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Rojas, Alejandro; Sipos, Yona; Valley, Will – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2012
In this article, the authors describe a cultural transformation to embrace community-engaged scholarship by faculty members in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver. They describe a transition from community-inquiry faculty projects to community-engaged action research projects achieved through…
Descriptors: Action Research, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Change Strategies
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Sin, Cristina – European Educational Research Journal, 2012
The research dimension of higher education programmes is usually discussed in association with doctoral studies. Against a background of scarce literature investigating research in a Master's degree, this article aims to analyse the place of research in Master's qualifications, first, as envisaged by official European and national documents acting…
Descriptors: Evidence, Higher Education, Physics, Foreign Countries
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Sabeti, Shari – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2012
This paper uses the example of an extra-curricular Graphic Novel Reading Group in order to explore the institutional critical reading practices that take place in English classrooms in the senior years of secondary school. Drawing on Stanley Fish's theory of interpretive communities, it questions the restrictive interpretive strategies applied to…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Novels, Classroom Environment, Educational Strategies
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Meth, Jessica Matthews; Azano, Amy – English Education, 2012
This article examines the outcomes of an eight-month professional development initiative, designed to support six Writing Project teachers' classroom inquiry projects, each focused on improving an aspect of student writing. We begin by introducing the genesis of these classroom research projects as well as the structure and content of the support…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Professional Development, Writing Improvement, Classroom Techniques
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Winters, Charlene A.; Kuntz, Sandra W.; Weinert, Clarann; Black, Brad – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2014
As a means to involve the public in research, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) established the Partners in Research Program and solicited research grant applications from academic/scientific institutions and community organizations that proposed to forge partnerships: (a) to study methods and strategies to engage and inform the public…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Environmental Education, Environmental Influences, Natural Disasters
Genco, Susan L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The federal government has been making strides to make the term "appropriate" an inclusive term that recognizes and addresses the special learning needs of all students. In an effort to appropriately educate students who have been identified as "gifted," the New Jersey State Board of Education readopted Standards and Assessment…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent, Academic Achievement, Federal Government
Stake, Robert E. – Guilford Publications, 2010
This book provides invaluable guidance for thinking through and planning a qualitative study. Rather than offering recipes for specific techniques, master storyteller Robert Stake stimulates readers to discover "how things work" in organizations, programs, communities, and other systems. Topics range from identifying a research question to…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Action Research, Ethics, Research Methodology
Hart, Joy L.; Walker, Kandi L.; Burns, Barbara M. – Metropolitan Universities, 2010
Higher education can be a key leader in sustainability efforts, with issues cutting across all areas of functioning and extending into the community. This article examines educational change, which is particularly important because of its far-reaching effects. In particular, this article describes student-led sustainability research at the…
Descriptors: Student Research, Educational Change, Sustainable Development, Sustainability
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Towl, Michael; Senior, Carl – Education & Training, 2010
Purpose: Formal opportunities for psychology undergraduates to carry out research training are starting to emerge. In spite of the fact that such training programmes would have a high authentic learning component little is known of undergraduate expectations and attitudes towards such programmes. This paper aims to focus on the issues.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Focus Groups, Psychology, Questionnaires
Sparks, Sarah D. – Education Week, 2010
New studies on how language learning occurs are beginning to chip away at some long-held notions about second-language acquisition and point to potential learning benefits for students who speak more than one language. New National Science Foundation-funded collaborations among educators, cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Neurolinguistics
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Hodges, Donald A.; Luehrsen, Mary – Arts Education Policy Review, 2010
"Sounds of Learning: The Impact of Music Education" is a research program designed to allow researchers to examine the roles of music education in the lives of school-aged children to expand the understanding of music's role in a quality education. The NAMM Foundation, the sponsoring organization, has provided more than $1,000,000 to fund research…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Research Projects, Educational Quality
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Moje, Elizabeth Birr – Journal of Literacy Research, 2010
The author begins her comments on "Reviewing Adolescent Literacy Reports: Key Components and Critical Questions" by commending the authors for taking on this rather massive project. The project required not only locating and reading the many lengthy reports that exist on adolescent literacy but also sifting through the numerous claims, ideas, and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Research Projects, Reader Response, Educational Practices
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Ainslie, Susan; Foster, Rob; Groves, Jean; Grime, Kate; Straker, Katherine; Woolhouse, Clare – Education 3-13, 2010
This paper reports on the findings of a funded research project that explores the implementation of the Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda within the Greater Merseyside area. The research team explore how primary schools and external agencies are currently working together to deliver this agenda in order to highlight areas of good practice as well…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Research Projects, Educational Change, Social Services
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Trent, John – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2010
This paper reports on the results of a qualitative study that explored the experiences of one group of pre-service English language teachers in Hong Kong as they undertook an action research project as part of their undergraduate teacher training programme. Grounded in a theory of teacher identity construction as both practice and discourse, the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Self Concept, Preservice Teachers, Action Research
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Brown, Sally – Teaching Education, 2016
This article documents an extended Mexican family's social practices surrounding literacy as they engage with bilingual children's literature in a unique context that draws from both home and school without the pressures of curriculum mandates. The research is situated within the southeastern United States where English-dominant practices permeate…
Descriptors: Literacy, Literacy Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Education
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