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Shrestha, Celayne Heaton; May, Steve; Edirisingha, Palitha; Burke, Linda; Linsey, Tim – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2009
For many years, face-to-face peer mentoring has been a feature of learning support provided to first-year undergraduate students at one university in the UK. Building on the success of these initiatives, a scheme has been developed at this institution in which first-year undergraduates are mentored by second- and third-year students through a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mentors, Peer Relationship, Social Networks
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Robson, Sue; Fumoto, Hiroko – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2009
This article reports the third phase of the Froebel Research Fellowship Project: "The Voice of the Child: ownership and autonomy in early learning". Building on the first and second phases of this study, this phase examined early years practitioners' experiences of supporting young children's thinking in relation to the personal…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Ownership, Interviews, Foreign Countries
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Ofstedal, Kathleen; Dahlberg, Kathryn – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2009
The need to collaborate in the fields of business, health care, and technology is not a new concept. Educational institutions, however, have been slow to recognize the need to teach collaboration skills (Brownell & Walther-Thomas, 2002; Jackson, 2004). This article focuses on the development of the Collaboration Self-Assessment Tool (CSAT). The…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Teaching Experience, Cooperating Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Freeman, Melissa; Preissle, Judith; Havick, Steven – New Directions for Evaluation, 2010
An external evaluation documented what occurred in an inaugural summer camp to teach high school students how to preserve religious freedom by learning about and acting on the history and current state of church-state separation and other first amendment issues. Camp designers hoped to promote religious diversity values and civic engagement in…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Summer Programs, Resident Camp Programs, Religious Factors
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Yang, Ya-Ting C.; Newby, Timothy; Bill, Robert – Computers & Education, 2008
This experimental study investigated the effectiveness of structured Web-Based Bulletin Board (WBB) discussions in improving the critical thinking (CT) skills of learners involved in veterinary distance learning, as well as their attitudes toward learning via WBBs. The two dependent variables were learners' CT skills and their attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Interaction Process Analysis, Interrater Reliability, Bulletin Boards
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Thornberg, Robert – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
The aim of this qualitative case study is to investigate how learning in "democratic participation" is constituted by the social interaction and conversation pattern in school democratic meetings in a Swedish primary school. According to the findings, a pupil control discourse and the Initiation-Response-Evaluation pattern dominates the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Democracy, Interaction, Case Studies
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Vehvilainen, Sanna – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2009
The paper focuses on a routine activity of academic supervision: Giving and receiving feedback based on the student's master's thesis manuscript. Two case analyses are presented on fundamentally critical feedback. Such feedback constitutes a recommendation to the student to seriously rethink the thesis, but there are various interactional…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Research Problems, Supervision, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
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Lonchamp, Jacques – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2009
CSCL systems which follow the dual-interaction spaces paradigm support the synchronous construction and discussion of shared artifacts by distributed or colocated small groups of learners. The most recent generic dual-interaction space environments, either model based or component based, can be deeply customized by teachers for supporting…
Descriptors: Interaction Process Analysis, Interaction, Classification, Teaching Methods
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Liu, Sunny – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2008
This paper focuses on one of the most significant challenges in distance learning, the student-to-student interaction issue, by studying the interaction experiences of a group of students who have had a distance education experience. It addresses questions such as the current status of student interactions, the students' perceptions of such…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Peer Relationship, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction
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Emanuelsson, Jonas; Sahlstrom, Fritjof – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2008
The aim of this article is to further the understanding of how content is learned in classrooms, using conversation analysis (CA) and variation theory for the analysis. Classroom video materials from two mathematics classrooms in Sweden and the USA are analysed. A result of the study is the empirical explication of the tension between the need for…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Interaction, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction
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Khoury-Kassabri, Mona – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2009
Objectives: The current study presents the prevalence of students' reports of physical and emotional maltreatment by school staff and examines the differences between these reports according to the students' category of involvement in school bullying (only bullies, only victims, bully-victims, and neither bullies nor victims). Method: This study…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Jews, Child Neglect, Bullying
Manzey, Christine L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Coteaching has been proposed as an apprenticeship model of student teaching that helps candidates maximize their learning through high levels of collaboration with their partnering classroom teachers. Yet, what this collaboration looks like and how it supports candidates is poorly understood. Understanding collaborations between candidates and…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Student Teaching, Speech Communication, Mentors
Daniels, Sonja Gail – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation explores the perceptions and experiences of international students from China and Hong Kong with diversity courses. Using theoretical frameworks that examine the diversity classroom, informal interactional diversity, a diversity typology used to categorize diversity courses, intergroup peer relationships and student…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Acculturation, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries
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Williams, Ashley M. – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2008
This paper examines how the interconnected aspects of the stance triangle (Du Bois 2007) allow speakers to tap into multiple ideological layers as they take a stance and reveal intra-ethnic group tensions. Using a detailed interaction analysis of a Chinese American family's multilingual interaction, the paper explores how such ideological dynamics…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Self Concept, Sociolinguistics, Semantics
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Inamullah, Hafiz Muhammad; Hussain, Ishtiaq; Din, M. Naseer Ud – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2008
The main purpose of this study was to explore teacher-student verbal interaction in the secondary level classes using the Flanders Interaction Analysis system (FIA). Its findings and conclusions may stimulate teachers at the secondary level to improve their teaching behaviour in order to maximize students' learning.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction
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