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Direct linkCurtis, Elana; Townsend, Sonia; Airini – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
This study investigates what teaching practices in the "non-lecture context of a foundation programme" help or hinder Maori and Pasifika students' success in a New Zealand university. This two-year qualitative project used Kaupapa Maori and Pasifika Research (KM/PR) methodologies conducted in three phases: (1) needs analysis, (2)…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Indigenous Populations
Warring, Susan – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2010
This study focuses on facilitating independent learning amongst Chinese international students completing a Bachelor's Degree. A rationale for cultivating independence is provided and a model of independent learning developed, based on Grow's Staged Self-Directed Learning model and the 1996 Situational Leadership model of Hersey and Blanchard.…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students
Peer reviewedBoshier, Roger – Studies in Continuing Education, 2002
Challenges the notion that excellence requires higher education by analyzing the approaches to learning of self-educated people in a variety of fields ("farm-gate intellectuals"). Considers how they fit into the anarchist-utopian tradition in adult education and how universities and adult educators can benefit from understanding their…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Biographies, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Teaching Medical Students about Other Health Professionals: An Experiment in Self-directed Learning.
Peer reviewedGrant, Valerie J. – Medical Teacher, 1987
Described is a new course at the University of Auckland in the undergraduate behavioral science curriculum which attempts to prepare medical students for their responsibilities as key members of the health team. The course which uses self-directed learning is designed to teach third-year students about the skills and knowledge of other health…
Descriptors: Course Content, Foreign Countries, Health Personnel, Higher Education
Peer reviewedCotterall, Sara – System, 1999
Studied the language-learning beliefs of a group of students enrolled in an English for academic purposes course. Drew on results of an earlier study of language-learning beliefs that used factor analysis to identify six dimensions underlying learner responses to a questionnaire, and explored the relationship between each factor and autonomous…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes
Nutt, Diane, Ed.; Calderon, Denis, Ed. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2009
Students around the globe have unique first-year experiences but struggle with many of the same challenges. This monograph focuses on their journeys and provides insights for educators interested in learning about how institutions across the globe provide supports to students dealing with first-year transition issues. Based on the successful…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Studies, Program Attitudes, College Freshmen
PDF pending restorationCollins, Michael, Ed. – 1995
The following are among the papers included in these proceedings: "Challenging the Exclusionary Effects of the Inclusive Mask of Adult Education" (Rockhill); "Organic Intellectuals of the State and Political Struggle in the University" (Cunningham); "Adult Education's Prospects in a Post-University World" (Smith);…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Advocacy
Download full textMany Voices, 1996
The seven issues of this New Zealand journal contain brief articles on a variety of immigrant and multicultural education issues. Topics include: the role of English language instruction in creating opportunities; Pacific Islander university students; lecture listening and note-taking techniques; the language of geography examinations; audiotape…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Community Schools, Creative Writing, Cultural Pluralism
