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Angelina Wang; Graham McPhail – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
Musical Futures (MF) is an internationally recognised approach to music teaching aimed at developing high levels of student engagement through practical music making. Set up in the UK in 2003 "Musical Futures" is typical of approaches to education aimed at increasing levels of student autonomy through a strong emphasis on student-led…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Teachers, Music Education, Learner Engagement
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Harris, Carol E.; Barter, Barbara G. – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2015
As health threats appear with increasing regularity in our food systems and other food crises loom worldwide, we look to rural areas to provide local and nutritious foods. Educationally, we seek approaches to food studies that engage students and their communities and, ultimately, lead to positive action. Yet food studies receive only generic…
Descriptors: Food, Rural Areas, Agriculture, Curriculum
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Parker, Jan – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2013
This article argues that SoTL may draw on and inform other scholarships--of discovery, application and integration--by bringing them into a classroom- and community-based scholarship of communal inquiry. In so doing, SoTL will resist teaching being regarded and evaluated as transmission and delivery of knowledge made elsewhere, reasserting the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Classroom Research, Learning Processes, Educational Change
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Conway, Robin – Teaching History, 2011
Robin Conway's interest in student-led enquiry derived from a concern to encourage his students to take much more responsibility for their own learning. Here he explains how his department gradually learned to entrust students with defining the enquiry questions and planning the kinds of teaching and learning activities to be used over the course…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Discovery Learning, Inquiry, History
Treadwell, Julie Wilson – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The problem is that 5th-grade students are not achieving sufficient writing scores on Georgia state-mandated writing assessments, which the researcher hypothesized was due to the teacher-directed instructional approach utilized at the school. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to determine whether discovery learning, a method based on the…
Descriptors: Writing Achievement, Focus Groups, Discovery Learning, Writing Processes
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Gentry, Marcia – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2009
To determine whether having a program is sufficient one must first define what is meant by "program." If by program one refers to the pullout program in the elementary school, or the afterschool enrichment program in the middle school, or the Advanced Placement program in the high school, or the hockey program, then certainly having a "program" is…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Enrichment Activities, Advanced Placement Programs, Special Needs Students
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Kanbar, Nancy – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2012
The population growth together with the unsustainable consumption pattern is putting increasing stress on the planet's natural resources. The increasing realisation that humans are harming the environment is taking the form of a global movement intended to change behaviour towards sustainability, now recognised as a framework that links humans to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Arabs, Business Administration Education
Polson, David C. – Elementary English, 1973
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Discovery Learning, Elementary Education, Student Centered Curriculum
Hein, Harold C. – Sch Sci Math, 1970
Survey taken of Missouri chemistry teachers indicates that CBA and CHEM Study teachers devoted a greater portion of class time to laboratory work and emphasized quantitative laboratory work and the discovery method more than did teachers of conventional chemistry. (BR)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Curriculum Development, Discovery Learning, Instruction
Sylwester, Robert – Instructor, 1969
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Discovery Learning, Generalization, Instructional Materials
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Murray, Rosemary; Shea, Mary; Shea, Brian – Childhood Education, 2004
In this era of high-stakes testing, many teachers feel forced to aim instruction toward what will be assessed and ignore what students really want to learn. Publishers create materials guaranteed to boost students' test scores, but they neither broaden students' understanding nor increase their interest in learning. When the textbook becomes the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Creative Teaching, Creativity, Textbooks
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Frecka, Thomas J.; Morris, Michael H.; Ramanan, Ramachandran – Journal of Education for Business, 2004
Motivated by concerns about the quality of accounting education and calls for a broader, more active approach to learning by numerous accounting educators and practitioners over the past 2 decades, the authors of this article sought to provide a framework and example materials to address those issues. The framework makes use of broad, economic…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Accounting, Undergraduate Study, Teaching Methods
McNaughton, A. H. – Teachers Coll Rec, 1969
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Discovery Learning, Generalization
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Sicilia-Camacho, Alvaro; Brown, David – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2008
Background: Teaching styles in physical education (PE) found prominence through Muska Mosston's teaching styles "Spectrum" model. Mosston's Spectrum has been remarkably successful and its logic currently underpins the conceptualisation of teaching styles in many PE practices in Western education systems, including those in the United…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Teaching Styles, Models, Teaching Methods
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Richards, Colin – Educational Review, 1973
The main concern of this article is to describe some of the aspects or facets of discovery learning situations exemplified by the models and found in curriculum development projects. (Author)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Discovery Learning
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