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Yeager, Kristopher Hawk; Deardorff, Malarie E. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2022
Students with learning disabilities (LD) benefit from individualized transition services that address their strengths and assets. This article provides three steps to facilitate strengths-based transition planning: (a) independent and guided reflection, (b) assessment, and (c) alignment of strengths to each component of the transition plan. Sample…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Transitional Programs, Student Characteristics
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Rebecca Jane Quew-Jones – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: The study explores Degree Apprenticeship Identity (DAI) conceptualisation to enrich understanding to enhance work-integrated learning (WIL). Lived experiences of degree apprentices (DAs) are examined, and a model of DAI developed to support teaching and learning interventions on this relatively new and significant programme.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, College Students, Self Concept
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Lynette Pretorius – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2024
There is an increasing focus on collecting more diverse demographic data from research participants but standard methodological approaches still hinder such efforts. This paper addresses the need for methodological improvements by advocating for the inclusion of self-written diversity statements in demographic surveys as a form of epistemic…
Descriptors: Position Papers, Intersectionality, Self Concept, Social Justice
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Baldwin, Cheryl K.; Motter, Alyssa E. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
This retrospective case study investigated how learners in a transformative autoethnographic dance course engaged in and navigated self-reflexive identity work and corresponding learning outcomes. Data were drawn from 15 diverse undergraduate students enrolled in a course for credit at an urban community college. Findings indicated that learners…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Dance Education, Transformative Learning, Epistemology
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Mabingo, Alfdaniels – Journal of Dance Education, 2019
As globalization endures onslaughts from neo-state nationalism, examining the role that dances from non-Western cultures play in facilitating intercultural education is necessary. This article critically examines the intercultural reflections and meanings that student performers constructed from learning and performing the movements, techniques,…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Dance Education, Singing, Music
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Ahmed, Furzeen – English in Education, 2018
This article presents the findings of a linguistic ethnographic pilot study, conducted as part of an ongoing research study, to examine how students utilise their knowledge and experience in understanding literary texts being studied from different cultural and temporal spaces. The analysis of this development in the students' comprehension of new…
Descriptors: English Literature, Drama, English Instruction, Schemata (Cognition)
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Grosseman, Suely; Hojat, Mohammadreza; Duke, Pamela M.; Mennin, Stewart; Rosenzweig, Steven; Novack, Dennis – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2014
We administered the Jefferson Scale of Empathy and the Groningen Reflection Ability Scale to 61 of 64 entering medical students who self-selected a problem-based learning curricular track and to 163 of 198 who self-selected a lecture-based track (response rates of 95.3% and 82.3%, respectively, with no statistically significant differences in mean…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Medical Students, Problem Based Learning, Lecture Method
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Costin, Yvonne; Dodd, Sarah Drakopoulou; Hynes, Briga; Lichrou, Maria – Industry and Higher Education, 2013
There is scope for a better understanding of the development of entrepreneurial competences in students through experiential learning pedagogies by engaging them with the entrepreneurs in the entrepreneurs' habitats. This study analyses a novel pedagogical interaction which embraces the narrative aspects of entrepreneurial learning by encouraging…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Experiential Learning, Teaching Methods, Career Development
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Swartz, Ann L.; Triscari, Jacqlyn S. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2011
Two collaborative writing partners sought to deepen their understanding of transformative learning by conducting several spirals of grounded theory research on their own collaborative relationship. Drawing from adult education, business, and social science literature and including descriptive analysis of their records of activity and interaction…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Transformative Learning, Cooperative Learning, Models
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Britton, Willoughby B.; Brown, Anne-Catharine; Kaplan, Christopher T.; Goldman, Roberta E.; DeLuca, Marie; Rojiani, Rahil; Reis, Harry; Xi, Mandy; Chou, Jonathan C.; McKenna, Faye; Hitchcock, Peter; Rocha, Tomas A.; Himmelfarb, Josh; Margolis, David M.; Niles, Halsey F.; Eckert, Allison M.; Frank, Tana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
Contemplative practices, which engage the subjective or "first-person" perspective, are being incorporated into systems of higher education that have traditionally relied on didactic or "third-person" approaches (Dederer 2007; Kroll 2010; Repetti 2010; Roth 2006; Shapiro, Brown, and Astin 2011; Smith 2006; Zajonc 2006). The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Metacognition
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Dabbagh, Nada – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2007
Globalization has stretched the scope of the online learner population from a homogeneous profile of mostly adult, mostly employed, place-bound, goal-oriented, and intrinsically motivated to one that is heterogeneous, younger, dynamic, and responsive to rapid technological innovations. This paper describes the emerging characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Student Characteristics, Learning Experience, Distance Education