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Charikova, Irina; Zhadanov, Victor – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2017
The relevance of the problem under study is conditioned by the socially important need of the contemporary university education to train highly qualified personnel in all directions of activity, to form and develop a professional person of a high intellectual, moral and spiritual culture. The objective of the paper consists in giving theoretical…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Training Methods
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Stoessel, Katharina; Ihme, Toni A.; Barbarino, Maria-Luisa; Fisseler, Björn; Stürmer, Stefan – Research in Higher Education, 2015
Current higher education is characterized by a proliferation of distance education programs and by an increasing inclusion of nontraditional students. In this study we investigated whether and to what extent nontraditional students are particularly at risk for attrition (vs. graduating) from distance education programs. We conducted a secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Distance Education, Nontraditional Students
Hateley, B. J. – 1982
This paper, written for counselors and educators, describes a course in guided autobiography (a self-narrative which is structured around important life themes such as family, work, health, love and death) and its role in developmental psychology. A description of the course which is structured around three components, lectures, writing…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Course Content, Developmental Psychology, Higher Education
Frost, Susan H.; Jean, Paul M. – 1999
This qualitative case study explores the influences of sustained discourse across disciplines on college faculty attitudes and behaviors related to scholarship and intellectual interaction. The study, conducted at Emory University (Georgia), involved 25 faculty who had participated in a series of semester-long seminars that explored topics of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Faculty, Educational Research, Faculty College Relationship
Butt, Richard L.; And Others – 1990
This paper reports on some speculations arising from a long-term research project which utilizes data from teachers' autobiographies in understanding the nature of teachers' knowledge and development. The work is part of an increasing body of research which uses biographical methods to aid in understanding teachers' lives, careers, cultures, and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Context Effect, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Dickie, Simonne D. M. – 1999
A phenomenological hermeneutic approach was used to explore the process of being and becoming a distance learner and ways the distance learning environment is inhabited or known. The study's author analyzed her own distance learning experiences and those of three other individuals (two females and one male) with an interest in education and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Distance Education, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives