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Multimodal Artistic Recreations of the Ecological University in the Global South
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Melina Porto – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2025
This article describes how a group of language undergraduates in a local university in the periphery in the Global South conceptualised and enacted the notion of the 'ecological university'. Theoretically grounded in critical and post-humanist perspectives on education, and language education in particular, and notions of the ecological and the…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Universities, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
From Concrete to Bamboo: My Crash Course through Education
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Hogan, Clover – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2020
Clover Hogan is a 20-year-old climate activist, researcher on turning anxiety into agency from Australia, and the founder of Force of Nature. In this article, she talks about how education is a 'system of rote, churning out worker bees for the hive' and, through education, children are manipulated and scared into abiding by the regulatory rules.…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Natural Resources, Climate, Ecology
A Multimodal Assessment Framework for Higher Education
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Ross, Jen; Curwood, Jen Scott; Bell, Amani – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2020
Higher education institutions increasingly expect students to work effectively and critically with multiple modes, semiotic resources and digital tools. However, assessment practices are often insufficient to capture how multimodal artefacts represent disciplinary knowledge in complex ways. This study explores and theorises the design and…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Learning Modalities, Educational Technology
English Revisited: Sucker Punch, Moffatt, Avatars and Forensic Evidence
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Russell, Jennifer; Beavis, Catherine – English in Australia, 2012
Contemporary curriculum guidelines, such as those provided in the incoming Australian curriculum, call for English to attend to multimodal forms of text and literacy as well as more traditional forms. Students are expected to become capable and critical readers, users and creators of texts and forms of literacy that span everything from newspapers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Guides, Learning Modalities, Multimedia Instruction
Economic Dimensions of Sustainable Development, the Fight against Poverty and Educational Responses
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Ahmed, Manzoor – International Review of Education, 2010
The arguments in the article are based on the ongoing discourse in the academic community and among stakeholders, which has contributed to the articulation of the concepts and premises of sustainable development and the role of learning modalities, technologies and networks. The article draws on this discourse to explore the economic aspects of…
Descriptors: Poverty, Learning Modalities, Lifelong Learning, Sustainable Development
Reflections from the Neck Down: Embodied Learning in the Classroom.
Barndt, Deborah; MacEachren, Zabe; Rigby, Heather – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 1999
The mind/body split internalized in Western culture does not acknowledge the body's role in learning. Three environmental education teachers' techniques for engaging all the senses to enhance other ways of knowing include: a comfortable classroom environment, experiencing the natural environment, playfulness, imagination, storytelling, crafting…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Cultural Influences