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Pi-Sui Hsu; Eric Monsu Lee; Thomas J. Smith – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how youth's engineering identity has changed in the process of productive struggle in Making activities in the Midwestern U.S in a summer program. The researchers conducted focus-group interviews, and also administered an Engineering Identity survey as well as the Draw an Engineer Test to…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Self Concept, Youth, Summer Programs
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Hunter-Lynch, Hannah; Kimblern, Denise; Sexton, Danny; Wang, Hongyu – Curriculum Journal, 2023
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this co-authored paper grew out of a graduate course on mindfulness and an extended inquiry into what it means to cultivate mindful relationships in curriculum as lived experience. Centring three graduate students' experiential projects, including two projects of interactions with nature and one project of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Metacognition, Experiential Learning
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Kasey Hudak; Rachel Davidson; Elizabeth Winters – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
This article provides a case study of three educational digital storytelling (EDS) projects in which researchers use intercultural identity management theory (IMT) as a framework to investigate student claims of transformation within short-term study abroad courses. Across three separate hybrid digital production and intercultural communication…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Story Telling, Self Concept, Cultural Awareness
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Chiu, Thomas K. F.; Ismailov, Murod; Zhou, Xinyan; Xia, Qi; Au, Cheuk Kwan; Chai, Ching Sing – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
Real-world problems serve as authentic learning contexts for students to integrate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) knowledge, enhancing their interest and fostering their identity in STEM. Primary school students' unfamiliarity with real-world problems can be addressed through community engagement; however, research in…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary School Students, Self Determination, Student Interests
Jessica M. Toombs; Christopher J. Eck; J. Shane Robinson – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2022
The Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) program is a valuable component of school-based agricultural education (SBAE). SAE component outcomes consist of real-world career exposure and skill development through experiential learning. Unfortunately, the SAE program is often the weakest component of SBAE in local programs. As such, SBAE teachers…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Agricultural Education, Self Efficacy, Teacher Effectiveness
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Johnathan Balzotti; Jamin Rowan; Mat Duerden – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
This essay reevaluates the role of reflection in experiential learning programs, contrasting traditional solitary ref lection methods with contemporary approaches that integrate collaboration and multimodal expression. These new approaches highlight a shift toward more flexible and interactive methods, reflecting the influence of new technologies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transformative Learning, Reflection, College Students
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Lyon, Edward G.; Kochevar, R.; Gould, J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
Making in schools, where students produce and share physical or virtual objects, has garnered increased global attention for its potential to foster twenty-first century learning in STEM and develop students' inventiveness, creativity, and entrepreneurial thinking. However, there has been limited attention paid to how maker-centred learning…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, STEM Education, Self Concept, Individual Development
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Nathan A. Quarderer; Leah Wasser; Anne U. Gold; Patricia MontaƱo; Lauren Herwehe; Katherine Halama; Emily Biggane; Jessica Logan; David Parr; Sylvia Brady; James Sanovia; Charles Jason Tinant; Elisha Yellow Thunder; Justina White Eyes; LaShell Poor Bear/Bagola; Madison Phelps; Trey Orion Phelps; Brett Alberts; Michela Johnson; Nathan Korinek; William Travis; Naomi Jacquez; Kaiea Rohlehr; Emily Ward; Elsa Culler; R. Chelsea Nagy; Jennifer Balch – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2025
Today's data-driven world requires earth and environmental scientists to have skills at the intersection of domain and data science. These skills are imperative to harness information contained in a growing volume of complex data to solve the world's most pressing environmental challenges. Despite the importance of these skills, Earth and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Earth Science, Environmental Education, Science Education
Looney, Bridget – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Although there has been an abundance of empirical inquiry into making in recent years, interestingly, and despite growing interest in the integration of making into N-12 education, little seems to be known empirically about the ways in which teachers are implementing making and creating makerspaces in their own classrooms. Very little direct…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Shared Resources and Services, Cooperative Learning, Problem Based Learning
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Beyne, Jan; Moratis, Lars; De Vos, Ans – Journal of International Education in Business, 2022
Purpose: Sustainability intelligence is critical for the prosperity of societies worldwide, for conservation of the natural world, for achieving future business success and for the credibility of the concept of sustainability itself. This study aims to present the concept of sustainability intelligence by expounding on three proposed enablers…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Knowledge Level, Global Approach, Social Attitudes
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Christine Monaghan; Carol Anne Spreen; Anna Hillary – International Journal of Human Rights Education, 2017
In this research project, we examine how human rights education can go beyond the symbolism and rhetoric of rights and, instead, be understood in a way that critically considers the continued social, economic, and political inequalities that persist. Learning about rights should be informed by the lived experiences of those whose rights have been…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, High School Students, Social Responsibility, Social Differences
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Wolfe, Lila F. – Canadian Journal of Special Education, 1990
A case study is presented of a science class for 10 underachieving gifted intermediate grade students. The paper describes how a focus on overcoming underachievement might conflict with the need for active, hands-on science activities. Suggestions are offered for integrating the goals of raising self-concept while developing skills of inquiry and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Discovery Learning, Experiential Learning, Gifted
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Oakes, Paula Bonander – Social Studies Review, 1996
Discusses a ninth grade, culturally diverse, interdisciplinary social studies class. Students pick a person from the class to study with whom they feel a connection and prepare a presentation about this connection, including a poster. Includes the four major themes of the class and a reading list. (MJP)
Descriptors: Course Content, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism, Experiential Learning