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Cohen, Jonathan D.; Jones, W. Monty; Smith, Shaunna – Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2018
This qualitative study examined preservice and early career teachers' preconceptions and misconceptions about making in education. Eighty-two preservice and early career teachers participated in brief, one-time maker workshops, then wrote reflections on their experiences. Using constant comparative analysis, researchers uncovered two common…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Preservice Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Steenekamp, Karen; van der Merwe, Martyn; Mehmedova, Aygul Salieva – South African Journal of Education, 2018
This paper explores the views of student teachers who were provided vicarious learning opportunities during an educational excursion, and how the learning enabled them to develop their teacher professional identity. This qualitative research study, using a social-constructivist lens highlights how vicarious learning influenced student teachers'…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Professional Identity, Qualitative Research, Preservice Teacher Education
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Schaefer, Zachary A.; Lynch, Owen H. – Communication Teacher, 2017
Courses: Qualitative Research Methods, Ethnographic Research Methods. Objective: This purpose of this activity is to document the enculturation process through which students begin to understand a new culture during a study abroad experience. To accomplish this, we created a new pedagogical approach for study abroad experiences that involved a…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Study Abroad, Learning Experience, Qualitative Research
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Annobil, Charles Nyarko; Thompson, Mumuni – Educational Research and Reviews, 2018
Even though previous research points to the significance of kindergarten teachers' practices which consider the nature of children and how they learn, there is still limited research regarding how learning activities impact children's development. To address this gap in literature, a qualitative multi-case study into teachers' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Classroom Techniques, Class Activities, Teacher Attitudes
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Boulton-Lewis, Gillian M.; Buys, Laurie – Educational Gerontology, 2015
This paper reports on the findings of qualitative, semistructured interviews conducted with 40 older Australian participants who either did or did not engage in organized learning. Phenomenology was used to guide the interviews and analysis to explore the lived learning experiences and perspectives of these older people. Their experiences of…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Aging (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research
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Wilson, Adrianne – International Journal of Teacher Leadership, 2016
The primary purpose of this research is to illuminate perceptions and lived experiences of secondary teachers through their involvement in a Professional Learning Community (PLC). Teachers' experiences within a PLC were examined for patterns of cultivated leadership. The second purpose of the study was to identify variables that either promote or…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Leadership, Professionalism, Secondary School Teachers
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Zulch, Debbie; Saunders, Rosemary; Peters, Judith; Quinlivan, Julie – International Journal of Training Research, 2016
This paper explores the impact of a student learning activity involving service learning. As part of a vocational course in the Academy of Health Sciences at a Western Australian TAFE (Technical and Further Education) institute, Allied Health Assistant (AHA) students participated in a service learning program focused on work-based learning in…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Allied Health Occupations Education, Qualitative Research, Quality of Life
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Abdul Rahim, Fauziah; Chun, Lee Seung – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2017
Purpose: This study investigated rural English teachers' perceptions of factors which influence the literacy development of young learners in rural school settings. This investigation led to a further enquiry on the dimensions of an affective literacy framework to support the English learning of rural young learners. Methodology: The study…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Rural Areas
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Baeten, Marlies; Simons, Mathea; Schelfhout, Wouter; Pinxten, Rianne – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
Teacher education institutes are in search of alternative models of field experiences, inspired by collaborative learning. This study examines team teaching. We focus upon the assistant teaching model, in which the student teacher assists the mentor during teaching. We investigate which assisting activities student teachers prefer, how student…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Field Experience Programs, Nontraditional Education, Student Teaching
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Dean, Suzanne; Williams, Claire; Donnelly, Samantha; Levett-Jones, Tracy – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
University programs are currently faced with a number of challenges: how to engage students as active learners, how to ensure graduates are "work ready" with broad and relevant professional skills, and how to support students to see their potential as agents of social change and contributors to social good. This paper presents the…
Descriptors: Females, Active Learning, Safety, Social Change
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Jang, Yeona – Education for Information, 2015
Social media and collaboration technologies are viewed as valuable tools for creating a new reality of collaborative learning, particularly in higher education facing millennials growing up with various technologies in their daily lives. Using the example of an undergraduate course taught on-campus, this study examines how millennial students in…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Qualitative Research, Cooperative Learning, Learning Activities
Morgan, John Andrew Kerlin – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The goal of this study was to explore how exemplary teachers design learning activities that incorporate the use of technology. Teachers at three schools in a school district in Southern California were solicited for a survey regarding their use of technology in the classroom. Based on the surveys, high and low technology implementers were…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Learning Activities, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education
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Leung, Yat-yin – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2015
This paper reports the findings from the interview data of a research aiming at studying how to trigger students' situational interest in physics and its implications on learning and teaching in the New Senior Secondary (NSS) physics curriculum. 49 students from a boys' school were invited to write one to three learning experiences in physics that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Seniors, Student Interests, Science Interests
Shimmi, Yukiko – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study is to examine the reasons why Japanese visiting scholars visited the United States, their activities and experiences during their visits, their challenges and support for their transition, and personal and contextual factors that affected their transition in different stages. Although short-term international scholar…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange, Foreign Nationals, Learning Activities
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Chin, Jui-Chih; Tsuei, Mengping – Educational Technology & Society, 2014
The aim of this study was to explore the digital game-based learning for children with chronic illnesses in the hospital settings. The design-based research and qualitative methods were applied. Three eight-year-old children with leukemia participated in this study. In the first phase, the multi-user game-based learning system was developed and…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Video Games, Teaching Methods, Young Children
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