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Yoshizawa, Go; Iwase, Mineyo; Okumoto, Motoko; Tahara, Keiichiro; Takahashi, Shingo – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
A value-centered approach to science, technology and society (STS) education illuminates the need of reflexive and relational learning through communication and public engagement. Visualization is a key to represent and compare mental models such as assumptions, background theories and value systems that tacitly shape our own understanding,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workshops, Q Methodology, Visualization
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Bhowmik, Subrata K.; Kim, Marcia – TESOL Journal, 2018
With a burgeoning international student population, most universities around the world offer English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses. Because classes are so diverse, it is challenging to meet the specific needs of EAP students. Keeping this status quo as a departure point, the authors discuss a five-prong strategy for teaching EAP, which…
Descriptors: College Preparation, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Synnott, Michael – Teaching Public Administration, 2013
This paper focuses on the potential role of reflection and double loop learning in policy analysis and shared community learning. The discussion is illustrated by the case of HS2, a proposed high-speed railway project in England. It is noted that the foundation of social learning models is a rejection of traditional reliance on technologies or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Administration Education, Reflection, Transformative Learning
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Mino, Jack J. – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2014
The practice of documentation is discussed as a means of making learning visible in the LC classroom. A documentation heuristic consisting of a four-stage cycle was used to capture, analyze and report what Bass and Eynon (2009) refer to as the "visible evidence of invisible learning" (p. 5). A variety of documentation samples are…
Descriptors: Documentation, Communities of Practice, Heuristics, Learning Processes
Miller, Donna L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
Although the human mind resists confusion, this feeling of disequilibrium nurtures learning. Newkirk, the author quotes, says intelligence is not a matter of being smart--it is the capacity to view difficulty as an opportunity to stop, reassess, and employ strategies for making sense of problems. These same habits of mind define reflection, a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Problem Solving, Reflection, Attitudes