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Napolitano, Marc; Killinger, Mimi – Honors in Practice, 2021
Contemporary emphases on standardization, specialization, and selectivity in higher education alienate students and teachers from their own creativity, intellectual curiosity, and personal stories. This trend runs counter to the central focus of honors on fostering a diverse, scholarly learning environment. Authors suggest that integrating student…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Honors Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Alienation
Skorobohacz, Christina; Billot, Jennie; Murray, Shannon; Khong, Lana Y. L. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
Researchers continue to investigate and understand leadership in higher education. However, leadership does not stand alone; it is part of an interactive dyad with followers. Building on a previous study that aimed to unpack academics' experiences of leadership in higher education with a view to enhancing leadership practices, this paper…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Leadership, Higher Education, Interviews
Graff, Daniel; Clark, Mark A. – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2019
Universities increasingly incorporate multidisciplinary design projects into their curriculum to better prepare their students for the labor market. In these projects, student team members of various disciplinary backgrounds develop new product or service concepts for organizational partners. This structure enables students to learn not only from…
Descriptors: Design, Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Projects, Teamwork
Davis, Beth; Murphy, M. Shaun – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2016
This paper inquires into the experiences of an early childhood educator named Claire who taught a young girl with a chronic illness at East Willows Elementary School, a western Canadian elementary school. Using narrative inquiry as the methodology, Claire's experiences in her curriculum making alongside Madeline a young girl with Turner syndrome…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chronic Illness, Genetic Disorders, Early Childhood Education
Craig, Cheryl J. – Research Papers in Education, 2019
This narrative inquiry examines why a well-respected English as a Second Language teacher quit teaching in an urban middle school in advance of her retirement. The work provides interpretive accounts of what attracted the teacher to start teaching ESL, what caused her to stay in the profession and the circumstances that drove her to quit. In the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Social Justice, Teaching Methods, Figurative Language
Anthym, Myntha; Tuitt, Franklin – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2019
The purpose of this article is to offer insight to administrators and human resource professionals at Traditionally White Institutions (TWIs) about developing action plans that provide meaningful support to Black administrators and faculty who are coping with racial trauma. Operationalizing tenets of Critical Race Methodology (CRM), the…
Descriptors: Trauma, Aggression, African Americans, Whites
Alexander, Kara Poe – Composition Studies, 2015
The literacy narrative assignment is popular with composition instructors because of the reflection it encourages in students. Previously, scholars have claimed that students demonstrate reflection in literacy narratives when they critique dominant ideologies. Largely absent, however, is research on what other elements might indicate reflection…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Assignments, Figurative Language, Teaching Methods
Tannehill, Deborah – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2016
Purpose: Social theory of learning speaks to the social nature of our lives and our attempts to understand both what and how we learn from it. My experiences are built upon and reside with the social context in which they evolved. In this lecture, I will focus on my own experiences and how I interpreted them through social theory of learning that…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teacher Educator Education, Biographies, Personal Narratives
Chen, Cheryl Wei-yu; Wang, Hung-chun – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2016
This study delineates two Taiwanese TESOL teachers' efforts of combining English writing with entrepreneurship education to cultivate English majors' interdisciplinary competence in academic writing classes. An integrated business-and-writing approach was proposed to foster English majors' academic writing skills and entrepreneurial capacities. In…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Dillahunty, Donna Carol – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to explore, narratively, teachers' perceptions of self/identity as teachers, as writers, as teachers of writing, and how those perceptions shaped the instructional practices of teachers. Basing the study in research on writing theorists, identity, experience, and reflection, narrative inquiry in the tradition of…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Self Concept, Writing (Composition), Journal Writing
Gosselin, Colette; Meixner, Emily – Multicultural Perspectives, 2015
When preparing college-age teacher candidates to teach in diverse contexts, knowing how they reconcile knowledge, self-author, and negotiate social relationships can enhance pedagogy and inform program design. In this article, the authors use a developmental framework they created to examine how teacher candidates' visual metaphors about White…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Visual Aids
Maxwell, Sally V. – Educational Action Research, 2015
As new communication technologies enter the classroom, teachers must attend to how digital platforms impact the interpersonal practices of teaching and learning. In this article, I study email exchanges with three of my students--Jorge, Adriana, and Jason--over the course of one year in an 11th-grade English class at River High School, a…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, High School Students
Flores, Nelson – Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), 2010
In "A New World: Redefining the Legacy of Min-Zhan Lu"(JBW 27.2, Fall 2008), Brian Ray revisits the controversy that emerged in the early 1990s in response to critiques of the iconic Mina Shaughnessy made by Min-Zhan Lu. He offers a reading of the debate that focuses on common ground between the two sides through a metaphor of linguistic charity…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Figurative Language, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition)
Youngs, Suzette – Journal of Children's Literature, 2012
Ideological assumptions about childhood play into the production and selection of children's literature. Various ideologies proclaim that children should be happy and free from stories of evil, children's literature should help children encounter the joys in life, it should be filled with bright colors to keep children's attention, and it should…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Figurative Language, Personal Narratives, Ideology
Levine, Rebecca Sokol – Art Education, 2009
In this article, the author describes her research study about student engagement in artmaking. The study takes place at a suburban middle school on the East coast. For the purpose of her research, she developed a book-making unit. "The Artist's Book," comprised four art problems, challenging students to transform an old hardback book into a…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Student Participation, Middle School Students, Art Activities
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