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Xiaoqi Feng; Sara Figueiredo; Pauliina Mattila; Marko Keskinen; Tua Björklund – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Creativity is widely recognised as a key competence in higher education for future graduates to address societal challenges through creative thinking and problem-solving. However, despite multiple definitions of creativity and pedagogies across disciplines, challenges remain in fully integrating creativity into teaching. Based on interviews with…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Creativity, Teacher Attitudes, Expertise
Jules Nyquist – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study focused on the qualities of poetry in reducing professional stress, specifically with higher education poetry instructors. The intent of the research was to address the gap in the literature by examining the rich, authentic experiences of poetry instructors who had experienced stress in their professional or writing lives. This study…
Descriptors: Poets, Poetry, Stress Management, Transformative Learning
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Tjersland, Hanne; Borovica, Tamara – Research in Dance Education, 2023
In this article, we explore how inclusion and diversity in mindful dance and movement practices can be supported by a practice of self-reflexivity in regards to our embodied identities as teachers. We understand identities as created through processes of stratification, which tend to assign dualistic, fixed and often mutually excluding categories…
Descriptors: Dance, Dance Education, Inclusion, Diversity
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Sally A. Radell; Mara P. Mandradjieff; Smrithi R. Ramachandran; Daniel D. Adame; Steven P. Cole – Journal of Dance Education, 2023
This study investigates the impact of partial versus full mirror use on body image in a beginner-level ballet class. At the end of a seven-week period, researchers distributed an online survey inclusive of qualitative questions to two groups of female collegiate students enrolled in separate beginner-level ballet courses taught by the same…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Teaching Methods, Self Concept, Human Body
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Acosta, Sandra; Liu, Jiling; Goodson, Patricia; Goltz, Heather; Chen, Tian – Studying Teacher Education, 2023
This self-study of teacher education practices (S-STEP) is a collaborative analytical autoethnography (CAAE) of four colleagues, represented in the text as the Poet and alter ego 'Other', alongside three critical friends. We drew on an arts-based approach, merging three genres: poetry, theatre, and narrative (story-telling). With this teacher…
Descriptors: Poetry, Drama, Story Telling, Professional Identity
Mishel Corea – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative, action research study explored how practitioners' understanding of the academic impacts of sexual violence on female college students transformed. The professional development innovation called "SAAIT: Sexual Assault Academic Intervention Training" was designed using the theoretical framework of Transformative Learning…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Violence, Sexual Abuse, Females
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Tom Børsen – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2024
This paper reflects on a slow re-reading of Maggi Savin-Baden's "Impact of Transdisciplinary Threshold Concepts on Student Engagement in Problem-Based Learning" and its relation to the author's experiences as a teacher and curriculum developer in Techno-Anthropology at Aalborg University. It explores four transdisciplinary threshold…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Criticism, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Tiffanie Ho – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Professional learning communities (PLCs) have been used among educators in higher education as a way to address areas of concern, such as reform. One such area in higher education concerns inequities in education because they impact student learning and achievement. Faculty-driven PLCs in higher education have also been focused on ensuring that…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Communities of Practice, Higher Education, College Faculty
Rachel Tremaine – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is an explicitly stated goal of many mathematics departments across the country, and addressing ongoing disparities in outcomes and experiences within undergraduate mathematics is a shared responsibility among undergraduate mathematics community members. Despite the prevalence of ideological,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Instruction, Diversity, Inclusion
John Brown – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
Education is naturally transformative, but the acquisition of new skills and construction of new knowledge are only possible when we empower students instead of forcing their conformity. Our current compliance-based teaching methodologies rely on coercion, conditioning and external motivators that engender submission and fear in students and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, College Faculty, Undergraduate Students
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Aviv Cohen – Journal of Social Science Education, 2024
Purpose: This research explores the pivotal role of educational research in supporting democratic civic education amid armed conflict. The study uses the recent experiences in Israel to examine how research can maintain democratic values and foster reconciliation during tumultuous times, aiming to illuminate the transformative capabilities of…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, War, Conflict, Citizenship Education
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Rodríguez-Jiménez, Rosa-María; Carmona, Manuel – Education Sciences, 2021
This article presents an exploratory and interpretative study on the development of self-reflection and self-knowledge in university teachers by an embodied experience. Dance Movement Therapy and Body-Mind Centering share the fundamentals of the paradigm of embodied cognition through a first-person full-body experience. Using these principles, a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, Dance, Psychotherapy
Margaret Gregg Long – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This mixed-methods action research study examined how implementing a Professional Learning Community (PLC) supports the development of metacognitive teaching. Participants were ten technical college science instructors. While PLCs are common in K-12 education, they are less employed at the postsecondary level. There is a gap in the literature…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Metacognition, Teacher Attitudes, Action Research
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Chi, Ruobing; Zhang, Hongling; Kulich, Steve – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2022
Intercultural teaching often emphasizes exposure to and understanding of cultural differences. Although it acknowledges the importance of cultural self-awareness, little research has been done to explore how such a goal is achieved. This article adopts collaborative autoethnography (CAE) to explore the creation, development, and use of variations…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Charbonneau-Gowdy, Paula; Salinas, Dánisa; Oyanedel, Juan Carlos; Magaña, Héctor – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2023
The deep disruption to education caused by the move to online learning during COVID-19 was unprecedented. While most educational stakeholders adapt to the transition back to a "new normal", it seems an obvious time for constructivist reflection on the lessons learned. The aim of this longitudinal inquiry was to examine the experiences of…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Instructional Design, MOOCs, COVID-19
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