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Smith, Carol A.; Parks, Rodney; Parrish, Jesse; Swirski, Ryan – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2018
Technology plays an integral role in the lives of the majority of the US population. As technology becomes integrated into young people's lives, questions arise regarding its effects on learning. This exploratory study draws on interviews with students who attend university in the United States to determine how separating students from technology…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Study Abroad, Student Experience, Influence of Technology
Cairney, Kristen; Breen, Andrea V. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2017
Experiential community-based learning is used for academic purposes, as well as to promote students' civic education, moral development, and the development of identity. Recent advancements in narrative identity theory may have important implications for enriching our understanding of how learning occurs in the context of community-based learning.…
Descriptors: Listening, Undergraduate Students, Practicums, Reflection
Guo, Yan; Guo, Shibao – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
The internationalization of higher education in Canada is happening at a rapid pace. One manifestation of internationalization is the increasing enrolment of international students in Canadian institutions. There is little research on international undergraduate students' experiences from their own perspectives as they adapt to a new educational…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students
Smith, Paul H. – Educational Review, 2018
This article discusses the reasons offered by one group of paraprofessionals to explain their decision to study for a work-related higher education programme. It reports on an ethnographically inspired piece of research that aimed to capture the initial motives that a group of teaching assistants had for studying for a Foundation degree at a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Higher Education, Teaching Assistants
Higdon, Rachel Delta; Stevens, Jayne – Research in Dance Education, 2017
This paper explores dance students' understanding of employability and their views about their dance futures in order to inform higher education curricula and workforce development. The investigation focuses on the student experience on a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree course in Dance at an English university. First and final year undergraduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Dance Education, Undergraduate Students
Kingsley, Barbara E.; Robertson, Julia M. – Psychology Teaching Review, 2017
As a fundamental element of any psychology degree, the teaching and learning of research methods is repeatedly brought into sharp focus, and it is often regarded as a real challenge by undergraduate students. The reasons for this are complex, but frequently attributed to an aversion of maths. To gain a more detailed understanding of students'…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Psychology, Research Methodology, Methods Courses
Hill, Jennifer; Thomas, Greg; Diaz, Anita; Simm, David – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2016
This paper uses case studies and secondary literature to critically examine how learning spaces inhabited by geographers might be used productively as borderland spaces for learning partnership. Borderland spaces are novel, challenging, permissive and liminal, destabilizing traditional power hierarchies. In these spaces, students gain confidence…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Social Media, Case Studies, Geography
Nikolaeva, Sardana – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The South African coloured identity is a profoundly complex construction that, on the one hand, is interpreted as an ambiguous and "in-between" identity and, on the other hand, its own ambiguity and complexity provides multiple means and strategies of production and articulation within various contexts. This dissertation seeks to examine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Identification, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
Olive, James L. – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2012
This qualitative multiple-case study utilized a life history methodology in which written and oral narratives were obtained from six postsecondary students who self-identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or queer (LGBQ). Through the construction of life histories, the researcher endeavored to understand how past experiences and behaviors shaped…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biographies, Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation
Trentham, John David – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The intent of this study was to explore the variance of epistemological development in pre-ministry undergraduates across different institutional contexts, using the Perry Scheme as a theoretical lens. Semi-structured interviews were employed in order to elicit information from participants that revealed their personal perspectives regarding their…
Descriptors: Theological Education, Undergraduate Students, Semi Structured Interviews, Student Attitudes