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Alison Cardinal; Kirsten Higgins; Anthony Warnke – Journal of Basic Writing, 2023
This article heeds Susan Naomi Bernstein's call for an "embodied epistemology" for Basic Writing. In the wake of recent economic and health crises as well as the ongoing effects of neoliberal reform efforts at the two-year college, a materialist, embodied orientation for critical practitioners within two-year colleges is more necessary…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Instruction, Two Year Colleges, Neoliberalism
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Fernando Bolaños; Ola Pilerot – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
There is a sedimented understanding that developing digital abilities is key for today's knowledge society. Accordingly, governments have invested vastly in formal education aimed at developing them. Policies and directives driving this venture need to be examined. Otherwise, their potential risks being thwarted. By means of a post-foundational…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Foreign Countries, Technical Institutes, Discourse Analysis
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Ocak, Gürbüz; Karakuyu, Akin – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between lifelong learning and epistemological beliefs of associate degree students. In the study, correlational method, which is one of the qualitative research methods, was employed. The population of the study consisted of students studying at a vocational high school of a state university…
Descriptors: Correlation, Lifelong Learning, Associate Degrees, Vocational High Schools
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Ntshoe, Isaac; Malebo, Ntsoaki Joyce – Perspectives in Education, 2021
Although differentiation and specialism have become hallmarks of the modern economy, the degree and the efficacy of such differentiation, specialisation and the domains of knowledge in curricula offered in universities of technology (UoTs) persist in the context of the changing nature of jobs and occupations. This article examines the domains of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Specialization, Specialists, Epistemology
Janna Verburg-Hamlett – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study analyzed two of the multimedia principle's effects - personalization and segmentation - of the cognitive theory of multimedia learning (CTML) on both learning and motivation. The subject matter of the learning material was hazard recognition; the participants were community college students. Data were collected from both a content test…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Community College Students, Multimedia Materials, Recall (Psychology)
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Baldwin, Cheryl K.; Motter, Alyssa E. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
This retrospective case study investigated how learners in a transformative autoethnographic dance course engaged in and navigated self-reflexive identity work and corresponding learning outcomes. Data were drawn from 15 diverse undergraduate students enrolled in a course for credit at an urban community college. Findings indicated that learners…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Dance Education, Transformative Learning, Epistemology
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Stone, Sharon L. M. – Journal of College Student Development, 2017
Using a conceptual framework constructed from elements of self-evolution, epistemological reflection, and constructivist adult learning theories, I examined how 8 student veterans progressed toward the developmental stage of self-authorship and what role, if any, their military training or experience played in that development. The findings from…
Descriptors: Military Service, Student Development, Adult Learning, Learning Theories
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Gildersleeve, Ryan Evely – Critical Questions in Education, 2017
This article seeks to trace the cartography of truth-telling through a posthuamanist predicament of ritual culture in higher education and critical inquiry. Ritual culture in higher education such as graduation ceremony produces and reflects the realities of becoming subjects. These spaces are proliferating grounds for truth telling and practical…
Descriptors: Ethics, Hispanic Americans, Higher Education, College Graduates
Bracamontes, Brent Ignacio – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation used qualitative, interpretive methods to explore African American and Latino/a community college students' use of autoethnographic writing to express experiences of marginalization and sense of belonging on their college campus. Using postmodernism and critical race theory as theoretical frameworks, I investigated how students…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Sense of Community, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Niemi, Nancy S., Ed.; Weaver-Hightower, Marcus B., Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2020
With this enlightening handbook, you can review the thinking of leading researchers on the current intersection of gender and higher education. "The Wiley Handbook of Gender Equity in Higher Education" provides an in-depth look at education's complicated relationships with, and in some cases inadequate fostering of, gender equity. The…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Equal Education, Higher Education, STEM Education
Cuddy, Lucas Stebbins – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Using a primarily experimental design, this study investigated whether discussion boards in online community college philosophy classes can be designed in the Blackboard course management system to lead to higher order thinking. Discussions were designed using one of two teaching techniques: the activation of prior knowledge or the use of peer…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Thinking Skills
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Clara Pracana, Editor; Michael Wang, Editor – Online Submission, 2024
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2024, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (WIARS), held in International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2024, held in Porto, Portugal, from 20 to 22 of April…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Statistics, Epistemology, Student Attitudes
Stone, Sharon L. M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The literature has shown that student veterans arrive in college with unique characteristics and also face unique challenges (Black et al., 2007; Bonar & Domenici, 2011; Church, 2009; DiRamio & Jarvis, 2011). There is also some evidence that student veterans develop complex ways of making meaning at younger ages than students in the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Students, Veterans, Student Development
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Aktürk, Ahmet Oguz – Education, 2014
This study investigated the relationships between the self-efficacy beliefs of students at community colleges regarding the educational use of the Internet and their epistemological beliefs. Moreover, it is also examined whether the self-efficacy beliefs of the students regarding the educational use of the Internet and their epistemological…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Two Year College Students, Self Efficacy, Educational Technology
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Pizzolato, Jane Elizabeth; Olson, Avery B. – Review of Higher Education, 2016
Through a one year-long, qualitative study of welfare-to-work students, this study investigates the developing epistemologies of women enrolled in a community college CalWORKs program. We investigate how poverty as a macro-environment and the community college as a micro-environment influence participants' epistemological development. Findings…
Descriptors: Welfare Recipients, Welfare Services, Poverty, Epistemology
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