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Muller, Carol B. – Adult Learning, 2009
As new forms of electronic communication have emerged with increasing speed in recent years, opportunities for online learning, including mentoring, have taken on many new dimensions. Mentoring relationships now almost always extend beyond traditional face-to-face mentoring, and mentoring programs supported by technological advances have developed…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Mentors, Online Courses, Technological Advancement
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Linares, Leanne A.; Smith, Phil R. – Mathematics Teacher, 2009
A geometry textbook or mathematics journal that prints all the work that mathematicians use as they generate proofs of mathematical results would be rare indeed. The false starts, the tentative conjectures, and the arguments that led nowhere--these are conveniently omitted; only the final successful product is presented to the world. To students…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Geometry, Mathematical Logic, Validity
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Jones, Colin – Industry and Higher Education, 2009
This paper outlines the development of a reflective process through which student feelings are brought to the surface to advance their learning outcomes. A key notion in relation to the capacity of student development is the ability of students to alter their collective habits of thought and in turn the nature of the learning environment. The…
Descriptors: Student Development, Reflection, Intellectual Development, Student Diversity
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Edgar, Susan; Francis-Coad, Jacqueline; Connaughton, Joanne – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2013
This paper presents the research findings from a study reviewing graduates' opinions on completing online reflective journaling tasks during work integrated learning as an undergraduate. The study was divided into two parts with an initial focus group conducted with six physiotherapy graduates seven months following graduation. Findings from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, College Graduates, Student Attitudes
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Kazempour, Mahsa; Amirshokoohi, Aidin – Journal of Education and Learning, 2013
In order for teachers to implement inquiry-based teaching practices, they must have experienced inquiry-based learning especially during science content and methods courses. Although the impacts of inquiry-based instruction on various cognitive and affective domains have been studied and documented little attention has been paid to "how"…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Active Learning, Inquiry
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Song, Huan; Zhu, Xudong; Liu, Laura B. – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
China's national teacher honour system, initiated in 1949, is designed to recognise the academic and pedagogical performance of individual teachers and professional collectives at national, provincial, municipal, and school-based levels. This study employs grounded theory analysis to examine the phenomenon of China's teacher honour system by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethics, Standards, Grounded Theory
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Grueber, David; Özgün-Koca, S. Asli – Teacher Education and Practice, 2013
Latest standards-based reform documents from mathematics and science education organizations and communities bring forward one important issue--higher-order thinking skills, namely reasoning. In this article, we share our experiences and our approach to developing an integrated course for mathematics and science prospective teachers centered on…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Career Change, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Kim, Daesang; Rueckert, Daniel; Kim, Dong-Joong; Seo, Daeryong – Language Learning & Technology, 2013
This study focused on how students perceive the use of mobile devices to create a personalized learning experience outside the classroom. Fifty-three students in three graduate TESOL classes participated in this study. All participants completed five class projects designed to help them explore mobile learning experiences with their own mobile…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Graduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Britton, Willoughby B.; Brown, Anne-Catharine; Kaplan, Christopher T.; Goldman, Roberta E.; DeLuca, Marie; Rojiani, Rahil; Reis, Harry; Xi, Mandy; Chou, Jonathan C.; McKenna, Faye; Hitchcock, Peter; Rocha, Tomas A.; Himmelfarb, Josh; Margolis, David M.; Niles, Halsey F.; Eckert, Allison M.; Frank, Tana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
Contemplative practices, which engage the subjective or "first-person" perspective, are being incorporated into systems of higher education that have traditionally relied on didactic or "third-person" approaches (Dederer 2007; Kroll 2010; Repetti 2010; Roth 2006; Shapiro, Brown, and Astin 2011; Smith 2006; Zajonc 2006). The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Metacognition
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Casey, Ashley – Educational Action Research, 2013
Either action research by teachers uses the approach as a methodology to examine pedagogical change in a single intervention or it is used as means of understanding a journey of change. In contrast, this paper examines the significant impact of using action research in a second cycle of learning in the same context and with the same participants.…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Action Research, Cooperative Learning, Intervention
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Bennett, Susan V. – Urban Education, 2013
I investigated eight preservice teachers' understandings about culturally responsive pedagogy as they tutored children in writing from different ethnic, socioeconomic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds in an afterschool program at a local community center. I utilized an embedded case study and chose constant comparison, within-case analysis and…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Reflection, Student Teachers, Community Centers
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Gaztambide-Fernandez, Ruben A.; Howard, Adam – Democracy & Education, 2013
Faced with the facts of economic inequality, the wealthy are confronted with a particular set of moral, social, and political questions, not least of which is the question of how to preserve a sense of being a "good" human being. In the case of justifying privilege, the problem becomes how to position oneself as being uniquely able to enact a…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Moral Values, Thinking Skills, Persuasive Discourse
Givhan, Shawn T. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation study chronicles the creation of a computer-based, asynchronously delivered diversity training course for a state agency. The course format enabled efficient delivery of a mandatory curriculum to the Massachusetts Department of State Police workforce. However, the asynchronous format posed a challenge to achieving the learning…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Reflection, Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication
Wilt, Mary E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to explore the formation of teacher identity among four teachers of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and my own by examining our perspectives, influences, and experiences at different points in our careers and determining the similarities and differences that exist in our professional and educational…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Teacher Attitudes
Vinogradov, Patricia Egan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In this case study of adult English as a Second Language (ESL) educators, the researcher facilitated a six-week professional development activity around the topic of early literacy instruction. The four participants in the study circle were all LESLLA (low-educated second language and literacy acquisition) teachers whose students are adult…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Kindergarten
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