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Birt, Deborah; Krug, Don H.; Sheridan, Mary – Art Education, 1997
Discusses the actions and approaches advanced during the 1996 Summer Colloquium, "Art and Ecology: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Curriculum." Illustrates how action-oriented inquiry makes learning relevant to all people through exploring the poetry of place. The colloquium identified community ecological issues that could be examined through…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Art Activities, Art Education, Conservation Education
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Van den Hurk, Marianne M.; Dolmans, Diana H. J. M.; Wolfhagen, Ineke H. A. P.; van der Vleuten, Cees P. M. – Medical Teacher, 1998
In a problem-based curriculum, students generate learning issues that are the guidelines for individual study. This study investigates the essential characteristics of learning issues and the importance they have in each year of training. Findings indicate that a useful learning issue contains a keyword that demarcates the content of a topic to be…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Independent Study
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Harden, R. M.; Davis, Margery H. – Medical Teacher, 1998
Problem-based learning (PBL) has been recognized as an important educational strategy and has been adopted in many medical schools. There is confusion, however, about what constitutes PBL. Describes 11 steps in the continuum between PBL and information-oriented learning, task-based learning being the final step at the problem-based end of the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Curriculum Evaluation
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Cummins, Robert Hays; Ritger, Scott David; Myers, Christopher Adam – Journal of Geoscience Education, 1992
Students test the hypothesis that the moon revolves east to west around the earth, determine by observation approximately how many degrees the moon revolves per night, and develop a scale model of the earth-sun-moon system in this laboratory exercise. Students are actively involved in the scientific process and are introduced to the importance of…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Astronomy, Critical Thinking, Discovery Learning
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Kwan, Celina; Sylva, Kathy – Canadian Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 2001
This study of 16 Singapore child care centers found that children spent most of their time engaged in adult-led group, cognitive, and daily routine activities. Findings also suggest that good quality centers offer a variety of cognitively stimulating activities, such as literacy activities, academic and problem-solving tasks, and verbal…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cognitive Development, Day Care, Day Care Centers
Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 2000
Foxfire awards were presented to a professor of education who helped found a Foxfire-affiliated teacher network and develop new courses, and four elementary-secondary teachers who implemented Foxfire classroom approaches that included learning centers; student tutoring; individual folder work; student-researched stories of family, community, and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Awards, Classroom Environment, Educational Practices
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Bergen, Doris – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1995
Comments on the articles presented in this issue, discussing factors that influence the climate for learning. Ways that beliefs, past experiences, and cultural competence of adults may influence their ability to work collaboratively and support children's collaborative work are discussed, as are the effects of various adult interaction styles on…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development
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Allen, Eileen E. – Reference Librarian, 1995
Discusses ways to improve postsecondary library instruction based on theories of active learning. Topics include a historical background of active learning; student achievement and attitudes; cognitive development; risks; active teaching; and instructional techniques, including modified lectures, brainstorming, small group work, cooperative…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Active Learning, Brainstorming, Cognitive Development
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Oberst, Michael A. – Journal of Legal Education, 1996
Teachers of tax law are encouraged to require students to actively examine and apply the tax code and regulations. The author's active teaching approach is described covering student accountability, use of textbooks that offer explanations, procedures used in classroom analysis, student questions, use of lengthy regulations, breadth of coverage,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques
Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 2000
Students in a combined grade 3-4 in a charter school in Asheville, North Carolina, chose the topics and ways to demonstrate their learning to fulfill history curriculum requirements. Their choices of local historical architecture and traditional quilt-making spiraled out to include photography, historical fiction, and quilted pillows, which were…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Charter Schools, Educational Practices, Elementary Education
Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 2000
The teacher of an inclusive K-3 class in Pike County, Kentucky, chose coal as a topic because it had meaning to her students and they could use the community as a learning laboratory. Although a democratic classroom fostered student ownership of the material, older and younger students had different motivational requirements. (TD)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Coal, Death, Educational Practices
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Harris, Zelema; Rouseff-Baker, Fay; Treat, Tod – Community College Journal, 2002
Describes the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Parkland College (Illinois) as a model for how faculty can engage in learning to improve their teaching while helping students connect to their own learning in new ways. States that the center also helps part-time faculty by offering stipends for their participation. (NB)
Descriptors: Active Learning, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students
Schreiber, Fredric – Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 1999
A teacher describes using some of the Foxfire core practices to teach a "last chance" program for students in grades 7-8 who were angry, oppositional, and defiant. After a cooperative classroom planning process in which counselors helped students articulate their ideas, the students began revealing their interests. These interests, in…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Experiential Learning, High Risk Students, Junior High School Students
Reissman, Rose – Learning & Leading with Technology, 1998
Describes how grade 3-8 inner-city students created multimedia, multicultural dictionaries. Highlights student reflections on the project using Kid Pix software, and their ideas for future uses for the dictionaries. Argues that technology-driven lexicography can serve as a catalyst for engaging students. (PEN)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Computer Graphics, Computer Uses in Education, Cultural Pluralism
Coe, Carol – Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 1997
A high school teacher describes how her classroom methods changed from traditional teacher-centered pedagogy to the active and democratic involvement of students in developing their own learning communities. Sidebars describe class projects: an oral history project that blossomed into a "Forties Festival" with 1940s alumni and the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, High School Students
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