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Chervenock, Kristian – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Many universities and colleges across the country and around the globe are concentrating on becoming increasingly international. The extent to which they are internationalizing varies widely and depends greatly on strategic initiatives and priorities on the part of university administration, faculty, staff and students alike. Despite the many…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Qualitative Research, Reflection, Higher Education
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Walseth, Kristin; Strandbu, Åse – European Physical Education Review, 2014
Studies from several countries show that girls with an immigrant background participate in organized sports to a lesser extent than other young people. Barriers related to culture and religion serve in many of these studies as explanations. In this article we suggest that the notions of culture and religion in this field of studies could be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Athletics, Barriers
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Garza, Rubén; Smith, Shaunna F. – Cogent Education, 2015
Blogging, a mode of electronic journaling, has been identified as an effective means to help pre-service teachers to construct meaning about their experiences. The purpose of this study was to examine pre-service teachers' reflections about their praxis through blogging and to describe the nature of their growth and development. The use of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Electronic Journals, Student Journals, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Lautenbach, Geoffrey – Educational Studies, 2014
The emphasis of this paper is on the derivation of design principles from qualitative analysis of student reflections based on their participation in authentic, collaborative and technology-mediated activities. This paper reports on the initial phases of a design-based research project at a comprehensive university in South Africa where the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Student Attitudes, Higher Education
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Cox, Anicca – Across the Disciplines, 2015
Via interview data focused on instructor practices and values, this study sought to describe some of what performing and visual arts instructors do at the university level to effectively teach disciplinary values through writing. The study's research goals explored how relationships to writing process in visual and performing arts support…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Theater Arts, Visual Arts, College Students
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Clayton, Kathleen; Smith, Heidi; Dyment, Janet – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
Understanding theory-practice relationships in pre-service teacher education is an enduring concern for many teacher educators. Drawing on data from an investigation into the theory-practice nexus in an outdoor education teacher education programme, this article examines pedagogical approaches to exploring theory and practice with pre-service…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Educational Practices, Outdoor Education, Teacher Education Programs
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Piro, Jody S.; Anderson, Gina; Fredrickson, Rebecca – Teacher Educator, 2015
This study explored the perceptions of preservice teacher candidates who participated in a pilot partnership between a public teacher education preparation program and Junior Achievement (JA). The partnership was grounded in the premise that providing early field experiences to preservice teacher candidates was a necessary requirement of quality…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Field Experience Programs, Educational Quality, Preservice Teacher Education
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Bathina, Jyothi; DeVoogd, Glenn L. – International Education, 2011
In typical short-term teacher development workshops, experts model instructional practices for teachers so that teachers can then adapt the model to their own situation. Such workshops are often ineffective because of the lack of adjustment before modeling and the overreliance on teacher adaptation of existing practices. In this article, we argue…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Teaching Methods, Expertise, Workshops
Staking, Kimberlee – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Although university students are key participants in knowledge-making processes, their insights about learning are sparsely documented, and too rarely considered in contemporary conversations in higher education. In centering the insights and experiences of students enrolled in two women's studies courses at the University of Maryland, this…
Descriptors: Womens Studies, Higher Education, Universities, Electronic Learning
Naidu, Sham – Online Submission, 2012
In this article, the "researcher" narrates the issues faced by novice researchers in choosing the correct lenses to conduct research when searching for the truth via the use of qualitative methodology. It is argued that choosing an appropriate research approach and methodology can be described as an "arduous" journey. For the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Theory, Qualitative Research, Ethnography