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Downing, Sophie S.; Billotte Verhoff, China C. – Communication Teacher, 2023
The hidden curriculum (HC) consists of implicit knowledge rooted in curricula and found throughout students' experiences navigating higher education (e.g. understanding professional email etiquette, graduate school applications and funding opportunities, or often taken-for-granted programs like Title IX and disability accommodations). In this…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Hidden Curriculum, Communication (Thought Transfer), College Students
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Julie M. Bocetti; Valentina Alvarez; Donald E. Elmore; Adam G. W. Matthews – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2025
Community, inclusion, and perseverance are essential for student success in STEM. To promote these values, we developed two discussion-based activities for implementation in introductory college STEM courses. Both activities incorporate watching videos that portray scientists telling the stories of their career trajectory, in-class discussions,…
Descriptors: College Students, College Science, Science Education, Introductory Courses
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Jessica M. Parks; Sheri Worthy – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2023
Family and consumer sciences (FCS) is an interdisciplinary field in which professionals, regardless of their specialty area, will most likely need to interact with individuals and families in poverty. Several tools are available to help instructors teach college students about poverty. The Community Action Poverty Simulation (CAPS) has been widely…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Family and Consumer Sciences, Poverty, College Students
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Hanni Muukkonen; Anu Kajamaa – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
Background: Higher education is expected to prepare students with interdisciplinary learning (IDL), which is important for their educational and working life opportunities. The cocreation of knowledge in interdisciplinary teams offers multiple opportunities for the emergence of collective knowledge objects (KOs) and knowledge practices (KPs).…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Interdisciplinary Approach, Simulation, Higher Education
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Barbara Jacoby – Journal of College and Character, 2024
Every college and university has as one of its clear purposes to develop students' critical thinking. This is, of course, essential. However necessary critical thinking is as a goal of higher education, it is not sufficient on its own. Critical reflection is a vital complement to critical thinking. Critical reflection enables students to…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Student Development, Skill Development, Reflection
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Scholkmann, Antonia; Lolle, Elisabeth Lauridsen – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2021
This paper presents a model which can be used to help teachers to design pedagogical opportunities for meaningful reflections in higher education. Within the PBL Future initiative of Aalborg University, we worked with a group of students from different study programmes and levels. In a three-semester long process these students engaged in a series…
Descriptors: Models, Reflection, Higher Education, Learning Activities
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Curry-Stevens, Ann; Jarvis, Rayne – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
Caucusing, as a social justice activity, is traditionally implemented to provide an insider space for marginalized persons to share experiences and build a space for belonging and safety by excluding those who hold privileged identities. Within a particular event that combines privileged and oppressed, experiences are uneven, with insiders…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Sense of Community, Student Empowerment, Social Justice
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Poldma, Tiiu; Di Fabio, Lora; Hammouni, Zakia – LEARNing Landscapes, 2021
This paper explores how students connect meaningfully with theory through the aesthetic experiences of problem solving together in the context of a workshop. It can be challenging for students studying design in university programs to understand how theory is relevant, when applied in practical design studio activities. In the colour workshop…
Descriptors: Reflection, Problem Solving, Color, Theories
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Poe, Laura F.; Brooks, Nita G.; Korzaan, Melinda; Hulshult, Andrea R.; Woods, David M. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2021
The growth-mindset was examined to determine student perception of success by incorporating goalsetting activities into the course curriculum. Faculty at three universities conducted a mixed methods study to examine the extent to which reflection and planning activities designed to engage a growth-mindset focus through setting SMART (Specific,…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Reflection, Planning, Student Attitudes
P. C. Walker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This narrative inquiry study explored the transformational learning experiences of students who attended Christian colleges and universities in the United States. The problem addressed in this study is the need for Christian colleges and universities to identify what constitutes and contributes to the transformative experiences conveyed by…
Descriptors: Religious Colleges, Christianity, Transformative Learning, College Students
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Joslyn, Cole Hatfield; Hynes, Morgan M. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
The goal of this work was to explore ways, within an existing engineering curriculum, to address the culture of disengagement by challenging the dominant engineering mindset. We conducted Collaborative Action Research to explore the implementation of Transformative Learning pedagogies in a Human-Centered Design context to understand how students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transformative Learning, Learning Theories, Student Attitudes
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Johnathan Balzotti; Jamin Rowan; Mat Duerden – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
This essay reevaluates the role of reflection in experiential learning programs, contrasting traditional solitary ref lection methods with contemporary approaches that integrate collaboration and multimodal expression. These new approaches highlight a shift toward more flexible and interactive methods, reflecting the influence of new technologies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transformative Learning, Reflection, College Students
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Julie E. Speer; Zain Clapacs – Biomedical Engineering Education, 2022
Options for incarcerated individuals to participate in higher education in prison programs (HEPPs) have expanded in recent years to include courses in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, however these students remain an underserved population in the United States. Thus, there are opportunities to expand the available offerings,…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Engineering Education, Research Methodology, Courses
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Eisen, Daniel B. – Teaching Sociology, 2020
Colorblind ideology provides individuals with numerous ways to minimize racism. This poses a challenge for instructors who teach about race and racism as students deploy this ideology to derail classroom discussions. Student resistance may be amplified when discussing microaggressions because students often characterize focusing on…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Aggression, Reflection, Learning Activities
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Atman, Cynthia J. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2020
This paper presents two reflection activities that supported the creation of community and a sense of caring for students learning in an online environment in the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first activity, students indicated how they were feeling in terms of hope/despair, stress/calm and energy level in a "check-in" slide at the beginning…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Caring, Reflection, Web Based Instruction
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