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Raina Chelise – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative study examined the narrative of community college educators during their journey to embrace a playful teaching practice. Data collection included the narratives produced within a Community of Practice, focus groups with both students and educators, and document analysis. Data analysis revealed six themes. The first theme, origins…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Teacher Student Relationship, Teaching Methods
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Fullerton, Ann; Reitenauer, Vicki L.; Kerrigan, Seanna M. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2015
Service-learning practitioners design community engagement activities to affect students in powerful and even transformative ways. This qualitative study explores the long-term impacts (3-16 years after graduation) of participation in a senior-level service-learning course. Through interviews with 20 randomly selected participants, the researchers…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Service Learning, Learning Processes, Transformative Learning
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Wan Hassan, Wan Zulkifli; Jamsari, Ezad Azraai; Taha, Mohamad; Basir @ Ahmad, Aminudin; Alias, Jamsari; Muslim, Nazri – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2015
Student inability to explain concepts learnt in lessons using their own words academically and intellectually and their lack of interest in learning the subject are a cause of their incompetence in the development of their personality. This presents a challenge to lecturers that they should not rely entirely on conventional lectures and tutorials.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Action Research, Course Descriptions, Individual Development
Hungerman, Ann; Schwertfeger, Jane – 1985
The relationship between personal development and mastery of instructional skills in a preservice teacher education program was studied. The sample of 80 students were in elementary, early childhood, and special education programs. Questions posed were: (1) How well do the personal development instruments describe the students? (2) Are there…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Higher Education, Individual Development
Watts, Heidi – 1980
The theory that there are stages in teachers' professional development suggests that those who aim to stimulate or support that growth must be sensitive to the stage each teacher is in. Three stages of development are described: the survival or beginning teacher stage; the middle stage, characterized by an increasing sense of comfort in the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Beginning Teachers, Developmental Stages, Individual Development
Ulrich, Celeste, Ed.; And Others – 1982
In this collection of essays, theories are presented on the present and future status of physical education instruction. The essay in the first chapter explores the idea that, to function or survive in a complex society, individuals must work to unify the mind and body. The second chapter emphasizes that physical education provides people with…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Athletics, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns