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Lambert, Cath – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2009
This article addresses the question of the role and function of contemporary higher education in western industrialised nations through a focus on the participation of undergraduate students. The discussion examines some of the dramatic changes brought about by neo-liberal educational policy, in particular the hierarchical division of teaching and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Undergraduate Students, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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Thompson, Paul – Oxford Review of Education, 2009
This paper reports on the findings of a research project which explored the value for secondary school teachers of consulting with pupils about the curriculum. Twenty volunteer teachers across a range of subject areas in an 11-18 and three 11-16 secondary schools in a city in the East Midlands of England were given an open-ended remit to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Lin, Huann-shyang; Hong, Zuway-R; Cheng, Ying-Yao – International Journal of Science Education, 2009
This quasi-experimental study investigates how the classroom learning environment changed after inquiry-based activities were introduced and student questioning was encouraged. Three science teachers and three classes of fifth graders (n = 92) participated in this study. The analysis of covariance reveals that although the experimental group…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Statistical Analysis, Science Teachers, Grade 5
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Schneller, Andrew Jon – Environmental Education Research, 2008
This article reports on a longitudinal study of a two-semester middle school environmental learning course that departs from traditional Mexican expository pedagogies through the incorporation of experiential and service learning approaches. In the short term, course participants acquired a heightened awareness of environmental issues, augmented…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Outcomes of Education
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Hansen, Pia; Mathern, Donna – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2008
This article describes the journey that one elementary school took in examining the roles and responsibilities of the principal, teachers, students, and school environment in supporting mathematical understanding as described by the NCTM Standards. (Contains 2 tables and a bibliography.)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Teacher Role
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Qi, Mei; Boyle, Tom – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2010
Open educational resources (OERs) are designed to be globally reusable. Yet comparatively little attention has been given to the cultural issues. This paper addresses the issue of culturally sensitive factors that may influence the design of reusable learning objects. These influences are often subtle and hard to manage. The paper proposes a…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Educational Resources, Teaching Methods
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Yeh, Yu-Chu – Educational Technology & Society, 2010
Online learning communities are an important means of sharing and creating knowledge. Online behaviors and online roles can reveal how online learning communities function. However, no study has elucidated the relationships among online behaviors, online roles, and online learning communities. In this study, 32 preservice teachers participated in…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Preservice Teachers, Student Behavior, Teacher Behavior
Gorman, Susan T.; Durmowicz, Meredith C.; Roskes, Ellen M.; Slattery, Susan P. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2010
Women continue to be underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and in STEM leadership positions. According to the most recent data available from the National Science Foundation, in academia only 31% of full-time STEM faculty and 27% of STEM deans and department heads are women. By comparison at Stevenson…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Mentors, Females
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Twiner, Alison; Coffin, Caroline; Littleton, Karen; Whitelock, Denise – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2010
This paper will offer a discussion of the literature concerning multimodality, orchestration and participation related to classroom use of the interactive whiteboard (IWB). Specifically, it will explore the place, or potential use, of the IWB to resource a multimodal approach to teaching and learning, emphasising the complex connections that need…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Language Role, Educational Change, Student Role
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Koppenhaver, Gary D.; Blackburn, Virginia L.; Palan, Kay M.; Ravenscroft, Sue; Shrader, Charles B. – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2007
This project directly involved students in two different models of instructional development. The first model was a Student Consultant program in which faculty selected from a menu of instructional services carried out by students. Typical services included attending class as impartial observers, soliciting feedback from other students on their…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Instructional Design, Student Role, Teacher Role
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Valli, Linda; Chambliss, Marilyn – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2007
Using activities as its analytic focus, this article compares the classroom cultures of two reading lessons taught by the same teacher. One was from a regular reading class and the other from a reading intervention class that was designed to help students pass the high-stakes state assessment. By developing fine-grained descriptions of classroom…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Class Activities, Classroom Environment
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Boone, Rosalie S.; King-Berry, Arlene – Journal of Negro Education, 2007
Impressive advancements have been made in educational opportunities for students with disabilities, whose historic relationship with American public schools has been marked by educational disenfranchisement or mis-education. Critical judicial impetus for these educational opportunities was provided by landmark court cases in which African American…
Descriptors: African American Students, Civil Rights, Disabilities, Court Litigation
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Cook-Sather, Alison – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2007
Early 21st-century cautions regarding student voice work in educational research echo in striking ways some poststructuralist feminist critiques of critical pedagogies that proliferated in the early 1990s. Both warn against totalizing, undifferentiated notions of and responses to oppressed, marginalized, and/or disempowered individuals or groups…
Descriptors: Feminism, Critical Theory, Educational Research, Educational Change
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Samuelson, Beth Lewis – Research in the Teaching of English, 2009
This study examines discussions of model papers in a high school Advanced Placement English classroom where students were preparing for a high-stakes writing assessment. Much of the current research on talk about writing in various contexts such as classroom discourse, teacher-student writing conferences, and peer tutoring has emphasized the…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Advanced Placement, Writing Tests, Essays
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Larson, Lotta C. – Reading Teacher, 2009
This article describes how fifth-grade students created collaborative online learning communities while discussing and responding to literature on an asynchronous message board. At their own initiative, students constructed and posted various types of literature response prompts, which elicited rich responses from their peers. Types of identified…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Online Courses, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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