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Direct linkEran Zafrani; Anat Yarden – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
Classroom interactions emerging from socioscientific argumentation may be incompatible with the traditional definitions of learning, thus creating tension and potentially undermining its implementation. Leveraging existing literature, we identify argumentative talk that shifts away from scientific content and toward subjective claims, as well as…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Classroom Communication, Social Sciences, Persuasive Discourse
Esperanza Torres Madronero; Maria C. Torres-Madronero – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
Teaching-learning processes can incorporate information and communication technologies (ICT) for transmission, mediation, interaction, and assessment in several fields of knowledge. This paper established the current trends in using ICT for social science in higher education, including online, blended, and ICT-supported learning. The review…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Social Sciences, Higher Education
Martina Cíhalová; Tomáš Hubálek; Zuzana Cieslarová – European Journal of Education, 2025
The paper deals with the issue of critical areas in the philosophy as part of the subject Basics of Social Sciences in the Czech Republic from the perspective of teachers. The critical areas are components of the curriculum that are difficult, challenging and problematic for educational practice. They can be on the side of both teachers and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Social Sciences, Philosophy
Barefield, Trisha – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2023
This paper synthesises theory and practice literature to define a new type of learning space: emergence studios. Emergence studios incorporate iterative, collaborative, and creative elements into graduate education in the social sciences. While some disciplines have a long history of studio spaces and others have begun to implement applied spaces…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Cooperation, Theory Practice Relationship, Graduate Students
Download full textMaksimovic, Jelena; Evtimov, Jelena – Research in Pedagogy, 2023
The paradigm on which a methodological approach is developed determines the situations in which its application will be most appropriate. The quantitative approach implies a positivist paradigm, the basis of which is cause-and-effect relationships, as well as the questioning and verifying of existing theories. Positivism aims to prove that…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Research Methodology, Educational Research, Models
Gentian Ann Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In this basic qualitative study, faculty hesitation toward using Moodle learning management system (LMS) for instructional delivery was investigated. The research question focused on how faculty perspectives on their hesitation toward using the institution's LMS in the Faculty of Social Sciences at a Caribbean university in Guyana reflect the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Systems, Learning Management Systems, Teacher Attitudes
Kenneth A. Frank; Qinyun Lin; Ran Xu; Spiro Maroulis; Anna Mueller – Grantee Submission, 2023
Social scientists seeking to inform policy or public action must carefully consider how to identify effects and express inferences because actions based on invalid inferences will not yield the intended results. Recognizing the complexities and uncertainties of social science, we seek to inform inevitable debates about causal inferences by…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Research Methodology, Statistical Inference, Robustness (Statistics)
Franz, David J. – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2022
This paper argues that applied ethics can itself be morally problematic. As illustrated by the case of Peter Singer's criticism of social practice, morally loaded communication by applied ethicists can lead to protests, backlashes, and aggression. By reviewing the psychological literature on self-image, collective identity, and motivated reasoning…
Descriptors: Ethics, Criticism, Moral Issues, Value Judgment
Pacewicz, Josh – Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
Most social scientists agree that case studies are useful for "theory building," but ethnographic methods papers often look to survey research for case selection strategies. This is due to a common but untenable distinction between theoretical and empirical generalization, which obscures how theoretically inclined ethnographers make…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Social Sciences, Generalization, Sociology
Vázquez-Parra, José Carlos; García-González, Abel; Ramírez-Montoya, María Soledad – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2022
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to discuss the importance of multidisciplinary training in the perceived development of social entrepreneurship competence. By means of a sample of an ethics class, this study seeks to argue the relevance of new social entrepreneurs having a broad training, beyond the knowledge they receive from the business area.…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Entrepreneurship, Competence
Hanks, Judith – Language Teaching, 2022
Classroom research has long been recommended as a fruitful avenue for English language teaching (ELT) in applied linguistics. Yet recognition of the value of practitioners exploring their own praxis has only recently come to the fore. In this plenary, I focus on Exploratory Practice, a form of 'fully inclusive practitioner research', in which…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Applied Linguistics
Brankovic, Jelena; Cantwell, Brendan – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
Higher education studies give considerable attention to understanding "change." The interest in change reflects the historical conditions in which higher education emerged as a distinct field of study. Around the mid-twentieth century, a pragmatic need for an academic response to managing larger and more complex higher education…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Educational Research, Educational Policy
Maree Martinussen; Dianne Mulcahy – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
Past decades have seen increased emphasis on graduate employability as a driver of higher education policy. In the Australian context, employability discourses in the public domain have become inflected with anti-intellectual sentiment, serving to reproduce the perception that the humanities and social sciences are of less value to graduates'…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Employment Potential, Social Class, Working Class
Kakan Dey; Md Tawhidur Rahman; Abhik Roy; V. Dimitra Pyrialakou; David Martinelli; Julia Daisy Fraustino; John Deskins; Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez; L. Christopher Plein – Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 2024
Engineering students require nontechnical skill sets to combat the 21st century's complex engineering challenges in addition to possessing technical skills. To provide multidisciplinary experience to undergraduate engineering students and to study the formation of engineers, a research team at West Virginia University offered a multidisciplinary…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Sciences
Noemi Steuer; Alhassane Baldé; Bréma Ely Dicko; Fodié Tandjigora; Joschka Philipps; Lamine Dioubaté; Mohomodou Houssouba; Alpha Amadou Bano Barry; Elísio Macamo; Daouda Koné; Debolina Dubois-Bandyopadhyay; Jeremy Sigrist; Julia Streicher; Kassoum Berthé; Mahamadou Faganda Keïta; Mama Sangaré; Mamadou Aly Doumbouya; Mamadou Bobo Diallo; Mamadou dit M’Baré Fofana; Mamadou Mouctar Diallo; Mariam Kassambara; Maurice Bourouma; Camara Mory Camara; Nadège Kittel; Oluwa?òót? Ajayi; Saïkou Oumar Sagnane – Journal of International Students, 2024
What are the meanings and aims of social sciences in a global social environment marked by ever-growing processes of exchange, connection, inequality and conflict? How do we contend with the social sciences as the science of modernization? How do we account for the Western-centered biases ingrained in their proclamations? And in what ways are the…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Foreign Countries, International Programs, Graduate Students
