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Co-Creating Curriculum with Students, Teachers, and Practitioners in a Technology-Enhanced Environment
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Eric Tsui; Nikolina Dragicevic; Irene Fan; Meina Cheng – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
The paper introduces an approach that facilitates whole-class curriculum co-creation and presents a case study conducted in a higher education institution in Hong Kong where it was implemented. The approach enables students to actively contribute to constructing a curriculum in partnership with teachers and practitioners, using scenario…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Higher Education, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries
Nurturing Generic Capabilities through a Teaching and Learning Environment Which Provides Practise in Their Use
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Kember, David – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2009
Results from a programme level survey at a university in Hong Kong were used to select six departments which had good records in developing graduate capabilities. Focus group interviews were conducted with students in the departments to discover which capabilities students thought were important, how the capabilities were nurtured and the…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Student Attitudes
Learning Disabilities
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Sittiprapaporn, Wichian, Ed. – InTech, 2012
Learning disability is a classification that includes several disorders in which a person has difficulty learning in a typical manner. Depending on the type and severity of the disability, interventions may be used to help the individual learn strategies that will foster future success. Some interventions can be quite simplistic, while others are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Problems, Academic Achievement, Learning Disabilities
Sources and Manifestations of Stress in Female Kindergarten Teachers
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Tsai, Eva; Fung, Lena; Chow, Lina – International Education Journal, 2006
The study of teacher stress is not a new area of research. However, most of the published research studies have been strongly oriented towards primary and secondary school teachers. Given that the teaching environment of kindergarten differs greatly from primary and secondary schools, this study sets out to examine the sources and manifestations…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Females
Roadblocks to Educational Reform: Investigating Knowledge and Practice of Hong Kong Kindergarten Teachers
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Ling, Li Yuen – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2003
Early childhood education in Hong Kong is in a transition time. The Hong Kong government's Education Commission is urging the field of early childhood education to engage in a substantial paradigm shift in order to achieve the goals of educational reform (Education Commission, 1999a). Informed by recent overseas research, government directives…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
The Nature of Transformation: Environmental Adult Education. Second Edition.
Clover, Darlene E.; Follen, Shirley; Hall, Budd – 2000
This document, which is intended to assist environmental, health, and community-based educators in Canada and elsewhere, discusses the process of drawing upon the theories and methodologies of transformative learning to plan adult environmental education workshops emphasizing the theme of socio-environmental change. The following are among the…
Descriptors: Activism, Adjustment (to Environment), Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education