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Chwialkowska, Agnieszka – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2020
While some institutions require their students to spend a semester abroad as a prerequisite to earning a business degree, academics challenge the view that travel abroad helps students become culturally competent. Many students admit that they failed to immerse themselves in a cross-cultural environment. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Cross Cultural Studies, Exchange Programs, Transformative Learning
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Ingleby, Ewan; Gibby, Caroline – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2016
This article is based on research on a foundation degree programme in paralegal education in England. The content explores the pedagogical benefits of this academic programme with its work-related focus. The research has been completed with academic tutors and students who are associated with a foundation degree programme in paralegal education in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Legal Education (Professions), Postsecondary Education, Program Effectiveness
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Kaihlavirta, Auri; Isomöttönen, Ville; Kärkkäinen, Tommi – Studies in Continuing Education, 2015
This paper provides a self-ethnographic investigation of a continuing education program in engineering in Central Finland. The program was initiated as a response to local economic structural change, in order to offer re-education possibilities for a higher educated workforce currently under unemployment threat. We encountered considerable…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Investigations, Continuing Education, Engineering Education
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Wynveen, Christopher J.; Kyle, Gerard T.; Tarrant, Michael A. – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2012
Short-term study abroad programs currently account for more than 50% of students who study overseas. Using an adaptation of the Value-Belief-Norm theory of proenvironmental behavior (Stern, 2000), we hypothesized that study abroad nurtures global citizenship related to ecologically conscious behaviors by strengthening core relations among…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Citizenship, Statistical Data, Foreign Countries
Hannaford, Ronald Geoffrey – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Factors associated with globalization and unprecedented technological advancement have facilitated the opportunity to take education beyond the boundaries of the physical classroom and geographical borders to serve a global context. While this exponential growth has resulted in more convenient access to learning, increased possibilities for…
Descriptors: Technological Advancement, Alienation, Well Being, Individual Development
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Upitis, Rena; Smithrim, Katharine; Garbati, Jordana; Ogden, Holly – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2008
Beginning in the summer of 2002, a Queen's University arts education research team has met weekly for art-making sessions. This research paper describes how this long-term art-making practice has influenced the personal and professional lives of the team, based on semi-standardized interviews with six participants and one observer of the…
Descriptors: Art Education, Adult Learning, Group Experience, Phenomenology
Good, Leslie – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Research indicates that it is common for elementary teachers to possess limited mathematics content knowledge, high levels of math anxiety, and low levels of mathematics teacher efficacy. Assuming action research as the chosen methodology, this research study was developed with the ultimate goal of improving how elementary teachers in my district…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Constructivism (Learning), Mathematics Teachers, Faculty Development
Ogden, Anthony C. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study builds on education abroad, global citizenship and academic development literatures by assessing the extent to which embedding brief international travel experiences into residentially-taught courses enhances academic development and promotes global citizenship. Such faculty-led, education abroad programs are referred to as…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Control Groups, Financial Needs, Travel
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Lyman, Linda L.; Gardner, Dianne C. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2008
Definitions are central to both the practice and the power of leadership. This deceptively simple supposition was the basis for an elective doctoral leadership seminar at Illinois State University designed and taught by Lyman in Fall 2005, and replicated by Gardner in Spring 2007. The authors featured the same texts and stimulated students'…
Descriptors: Seminars, Leadership Training, Leadership, Teaching Methods
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Flumerfelt, Shannon; Ingram, Ilene; Brockberg, Kevin; Smith, Julia – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2007
The advantages of transformative learning approaches in graduate education parallel the tenets of mentoring and lifelong learning. Under this theoretical framework, adult student achievement in leadership programming can be assessed as a developmental and individualized process. The mixed methods study presented here illustrates that it is…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Graduate Students, Academic Achievement, Transformative Learning
Hildenbrand, Susan M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The passage of current educational legislation such as the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act" (IDEA) and the more recent "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) Act has increased the desire for greater inclusion of students with disabilities in regular classrooms. Serving the need of all students in inclusive classrooms…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Student Teaching, Student Teachers, Action Research
Rossiter, Marsha – 2002
Increasingly, adult educators are using narrative and stories for many reasons, including their deep appeal, satisfaction, and cultural transcendence. As a fundamental structure of human meaning making narrative is a valuable classroom tool in that it can enable students to understand life events, personal actions, and solidify identity formation.…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Imel, Susan – 2002
A form of group learning, cohorts, has become increasingly attractive to administrators, instructors, and participants in adult education. Basic academic skills cohort learning supports three types of knowing: instrumental, socializing, and self-authoring; whereas, in higher and adult education cohort learning, the development of critical…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Adult Development, Adult Education