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Download full textBowen, Cheryl Marie – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2020
This case study explores how a problem-based learning (PBL), graduate education course could be organized in ways that utilize the current knowledge of how people learn within diverse, real world community settings. Students were asked to identify an educational enterprise and a social problem within a culturally diverse, high-need community.…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Problem Based Learning, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
Direct linkPunteney, Katherine – Intercultural Education, 2016
Committed to developing an institution-wide intercultural competence curriculum for master's-level students preparing for international careers, a team of nine professors from across disciplines deliberated for a year on their fundamental understandings of intercultural competence and what it would mean to facilitate the development of that…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Development, Philosophy, Cultural Pluralism
Ziegahn, Linda; Ton, Hendry – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2011
Goals of cultural competence are commonly described as creation of a health care system and workforce capable of delivering high-quality care to all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, or language. While this "system" is made up of individuals, it also has a life of its own, as with all institutions. In this chapter, the…
Descriptors: Health Services, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Social Change
Liu, Judith; Kelly, Donald P. – Metropolitan Universities, 2010
The 2008 presidential election catapulted "community organizers" into the media fray and raised awareness about community organizing. At the University of San Diego (USD), a course teaching consensus organizing techniques to address community issues was instituted in 2004. The course incorporates traditional undergraduate students and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Community Involvement, Social Change, Community Coordination
Lawkowski, Susan J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The historical research study will focus on the development and growth of virtual education programs for K-12 students, with primary emphasis on the states of Florida, California, and Pennsylvania. The term virtual education will be used interchangeably throughout this document with online courses and e-learning. The purpose of this historical…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Reading Fluency, Reading Achievement, Standardized Tests
Bacon, Christopher M.; Mulvaney, Dustin; Ball, Tamara B.; DuPuis, E. Melanie; Gliessman, Stephen R.; Lipschutz, Ronnie D.; Shakouri, Ali – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to share the content and early results from an interdisciplinary sustainability curriculum that integrates theory and practice (praxis). The curriculum links new topical courses concerning renewable energy, food, water, engineering and social change with specialized labs that enhance technological and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Projects, Socialization, Teamwork
