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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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Elisavet Lazarakou – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2024
The paper investigates the potential of utilizing artistic creation as an alternative task for assessing students in a non-artistic course within higher education. Eighteen postgraduate students of the Department of Pedagogy and Primary Education of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, after attending a six-hour course in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary Education
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Hayes, David – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2015
Critical thinking pedagogy is misguided. Ostensibly a cure for narrowness of thought, by using the emotions appropriate to conflict, it names only one mode of relation to material among many others. Ostensibly a cure for fallacies, critical thinking tends to dishonesty in practice because it habitually leaps to premature ideas of what the object…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods, Beliefs, Misconceptions
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Jahnke, Isa; Haertel, Tobias; Wildt, Johannes – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
Creativity is one of the important skills of the twenty-first century and central to higher education (HE). When we look closer into research on creativity in HE, however, it is not clear how university teachers conceptualise student creativity. How do teachers grasp, observe and express student creativity? Different methods such as interviews and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
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Wilcox, Susan; Leger, Andy B. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2013
In this paper we report on research we conducted to begin the process of identifying threshold concepts in the field of postsecondary teaching. Meyer & Land (2006) propose that within all disciplinary fields there seem to be particular "threshold concepts" that serve as gateways, opening up new and previously inaccessible ways of…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Higher Education, Concept Formation, College Faculty
Staking, Kimberlee – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Although university students are key participants in knowledge-making processes, their insights about learning are sparsely documented, and too rarely considered in contemporary conversations in higher education. In centering the insights and experiences of students enrolled in two women's studies courses at the University of Maryland, this…
Descriptors: Womens Studies, Higher Education, Universities, Electronic Learning