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Developing a Boundary Crossing Learning Trajectory: Supporting Engineering Students to Collaborate and Co-Create across Disciplinary, Cultural and Professional Practices
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K. P. J. Fortuin; Judith T. M. Gulikers; Nynke C. Post Uiterweer; Carla Oonk; Cassandra W. S. Tho – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
The competence to work together and co-create with others outside one's own scientific domain, culture or professional practice is a critical competence for engineers to respond to global challenges. In this context, boundary crossing (BC) competence is crucial. We reflect on a university-wide participatory action research educational innovation…
Descriptors: Learning Trajectories, Engineering Education, Cooperative Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach
Timescapes of Shadow Education: Patterns and Forces in the Temporal Features of Private Supplementary Tutoring
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Mark Bray – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
This paper employs the lenses of timescapes, themselves shaped by wider conceptions of time, to view evolving patterns of private supplementary tutoring around the world. Such tutoring is commonly called shadow education because much of its content mimics that in regular schooling: curriculum changes in the schools lead to related changes in the…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Curriculum Development, Global Approach, Time Factors (Learning)
Big Ideas in the Geography Curriculum: Nature, Awareness and Need
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Gregory, Kenneth J.; Lewin, John – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2023
Big ideas, sometimes referred to as key, core, fundamental or threshold concepts, are widely applicable concepts at the heart of disciplines that are or have been central and influential for their fields. Attention here is particularly directed to meta-concepts common to sister disciplines in the sciences. "Learning thresholds",…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Intellectual Disciplines, Learner Engagement
The Challenges of Mapping Literacy Development across the Years of Schooling
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Trish Weekes; Pauline Jones – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2021
Education systems around the world have moved to develop literacy progressions that describe a sequence of development in oral language (talking and listening), reading/viewing and writing. In Australia, the National Literacy Learning Progression (ACARA, 2021) is designed to support students' literacy development across the years of primary and…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
A Framework for the Communication Capabilities of Scientists
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Taylor G. Dyba; Susan L. Rowland; James A. Fraser – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2024
The ability to communicate science effectively is a key attribute for science graduates, and considerable work has been done to establish the techniques and skills associated with effective communication. What is less clear however, is the learning progression students traverse as they develop proficiency in science communication. In this study we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Faculty, Genetics
An Examination of the Curriculum-Levelling Construct
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Smaill, Esther; Darr, Charles – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2020
In February 2020, the Ministry of Education asked the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) to examine the curriculum-levelling construct that sits at the heart of "The New Zealand Curriculum" (Ministry of Education, 2007) (NZC). A key goal of the research was to investigate, whether-- and if so, how--the construct helps…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Alignment (Education), Foreign Countries, National Curriculum
An Examination of the Curriculum-Levelling Construct. Summary Report
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Smaill, Esther; Darr, Charles – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2020
In February 2020, the Ministry of Education asked the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) to examine the curriculum-levelling construct that sits at the heart of The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007). A key goal of the research was to investigate, whether-- and if so, how--the construct helps (or hinders)…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Program Development