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Direct linkKuhn, Deanna – Educational Researcher, 2015
Collaborative intellectual engagement is held in high regard in contemporary educational thought as a pedagogical practice of broad value to K-12 students. To what extent is this enthusiasm warranted? Is the practice uniformly productive, or does variability exist in the contexts in which collaboration is effective, the mechanisms involved, and…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Cooperative Learning, Evidence, Instructional Effectiveness
Quijada, David Alberto – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2009
This article examines how an ethnically diverse group of youth critically debriefs their facilitation of diversity workshops for other youth. Using naturally occurring tape-recorded conversations and a critical ethnographic and discourse analysis perspective, the article examines youth's contributions towards a participatory process of learning,…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Workshops, Learning Processes, Intercultural Programs
Keiny, Shoshana – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2008
Our argument concerning the debate around the process of "conceptual change" is that it is both an evolutionary learning process and a revolutionary paradigm change. To gain a deeper understanding of the process, the article focuses on the discourse of educational facilitators participating in a community of learners. Applying the methodology of…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Experiential Learning, Cognitive Processes, Personality Change
Download full textLaunspach, Sonja – Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), 2008
Through the use of a case study, this article explores the role of talk in underprepared students' acquisition of academic discourse. Conversation analysis as a linguistic framework is used to examine the interactions of students participating in a small writing group. Tracing the progress of one student's paper, I explore how students'…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Discourse Communities, Writing (Composition), Learning Processes
Su, Ya-Hui – Studies in Continuing Education, 2007
This paper considers the bottom-up vision of the learning society. Unlike the top-down approach, the bottom-up approach does not start by specifying the purposes of learning which should direct the development of the learning society, but from observing interactions among learning individuals as agents. While in the relevant literature and…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Active Learning, Synthesis, Holistic Evaluation
Peer reviewedLeach, Jenny – English in Education, 1997
Presents the case study of an online conference for students of English in a teacher education course. Argues electronic conferencing reveals the inadequacy of the concept of "reflective practitioner" to describe and analyze the complex process of teacher development. Demonstrates the social character of learning, highlighting the place…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication Research, Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Communities
