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Hole, Torstein Nielsen; Velle, Gaute; Helleve, Ingrid; Ulvik, Marit; Saetre, Jon Helge; Brøske, Brit Ågot; Raaheim, Arild – Education Inquiry, 2022
Recent development in policy and learning theory encourages higher education institutions to send their students out of campus and into work placements. In this paper, we report on students' engagement with various aspects of knowing through practice in work placements. We employed focus group discussions to gather students' accounts of their…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, College Students, Student Attitudes, Preservice Teachers
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Cavas, Bulent; Cakiroglu, Jale; Cavas, Pinar; Ertepinar, Hamide – Science Education International, 2011
The shortfall of young people, particularly women, in the field of Science, Mathematics and Engineering (SME) has been shown in many national studies. Schreiner and Sjoberg (2007) indicated that boys outnumber girls in physics and engineering studies, while the gender balance is shifted towards the girls in studies including medicine, veterinary…
Descriptors: Females, Career Choice, High School Students, Veterinary Medicine
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Phillips, C. J. C.; McCulloch, S. – Journal of Biological Education, 2005
Cultural differences in students' attitudes towards animals need to be better understood and respected in order to promote tolerance in multicultural biological education. A cross-cultural study was conducted to investigate the beliefs of 425 students of different nationalities on animal sentience and attitudes towards the uses of animals.…
Descriptors: Animals, Student Attitudes, Veterinary Medicine, Surgery