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Breaking the Waves: Routines and Rituals in Entrepreneurship Education
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Neergaard, Helle; Christensen, Dorthe Refslund – Industry and Higher Education, 2017
Learning is related to the environment created for the learning experience. This environment is often highly routinized and involves a certain social structure, but in entrepreneurship education, such routinization and structure may actually counteract the learning goals. This article investigates how classroom routines and rituals impact on…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Learning Experience, Classroom Environment, Educational Practices
Melding Service Learning and Leadership Skills Development: Keys to Effective Course Design
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Lester, Scott W. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2015
The author presents keys to designing a class that successfully melds service learning and student leadership development. These prescriptions are based on the lessons learned over 8 years of teaching a class titled "Community Leadership." This class emphasizes experiential learning and revolves around service learning projects. The…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Leadership Training, Course Descriptions, Feedback (Response)
Active versus Passive Course Designs: The Impact on Student Outcomes
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Wingfield, Sue Stewart; Black, Gregory S. – Journal of Education for Business, 2005
The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of course design on both actual and self-reported student outcomes. The authors examined data gathered from three courses, each with a different design, during one semester at a major university in the Southwest. One passive design was used and was patterned after the traditional method of…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Course Organization, Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education
Short Term Experiential Laboratories in Academic Courses.
Gillenson, Amy J.; And Others – 1983
A study undertaken to examine the effects on students of participation in a limited experiential learning program yielded no definitive conclusions but suggested several directions for further study. Dartmouth College undergraduate students who enrolled in an intermediate psychology course in 1973 and 1974 had the opportunity to be selected to…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adventure Education, College Students, Course Evaluation
The Interiors Plant Shutdown: Using Dialectic Inquiry in a Complex Ethical Decision
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Lenaghan, Janet; Smith, Charles – Journal of Management Education, 2004
The experiential exercise presented here, using a dialectic process similar to that found within Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing (SAST), developed by Mason and Mitroff, offers graduate and undergraduate management students the opportunity to study a contemporary ethical problem in a new way. The ethical issues of a plant closedown…
Descriptors: Ethics, Teaching Methods, Business Administration Education, Case Method (Teaching Technique)
A "Hands-On" Approach to Teaching English for Science.
Magrath, Douglas – 1983
A college course in English as a second language for the sciences that combines field experience with language learning is outlined. The proposed course includes two components: (1) a core course of both relevant scientific content and language, including grammar, vocabulary, reading, and writing presented topically; and (2) visits to sites and…
Descriptors: Arabs, College Second Language Programs, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages)