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Kristin Dutcher Mann – History Teacher, 2025
Historians sometimes view teaching and community engagement as peripheral to research. Self-reflection on the design of assignments, pedagogy techniques, and students' work aids teachers as they refine their teaching, and it can also inform research questions and methods. Teaching, research, and community engagement do not have to be separate…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Authentic Learning, History Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Sam Elkington; Paul Chesterton – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Studies reporting flexible assessment strategies and their impact across different modes of study remain limited with little emphasis placed on the role these arrangements play in devising authentic assessment processes. This paper synthesises recent research work depicting flexible design principles and practice strategies for how educators might…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Design, Teaching Methods
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Meriläinen, Merja; Piispanen, Maarika – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2022
Early foreign language teaching has recently been made compulsory in Finland, making this an area open to development and innovation where policy-makers and teachers play a significant role in creating new kinds of learning environments, operating cultures, and pedagogy for foreign language learning. This article discusses the early foreign…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Play, Authentic Learning, Second Language Learning
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Gajendran, Thayaparan; Tucker, Chris; Ware, Sueanne; Tose, Hollie S. – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2022
Work-integrated learning WIL provides an opportunity for integrating Indigenous and Western learning pedagogies and facilitate a meaningful pathway for authentic learning through developing partnerships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous stakeholders. However, research in developing WIL with Indigenous communities and appropriate learning…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Foreign Countries
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Schmidt, Karsten; Winsløw, Carl – International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2021
A central problem in undergraduate mathematics education for future engineers consists in the perceived and actual relevance of the mathematical content. One strategy to strengthen both is to let students experience how that content appears in posing and solving authentic problems from the field of engineering which the students have signed up to…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Engineering Education, Mathematics Activities, Undergraduate Students
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Shira Joudan; Holly Barrett; Amila O. De Silva; Shane R. de Solla; Hui Peng; Jessica C. D'eon – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Fieldwork is a meaningful and authentic learning experience that is rarely included in undergraduate chemistry courses. In this laboratory, we visited a hot spot of perfluoroalkyl acid (PFAA) contamination identified in 2012, in Binbrook, Ontario, Canada, a 1 h drive from the University of Toronto. The persistence and unique environmental…
Descriptors: Laboratory Experiments, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Field Experience Programs
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Torchon, Jeff – Music Educators Journal, 2022
A priority of music educators across the globe continues to be the incorporation of music from various cultures into the classroom. In this article, the term "authenticity" is introduced as it applies to music education. Authentic music teaching experiences for use in the classroom from the West African Ewe music, Cuban cha-cha-chá, and…
Descriptors: Music Education, Authentic Learning, Cultural Awareness, Ethnic Diversity
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Aleksandra Ilic Rajkovic; Nataša Nikolic – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
The study deals with the outdoor learning approach developed by Sreten Adžic (1856-1933), who is considered the founder of the outdoor learning movement in Serbia. He greatly influenced pedagogical practice as a primary-school teacher, professor, and teacher-training school manager. According to this approach, the term outdoor learning had two…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Outdoor Education, Social Systems, School Buildings
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Barnaby, Julie; Devins, David; Beech, Nicholas – Industry and Higher Education, 2021
It is recognized that the value of entrepreneurship education and the recruitment of practising entrepreneurs for such learning programmes can be problematic. This raises an important and challenging issue for universities when they are increasingly being asked to develop the leadership and management capabilities of entrepreneurs. In this account…
Descriptors: Simulation, Business Skills, Entrepreneurship, Decision Making Skills
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Gavell, Mina – English Teaching Forum, 2021
One of the biggest challenges seasoned English language teacher Mina Gavell has faced in the classroom is how to liven up reading classes. Not only is reading inherently a quiet and solo task, but the standard skills teachers are trying to build in their students--skimming, scanning, making predictions and inferences, guessing vocabulary meaning…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Authentic Learning, Reading Skills
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Conway, Robin; Scott, Amy – Teaching History, 2020
In this article, Robin Conway and Amy Scott show how they made use of online source archives to replicate the experience of an academic historian in the classroom. By changing the way that students approach sources, moving away from both 'fun activities' and formulaic exam preparation towards a more authentic experience, they show how students'…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Archives, Primary Sources, Historians
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Bettina Dahl; Hans Hüttel; Jakob Gulddahl Rasmussen; Morten Grud Rasmussen – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2023
Many universities throughout the world apply student-centered approaches. Common to these is that projects, problems, challenges etc. stem from "real life". Mathematics is an effective tool to solve problems, but in this paper, we discuss how we reconcile the fact that mathematics is both a pure and an applied discipline with…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Student Centered Learning, Universities, Problem Solving
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Pittman, Iulia – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2022
German is a pluricentric language with many standard and nonstandard varieties. Students of German are usually unaware of its rich regional variation, and studies attribute this to limited resources and instructional time (van Kerckvoorde, 2012). The "DACH" model of teaching German, which includes linguistic and cultural elements from…
Descriptors: Regional Characteristics, Differences, Language Variation, German
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Jane Watson; Noleine Fitzallen – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2024
Statistics need data and data need context. Contexts from across the curriculum can be the most powerful in creating interest, reward, and enthusiasm for both teachers and students. The activity described here is based in STEM, employing aspects of each field to create and solve a hypothetical problem of escaping from an erupting volcano (Science)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Science
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Sawatzki, Carly; Sullivan, Peter – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2019
This article from Carly Sawatzki and Peter Sullivan encourages schools and teachers to consider ways to embed financial literacy tasks in mathematics lessons more often, and includes an authentic task to try with your students.
Descriptors: Money Management, Mathematics Instruction, Authentic Learning, Consumer Education
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