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Ana María Restrepo-Sáenz; Emmanuel Neisa Chateauneuf – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2023
No one was prepared when COVID-19 hit. While education systems all over the world turned to distance learning, countries like Colombia faced a significant challenge: only 75 percent of Colombian teachers had received training in online teaching, 64 percent of school principals considered the technology available to schools to be insufficient, and…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, Emergency Programs, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education
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Briggs, Lilly; Trautmann, Nancy M.; Fournier, Christine – Environmental Education Research, 2018
This systematic review extends the boundary of prior reviews in the environmental education (EE) field by analyzing publications focused on Latin America and the Caribbean (LATAM). We examined peer-reviewed literature and dissertations/theses in four languages (English, French, Spanish and Portuguese) published between January 2000 and February…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Outcomes of Education, Informal Education, Educational Research
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Scolari, Carlos A.; Contreras-Espinosa, Ruth S. – Journal of Information Literacy, 2019
The main objective of this article is to analyse informal learning processes in the field of video games. As many teenagers are engaged in these kinds of practices, the big question is: How do teens learn to play video games? In most cases they do not learn to play video games at school or with their parents, and therefore it is necessary to map…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Learning Strategies, Informal Education, Experiential Learning
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Gomez-Suarez, Andrei – Comparative Education, 2017
Is there a need for a new field within Peace Education that looks at the complex dynamics of transitional societies in the post-truth era? What formal and informal pedagogical strategies might be best suited for transforming "emotional anti-peace mindsets?" Drawing on practical examples from the complex political contingencies in…
Descriptors: Peace, Teaching Methods, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
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García Botero, Gustavo; Questier, Frederik; Zhu, Chang – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2019
Can mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) foster self-directed learning outside the classroom? This article examines informal, out-of-class engagement with a MALL tool: Duolingo. After being invited to use Duolingo, 118 higher education language students agreed to have their activity in the application tracked. In addition to the data collected…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, College Students, Educational Technology
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Vega, Laura; Bajaj, Monisha – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2016
The challenges of ensuring the right to education are numerous, especially when working with marginalised populations in fragile contexts. Despite having the legislation, strong constitutional support, and even educational innovations designed to guarantee the right to education, a major gap exists in Colombia between political intentions and the…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged, Conflict
Robottom, Ian; Sauvee, Lucie – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2003
We reflect on methodological issues arising in two of our own research projects as a form of practice, as a way of engaging in a praxis of project research. The projects chosen for this purpose are themselves concerned with teacher education and curriculum development in environmental education: they include participatory "reflective…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Participatory Research, Informal Education, Environmental Education