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Josh Seim; Jamie Adams; Jiayu Huang; Gabi Celia Ortiz; Tiago Franco de Paula; Jier Yang – Teaching Sociology, 2025
Ethnography is an exceptionally difficult subject to teach and learn in a classroom setting. This article, written by an ethnography professor and five graduate ethnography students, reflects on how a short-term and collectively executed fieldwork study can help alleviate this problem. Within three months, we logged over 100 hours of observations…
Descriptors: Ethnography, College Faculty, Graduate Students, Federal Courts
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Rigling, Cindy; Wood, Tracey; Thier, Michael – Multicultural Education Review, 2021
Based on elementary and secondary schoolwide implementation experiences at GEMS World Academy Chicago, this paper defines 'field studies' as a field-trip adaptation that connects curricular targets from one or more disciplines to student-directed inquiry-based experiences. We detail the process to develop and coordinate a schoolwide field-study…
Descriptors: Field Studies, Critical Thinking, Global Approach, Citizenship Education
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Atchison, Christopher L.; Hawthorne, Timothy L.; Torres, Hannah R.; Visaggi, Christy C.; Bencivenga, Patricia; Haralson, Joshua; Relyea, Darby; Jarrett, Olga S. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2022
Through the voices of both faculty and student authors, we discuss the intentional integration of neurodiversity in an undergraduate, community geography research program. This exploratory case study takes conversations about diversity, equity, and inclusion from theory to practice presenting the development of an inclusive learning community…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Geography Instruction, Inclusion, Design
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Jacob, Anupama; Bentley, Kia J. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2023
The long-recognized disconnect between research and practice is reflected by social work students who often report significant apprehension about their research classes, likely at least in part because of a poor understanding of the research-practice interface and an unfamiliarity with larger professional social change initiatives like the Grand…
Descriptors: College Students, Social Work, Professional Education, Bachelors Degrees
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Hoyer, Lauren; Hastie, Warwick W. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2023
We present a quantitative study of responses to voluntary and anonymous surveys of undergraduate geology students enrolled at an English-medium, research university in South Africa. This research captured student interest in geology, their perceived level of understanding of key geological concepts, and the extent to which in-class and in-field…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Earth Science, Field Studies
Venning, Edward – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2023
Size is the big unspoken problem in UK higher education. Small providers are stifled. Large universities enjoy oligopolistic advantage at the cost of agility. This damages institutional diversity and dynamism: the sector's ability to absorb new concepts, to grow and renew itself. For the first time, this report provides a full picture of small and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study, Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics