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Anat Abramovich; Hadas-Shelly Huber – Teacher Development, 2024
The study examined the effect of the use of 'personal reflective diaries' and 'group-friendly criticism' to assess professional development and self-empowerment among 47 Israeli final-year pre-service teachers in a seminar course, and later on, perceptions and insights during their practicum and their internship year. Content analysis of holistic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Empowerment, Student Journals
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Alt, Dorit; Raichel, Nirit – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2022
The increasing calls for diversity research signal a need to redesign learning and teaching strategies and include appreciations of collaboration and diversity as part of the students' learning outcomes. However, changing the learning environment by incorporating innovative pedagogical techniques into multicultural learning environments is often…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Group Activities, Learning Activities
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Pollak, Avital Binah; Hazzan, Orit; Peled, Dalia – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
Prevalence of depression, anxiety, and stress among university students worldwide is high. In most cases, stress intervention is individual-based and involves small groups for relatively short periods. New evidence shows that stress increased during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021), when learning moved to online formats and social distancing was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Shahbari, Juhaina Awawdeh – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2018
The current study examines whether the engagement of mathematics teachers in modelling activities and subsequent changes in their conceptions about these activities affect their beliefs about mathematics. The sample comprised 52 mathematics teachers working in small groups in four modelling activities. The data were collected from teachers'…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
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Hertz-Lazarowitz, Rachel; Zelniker, Tamar; Azaiza, Faisal – Intercultural Education, 2010
This paper describes a long-term research seminar, developed in 2001 by Hertz-Lazarowitz at the University of Haifa (UH). The goal of the seminar was to involve students in a meaningful, experiential and cooperative-interactive learning environment, based on topics relevant to their development as individuals coming from diverse collectives to the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Seminars, Action Research, Student Diversity
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Meishar-Tal, Hagit; Kurtz, Gila; Pieterse, Efrat – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2012
This paper describes a pilot study in using Facebook as an alternative to a learning management system (LMS). The paper reviews the current research on the use of Facebook in academia and analyzes the differences between a Facebook group and a regular LMS. The paper reports on a precedent-setting attempt to use a Facebook group as a course…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis
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Daher, Wajeeh – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2011
Researchers point at the importance of emotions and its study in mathematics education. This research examines middle school students' emotions during learning mathematics outdoors using the mobile phone. The constant comparison method was used to analyze 30 middle school students' emotions while carrying out 15 outdoor activities using the mobile…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Middle School Students, Mathematics Education