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Georgia Gregory; Senudi Malaweera Arachchige; Claire Moran; Matthew J. Gullo; Laura E. Anderson – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2024
Practitioners who work with children and young people such as educators, psychologists, and social workers, are required to understand and respond to various sexual behaviours in children and young people. However, there is a dearth of training programmes dealing with sexual development. To reduce over- and under-reporting of risk, which can have…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Sex Education, Sexuality, Foreign Countries
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Kovacic, Zora; Marcos-Valls, Alejandro – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Interdisciplinary research is gathering increasing support from sustainability scholars, however, there is little dialogue between scholarship on interdisciplinarity and interdisciplinary environmental science education. The aim of this paper is to take stock of the insights of studies of interdisciplinary research to inform environmental research…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Student Attitudes, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Rashid, Rafi – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
As the pressing problems of the real world are not organized into disciplinary categories, there is an urgent need to make doctoral education more interdisciplinary. As an extension of the border-crossing metaphor that is commonly used for interdisciplinarity, academic educators wishing to engage students in this activity might consider themselves…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Higher Education, Doctoral Programs, STEM Education
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Sophia Werden Abrams; Heather MacPhee; Linnea Hodge; Justine Hamilton; Ashwini Namasivayam-MacDonald – Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences & Disorders, 2024
Interprofessional education (IPE) occurs when students are provided the opportunity to learn with and from others of related professions to improve the potential for future collaboration. The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of students about working with professionals from different disciplines before and after their engagement in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interprofessional Relationship, Attitude Change, Masters Programs
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Piccardo, Chiara; Goto, Yutaka; Koca, Deniz; Aalto, Pasi; Hughes, Mark – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: Doctoral candidates possess specialized knowledge that could support sustainability transitions. Doctoral education, however, often focusses on discipline-specific topics and working methods, making it difficult to "see the bigger picture". This summer school on wood construction gathered doctoral candidates from different…
Descriptors: Barriers, Interdisciplinary Approach, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students
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Meniailo, Viktoriia; Gura, Olexandr – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2019
Ever since the European model of training of PhD students has been introduced in Ukraine in 2016, the issue of finding effective forms and methods of doctoral studies has been raised in the national education system. The aim of this study is to present a strategy for creating a project culture in which PhD students develop and implement real…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs, Student Projects, Problem Solving
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Misic, Gorana; Rymarenko, Margaryta; Dorner, Helga – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2021
This paper focuses on exploring the intellectual basis for establishing an academic development program for international doctoral students in social sciences and humanities in Central Europe so as to cultivate a reflective scholarly approach to teaching early on in their academic career. The program conceptions and practices are embedded in the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Humanities
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Shan, Hairong; Ayers, Natasha; Kiley, Margaret – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2020
Conceptions of research, which lead to approaches to research, provide useful insights into how candidates think about research. In terms of doctoral candidate development, understanding and appreciating these various conceptions can assist in supporting candidate learning. This study evaluated differences in conceptions of research between PhD…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Student Research
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Cisel, Matthieu; Barbier, Charlotte – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Student-Question-Based Inquiry (SQBI) represents a form of inquiry where pupils design their research questions, hypotheses, and protocols. The "Savanturiers" program aims at helping teachers overcome their potential apprehension of SQBI by matching hundreds of elementary and middle school teachers with mentors. These mentors are usually…
Descriptors: Mentors, Inquiry, Program Descriptions, Elementary School Teachers
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Landri, Paolo; Grimaldi, Emiliano – European Educational Research Journal, 2020
This editorial introduces the "European Educational Research Journal" special issue that hosts four articles co-authored by emerging researchers in the field of educational research in Europe who participated in the Summer School in European Education Studies. We present the Summer School in European Education Studies project, its…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Educational History
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Roberts, Paul – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
The interaction between doctoral education and social class is under-researched, yet is perceived to play an important part in securing social mobility. Research that does exist tends to focus on issues of access or transition, rather than considering experiences during the doctorate. This article focuses on doctoral students' experiences of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Social Class, Social Mobility, Doctoral Students
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Hanesová, Dana; Kosová, Beata – NORDSCI, 2018
At present there is an animated discussion in the well-known universities offering doctoral (PhD) studies about the future of their graduates. What kind of a job should they be prepared for? Should PhD studies continue to develop the academic excellence of their graduates and thus to prepare them for an academic career? Or should the universities…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Academic Achievement, Excellence in Education, Graduates
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Scott-Monkhouse, Anila R.; Tal, Michal; Yelenevskaya, Maria – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
This paper describes a joint programme developed in 2018 by the University of Parma Language Centre (Italy) and the Humanities and Arts Department of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. The aim of the project was to involve students of English for General Academic Purposes in delivering presentations to an unfamiliar foreign audience on a…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Program Descriptions, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
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Peters, Michael A.; Oladele, Ogunniran Moses; Green, Benjamin; Samilo, Artem; Lv, Hanfei; Amina, Laimeche; Wang, Yaqian; Chunxiao, Mou; Chunga, Jasmin Omary; Rulin, Xu; Ianina, Tatiana; Hollings, Stephanie; Farid Barsoum Yousef, Magdoline; Jandric, Petar; Sturm, Sean; Li, Jian; Xue, Eryong; Jackson, Liz; Tesar, Marek – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
This paper is an experiment in collective writing conducted in Autumn 2019 at the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. The experiment involves 12 international masters' students reading the course based on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), their professor Michael Peters, visiting professor Petar Jandric, and a mix of senior Chinese…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Writing Processes
Association of Commonwealth Universities, 2015
The Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP) is an international framework through which countries of the Commonwealth offer university scholarships and fellowships to citizens of other member states, forging enduring bonds between nations and creating valuable opportunities for cultural and academic exchange. Established by…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Fellowships, Educational Finance, Program Evaluation