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Kathleen A. Bowe; Alexa R. Green; Yi Jin Kim Gorske; Emily Lesher; Christopher F. Bauer – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Community-based learning (CBL), also known as service learning (SL), provides students with an active and meaningful learning environment and has been studied in STEM courses for several decades. Chemistry for the Community is a novel chemistry curriculum that weaves service-learning projects throughout multiple courses, including gateway courses,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction, Chemistry, Service Learning
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Bates, Catherine; Gamble, Elena – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2011
In the current economic crisis, higher education graduates need transferable professional skills more than ever. They need resourcefulness, an ability to work reflectively, a sense of civic awareness and an impressive curriculum vitae. This case study analyses how Dublin Institute of Technology's Programme for Students Learning With Communities…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Community Education, Partnerships in Education, Training Objectives
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Taylor, Maurice; Evans, Karen; Pinsent-Johnson, Christine – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate how knowledge of different kinds is put to work in workplace education programmes for adults with low skills and adults with higher skills. A novel framework, which has moved beyond narrow conceptions of "transfer" to concentrate on different forms of knowledge and the ways these are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Literacy, Transfer of Training, Knowledge Level