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Cook, Katelynn J.; Hvenegaard, Glen T.; Halpenny, Elizabeth A. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2021
Park managers use personal interpretation to achieve a variety of outcomes for park visitors and the natural environment. This project examines whether these outcomes are achieved, the factors influencing how the outcomes are achieved, and the overlap among these factors across the outcomes. Based on interviews with visitors in three Alberta…
Descriptors: Parks, Informal Education, Learning Processes, Attitude Change
Streelasky, Jodi – Literacy, 2019
This study analyses the valued school experiences of 15 five- and six-year-old Canadian children, through their creation of multimodal texts. Throughout the school year, the students spent a large portion of each school day in the expansive forest on the school grounds, and their texts revealed their significant interest in this natural outdoor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Kindergarten, Outdoor Education
Pillay, Thashika; Ahn, Claire; Gyamerah, Kenneth; Liu, Shuyuan – London Review of Education, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a drastic transformation to schooling for students throughout the world. During this period, a number of issues arose in our local, national and global communities, including the death of George Floyd and subsequent protests and rallies organised by #BlackLivesMatter. Living through and witnessing many social…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Social Justice, Social Media, Ethics
Beach, Pamela; Minuk, Alexandra; Favret, Elena – Online Learning, 2022
This study examines the strategies used by teachers during a series of self-directed online learning (SDOL) experiences. Over a period of four months, the authors met with 12 practicing elementary teachers three separate times. During the meetings, the teacher participants informally used the internet for their professional learning in literacy.…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Protocol Analysis, Learning Experience, Elementary School Teachers
Butler, Alison; Bylica, Kelly; Wright, Ruth – British Journal of Music Education, 2021
This paper reports on a small-scale study in an elementary school in Southern Ontario, Canada. The study investigated relationships between students' perceptions and practices of gender in popular music education with particular attention given to communication, instruments and technology and development of freedoms and constraints. The findings…
Descriptors: Music, Informal Education, Music Education, Student Attitudes
Carter, Candice C., Ed. – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2020
Ultimately concerned with how citizenship education for peace can be enriched through interdisciplinary learning, this edited volume reveals the role of peace education in global citizenship by illuminating instruction for comprehensive citizenship. A truly international collection, this volume offers timely insights from countries including…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Interdisciplinary Approach, Citizenship Education, Peace
Jin, Qingna – Education Sciences, 2021
There are a growing number of education programs in science and STEM education with the aim of improving educational outcomes for Indigenous students who have long been underrepresented in current education systems. The aim of this study is to systematically review empirical research from 2011 to 2020 that reported programs to support Indigenous…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Indigenous Populations, Elementary Secondary Education, Science Education
Cardona, Manuel Salamanca; Choudry, Aziz – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This chapter addresses learning and nonformal education in the course of organizing migrant and immigrant (im/migrant) temporary agency workers through the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC) and the Temporary Agency Workers Association (TAWA) in Montreal. The IWC/TAWA organizing approach with agency workers is based on community organizing, activist…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Activism, Temporary Employment, Employment Services
Kluttz, Jenalee; Walker, Jude; Walter, Pierre – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2021
The opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline that took place at Standing Rock in North Dakota was the largest gathering of Indigenous Peoples in recent U.S. history. Thousands of people, Indigenous and otherwise, came together from across North America and beyond to protect waters and sacred sites threatened by the construction of the Dakota…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Activism, American Indians, Natural Resources
Gillard, Spring; VanWynsberghe, Rob – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2021
This research paper is based on a broader exploratory case study of a sustainability tour that the authors undertook. The larger study explored "the concept of learning application through the case of a sustainability tour" (Gillard, 2016, p. 226 ). The tour was part of a certificate program for sustainable community development offered…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Community Development, Environmental Education, Professional Continuing Education
Asali, Laliya – Online Submission, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative research study was to accurately identify what motivates the English language learning of Palestinian refugee girls at Al-Hussain Prep School in Camp Jabal Al-Hussain, Amman, Jordan. This study also explores the formal and informal avenues by which the girls learn English, as well as the potential obstacles that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Asali, Laliya – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The present qualitative study investigated the experiences of the English language learning of the Palestinian refugee girls, motivations, formal and informal avenues of learning English. The study discussed the support and the obstacles of learning at AlHussain Prep School in Camp Jabal Al-Hussain, Amman, Jordan. As illustrated in the literature…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Livingstone, D. W. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2018
The basic argument of this paper is that, in the wake of austerity measures against public education accumulating since the early 1980s, professional teachers at all levels may have been losing control of their jobs and faced decreasing opportunities for continuing their own learning. Empirical evidence is drawn mainly from a unique time series of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Professional Autonomy, Continuing Education
Guo, Yan – International Review of Education, 2021
In the context of Canada's reliance on immigration for social and economic development, an effective language policy for migrant students is essential for educational systems. However, existing language policy research puts little emphasis on parental agency, particularly immigrant parents. The qualitative study presented here therefore explored…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Social Justice, Equal Education
Stagg Peterson, Shelley; Grimes, Ashley; Sky, Kathy – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2021
In this study, northern Canadian rural and Indigenous parents provided valuable information about the self-initiated writing that their two- through nine-year-old children do at home. In interview responses, participating parents told stories about the writing materials and spaces they make available to children for writing. They talked about how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Canada Natives, Rural Population, Family (Sociological Unit)