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Owning Failure: Insights into the Perceptions and Understandings of Art Educators
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Fremantle, Chris; Kearney, Gemma – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2015
Failure forms an important dimension of art and design and is inherent in creative endeavours. This article explores current literature on failure in the art and design context and offers a contribution through qualitative research drawing upon interviews with lecturing staff in a UK art school. The findings from this research emphasise the…
Descriptors: Art Education, Failure, Creativity, Art
Cross-Cultural Management Learning through Innovative Pedagogy: An Exploratory Study of Globally Distributed Student Teams
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Bartel-Radic, Anne; Moos, J. Chris; Long, Suzanna K. – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2015
This article presents an innovative pedagogy based on student participation in globally distributed project teams. The study questions the link between student learning of intercultural competence and the global teaming experience. Data was collected from 115 students participating in 22 virtual intercultural teams. Results revealed that students…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Teaching Methods, Cultural Awareness, Cross Cultural Training
Required Collaborative Work in Online Courses: A Predictive Modeling Approach
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Smith, Marlene A.; Kellogg, Deborah L. – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2015
This article describes a predictive model that assesses whether a student will have greater perceived learning in group assignments or in individual work. The model produces correct classifications 87.5% of the time. The research is notable in that it is the first in the education literature to adopt a predictive modeling methodology using data…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Assignments, Cooperative Learning, Individual Activities
Teaching and Learning the Interplay between Chance and Determinism in Nonlinear Systems
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Stavrou, Dimitrios; Duit, Reinders – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
That the interplay of random and deterministic processes may result in both the limited predictability of nonlinear systems and the formation of structures seems to be a most valuable general insight into the nature of science. This study investigates the possibility of teaching and learning the interplay of chance and determinism in nonlinear…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, High School Students, Grade 11
Exploring Teachers' Inquiry-Based Attitude
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Meijer, Marie-Jeanne; Geijsel, Femke; Kuijpers, Marinka; Boei, Fer; Vrieling, Emmy – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
Having a well-founded insight into the characteristics of teachers inquiry-based attitude (IA) supports operationalising IA as a learning goal in teacher education (TE). The aim of this study is to refine the notion of IA from an ill-defined global concept into something with reliable and valid characteristics. To do so, data were gathered on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Inquiry, Cohort Analysis
A New Perspective on the Creative Construction Process in Child Second Language Acquisition. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 4.
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Dulay, Heidi; Burt, Marina – 1974
Previous work by the authors permitted them to hypothesize the existence of certain universal cognitive strategies that play a significant role in child second language acquisition. Forming the basis of the "creative construction process" in L2 learning, these strategies have heretofore remained unspecified. This paper offers new…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Discovery Processes, Error Patterns