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Kricsfalusy, Vladimir; George, Colleen; Reed, Maureen G. – Environmental Education Research, 2018
Improving student competencies to address sustainability challenges has been a subject of significant debate in higher education. Problem- and project-based learning have been widely celebrated as course models that support the development of sustainability competencies. This paper describes a course developed for a professional Master's program…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Active Learning, Student Projects, Environmental Education
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Cook, Tina; Brandon, Toby; Zonouzi, Maryam; Thomson, Louise – Educational Action Research, 2019
This article draws on insights gained from three projects described as participatory action research (PAR) undertaken in the UK. What binds them together is that each project coordinator raised the issue of the under-representation of opportunities for disruption in the possible trajectory to knowledge democracy.PAR places a relational process at…
Descriptors: Action Research, Participatory Research, Foreign Countries, Research Projects
Karaferye, Figen – Online Submission, 2019
Internationalization in the academic world has been a major research subject for the last several decades. Academic connections and collaborations between universities from different countries via joint research projects, education and training activities are very valuable. In establishing such connections, academics in staff mobility programs can…
Descriptors: Marketing, International Education, Higher Education, Institutional Cooperation
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Roessingh, Hetty; Bence, Michelle – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2017
This article reports on an action research project undertaken by a team of four Grade 2 teachers who work in a school for gifted learners. Focused on implementing a structured printing and spelling curriculum in addition to providing instructed support for planning, organizing, and vocabulary use for different genres of writing, both qualitative…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Action Research, Gifted, Research Projects
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Harney, Kristin – Journal of Music Teacher Education, 2017
Increasing evidence points to the importance of undergraduate research in teacher education programs. Before undertaking independent research, it is essential that music education students gain exposure to a range of research skills and develop basic research competencies. In this study, I explored the influence of a semester-long collaborative…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Research
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Brent, Doug – Written Communication, 2017
Most of the literature on the assignment traditionally called the "research paper" focusses on first-year students, and often centers on what they don't know or can't do. This article seeks to expand the conversation to one about the skills and knowledge displayed by senior students, and about their perceptions of the universe of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Research, Research Projects, College Seniors
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Wichmann-Hansen, Gitte; Herrmann, Kim Jesper – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
Around the world, changing funding policies have pushed for university departments to find increased external project-based funding. While this trend is widely acknowledged, mixed views exist about implications for faculty members' academic practices. Regarding doctoral education, researchers have raised concern that external funding will push…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Financial Support, Doctoral Programs, Research Projects
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Zhu, Yan; Shu, Dingfang – Language Teaching, 2017
As one of the two "educational special zones" in China, Shanghai is launching a new round of curriculum reforms centring on "lide shuren," viz. "fostering integrity and promoting rounded development of people" (Hu 2012). Apart from piloting a new plan for "Gaokao," the national college entrance examination…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Pawlow, Laura A.; Meinz, Elizabeth J. – College Student Journal, 2017
Participation in undergraduate research has been shown to provide a wide array of benefits across many disciplines of study; however, relatively less is known about the impact of this experience on Psychology majors specifically. We collected measures of Psychology students' (N = 229) knowledge of the major (career, core, and…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Research Assistants, Psychology, Undergraduate Students
Harris, Demetrius B. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
"Teaching Spiritual Themes to African American Children: A Picture Book Approach" is a research project that used picture books to teach the four spiritual themes, 1.) love, 2.) forgiveness, 3.) kindness, and 4.) perseverance. This project was conducted in an after school program at Fifth Baptist Church, on Cary St. in Richmond, VA. The…
Descriptors: African American Children, Spiritual Development, Picture Books, Research Projects
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Tillema, Erik; Hackenberg, Amy – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2017
The [National Council of Teachers of Mathematics] NCTM research committee made a recent, urgent call for mathematics education researchers to "examine and deeply reflect on our research practices through an equity lens." With this in mind, we use this paper to reflect on the ways in which Steffe's work has contributed to three facets of…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Research Committees, Teacher Associations, Teacher Researchers
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Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia – European Journal of Higher Education, 2020
In this contribution, the self-reported linguistic practices of researchers engaged in an international research project are analysed and discussed. These researchers constitute a community of practice of intercomprehension, using mostly romance languages to communicate and, at the same time, also researching the phenomena. The data was collected…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Usage, Profiles, Research Projects
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Al-Mahmood, Reem; Papalia, Gerardo; Barry, Sinead; Nguyet Nguyen, Minh; Roemhild, Juliane; Meehan-Andrews, Terri; Julien, Brianna; Holt, Colleen; Bester, Lucas; Bruce, Chris; Miles, Rebecca; Neilson, Cheryl; Louie, Judy – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
There has been significant interest in developing academics through Teaching Scholar Development Programs across the USA, Canada, the UK, and more recently in Australia. At their core, such programs develop academics across teaching scholarship, leadership, promotion, and award opportunities, where universities reap the benefits of developing such…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, College Faculty, Program Descriptions, Universities
Truong, Huong May – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
This paper provides an overview and update on my PhD research project which focuses on integrating learning styles into adaptive e-learning system. The project, firstly, aims to develop a system to classify students' learning styles through their online learning behaviour. This will be followed by a study on the complex relationship between…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Integrated Activities, Electronic Learning, Research Projects
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Iqbal, Sarfraz – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2016
Information security (InfoSec) education becomes increasingly important. Building hands-on capabilities to tackle challenges is a precondition to mitigate and eliminate cyber threats. Existing studies, however, show that the field lacks pedagogically founded information security laboratories that can be used flexibly to educate both on-campus and…
Descriptors: Information Security, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Action Research
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