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Patthey, Ghislaine Genevieve; Thomas-Spiegel, Joan – Educational Action Research, 2013
In the wake of accreditation cycles stressing student outcomes, we believed the reflective and practitioner-centered philosophy of action research a perfect fit for effecting institutional improvements for a four-year grant-funded effort in our urban-suburban community colleges in California. We learned that things were both worse and better than…
Descriptors: Action Research, Community Colleges, Reflection, Staff Development
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Bloomfield, Peter; Mackintosh, Margaret; Costas, Barry; Dell, Eric; Graham, Sally; Quinn, David; Trodd, Lyn – Education 3-13, 2007
The elements of global education should be at the heart of all learning and teaching. In ITE we often protect "our subject" in the belief that it should have more prominence in the curriculum and more teaching time in school. In this article a group of ITE tutors comment on their learning about global education and its inclusion in their…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Global Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
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Jeffrey, Lynn; Hegarty, Bronwyn; Kelly, Oriel; Penman, Merrolee; Coburn, Dawn; McDonald, Jenny – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2011
The development of digital information literacy (DIL) has been slow in comparison to changes in information communication technologies, and this remains an issue for the higher education sector. Competency in such skills is essential to full participation in society and work. In addition, these skills are regarded as underpinning the ability to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Higher Education, Self Efficacy