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McDermott, Maggie; Gullekson, Nicole; Kiersch, Christa; Tempski, Diana – Marketing Education Review, 2021
As marketing educators, we face a challenge to provide innovative and challenging learning environments that respond to student needs. The Integrated Core Program is an innovative approach to enhancing and improving upon undergraduate Principle of Marketing students' mastery of content along with further developing their critical thinking skills.…
Descriptors: Marketing, Mastery Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Undergraduate Students
Ito, Hiroshi; Igano, Chisato – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2021
The current study examined the impacts of a Japanese university's international fieldwork programs on developing the higher-order thinking skills and attributes of the students who participated in the programs in the Philippines and India. Through students' self-evaluation questionnaires, the study compared the reported scores of these skills and…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Field Experience Programs, Universities, Program Effectiveness
Müller, Susan; Berger, Georg; Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger, Eveline – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2020
Switzerland has one of the best ecosystems for entrepreneurship. However, there is a blind spot with regard to vocational colleges: A systematic integration of the topic is currently missing. The initiative "Entrepreneurial Thinking and Acting in Swiss Vocational Colleges -- Economic, Social and Ethical Dimensions" aims to address this…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Thinking Skills, Vocational Education, Ethics
Hegazy, Hind; Ellerton, Peter; Campos-Remon, Hannah; Zaphir, Luke; Mazzola, Claudio; Brown, Deborah – Educational Action Research, 2023
This paper describes how an action research process, centred around a professional development program for teaching critical thinking, enabled teachers in a specialised program for high-achieving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students (Solid Pathways) to develop their pedagogical practices to support student cognition. It argues that a…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Action Research, Teaching Methods, Indigenous Populations
Webel, Corey; Yeo, Sheunghyun – Mathematics Teacher Educator, 2021
In this article, we share results from a field experience model in which junior-year methods classes were held in an elementary school and preservice teachers (PSTs) worked with a single student (a "Math Buddy") on mathematics for 30 minutes per day. We focus on the development of PSTs' skills for exploring children's thinking and the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teachers
Sanchez Bengoa, Dolores; Ganassali, Stephane; Kaufmann, Hans Ruediger; Rajala, Arto; Trevisan, Italo; van Berkel, Johan; Zulauf, Katrin; Wagner, Ralf – Journal of International Education in Business, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to analyze the skills and attitudes development of multicultural teams. In todays' environment, business interconnectivity and multicultural societies are becoming the normal way of living. Although students are increasingly facing multicultural learning environments, their awareness and willingness or harmonious and…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Cultural Pluralism, Cultural Awareness
Garcez, Carolina Montanha; Vitor, Davi Henrique Curia; Bortoli, Mirela Marchiori; Vieira, Lucas Augusto; Prado, Danielle Goncalves De Oliveira; Ramires, Thiago Gentil – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2020
The university aims to form professionals through transmission and dissemination of knowledge, therefore, the Extension, as a tool of the universities, has a major role contributing to improvements in the learning and teaching process. The Extension projects are extremely important for The Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR), since…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, Universities, Competition
Alkhateeb, Omar Salem – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study aimed to detect the effect based on the strategies of the six hats in the development of the pivotal thinking on the achievement of the Al-Hussein University students Islamic concepts of the program has reached the study sample (216) students, were divided randomly into two groups: an experimental group of (108) students and consisted…
Descriptors: Islam, Religious Education, Experimental Groups, Control Groups
Aldrich, Rosalie S. – Communication Teacher, 2015
Students need to have a basic understanding of research methods before obtaining a communication degree in order to become an intelligent consumer of research--someone who is able to read, understand, explain, and critically evaluate communication and other research reported in scholarly journals as well as in the popular press. These skills are…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Identification, Student Improvement, Educational Practices
Bartels, Rob; Onstenk, Jeroen; Veugelers, Wiel – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2016
Philosophy for Democracy is a research project that aims to examine whether and how Philosophy with Children contributes to the development of democratic skills and attitudes. In the Netherlands, as in almost all Western countries, Philosophy with Children is linked with the movement for citizenship education. This article reports the research on…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Philosophy
Sullivan, William M. – Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 2013
Professional education importantly shapes the way future professionals understand their work and their identity as members of their professional field. Undergraduate business education does this by giving students an understanding of the nature and functions of business as well as what they may hope for from a business career, along with the…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Catholics, Church Related Colleges, Undergraduate Study
Hutchison, Micol – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2016
Empathy and interdisciplinarity are both concepts that are current and relevant--across professions, in research, and in academia. This paper describes a large, interdisciplinary, project-based assignment, the Empathy Project, which allows students to delve into and increase comfort and skill with interdisciplinary thinking and collaborative…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Empathy, Problem Based Learning, Active Learning
Osborne, Sam – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2013
MindMatters, implemented by Principals Australia Institute, is a resource and professional development initiative supporting Australian secondary schools in promoting and protecting the mental health and social and emotional wellbeing of members of school communities, preferring a proactive paradigm (Covey, 1989) to the position of "disaster…
Descriptors: Well Being, Mental Health, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
Larson, Reed W. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2011
To understand regulation and agency, it important to consider the nature of the regulatory challenges that adolescents must deal with. These include emotional, motivation, interpersonal, and other obstacles and problems. In this chapter, the author discusses the challenges reported by youth working on arts, technology, and social justice projects…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Adolescents, Cognitive Ability, Metacognition
Tullis, Paul – T.H.E. Journal, 2010
If a district head or state superintendent wanted to intensify the focus of his curriculum on 21st century skills, he would do well to pay a visit to Tucson's Catalina Foothills School District (CFSD). There on the Arizona city's northeastern edge, educators and administrators have decided to go all in on 21st century skills, and in so doing have…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Strategic Planning, Student Evaluation, Alternative Assessment