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Mauchline, Alice L.; Peacock, Julie; Park, Julian R. – Bioscience Education, 2013
Fieldwork is an important and often enjoyable part of learning in Bioscience degree courses, however it is unclear how the recent reforms to Higher Education (HE) may impact the future funding of outdoor learning. This paper reports on the findings from a recent survey of 30 HE Bioscience practitioners from across the UK. Their current level of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Field Studies, Biological Sciences, Outdoor Education
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Fuller, Bruce; Dauter, Luke; Hosek, Adrienne; Kirschenbaum, Greta; McKoy, Deborah; Rigby, Jessica; Vincent, Jeffrey M. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2009
Purpose: Newly designed schools for centuries have projected fresh ideals regarding how children should learn and how human settlements should be organized. But under what conditions can forward-looking architects or education reformers trump the institutionalized practices of teachers or the political-economic constraints found within urban…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, School Construction, Academic Achievement, Teacher Motivation
Kim, Kwangok – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This paper is a qualitative case study of a Korean first grade child. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the nature of a first grade Korean child's oral language interactions with teachers, parents, peers, and community members and to examine how a child's oral language impacts his literacy learning in English. The data were…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Literacy, Grade 1, Teacher Student Relationship
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Milligan, Jeffrey Ayala – Educational Policy, 2010
This essay represents an attempt to contribute to the growing body of literature on education in conflict and emergency situations by analyzing shifts in sources of authority and their influence on conceptions of leadership in the context of a decades-long armed conflict in the predominately Muslim regions of the southern Philippines. Interviews…
Descriptors: Muslims, Islam, Conflict, Leadership