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Green, Carie; Medina-Jerez, William – Science Teacher, 2012
In recent years, citizen science projects have emerged as a means to involve students in scientific inquiry, particularly in the fields of ecology and environmental science. A citizen scientist is "a volunteer who collects and/or processes data as part of a scientific inquiry" (Silverton 2009, p. 467). Participation in citizen science…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Scientific Research, Social Sciences, Citizenship Education
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Berger, Michael; Scott, Elizabeth; Axe, Judah; Hawkins, Irana – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2013
College and university educators seek to increase student engagement in learning content, skills, and applications. To achieve this goal, we used transformative teaching techniques in the design of a World Challenge: a two-week, group-based, reflective course for sophomores leading their own learning in developing creative solutions to the problem…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, Transformative Learning, Reflection
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Vandenbroeck, Michel; Boonaert, Tom; Van der Mespel, Sandra – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2009
The study from which this article derives investigated some dominant assumptions of parent support policies and programmes, and suggests new possibilities for the conceptualization of the relations between parents and such policies, inspired by the possibilities of dialogical spaces and "relational citizenship". Parent support programmes…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Socialization, Action Research, Young Children