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Brian Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explores how high school and college history instructors' perspectives of experiential learning opportunities and high-impact practices influence their epistemic beliefs as history teachers. The research considers educators' pedagogical practices to align inquiry and historical thinking with experiential learning opportunities and…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Educational Practices, Inquiry, History Instruction
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Novotny, Kristin – Online Submission, 2019
This article considers the epistemological consequences of interdisciplinary, collaborative pedagogy through the lens of a practitioner whose goal is to theorize and contextualize her practice. The author traces connections between interdisciplinary pedagogy and the idea of Making or makerspaces. Giving in-depth examples of interdisciplinary,…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Epistemology, Active Learning, Student Projects
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Bonilla-Mora, Martha Isabel; López-Urbina, Johanna Patricia – HOW, 2021
This study aims to understand the local and updated epistemological perceptions of the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Colombia from the voices of English language university teachers. This qualitative research emerges as part of a hermeneutical perspective which allowed the authors to analyze experiences,…
Descriptors: Epistemology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Novotny, Kristin – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2019
This article considers the epistemological consequences of interdisciplinary, collaborative pedagogy through the lens of a practitioner whose goal is to theorize and contextualize her practice. The author traces connections between interdisciplinary pedagogy and the idea of Making or makerspaces. Giving in-depth examples of interdisciplinary,…
Descriptors: Design, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning
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Doharty, Nadena – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2020
Using a doctoral examination question as a starting point, this paper explores the specific race-gendered challenges Black women academics face when doing research on race. I argue that the stereotypical, racialised controlling images regarding Black women are not exclusive to African-American women and this has led some, in education, to draw on…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Blacks, Females, Stereotypes
Alhuthaif, Abeer – ProQuest LLC, 2019
International mindedness is a recent and evolving research topic in language education and other fields because of its significance in promoting global relations, ethical leadership, intercultural understanding, global engagement, and world communication. This study explored the conceptions and practices of international mindedness of four English…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Case Studies
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Michael Stancliff; Maureen Daly Goggin – English Journal, 2015
This article argues for the importance of teaching research as a creative practice. The authors recommend geography and conversation as generative metaphors for teaching and learning creative research methods, offering examples from their undergraduate composition courses. Creating knowledge as a researcher requires posing the question to be…
Descriptors: Research Skills, Creativity, Geography, Research Methodology
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Peters-Burton, Erin; Baynard, Liz R. – International Journal of Science Education, 2013
An understanding of the scientific enterprise is useful because citizens need to make systematic, rational decisions about projects involving scientific endeavors and technology, and a clearer understanding of scientific epistemology is beneficial because it could encourage more public engagement with science. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Scientific Enterprise, Scientific Principles, Epistemology, Beliefs
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Rusch, Edith A.; Horsford, Sonya Douglass – International Journal of Educational Management, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to seek to conceptualize a theory of self-contribution as a framework for understanding and demonstrating the dispositions and skills academics and educational leaders need to break the silence and engage in constructive talk about race across color lines. Design/methodology/approach: Brian Fay's framework for…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Epistemology, Instructional Leadership, Diversity (Institutional)
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2013
For the thirty-sixth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Anaheim, California. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Discussion Groups, Content Analysis, Games