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Wetzel, Keith; Ewbank, Ann – Educational Action Research, 2013
In this action research study, we describe how doctoral candidates conceptualize innovations for their dissertations and outline how we are using the results to improve the doctoral dissertation experience for our new cohort. Over the course of one academic year (2010/11) we documented our students' process of conceptualizing their…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Action Research, Innovation, Graduate Students
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Wals, Arjen E. J.; Schwarzin, Lisa – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to introduce and investigate dialogic interaction as a key element of achieving a transition towards sustainability in people, organizations and society as a whole. Furthermore "sustainability competence" as a potential outcome of such interaction is to be introduced, referring to the capacities and qualities…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Interaction, Case Studies, Models
Pernsteiner, Aimee – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to understand the study abroad experience, as it relates to employment, from multiple perspectives in order to gain insight into how the study abroad experience prepares accounting students to work in a global economy. Studying abroad has been recognized at the national level as an important component to…
Descriptors: Accounting, Study Abroad, Global Approach, Colleges
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Ní Bhroin, Órla – British Journal of Special Education, 2013
In the context of rapid policy transformation from segregation to inclusion in the education of children with special educational needs in Ireland, a study was conducted to investigate the interplay between policy and principles of inclusion, resource teachers' and class teachers' interpretations of this and the manner in which policy and…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Disabilities, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Scorgie, Kate – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2010
Transformative learning occurs when students engage in activities that challenge formative assumptions about the world and how it works. The "Family Collaboration Portfolio" was designed as an interactive simulation exercise in which preservice professionals critically examined their assumptions of parenting a child with a disability through…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Graduate Study, Student Attitudes, Parent School Relationship
Kim, Namsook – Online Submission, 2011
The present case study examines classroom interaction in an English as a second language (ESL) class in an urban high school. The study intends to explore the in-depth nature of teacher's effective teaching practices during the instructional time with focus on their influence on linguistically and culturally diverse English language learners'…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Teaching Methods, Case Studies, Interaction
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Gebhard, Jerry G. – TESL-EJ, 2005
To truly develop as teachers, we need to be free to explore teaching, and exploration can be based on a set of principles and ways to explore. Principles can include: (1) transcending the goal of improving our teaching by aiming at seeing teaching differently, (2) taking responsibility for our own teaching while recognizing the need for others,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Principles, Educational Objectives, Transformative Learning
Flecha, Ramon – 2000
This book narrates the story of a literacy circle that was created by adults who were attending basic literacy and new reader classes. The introduction provides in-depth discussions of each of the seven principles of dialogic learning, which are as follows: egalitarian dialogue; cultural intelligence; transformation; instrumental dimension;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Aging (Individuals), Beginning Reading
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory