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Jewett, Pamela; Goldstein, Nancy – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
This article reports on a study conducted in a graduate teacher research class with elementary and secondary classroom teachers. Wanting to create a collaborative environment in which their students could use language to support each other's learning, the instructors formed discourse groups. The article introduces a theoretical framework for…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Models
Chassels, Caroline; Melville, Wayne – Canadian Journal of Education, 2009
To investigate benefits and challenges to engage teacher candidates in Japanese lesson study, defined as a collaborative, reflective, and iterative teacher development process, we analyzed reflective papers submitted by 60 teacher candidates studying at an Ontario faculty of education, engaged 20 practicum associate teachers in a group discussion,…
Descriptors: Practicums, Group Discussion, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries
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Stuart, Keith; Botella, Ana – International Journal of English Studies, 2009
This article describes research undertaken in order to design a methodology for the reticular representation of knowledge of a specific discourse community. To achieve this goal, a representative corpus of the scientific production of the members of this discourse community (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, UPV) was created. This article…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Semantics, Scientific Research, Computational Linguistics
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Jordan, Kathy – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
The use of online discussion has a long history in distance education and higher education generally, and has recently been proposed as a means of supporting beginning teachers as they face the challenge of being new to the profession. Often using text-based asynchronous programs, online discussion is advocated to enable teachers to interact with…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Content Analysis, Beginning Teachers, Case Studies
Fayon, Annia K.; Goff, Emily; Duranczyk, Irene M. – Learning Assistance Review, 2010
In large introductory science courses at the postsecondary level, there is significant anecdotal evidence of traditionally underrepresented students disengaging from the lectures, resulting in withdrawals or failures. Because these science courses often fulfill graduation requirements and provide the students with broad introductions to basic…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Graduation Requirements, Limited English Speaking, Higher Education
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Kassim, Hafizoah; Ali, Fatimah – English for Specific Purposes, 2010
The constant and continuous need for the university to work towards producing graduates who meet and exceed the requirements of their chosen industry has prompted the effort to gather feedback from those industries. The effort by researchers of an engineering-based university in the East Coast Region of Malaysia to collect information on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communication Skills, Feedback (Response), Industry
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Mitra, Dana L.; Serriere, Stephanie C. – American Educational Research Journal, 2012
The present research examines the developmental outcomes of elementary-aged students engaged in student voice efforts. Using a case study of fifth-grade girls, the authors compare their experiences to research examining secondary school. The authors find marked similarities in the growth of agency, belonging, competence--the ABCs of youth…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Educational Change, Grade 5, Females
Ras, Gerard J. M. – Online Submission, 2008
This paper seeks to solve the labor shortage in the public accounting profession. It examines why people want to become CPAs, the influence of generational differences on career choices and considers methods to attract and retain CPAs that focus on attracting students, work-life balance issues and alternative work arrangements through career…
Descriptors: Accounting, Career Development, Occupational Aspiration, Labor Supply
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Zembylas, Michalinos – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2008
Against a perspective of shame that would see it as something paralyzing, negative and destructive, I draw out a different account of the politics of shame in intercultural education. I explore the openings that are created for a productive politics of shame in the context of discussions surrounding intercultural education via tracing how…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Indigenous Populations, Psychological Patterns, Anxiety
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Burnett, Gary; Jaeger, Paul T. – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2008
Introduction: This paper attempts to build bridges between two sets of theoretical concepts related to information behaviour: the macro-level concepts of Jurgen Habermas related to lifeworlds and the micro-level concepts of Elfreda Chatman related to small worlds. Argument: Habermas and Chatman explored similar issues of information behaviour at…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Public Policy, World Views, Social Theories
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Quijada, David Alberto – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2009
This article examines how an ethnically diverse group of youth critically debriefs their facilitation of diversity workshops for other youth. Using naturally occurring tape-recorded conversations and a critical ethnographic and discourse analysis perspective, the article examines youth's contributions towards a participatory process of learning,…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Workshops, Learning Processes, Intercultural Programs
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Koops, Lisa Huisman – Contributions to Music Education, 2009
In this study, the author investigated the creation of a community of learners in an under- graduate elementary music methods course. Participants included undergraduate students (n = 23) and a professor at a Midwestern liberal arts college. Data consisted of fieldnotes from class observations and interviews with the professor and students. The…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Music Education, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum
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Kuo, Jun-min – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2009
In order to fill in the research gap related to the theory and practice of critical literacy in Taiwan, this article describes an English Conversation activity offered during the 2005 spring semester at a university in southern Taiwan. The article uses a critical instructional model to analyze students' team dialogues as responses to a…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Critical Reading
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Allie, Saalih; Armien, Mogamat Noor; Burgoyne, Nicolette; Case, Jennifer M.; Collier-Reed, Brandon I.; Craig, Tracy S.; Deacon, Andrew; Fraser, Duncan M.; Geyer, Zulpha; Jacobs, Cecilia; Jawitz, Jeff; Kloot, Bruce; Kotta, Linda; Langdon, Genevieve; le Roux, Kate; Marshall, Delia; Mogashana, Disaapele; Shaw, Corrinne; Sheridan, Gillian; Wolmarans, Nicolette – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2009
In this paper, we propose that learning in engineering involves taking on the discourse of an engineering community, which is intimately bound up with the identity of being a member of that community. This leads to the notion of discursive identity, which emphasises that students' identities are constituted through engaging in discourse. This view…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Discourse Communities
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Clifford, Valerie Anne – International Journal for Academic Development, 2009
The claim by universities to be "international" has spread world-wide over the last two decades and this has been largely interpreted to mean the recruitment and support of international students. Little attention has been paid to what this means for curriculum development. This study was carried out to explore disciplinary…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Intellectual Disciplines, Foreign Countries, Transcripts (Written Records)
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