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Braid, Bernice – Honors in Practice, 2018
Experiential learning is, for the author, a preeminent means to accomplish goals that are fundamental to the entire educational enterprise. It is a set of strategies that structure acquisition of information, analysis of ideas, and self-reflection in order to pull people into active engagement with their world. Among these strategies are skills of…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Field Experience Programs, Study Abroad
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France, Derek; Haigh, Martin – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2018
Fieldwork is the most powerful learning invitation in the toolkit of Geographical Education. This review of papers in "The Journal of Geography in Higher Education" (JGHE) suggests seven modes in the development of fieldwork. These are arrayed as a kind of historical, perhaps evolutionary, sequence but most remain current in Geography…
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Geography, Geography Instruction, Higher Education
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Heriot, Kirk C.; Cook, Ron; Jones, Rita C.; Simpson, Leo – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2008
Active learning has attracted considerable attention in higher education in response to concerns about how and what students are learning. There are many different forms of active learning, yet most of them are classroom based. We propose an alternative to active learning in the classroom through active learning outside of the classroom in the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Higher Education, Student Projects, Consultants
Adler, Madeleine Wing – 1994
This conference paper advocates that experiential learning provides learners with a deeper sense of knowing and self-confidence in taking risks to be change agents in their chosen fields. Five components of experiential learning are described: (1) there is an emphasis on learning-by-doing; (2) there is an emphasis on learning by listening; (3)…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Apprenticeships, Clinical Experience, Experience
Dawson, Kara – Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, 2007
The objective of this research was to explore how authentic technology use and teacher inquiry may coalesce during curriculum-based, technology-enhanced field experiences for prospective teachers. Thirteen inquiries were analyzed using qualitative analytic procedures (Rossman, 1998). Results suggest that teacher inquiry may serve a variety of…
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Reflective Teaching, Teacher Role, Technology Uses in Education
Walker, Doris McEwen – 1995
Indiana University South Bend (IUSB) School Leadership Project has adopted as a central educational strategy, problem based learning and its sub-model, problems of practice, in its program to prepare school leaders. Problems of practice is an active learning model that involves students in taking responsibility for their learning by immersing…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Administrator Education, Certification, College Instruction