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Coles, Tim; Poland, Roger H. C.; Clifton, Julian – Journal of Biological Education, 2015
The global expansion and diversification of the travel market has opened up new opportunities to deliver educational programmes through tourism. Applying the principles and practices commonly associated with ecotourism enables students to gain lasting benefits through their active participation in conservation-oriented activities. In many cases,…
Descriptors: Tourism, Travel, Conservation (Environment), Correlation
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Baker, Irene – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2006
What can Montessorians learn from teaching in a war-torn country, and what can they hope to share with others in the process? These questions were much on the author's mind when she went to Sri Lanka in the summer of 2003. This article contains excerpts from e-mails the author sent home, chronicling her experience teaching two high school English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Montessori Method, Catholic Schools, Single Sex Schools
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Blommaert, Jan; Muyllaert, Nathalie; Huysmans, Marieke; Dyers, Charlyn – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2005
This paper reports on an ethnographic study of classroom practices in a township school in the Wesbank settlement near Cape Town, South Africa. Focusing on the ways in which a multilingual and highly diverse student population confronts English literacy, we argue for a view in which norms are seen as emergent and contingent on occasion, place,…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Sociolinguistics