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Thomas Ryberg – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2024
This article introduces work originating from the area of Networked Learning that seeks to problematise and critically discuss notions such as 'collaboration', 'community', and 'participation'. It argues that there is a dark and shadowy side to these ideals, which we need to attend to in a reflexive manner. To this end, it introduces ideas of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Problem Based Learning, Communities of Practice, Networks
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Dar, Wahid Ahmad; Jan, Kounsar – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2022
COVID-19 taught us the importance of personalized ICT use in the higher education context. In this scenario, the importance of researching student's ICT behaviour is becoming ever more crucial. This study investigates the influence of student alienation (SAL), socio-economic status, residential background, type of course, and gender on students'…
Descriptors: Correlation, Student Behavior, Alienation, Information Technology
Malkus, Nat – American Enterprise Institute, 2021
Young people who graduate from high school, get a job, and get married before having children, in that order, are far less likely to be in poverty and far more likely to have a solid footing in the middle class later in life. This path to adulthood has been dubbed the "success sequence." The cultural norms and values embedded in the…
Descriptors: Social Values, Success, Alienation, Teaching Methods
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du Toit, Jean; Verhoef, Anné H. – Transformation in Higher Education, 2018
Background: The use of digital technology in higher education is overwhelmingly positively assessed in most recent research literature. While some literature indicates certain challenges in this regard, in general, the emphasis is on an encouragement and promotion of digital technology in higher education. While we recognised the positive…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change
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Dukhan, Shalini – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
Formal education was used by the apartheid government to prepare black South Africans for manual labour, thus there was little curricular focus on the development of higher-order cognitive skills. With the abolition of apartheid in 1994, the education system was re-valued and re-evaluated to provide wider access to quality education; the focus of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Racial Segregation, Social Change, Blacks
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Rangel, Nicole – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2016
This article is concerned with the epidemic of alienation created by colonization and the ideologies that maintain systems of domination. More specifically, it argues that a decolonizing holistic pedagogy can help address the root of our individual and collective alienation to facilitate healing. This position is supported by the findings of an…
Descriptors: Poetry, Holistic Approach, Creativity, Course Descriptions
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Joo, K. P. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
Drawing upon cultural-historical activity theory, this research analyzed the structural contradictions existing in a variety of educational activities among a group of alienated adult students in Korea National Open University (KNOU). Despite KNOU's quantitative development in student enrollment, the contradictions shed light on how the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Alienation, Role, Foreign Countries
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Smit, Renee – Higher Education Research and Development, 2012
The increased diversity in the student body resulting from massification poses particular challenges to higher education. This article engages the uncritical use of the "disadvantage" discourse and its effect on pedagogy. It explores some of the challenges of coping with student diversity, with particular reference to the South African…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Experience, Student Diversity, Disadvantaged
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Gallant, Andrea – Educational Forum, 2011
There is research spanning the 20th century on student disengagement. Despite all the research, the problem remains. It is time to adopt a different perspective. This article attempts to make transparent the influences on disengagement in schools by applying Jean Gebser's (1985) empirical phenomenological study of cultural consciousness. What…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Research, Outcomes of Education, Teaching Methods
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Martin, Jonathan – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2008
This article considers the possibilities for fostering critical consciousness (awareness and understanding of oppression) among American working-class students in the face of their often severe educational alienation. After noting the failure of existing critical pedagogical literature to address this problem adequately, it establishes the…
Descriptors: Working Class, Critical Theory, Foreign Countries, Teaching Experience
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Ghaith, Ghazi M.; Shaaban, Kassim A.; Harkous, Samar A. – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2007
Studies on the effect of cooperative learning have demonstrated its efficacy in improving the cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes of schooling. However, it remains unclear what forms of cooperation are especially effective in multilingual contexts. This research examines the connection between positive goal interdependence and positive resource…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Multilingualism, Cooperative Learning, Grading
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Keating, Barbara R. – Teaching Sociology, 1987
Provides advice on minimizing classroom alienation (powerlessness, meaninglessness, normlessness, isolation, and self-estrangement) through specific classroom strategies. Concludes that student alienation effects learning as well as evaluation. A conscious effort to increase student integration improves teaching, student learning, and the…
Descriptors: Alienation, Educational Environment, Higher Education, Morale
Garskof, Bert – 1978
Both the forms and the content of current classroom practice fit into a generally repressive socialization pattern for students. The formal constituents of typical classroom practice in American higher education include grades, tests, grade distribution, syllabi and schedules, all of which contribute to a generally repressive socialization pattern…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Grading, Higher Education, Socialization
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Bassin, Alexander – Teaching of Psychology, 1974
Implementation in a college level course of the Therapeutic Community Teaching Concept, which creates a comforting community that values mutual concern, is described. (JH)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Sciences, College Instruction, Course Descriptions
Macchiarola, Frank J.; Skerrett, Joseph Taylor, Jr. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1971
Descriptors: Educational Media, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation, Student Alienation
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