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Sithaldeen, Riashna; van Pletzen, Ermien – Perspectives in Education, 2022
The role of student support in enabling successful student outcomes is widely acknowledged. However, student support functions and the structures within which they reside often emerge independently at universities, and are seldom designed with integration in mind, leading to systemic inefficiencies. This paper draws on systems thinking to develop…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Administrative Organization, College Students
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Skamp, Keith; Green, Jodie – Teaching Science, 2022
This paper, presented in three parts, overviews the current understandings of the Earth System and the relatively recent interdisciplinary field of Earth System Science (ESS) from a school education perspective. The representation of ESS in the Australian Curriculum is explored through the Cross Curriculum Priority area of Sustainability and the…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Science Curriculum, National Curriculum, Foreign Countries
Bender, Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A Future Search (FS) Conference is a systems based large group intervention that utilizes a dialogue process among interdependent stakeholders to analyze the past, understand the present, envision a better future, and agree to action plans to work towards the desired future. This study uses an instrumental case study design (Stake, 1995) to…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Stakeholders, Dialogs (Language), Groups
Catherine E. Sanders; Allison R. Fortner; Kristin E. Gibson; Kevan W. Lamm; Alexa J. Lamm – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2022
Educators within agricultural and natural resource disciplines are tasked with educating students to critically engage with and problem-solve complex issues. As society's relationship with science and technology changes, coupled with an information-dense environment, strategies for sustainably addressing complex issues are needed. One potential…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Thinking Skills, Systems Approach, Natural Resources
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Kishan Mistry; Glenn A. Hurst – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
A simple experiment was developed to introduce students to the sustainable procurement of water through fog harvesting that can be used for drinking or irrigation purposes. Access to clean water and sanitation is problematic particularly within dry regions such as in areas of Peru, although there is a significant amount of fog in the mountainous…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Sustainability, Water, Scientific Concepts
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Beach, Richard – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2023
This report describes a study of three English teachers' and three students' participation in two high school environment clubs. Teachers' and students' interview perceptions were analyzed based a critical inquiry systems thinking framework involving inferences of purposes, outcomes, norms, and beliefs/discourses constituting…
Descriptors: English Teachers, High School Students, Environmental Education, Clubs
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Ruying Li; Gaofeng Li – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2023
Exploring students' systems thinking (ST) is essential in enhancing science learning, but existing studies have failed to understand students' ST fully as it relates to ecological issues. This study aimed to fill the aforementioned literature gap by exploring lower-secondary school students' ST regarding ecological issues. The Systems Thinking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 7, Grade 8
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André de Quadros – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2023
Anchored in the work of Fanon (1952), Mbembe (2019), and Spivak (1988), I take an autoethnographic journey that traces colonization and the subtle forces of coercion that exist in the academy and society, particularly in the US. I draw on Holland et al. (1998) to position myself in a figured world, a unique constellatory network of histories,…
Descriptors: Music Education, Colonialism, Racism, Migration
Palmer, Ryan C. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to understand how context may shape multiple goal negotiation. Prior research has focused on identifying variables that influence goal pursuit in general, but little attention has been given to how these principles operate in different circumstances. This study adopted the Dynamic Systems Model of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning
John Jacobs; David Lopez – WestEd, 2023
Despite long-standing efforts to address and eliminate disproportionality in special education, inequities remain and continue to negatively impact Black, Indigenous, and other students of color with Individualized Education Programs. This brief from the Western Educational Equity Assistance Center (WEEAC) supports state education agencies, local…
Descriptors: Special Education, Disproportionate Representation, Equal Education, Educational Practices
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Shu-Chiu Liu – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Higher education plays an important role in preparing future citizens and leaders with the capacity to address systemic issues behind complex problems such as climate change. There have however been few attempts to assess systems-related competencies in the context of complex problems. This study adapted an existing scenario-based assessment tool…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Correlation, Systems Approach, Climate
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Austin Pack; Tamas Kiss – ELT Journal, 2023
Learner motivation is an essential ingredient for successful language learning. This article investigates the motivating and demotivating factors affecting the motivation of fifty-eight EAP learners' L2 learning. Guided by complex dynamic systems theory, with a dual focus on both what factors are important and what role these play in the L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, English (Second Language)
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Neil O. Houser – Critical Education, 2023
The decline of public education and the concomitant loss of the commons are increasingly recognized as significant and interwoven issues. Like other prevailing societal problems, such as the tenacity of institutionalized racism, classism, and patriarchy, these conditions are rooted in the ways growing numbers of people have come to think and act…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Change, Educational Trends, Social Problems
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Tsai, Yi-Shan; Poquet, Oleksandra; Gaševic, Dragan; Dawson, Shane; Pardo, Abelardo – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
Learning analytics (LA) has demonstrated great potential in improving teaching quality, learning experience and administrative efficiency. However, the adoption of LA in higher education is often beset by challenges in areas such as resources, stakeholder buy-in, ethics and privacy. Addressing these challenges in a complex system requires agile…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Higher Education, Leadership, Educational Innovation
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Perosa, Alvise; Gonella, Francesco; Spagnolo, Sofia – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
Green chemistry is the name of a need, that of encompassing chemistry research and the environmental, safety, health, and societal issues that have been creating unprecedented concerns at a global level. Green chemistry is a modern concept, as the label that represents the entry of chemical sciences in the realm of integrated sustainability…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Chemistry, Environmental Education, Sustainability
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