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Loomis, Steven; Rodriguez, Jacob – Oxford Review of Education, 2009
The present challenge for educationists and economists is to resolve pressing problems inherent in social choice and the technical framework of education. Among these challenges is the conflict between means and ends of educational production, the reliable development of human capital, and resolution to problems of social inequality. The authors…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Social Theories, Social Influences, Conflict
Manlove, Sarah; Lazonder, Ard W.; de Jong, Ton – Interactive Learning Environments, 2009
Scaffolds to plan, monitor, and evaluate learning within technology-enhanced inquiry and modeling environments are often little used by students. One reason may be that students frequently work collaboratively in these settings and their group work may interfere with the use of regulative supports. This research compared the use of regulative…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Educational Technology, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), High School Students
Kapoor, Dip – McGill Journal of Education, 2009
This paper traces the kinds of learning engendered through Adivasi trans-local and local subaltern social movement (SSM) action addressing state-corporate developmental collusions, state-caste interests and the resulting dispossession of Adivasis from land, forest and their ways of life given the economic liberalization drive to exploit resources…
Descriptors: Social Class, Social Action, Foreign Countries, Land Use
Langdon, Jonathan – McGill Journal of Education, 2009
This article conveys results from a participatory action research (PAR) engagement with activist/educators working in Ghanaian social movements. First, this PAR group has articulated two typologies from which to understand Ghanaian social movements based on their processes of organization, communication and learning rather than merely the issues,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Social Action, Foreign Countries, Participatory Research
Eric A. Hurley; Brenda A. Allen; A. Wade Boykin – Cognition and Instruction, 2009
This study tests the hypothesis that cultural differences in group orientation predict an interaction between the student variable--ethnicity--and a learning context variable--reward structure--on math performance after group learning. One hundred and thirty-two African-American and European-American female and male fourth and fifth grade students…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Mathematics Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Interaction
McCollum, Sean; Rene, Cara – Teaching Tolerance, 2011
Thousands of schools have tried the Mix It Up at Lunch Day program since it started 10 years ago in 2001. Teaching Tolerance continues to get glowing reviews from around the country. Teachers and administrators are understandably eager to make their Mix Day better--to reach more students. Here are 10 proven ways to give Mix an extra stir.
Descriptors: Dining Facilities, Day Programs, Middle School Students, High School Students
Kessler, Greg; Bikowski, Dawn – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2010
This study reports on attention to meaning among 40 NNS pre-service EFL teachers as they collaboratively constructed a wiki in a 16-week online course. Focus is placed upon the nature of individual and group behavior when attending to meaning in a long-term wiki-based collaborative activity as well as the students' collaborative autonomous…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Computer Assisted Instruction, Group Behavior, English (Second Language)
Wood, Peter – Academic Questions, 2008
Advocates of preferences generally claim the moral high ground, insisting that we need them to advance the common social good. To oppose preferences, therefore, is "to act immorally." Preference's champions view them as weapons against hierarchy and oppression. Their foes stress individual identity and autonomy. The outcome of the debate will…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Political Attitudes, Social Justice, Social History
Kalay, Yehuda E. – Policy Futures in Education, 2008
This article summarizes a few key results of a workshop, held in the University of California Berkeley in June 2006, organized by the Center for New Media and supported by Elsevier, the leading publisher of scholarly journals. The workshop focused on the following questions: How will scientific publishing be affected by New Media? How will the new…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Group Behavior, Workshops, Science and Society
Enghag, Margareta; Niedderer, Hans – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2008
The theoretical framework "student ownership of learning" is developed both theoretically and with qualitative research. The metaphor "ownership" is related to the process towards meaning making and understanding and is seen as relevant especially to improve physics instruction. The dimension "group ownership of learning" refers to the groups'…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Qualitative Research, Ownership, Figurative Language
Jackson, Carolyn – Gender and Education, 2010
Concerns about schoolboy "laddish" anti-learning and/or anti-school cultures are pervasive in current education discourses. Mandates to tackle laddishness frequently assume that there is a common understanding of what laddishness means, and also that teachers will know how to tackle it. This article explores these assumptions, drawing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Males, Masculinity
Erdem, Mukaddes – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2009
The study described looks at the effects of learning style profile of teams on the quality of materials developed in a collaborative learning process. The study was carried out on collaborative teams of four or five university students, formed through learner preferences. Learning styles of the teams were determined using Kolb's Learning Styles…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Printed Materials, Learning Processes, Profiles
Barboza, Gia Elise; Schiamberg, Lawrence B.; Oehmke, James; Korzeniewski, Steven J.; Post, Lori A.; Heraux, Cedrick G. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
This paper uses an ecological perspective to explore the risk factors associated with bullying behaviors among a representative sample of adolescents aged 11-14 (n = 9816, mean = 12.88, s = 0.9814). Data derived from the "Health Behavior in School Children: WHO Cross-National Survey" were used to model the relationship between bullying and media…
Descriptors: Television Viewing, School Activities, Individual Characteristics, Bullying
Turner, Steven L. – American Secondary Education, 2008
As secondary educators seek strategies to support reluctant and disengaged learners, a greater understanding of the learning sciences (how people learn) becomes more important. This article examines the emerging knowledge base on the learning sciences and investigates how what has been discoveries about how and why people learn have practical…
Descriptors: Sciences, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Secondary School Teachers
Branson, Christopher M. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to, first, establish the interdependency between the successful achievement of organisational change and the attainment of values alignment within an organisation's culture and then, second, to describe an effective means for attaining such values alignment. Design/methodology/approach: Literature from the…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Organizational Culture, Values Clarification, Group Behavior