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Yelich Biniecki, Susan M.; Conceição, Simone C. O. – Adult Learning, 2016
An understanding of learning theories can help adult educators become more effective practitioners and meet the needs of the learners they serve. Adult educators who understand how individuals learn can be better prepared to use effective strategies during the learning process. This article addresses the use of concept maps as a strategy to engage…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Adult Learning, Learning Theories, Educational Strategies
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Huckle, John – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2019
Geographical knowledge is powerful if it is critical and empowering. This article develops this argument with reference to the philosophy of knowledge and Laura Wheelahan's advocacy of critical realism as the philosophical strand of her social realist curriculum theory. While the GeoCapabilities Project has drawn on the sociological strand of that…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Realism, Educational Philosophy, Teacher Role
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Dyke, Martin – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2017
The paper explores the work of Peter Jarvis related to learning with particular reference to his definitions of learning and his models of the learning process. This exploration will consider different approaches to experiential learning and demonstrate the contribution Jarvis has made, noting how his writing on the subject has changed over time.…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Learning Theories, Criticism, Educational Philosophy
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Bourassa, Gregory – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2017
One of the more long-standing and commonly held views among educational theorists maintains that schools are one of the primary sites of social and cultural reproduction--sites where students are corralled and organized for the reproduction of the existing social arrangement. In this article author Gregory Bourassa argues that if this…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Role of Education, Public Schools, Politics of Education
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Raaper, Rille; Olssen, Mark – Open Review of Educational Research, 2017
It is challenging to define who Michel Foucault was, whether he was a theorist, a philosopher, a historian, or a critic. In many of his books, and essays, Foucault denied being a philosopher or a theorist, nor did he want to be called a writer or a prophet. He described himself as an experimenter by saying that his work simply consists of…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Power Structure, College Faculty
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Stein, Kristy Cooper; Miness, Andrew; Kintz, Tara – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background: Student engagement is a cognitively complex domain that is often oversimplified in theory and practice. Reliance on a single model overlooks the sophisticated nature of student engagement and can lead to misconceptions and limited understandings that hinder teachers' ability to engage all of their students. Assessing varied models…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Theories, Social Theories, Hypothesis Testing
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Levitan, Joseph A. S. – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background/Context: Working towards social justice in education requires students' voices to be heard and understood (Mansfield, 2014). This is especially the case for students from marginalized populations. Prior research has shown the value and importance of students' voices for school retention, academic success, school inclusivity, and student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Indigenous Populations, Student Attitudes
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Brenton, John; Müller, Sean – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2018
A prominent topic is whether visual or motor expertise makes greater contribution to expert visual anticipation in sport. This stems from psychological theories, such as common coding theory, which predicts perception and action can inform each other in a bidirectional manner. This paper reviews the literature that has investigated visual and…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Psychomotor Skills, Athletics, Social Theories
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Jones, Colin; Penaluna, Kathryn; Penaluna, Andy; Matlay, Harry – Industry and Higher Education, 2018
During the course of the past 30 years, a challenge made to entrepreneurship educators has gone unaddressed. While acknowledging that there has never been a more exciting time to be an enterprise educator, we suggest that there has also never been a more challenging time. On the one hand, the changing nature of employment landscapes globally is…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Business Administration Education, Social Theories, Educational Principles
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Erciyes, Erdem – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
This paper aims to examine how the combination of theory and practice work effectively in teaching and supporting the learning process. Action research methodology was followed in the research by designing a plan of action in the practicing environment. The research focuses on the interaction of the researcher and participants. Mixed approaches of…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Social Theories, Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education
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E. Snyder; S. E. Witmer – Preventing School Failure, 2025
Effective inclusion of English Learners (ELs) in multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) is necessary for this growing subset of students to access the intended outcomes of MTSS, specifically improved academic outcomes. Facilitating MTSS systems that are appropriately responsive to the heterogeneous needs of ELs may be particularly challenging. In…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Reading Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
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Douglas, Alaster Scott – Ethnography and Education, 2019
This article makes the claim that developing ethnographic work through follow-up interviews can add to our understanding of researched phenomena and explores how using concepts from Bourdieu and theories on the social construction of time strengthen the research design and add a stronger longitudinal diachronic element to data analysis. Extending…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Social Theories, Social Capital, Longitudinal Studies
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Teng, Lin Sophie – English Language Education, 2022
This monograph is to investigate practical applications and contributions of self-regulated learning (SRL) to second/foreign language (L2) writing from sociocognitive and sociocultural perspectives. It showcases a comprehensive and updated review of conceptual and methodological issues of SRL and the state-of-the-art research on its applications…
Descriptors: Self Management, Independent Study, Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition)
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Kedley, Kate E. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2022
In this article, I examine an ongoing qualitative and ethnographic research project in a transnational, multilingual setting. I am not primarily a queer scholar, nor do I study queer issues, gender, or sexuality, as a primary focus in my research agenda or career. However, I am the primary research instrument in these projects, and I am also a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, LGBTQ People, Language Usage, Gender Issues
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Pardo-Guerra, Juan Pablo; Pahwa, Prithviraj – Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
This paper considers the adoption of computational techniques within research designs modeled after the extended case method. Echoing calls to augment the power of contemporary researchers through the adoption of computational text analysis methods, we offer a framework for thinking about how such techniques can be integrated into…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Research Design, Marketing, Social Science Research
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