Describes a learning activity that allows participants to role play both dysfunctional and constructive roles during a group task, illustrating how group success depends on the attitudes and actions of its members. Includes instructions for the learning activity, questions for debriefing, and follow-up activities. (LP)

Interviews with 78 bank managers in the United Kingdom showed that they perceive training and learning as closely connected. However, it does not necessarily follow that individuals learn from training. Significant numbers did not feel they could use on the job what they had learned through training. (SK)

Proposes four questions that need to be answered if learning is to be taken seriously for more than a season. They include determining what a degree or certification actually means, what the student has learned, how whole institutional communities can find time to address these issues, and who is responsible for educating children. (Author/JDM)

Defines service learning. Examines the nature of partnerships for service learning, profiles successful institutional partnerships, and provides guidance in establishing successful partnerships in a wide range of institutions. Profiles several service-learning programs, including programs at University of Utah, Chandler-Gilbert Community College,…

Examines select non-classroom experiences that could have an impact on the critical thinking ability of students at a southern research university. Spending hours in discussions of current issues with peers outside of class was the only variable found to have a significant effect on critical thinking. Offers suggestions structuring student…

Interviews with seven working-class adults suggest a need to understanding adult-learning patterns within the life context; they demonstrate how gender and class experiences affect learning and attitudes toward education. Pressuring adults into formal credentialing education would not necessarily be appropriate, and may be seen as oppressive. (SK)

Describes model project to help teachers learn how to study their students' environment from different perspectives. Model provides a way to bridge the cultural gap among service providers, neighborhoods where they work, and the youth they serve. Model includes these six activities: chronologies, home visits, mapping, photographic essays, social…

Sharon is enrolled in a preservice teacher education program organized around peer cohorts, or groups of students that take most of their courses together. In this article, the author argues that Sharon's experience with her "thirty new friends" presents a double opportunity. On one hand, the experience can help Sharon learn about the social…

This article explores the similarities and differences between two asynchronous online information literacy courses. Details of the courses and how the ACRL information literacy standards are incorporated will be outlined. In exploring distance learning and distance teaching, the article will discuss issues related to online information literacy…

This paper presents and discusses an experiential learning-based team-based assignment, which makes extensive use of information and communication technology available in Blackboard. Student teams, composed of mature, post-experience graduate students in a knowledge management class, were asked to perform a task requiring creativity and then to…

What should students in secondary general music classes experience so they are prepared for a musically enriched life as adults? This question, while seemingly straightforward, produces myriad responses depending on whom you ask. Schools respond differently to what secondary general music students should experience, and it is unknown whether…

This paper describes an evidence-based quality assurance system for teaching and learning, which takes as its starting point a well-researched theoretical perspective on student learning in higher education. We argue this explicit use of a relevant theoretical base promotes coherence between quality assurance and improvement processes. We outline…

This paper focuses on dualities in both the process and outcomes of participation in work. First, the process of participation in work activities and interactions draws on contributions of both individuals and the social world in ways that are variably interdependent, that is, relational. The affordances of workplaces shape the array of…

This paper reports research into the student experience of learning through discussions in a blended environment. Third year engineering students studying e-commerce engaged in both face-to-face discussions and online asynchronous discussions as key aspects of their learning experience. Adopting a quantitative methodology, questionnaires were…

To extend research on fundamental motivational orientations into a new domain, we explored the achievement (positive) and avoidance (negative) orientations of formal organization-based mentors and proteges as joint predictors of personal learning experienced by both parties. We also examined the extent of mentoring functions provided by mentors as…