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Biying Wen; Qian Wang; Amy Gooden; Floriana Grasso; Qing Chen; Juming Shen – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
This study takes a transformative learning lens to gain insights into Western foreign teachers' identity as educators and professional confidence in online teaching at a Sino-British university. The biographical narrative interpretive method was used for data collection and analysis. The researcher gathered critical incidents during the pandemic…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Foreign Workers, Online Courses, COVID-19
Gena Merliss – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teacher education has made strides towards preparing preservice teachers with ambitious visions and teaching practices through the use of core practices, specifically the Ambitious Science Teaching (AST) framework (e.g. Kang & Windschitl, 2018). However, there is an argument in the field about whether the AST framework can support…
Descriptors: Restorative Practices, Beginning Teachers, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teacher Education
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Carvalho, Ana Raquel; Santos, Carlos – Education Sciences, 2021
Rethinking the role of education in the 21st century implies acknowledging the power of learning and the urgency of making learning provision more meaningful, inclusive, and student-centred, which assumes particular importance when learner disengagement is still a global issue in elementary and secondary education. Rooted in social constructivism…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Peer Teaching, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation
Majewska, Izabela Agata – ProQuest LLC, 2018
National and international organizations emphasize the importance of teaching global competence in American higher education as a way of preparing students for the rigors of a globalized workforce. Lack of nation-wide educational initiatives aimed at providing institutional guidelines for assessing international relations (IR) courses for this…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, College Instruction, Transformative Learning
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Zou, Tracy X. P. – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Professional development for academics has seen a trend towards social engagement through communities and groups, as reflected by a number of increasingly popular concepts: communities of practice, faculty learning communities, and learning and teaching networks. Despite the potential benefits of such engagement, there is a paucity of research on…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, College Faculty, Phenomenology, Communities of Practice
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Jørgensen, Mette; Mason, Amanda; Pedersen, Rikke; Harrison, Roger – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2022
As many higher education institutions strive to internationalize and develop graduates as global citizens, new technologies are supposed to be creating opportunities for geographically dispersed students to meet and develop intercultural skills. We argue, however, that there is scant evidence that these opportunities are being fully exploited. In…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Blended Learning, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness
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Carver, Cynthia L. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2016
Since 1997, the Great Lakes Academy has provided leadership development for more than 800 teachers in a large metropolitan region of the Upper Midwest. Graduates of the 2-year program often describe their experience as transformative, life changing, and profound. To understand the meaning and impact of this transformation, the author used…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Teacher Leadership, Leadership Training, Metropolitan Areas
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Ambreen, Munazza; Haqdad, Ambreen; Saleem, Wajid A. – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2016
Self-regulated learning (SLR) has been recognized as a pivotal antecedent of students' effective learning and academic achievement. A self-regulated learner can independently and effectively plan for learning, choose and use appropriate learning strategies and reflect and monitor learning progress. Self-regulated learning, for learners in general…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Independent Study, Distance Education, Case Studies
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Ambekeh, Udida Lucy – African Higher Education Review, 2013
This study investigated curriculum organization and delivery towards functional entrepreneurial education transformation of students in Higher Institutions in Cross River State -- Nigeria. To guide the conduct of this study, two research questions and one hypothesis were formulated. Proportionate stratified sampling technique was used in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Evaluation, Entrepreneurship, Higher Education
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Kommers, Piet, Ed.; Issa, Tomayess, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed.; Hui, Wendy, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
These proceedings contain the papers and poster of the 6th International Conference on Educational Technologies 2019 (ICEduTech 2019), which has been organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and co-organised by the Lingnan University, in Hong Kong, February 8-10, 2019. ICEduTech is the scientific…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Elementary School Students, Reflection, Computer Mediated Communication