How does individual learning impact team learning? Through an exploratory case study, data was collected from questionnaires, documentation review, observations, and interviews. Three themes emerged describing how an autonomous learner affected team learning. The results indicated that the autonomous learner influenced team learning through…

Explains a nested hierarchy of conceptions of teaching and suggests a process of expanding awareness among academic staff of the relation between learning and teaching. Presents a case study of one lecturer's changing conceptions and discusses how conceptual change may be encouraged in academic staff. (Author/LRW)

Research in mathematics education offers a considerable body of evidence that both high and low-achievers can benefit from learning mathematics in meaningful contexts. This case study offers an in-depth analysis of the learning process of a low-achieving student in the context of Realistic Mathematics Education (RME). The focus is on the use of…

While there is a wealth of literature and research on radical adult "popular" education for social change, most of it looks forward and speculates on the educational processes best able to help the oppressed of the world overcome naive passivity and become critically aware "subjects" of social change. Within a critical…

This article presents the findings from an interpretative study of an Australian offshore leadership development programme conducted in China from 2002 to 2003. The study explored the conceptions of learning and leadership brought by a group of Chinese educational leaders to the course and investigated the perceived influence of the course upon…

This paper considers the ways in which the interactive whiteboard may support and enhance pedagogic practice through whole-class teaching within literacy and numeracy. Data collected from observations of whole-class lessons, alongside individual interviews and focus group discussions with class teachers and Initial Teacher Education students, has…

Open learning provides a unique opportunity to professionals for their continuing education and capacity building. Arab Open University, Kuwait (AOU) has been a successful enterprise with an objective to address the educational needs of masses in the Arab universities. Continuing education in the Arab region was the most neglected part of the…

Ten case studies of adults learning a second language are reported and analyzed in an effort to identify a variety of learning strategies. The superordinate strategies that were discovered lent themselves to the development of a tentative language learning model, which is set forth as a chart. The model is consistently confirmed by the various…

Described is a project which explored how elementary teachers' intuitive knowledge (the common sense sort of information built from personal experimentation on the physical environment in contrast to formal knowledge learned in school) affects their educational practices. (RM)

The first of a three-part series examines major issues which underlie curriculum extension for exceptionally able students in the United Kingdom including rapid pace of instruction, social interaction, and needs of the gifted disadvantaged. Provided are three case studies that illustrate unsatisfactory learning experiences of preadolescent and…

Presents the author's experiences as an online student at the Open University (United Kingdom) as a case study to examine the relationship between interaction, reflection, and learning in distance education. Discusses reflection and experiential learning theory and proposes recommendations for course design that promotes the understanding of…

Proposes computer-supported cooperative learning (CSCL) as an organizational idea that can change the current educational process and connect schooling to the working world. Discusses three case studies from the University of Pretoria in which a CSCL environment was established to support the learning process, and explains the theoretical…

Presents and investigates a theoretical perspective on the development of understandings of mathematical operations with a particular focus on addition. Presents a case study on the development of a young boy and concludes that his attainment of aspects of operation sense supported transitions into algebraic ways of thinking. Contains 46…

Australian vocational education policy emphasizes training over learning. Eight case studies of small businesses reveal that they make limited use of structured training; learning varied by educational level of staff and characteristics of the business. A more holistic view of how knowledge is acquired in business is called for. (SK)

Explains differences between evaluation and assessment as used at the LEAD (Learning through Evaluation, Adaptation, and Dissemination) Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Highlights include researcher evaluation efforts; faculty assessment of students; the Learning through Technology (LT2) Web site; and a case study of assessment and…