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Pascale F. Engelmajer; Massimo A. Rondolino – Honors in Practice, 2024
What do students hear when we talk of mindfulness? To reframe unexamined assumptions among students who conceptualize both mindfulness and honors education as "doing more" (more exercises to gain psychological benefits and more work to gain higher GPAs), the authors of this paper piloted a new course in philosophy and religious studies.…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Cooperative Learning, Team Teaching, Metacognition
Da Tien Nguyen – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2025
This paper reviews the literature on Project-Based Learning (PjBL) as an experiential pedagogical methodology in general education. Using VOSviewer, a bibliometric analysis tool, the review explores the evolution, key themes, and prominent research trends within the PjBL field. The analysis identifies influential publications, authors, and…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Experiential Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach
Lam, Adrian Man-Ho – ECNU Review of Education, 2023
Purpose: This research is an interview-based study that captures the academics' perspectives toward the planning and design of an interdisciplinary General Education Curriculum for undergraduate students in the Chinese context, using the Common Core Curriculum at the University of Hong Kong as a case study. Design/Approach/Methods: A total of 28…
Descriptors: General Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Curriculum Design, Core Curriculum
Allen, Megan E. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Across American higher education interest in interdisciplinary education has exploded, and perhaps nowhere more so than in undergraduate general education. While students are the ultimate recipients of interdisciplinary curricula and vital stakeholders in the quality-monitoring process, the perspectives and experiences of students have been…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Student Experience, College Curriculum
Melissa A. Lloyd – Journal of General Music Education, 2025
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is a topic of growing interest and relevance to music educators, particularly those who teach elementary general music. While there are natural connections between music education and SEL, the incorporation of SEL into a music curriculum must be done with purpose and intent. Many elementary general music teachers…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Educational Objectives, Student Evaluation, Social Emotional Learning
Wang, Dongfang; Xu, Yasi – Higher Education Forum, 2021
As the primary example of best practice of liberal arts education, curricula in American liberal arts college have some distinctive features. Guided by the principle of integrating curriculum breadth and depth, both general education and major courses in liberal arts colleges may develop in a balanced way. Even the curriculum implementation at…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Liberal Arts, Curriculum Development, Integrated Curriculum
Paul Hanstedt – American Association of Colleges and Universities, 2024
Supplying an insightful introduction to current trends in general education reform, this second edition of "General Education Essentials: A Guide for College Faculty" gives an important, timely overview of general education curricular design. General education curricula provide students with the intellectual flexibility they need to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teaching Guides, Curriculum Design, General Education
Esch, Emily – Journal of General Education, 2020
This article shares the key feature of a successful general education curriculum reform effort: the creation and approval of Guiding Principles that governed both the process of reform and the design of the curriculum. The author pays special attention to the role of Guiding Principles in shaping the design and content of curricula. The Guiding…
Descriptors: General Education, Educational Change, Curriculum Design, Educational Principles
Amy M. Ertwine – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2023
To understand retention, evaluation of guided pathways implementation is an important tool. In an effort to help students succeed, colleges often give students a specified set of core courses and a specific or even prescribed pathway to complete their general education requirements. Retention efforts are always a topic with administrators at…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Community Colleges, Concept Mapping, Curriculum Design
Margaret T. Pesch – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this semester-long project was to redesign the ninth grade English language arts curriculum to include a literacy-based multicomponent intervention to meet the needs of developing readers, while simultaneously maintaining a rigorous curriculum challenging proficient readers in a general education classroom. I examined peer-reviewed…
Descriptors: General Education, Grade 9, Language Arts, Reading Skills
Mckenzie Huber; Lori Kayes; John Edwards – Journal of General Education, 2021
Reforming general education is challenging for institutions due to inertia, institutional politics, budgets, and structural barriers. Oregon State University recently adopted a new structure for its general education curriculum that increases access to high-impact practices, decreases overall credit hours in general education, and links directly…
Descriptors: Land Grant Universities, State Universities, Barriers, Educational Change
Yarbrough, Wynn – Journal of General Education, 2020
This critical reflection briefly chronicles the transition of a general education program from a distributive model to an integrative model and the resulting Capital Capstone Course (CCC) at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC). The article describes a year long, team-based, experiential course that "caps" off our…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Universities, Capstone Experiences, Interdisciplinary Approach
Knight, Floyd – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2023
Disciplinary Literacy (DL) is a pedagogical- and andragogic-centered academic discipline that has entered its third decade. DL seeks to observe and describe how scholars in a particular field cognitively approach and process what they do while those scholars read primary and secondary literary texts, examine material culture, perform experiments,…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Literacy, Biblical Literature, Andragogy
Kopacz, Dawn M.; Handlos, Zachary J. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
General education science courses strive to promote scientific literacy and the development of scientific process skills. However, research shows that many general education courses are still designed to stress content mastery. In this study, the number of topics in five semester-long introductory atmospheric science courses was reduced to…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Science Process Skills, Scientific Literacy
Payne, Brian K.; He, Wu; Wang, Cong; Wittkower, D. E.; Wu, Hongyi – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2021
This paper describes an interdisciplinary effort involving faculty from five different disciplines who came together to develop an interdisciplinary, open, general education cybersecurity course. The course, Cybersecurity, Technology, and Society, brings together ideas from interdisciplinary studies, information technology, engineering, business,…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Interdisciplinary Approach, Curriculum Development, General Education