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Ferguson, Kristen A.; Brown, Natalya; Piper, Linda – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
Most research on common book programs focuses on student outcomes. This paper presents a study about the impact of a common book program on teaching and learning practices at a small mainly undergraduate university. This study consists of two phases. In Phase 1, we surveyed faculty members (N= 32, a response rate of 21.3%), about the influence of…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Books
Wagg, Sharon; McKinney, Pamela – Journal of Information Literacy, 2020
Research shows that students starting higher education (HE) often lack an essential level of information literacy (IL). To address this issue, a growing number of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) engage with schools through Information Literacy Outreach Programmes (ILOPs). This paper explores the forces and motivations behind how and why HEIs…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Outreach Programs, College School Cooperation, Case Studies
Vergés Bosch, Núria; Freude, Leon; Camps Calvet, Clara – Teaching Sociology, 2021
Service learning (SL) is growing in our universities and in Spain. However, still much action and research are needed with a gender perspective. This article aims to evaluate an SL project that consisted of workshops in schools on gender and technology. We evaluated the experience with a mixed-methods approach and a gender perspective. This…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Teaching Methods, Sociology, Gender Differences
Achieving the Dream, 2022
Gateway courses in English challenge students to strengthen skills in critical thinking, reading, grammar, and writing structure and strategies -- skills that also help build competency in comprehension and composition. They can also prove to be a particular challenge to many community college students. This case study examines the efforts at…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Community Colleges, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Reese, Ryan F. – Environmental Education Research, 2018
An environmental education (EE) consortium located in the pacific northwest United States coalesced an external evaluation team to research its K-5 EE programming. The purpose of this article is to describe one phase of this program evaluation process including the exploration of adult stakeholder perceptions of EE programming accessed by 4th…
Descriptors: Forestry, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Economically Disadvantaged
Belk, John – Composition Forum, 2018
This profile describes how the Writing Program at Southern Utah University enacts a rhetorical humanist framework in its administrative and curricular structures. At the administrative level, rhetorical humanism offers a collaborative governance model that gives all faculty a voice in programmatic decisions, while managing the cacophony created by…
Descriptors: Humanism, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Decision Making
Wong, Chiu-Yin; Lubniewski, Kathryn – New Waves-Educational Research and Development Journal, 2020
Study abroad has become an important component of many teacher education programs. Through the lens of culturally relevant pedagogy, critical thinking, and educational freedom, this qualitative case study focuses on understanding Hong Kong teachers' perceptions about United States culture and education. Data were collected through in-depth,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Critical Thinking, Teacher Collaboration, Individual Differences
Ryder, Courtney; Mackean, Tamara; Ullah, Shahid; Burton, Heather; Halls, Heather; McDermott, Dennis; Edmondson, Wendy – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2019
Socially accountable health curricula, designed to decrease Aboriginal health inequities through the transformation of health professional students into culturally safe practitioners, has become a focal point for health professional programmes. Despite this inclusion in health curricula there remains the question of how to best assess students in…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Health Personnel, Indigenous Populations, Social Differences
Christie, Beth; Beames, Simon; Higgins, Peter – British Educational Research Journal, 2016
Limited research exists that considers the usefulness of outdoor learning as a legitimate pedagogical approach for the delivery of a mainstream secondary school curriculum. To address this shortcoming, we investigated the ways in which mathematics and geography teachers and students from three secondary schools in Scotland responded to the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Outdoor Education, Critical Thinking
Ferrer, Erica; Staley, Kendra – CATESOL Journal, 2016
This article details the design and implementation of a reading program in a university EFL setting as a strategy to encourage creativity, critical thinking, collaborative learning, and reading for enjoyment (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001; Richards & Renandya, 2002). This student-centered project challenged ELLs to address issues such as…
Descriptors: Program Design, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction

McKee, Saundra J. – Social Education, 1988
Highlighting the fact that little critical thinking actually occurs in secondary social studies education, McKee presents the findings from a three-year school district-university project to foster critical thinking in social studies classes. Addressing methodology and implications, McKee reports that, even with intensive training and teacher…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Objectives, Educational Research, High Schools
Soven, Margot – 1993
Although faculty response to an introductory writing across the curriculum workshop at La Salle University (Pennsylvania) was almost uniformly positive, responses to an advanced workshop were mixed. La Salle's basic workshop is framed by the two dimensions which remain the major theoretical concerns of writing across the curriculum: the function…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Language Role

Sauers, Bernard J. – Social Science Record, 1984
Teachers can be encouraged to share ideas which can result in the development of a cooperative curriculum. How one school helped teachers react positively to an interdisciplinary skills program is discussed. Charts outlining study, thinking, reading, and writing skills for a program involving social studies, English, and science are included. (RM)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Brown, Pamela U. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2005
This chapter will explore the "shadow curriculum" (a term used by those who question the assumption that direct selling to students who are compelled to attend school is questionable on several levels--ethical, moral, and democratic) and its connection to media literacy. The author first summarizes the kinds of marketing in schools that…
Descriptors: Television Viewing, Marketing, Decision Making, Corporations