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Xiangyun Du; Youmen Chaaban; Hessa Al-Thani; Adrian Lundberg – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
This article reports on an evaluation study of the Qatar University Pedagogical Development (PD) Program. The PD program advocated pedagogical advancement towards student-centered learning (SCL), which has been highlighted as an important part of the university's overall strategy. This study explored 30 university teachers' perspectives on the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, College Faculty, Q Methodology, Student Centered Learning
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Christina V. Cedillo; Phil Bratta – College Composition and Communication, 2019
Based in instructors' embodied perspectives, "positionality stories" are a critical methodology that opens space for students to consider academic counternarratives that contest educational conditions and assumptions. Sharing two stories here, we illustrate how educators might use these to help students from marginalized communities…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Power Structure, Context Effect, World Views
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Wolf, Kristin Danielsen – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2021
The theme for this article is parents' and centre leaders' opinions regarding what makes a good kindergarten. Both stakeholder groups agree on statements expressing child-centred values as indicators of a good kindergarten. However, their opinions differ regarding children's learning and work with letters and numbers; more parents than centre…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Parent Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes
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Wilde, Natalie; Hsu, Anne – Research on Education and Media, 2019
Previous researchers have emphasised the need for more student-centred approaches to online learning. This study presents and assesses the feasibility of a tailoring system, which adapts vicarious experience information to best benefit the learners' self-efficacy (SE), based upon the model-observer similarity hypothesis. This hypothesis states…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Electronic Learning, Self Efficacy, Instructional Effectiveness
Cheryl Christine Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this survey design research study was to assess the teaching styles of naturopathic medical (ND) faculty in terms of teacher-centered or learner-centered using the Principles of Adult Learning Scale (PALS). A secondary study question was the comparable differences in ND faculty teaching styles, and that of the published literature…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Teaching Styles, Medical Education, Adult Learning
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Buskirk-Cohen, Allison A.; Duncan, Tisha A.; Levicoff, Margaret – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
This paper reviews the literature on emerging adulthood with a focus on the implications of generational theory on teaching and learning in higher education. During the past 15 years, researchers have described personality traits, attitudes, and behaviors of emerging adults. Two very different views have emerged: one that is prosocial, citing…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Higher Education, Individual Characteristics, Educational Theories
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Lund, Travis J.; Stains, Marilyne – International Journal of STEM Education, 2015
Background: Research at the secondary and postsecondary levels has clearly demonstrated the critical role that individual and contextual characteristics play in instructors' decision to adopt educational innovations. Although recent research has shed light on factors influencing the teaching practices of science, technology, engineering, and…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Science Instruction