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Klofstad, Casey A. – Social Forces, 2010
Extant research shows that individuals who discuss politics and current events with their peers also participate more actively in civil society. However, this correlation is not sufficient evidence of causation due to a number of analytical biases. To address this problem, data were collected through a panel study conducted on students who were…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Discourse Communities, Prosocial Behavior, College Freshmen
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Nelson, Tamara Holmlund; Deuel, Angie; Slavit, David; Kennedy, Anne – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2010
Collaborative inquiry groups, such as professional learning communities and lesson study groups, are proliferating in schools across the United States. In whatever form, the potential for impacting student learning through this collaborative work is expanded or limited by the nature of teachers' conversations. Polite, congenial conversations…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Leadership, Faculty Development
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Nel, Willy – Perspectives in Education, 2012
In an ethnographically designed study, guided by a critical community psychology framework, Black staff members at a historically White Afrikaans university campus conducted email conversations relating to issues of race, social justice and reconciliation. The conversations were initiated by the author (Black) who mainly used prompts found in the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Change, Race, Conflict Resolution
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Dahl, Trine – Written Communication, 2009
This article deals with how economists present their new knowledge claim in the genre of the research article. In the discipline of economics today, the claim is typically included not only in the obvious results/discussion section(s) but also in three other locations of the article: the abstract, the introduction, and the conclusion. The present…
Descriptors: Economics, Discourse Communities, Academic Discourse, Rhetoric
Weinstein, Margery – Training, 2011
A household name synonymous with modern telecommunications, Verizon's performance management innovations in 2010 kept pace with the growth of its brand. Many people probably are customers of the company's services. What's less known to the public is the consistent quality of Verizon's learning and development programs. A regular on the "Training"…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Business, On the Job Training, Educational Quality
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Wathington, Heather D.; Pretlow, Joshua; Mitchell, Claire – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2011
Learning communities, a small cohort of students enrolled together in two or more linked courses, have become a popular intervention to help underprepared students succeed in college. Though learning communities abound in practice, the key structural feature of a learning community--the cohort--may not be fully understood. Authors posit that a…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Community Colleges, Group Dynamics, Student Experience
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Richmond, Gail; Manokore, Viola – Science Education, 2011
In this paper, we examined data collected as part of a 5-year project designed to foster reform-based urban science teaching through teachers' communities of inquiry. Drawing upon a distributed leadership framework, we analyzed teacher "talk" during professional learning community (PLC) meetings. This analysis yielded five elements:…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Elementary School Science, Grade 1, Grade 4
Kyburz, Bonnie Lenore – Composition Studies, 2008
In this article, the author reflects on her personal experience, along with various historical accounts, in order to project a sense of "crisis" in 1963 film culture and argues that a similar disposition attempted to move 1963 Composition. Explored through the lens of the year 1963, the author focuses at the work of an iconic filmmaker--Jean Luc…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Writing (Composition), Films, Criticism
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Stoll, Louise – Journal of Staff Development, 2010
Just as in the United States, political changes in the United Kingdom and other nations affect education policy. Louise Stoll, professor at the London Centre for Leadership in Learning, Institute of Education, University of London, offers a different view on policy in these excerpts from a conversation with Tracy Crow, Learning Forward's associate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Educational Policy, Professional Development
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Kranich, Nancy – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2010
Founded in the 1850s to promote an informed citizenry, public libraries advanced both adult learning and citizenship education in the first half of the 20th century, thus becoming cornerstones of democracy. But with a more recent decline in public engagement in libraries and beyond, librarians question whether democracy requires more than an…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Democracy, Citizenship Education, Adult Learning
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Arno-Macia, Elisabet – Modern Language Journal, 2012
Within the integration of technology into language education, special attention needs to be paid to languages for specific purposes (LSP), drawing on developments in computer-assisted language learning and applied linguistics, on the one hand, and on the pervasive use of technology in academic and professional communication, on the other. From a…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Computer Mediated Communication, Applied Linguistics, Online Courses
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Scherff, Lisa – Teacher Education and Practice, 2013
In this article, we explore findings from a semester-long online mentoring project between graduate students enrolled in a doctoral program and university students observing in local high schools early in their teacher education program. The project's goals were to provide supervised mentoring experiences for doctoral students to better prepare…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mentors, Online Systems, Graduate Students
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Gurin, Patricia; Nagda, Biren A.; Sorensen, Nicholas – Liberal Education, 2011
Intergroup dialogue provides what students need in order to relate and collaborate across differences, something they have to do in community projects that usually involve interactions across racial, social class, religious, and geographical divides. In this article, the authors demonstrate the efficacy of intergroup dialogue, drawing from a…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intergroup Relations, Student Diversity, Experimental Groups
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Thompson, Candace; Ongaga, Kennedy – High School Journal, 2011
Over the past two decades, the perceived failed promise of the comprehensive high school to effectively educate America's youth has generated a national interest in high school reform. One such area of reform is a movement to restructure high schools as small learning communities centered around unique curriculum and state-of-the-art teaching.…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Restructuring, Acceleration (Education), Small Classes
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Tytler, Russell; Symington, David; Darby, Linda; Malcolm, Cliff; Kirkwood, Valda – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
This paper explores aspects of professional development for teachers of science and mathematics in schools in rural Australia. The study identified a range of issues including tensions between government, school and individual professional learning priorities and their respective responsibilities; the shaping of professional development by…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Science Teachers
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