian management education for sustainability in higher education. Online courses arrangement, teaching methods, instructors' educational background and…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Higher Education, Content Analysis, Administrator Education
Bridging the Socio-Cognitive Divide: Rethinking the Willingness to Communicate Concept from a Conversation-Based ELF Perspective
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De Costa, Peter I. – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2014
Extending earlier research on the concept of Willingness to Communicate (WTC) (e.g., MacIntyre et al., 1998), this paper tests the WTC concept on a secondary school in Singapore where English is used as a lingua franca. In doing so, a layer of complexity is added to the WTC concept. By focusing on classroom interactions involving one immigrant…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Interpersonal Communication, Secondary School Students