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Mella R. McCormick – ProQuest LLC, 2024
An ongoing concern in higher education is the disjunction between how faculty teach and how students learn best. A primary objective of higher education is to produce content experts, which does not automatically translate to expert teachers of content. Lacking formal instruction on how to teach their content, faculty often teach in the same…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Metacognition, Teaching Methods, Influences
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Piia Parviainen; Kenneth Eklund; Merja Koivula; Tarja Liinamaa; Niina Rutanen – Early Education and Development, 2024
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore changes in pedagogical awareness of teaching early mathematical skills among teachers in early childhood education (N =7) when participating in a tailored professional development (PD) program in mathematics. The program, which was designed around principles of transformative learning, was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Education
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Ashlyn Pierson; D. Teo Keifert; Bethany Daniel; Sarah Lee; Tessaly Jen; Adam Bell; Heather Johnson; Rachel Askew; Andrea Henrie – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
In this paper, we examine how researchers and teachers in a multi-year professional development program shifted their conceptualizations of equity. Following (Grapin et al (2023) Sci Educ 107:999-1032), we ground our analysis in two conceptualizations of equity that exist across fields: equity-as-access (learners should have access to disciplinary…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Faculty Development, Equal Education
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Milner, Alison L.; Scholkmann, Antonia – Professional Development in Education, 2023
Twenty-first century problems have forced international policymakers to consider how education might be reimagined so that citizens have the knowledge and skills to respond to the known and unknown challenges ahead and take an active role in the creation of future societies. While it has been suggested that problem-oriented curricular and…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Professionalism, Faculty Development, Problem Based Learning
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Mark Hofer; Adam Barger; Kelly Leffel; Katalin Wargo – To Improve the Academy, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to remote, blended, and online teaching and learning presented universities around the world with myriad challenges. This rapid shift into uncharted territory, however, also created an opportunity for faculty developers to lead exploration of new pedagogies, challenging teaching assumptions. In this article, we…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Communities of Practice, Educational Change, COVID-19
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Robin Jocius; Jennifer Albert; W. Ian O'Byrne; Deepti Joshi; Richard Robinson; Melanie Blanton – Computer Science Education, 2024
Background and Context: Using a transformative learning framework, this qualitative study examines the perspectives and practices of 70 middle and high school content area teachers who attended two or more summer professional development workshops. Objective: This study describes how teachers' disciplinary perspectives and backgrounds influence…
Descriptors: Computation, Transformative Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Melinda Turner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Medical school faculty often lack formal training in effective teaching methods, posing a challenge to their ability to deliver high-quality education. To facilitate high-quality teaching and help medical faculty grow professionally, academically, and scholarly, the burden for training faculty was placed on each medical school's faculty…
Descriptors: Medical School Faculty, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Moore, Sabrina; Roche, Joseph; Bell, Laura; Neenan, Emer Emily – Journal of Museum Education, 2020
The growth of the Maker Movement has had a profound impact on museum education, particularly in science centers and museums that have established Maker Spaces, Fab Labs, or Tinkering Studios. While this has resulted in new educational practice taking root in these organizations, it has also raised the question of how best to support museum…
Descriptors: Museums, Reflection, Entrepreneurship, Educational Practices
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Ralph Buck; Barbara Snook – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2024
This article reflects on a week-long staff professional development program at Tezpur University), Assam, India, conducted during mid-December 2023. As a focus of the professional development, staff from the Cultural Studies Department along with visiting academics and staff from other departments at Tezpur University learned how to teach…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Teaching Methods, Critical Theory, Transformative Learning
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McCaw, Christopher T. – Journal of Educational Change, 2023
At the level of classroom practice, forms of teacher thinking are central to local processes of educational change. In the last decade, "reflexivity" has been promoted as a mode of teacher thinking which has the capacity to transform several aspects of teaching practice. The developing interest in reflexivity both emerges from, and seeks…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Thinking Skills
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Colleen Ryan; Margaret McAllister; Craig Batty; Robert Vanderburg; Jan Cattoni – Educational Action Research, 2024
Clinical nurse educators within Queensland, Australia, tend to be selected for the job based on their clinical expertise and consequently may lack knowledge of educational theories and practices. Within the Nursing School in which this project was based, there is interest in developing expertise in Transformative Learning theory. To share this…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Clinical Experience, Student Placement, Educational Theories
Claudia M. Cabrera – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Reclassification is a crucial educational student outcome when a school system determines that a student is English proficient and ready for mainstream instruction without language support services (Umansky et al., 2020). This study examined the relationship between crucial and complex language ideologies of dual language teachers and the…
Descriptors: Classification, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Cahill, Helen; Dadvand, Babak – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2022
Teaching about gender-based violence involves dealing with a form of difficult knowledge and as such calls for substantial emotional, political and pedagogical labour on the part of educators. In this paper, we discuss how we have drawn on theoretical perspectives offered by Judith Butler, along with the Deleuzian notion of affective assemblages…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Sex, Violence, Transformative Learning
Simpson, Jen – Development Education Research Centre, 2022
With school budgets at their tightest and a wealth of choices for teacher Continuing Professional Development (CPD), how do senior leaders make the right decisions on training which will deliver real change to classroom practice? CPD must go beyond adding content and resources to an already overwhelmed curriculum but also consider how teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Professional Continuing Education, Teaching Methods
Ibrahim Soykan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As global challenges such as climate change, shifting job markets, and technological advances intensify, educational systems must adapt to equip students with essential 21st-century skills. While countries like Singapore, Ireland, Australia, and Finland have created flexible education systems to meet these demands, the United States faces a…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Teaching Methods, Leadership Styles, Principals
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