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Lansrud-Lopez, Laura L. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The following inquiry asks the question: "What is the experience of transformation using imaginal knowing in counseling education?" Inspired by personal experience of transformation through education, the author engages this question by exploring others' experience of imaginal knowing in the context of a core-curriculum graduate-level…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Transformative Learning, Topography, Phenomenology
Jingwan Tang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study aims to explore the validity of measuring joint attention through gaze coordination in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) research. Gaze coordination, aligning visual attention in social contexts, aids comprehension and communication. Many CSCL researchers use gaze coordination to gauge joint attention quantitatively.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Cooperative Learning, Eye Movements
Reding, Tracie Evans – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Multi-stakeholder collaborative networks (MSCNs) centered around innovative problem solving have become increasingly popular. These collaborations seek to pool the resources of the various stakeholders in order to address their common issue. The importance of the collaboration members' awareness of one another's resources is the basis for this…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Social Capital, Network Analysis, Social Networks
Fourman, Janet L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Role-playing simulations have been effective techniques to encourage global skills in the engineering and design classrooms. May, Wold and Moore (2014), defined global skills as student display of respect, recognition, adjustment and integration. Gray, Debs, Exter, and Krause (2016), took this one step further and looked-for empathy in the design…
Descriptors: Science Education, Role Playing, Simulation, Interpersonal Competence
Payne, LeJon April – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This qualitative, analytical study at an International Baccalaureate school explored third grade teachers' perceptions of three specific innovative teaching strategies: innovation skills needed by third grade students; barriers and challenges that exist when teaching 21st Century skills; and skills needed by teachers to teach innovation skills.…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Child Development, Innovation, Teaching Methods
Jaworowski, Susan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this qualitative case study is to describe the characteristics of three law professors teaching online courses to determine what type of adopter they were. This study used the Rogers diffusion of innovation theory, and specifically analyzed the participants on whether they were innovators or early adopters. These analyses are…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Law Schools, Case Studies, College Faculty
Travis, Michael G. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Children today are born into a world with endless amounts of information at their fingertips, the ability to instantly connect with others, and smartphones with an app for virtually everything. It is a world that is vastly different than that of their parents or grandparents. As these students sit in classrooms all over the world, their teachers…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Educational Change, Instruction, High Schools
McLachlan, Kurt – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Skills, such as critical thinking, problem-solving, and innovation are necessary for the 21st Century. The economy and the forums of international business and globalization demand skilled workers. Some schools in the United States are producing such workers, however it is unclear the programs and practices these schools utilize. This study…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Innovation, Middle Schools
Bye, Shari L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
"In the three decades since the 1980 publication of An Agenda for Action, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) has consistently advocated a coherent prekindergarten through grade 12 mathematics curriculum focused on mathematical problem solving" (NCTM, 2009, p. xi). Despite a call for secondary mathematics students to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Textbooks, Federal Legislation, Instructional Innovation
Buelin-Biesecker, Jennifer Katherine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study compared the creative outcomes in student work resulting from two pedagogical approaches to creative problem solving activities. A secondary goal was to validate the Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT) as a means of assessing creativity. Linear models for problem solving and design processes serve as the current paradigm in classroom…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Creativity, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods
Roman Maqueira, Juana – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between the development of employability skills and entrepreneurial innovative attitude in Latin American youth entrepreneurs 18-29 years of age after participating in at least 1 year of an entrepreneurship experience. The design involved analyzing two groups. The first was a coached group…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Income, Work Experience, Information Networks