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D. Joel Whalen; Charles Drehmer; Andrew Cavanaugh – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2024
This My Favorite Assignment (MFA) article features 11 teaching innovations first presented at the 2023 Association for Business Communication Annual International Conference held Denver, Colorado, USA. These assignments are designed to boost students' writing, persuasion, crisis management skills, and personal and professional development.
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Writing Assignments, Business Communication, Persuasive Discourse
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King, Steve; McClatchey, Irene Searles; Channer, Bianca – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2022
Experiential learning in the field is central to the training of many helping professionals, and field education is the signature pedagogy for social work. Service-learning offers another opportunity for graduate students in the helping professions to get hands on training. Volunteering would also offer a hands-on learning experience but appears…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Camps, Volunteers, Student Attitudes
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Hashad, Dalia – International Journal of Self-Directed Learning, 2019
This study explored the self-directed approaches to learning that young adults in Egypt pursue after college graduation through examination of their motivations for learning as well as the influence of the tools of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on their self-directed learning experiences. Using a mixed method design, a total of…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Independent Study, Young Adults, College Graduates
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Zhang, Bingbing; Szente, Judit; Levin, Judith – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
The present study explores the experiences of fifteen Early Childhood pre-professionals on a University lead short-term study abroad program to Finland. The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of the 10-day-long experience on students' attitudes and perceptions particularly on their professional growth, personal, and cultural gains.…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Teacher Education Programs, Student Attitudes, Preservice Teachers
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Jönsson, Julia; Maltestam, Malin; Tops, Anita Bengtsson; Garmy, Pernilla – Journal of School Nursing, 2019
The aim was to describe school nurses' experiences working with students with mental health problems. In this inductive qualitative study, interviews were conducted with 14 school nurses in Sweden. The content analysis revealed three themes: (1) sense of worriedness about working with students with mental health problems, (2) taking care of…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Mental Health, Foreign Countries, Coping
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McLachlan, Kath; Rawlings-Sanaei, Felicity; Mason, Colina; Haski-Levanthal, Debbie; Nabeel, Hussein – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2017
Professional and Community Engagement (PACE) at Macquarie University offers undergraduate students experiential learning opportunities with local, regional and international partners. Through PACE, students work on mutually beneficial projects that both meet the partner's organizational goals and enable students to strengthen graduate capabilities…
Descriptors: Social Change, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students
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Schoeman, S.; Mabunda, P. L. – South African Journal of Education, 2012
This study investigates the interplay between individual and contextual variables during teaching practice and its impact on the personal and socio-professional development of prospective teachers. The purpose of the study was to survey how prospective teachers experienced the process of becoming aware of their emerging identities as teachers, and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Social Development, Individual Development, Student Teaching
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Chambers, Dianne J.; Lavery, Shane – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
There is recognition that involvement in service-learning can impact positively on the development of pre-service teachers professionally, culturally and academically (Billig & Freeman, 2010; Anderson, 1998). This article explores and describes the experiences of pre-service teachers in the School of Education at the University of Notre Dame…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Service Learning, Foreign Countries, Empathy
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Moorosi, Pontso – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
This article explores the notion of leadership identity construction as it happens through a leadership development programme. Influenced by a conception that leadership development is essentially about facilitating an identity transition, it uses an intersectional approach to explore school leaders' identity construction as it was shaped and…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Professional Identity, Educational Experience, Learning Experience
Roby, Leadriane L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Formal mentoring programs focus on the probationary period of new teachers. Providing teachers with mentoring support during the initial years of teaching requires significant commitment and investment from school districts, mentors, and new teachers. Numerous studies argue the merits of mentoring programs, yet the research has been less clear…
Descriptors: Mentors, Beginning Teacher Induction, Program Effectiveness, Followup Studies
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Wolfensberger-Le Fevre, Celeste; Fritz, Elzette; van der Westhuizen, Gert – South African Journal of Education, 2011
This article explores how participation in a community of learning supported transformation on a personal and professional level in a Master's programme at a South African university. It draws on the concept of transformational learning in the professional preparation of educational psychologists, and how such learning plays out in the development…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Group Dynamics, Group Unity, Masters Programs
Mentkowski, Marcia; And Others – 1983
Alumnae of Alverno College were studied to determine how they were learning to learn at work, how they describe lifelong learning, and what factors promote transfer of learning to professional performance and careering after college. Interviews were conducted with 32 alumnae, and questionnaires were administered to 56 alumnae and 63 seniors.…
Descriptors: Alumni, College Curriculum, College Graduates, College Seniors
Salling Olesen, Henning – 2000
The question of how to theorize the subjective side of work within a life history perspective was explored. The findings of a study on engineers' subjective recognition of their lives, their education and jobs, and their life perspectives and the findings of a study of continuing education within a number of white-collar and semiprofessional work…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Biographies, Engineers
Mumford, Alan, Ed. – 1997
This book contains 34 papers examining the theory, process, and outcomes of action learning at work. The following papers are included: "An Introduction to the Text" (Alan Mumford); "The Learning Equation" (Reg Revans); "Action Learning as a Vehicle for Learning" (Alan Mumford); "Placing Action Learning and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Corporate Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Theories