Year: 2022

Internationally, there is a growing interest in School-Age Educare and the meaning of aesthetic aspects of teaching and learning in educational settings. Even if dancing is beneficial for human wellbeing and can be understood as both a physical activity as well as an aesthetic expression there are few studies that examine dance in School-Age Educare. …

The purpose of the proposed paper is to generate the discussion of teachers’ learning as transformative praxis that leads to the development of teachers’ commitment to social change. In this interdisciplinary qualitative study such learning is conceptualized as a sequence of socially constructed and culturally mediated joint learning activities. Scaffolded with the mastery of such …

High-Impact Educational Practices (HIPs), the importance of memorable experiences throughout one’s education, and active learning seek to magnify the student experience. The convergence of these strategies, known as Transformational Active Learning Experiences (TALEs), has importance to the student-centered educational experience in higher education. Four recent studies in construction management education have yielded separate and distinct …

COVID-19 ushered in a forced time of online instruction for many universities across the United States. As such, faculty had to quickly adapt their pedagogy in order to provide students with quality instruction in this new mandated virtual environment. At the researcher’s institution, post COVID students increasingly desire more choices in learning modalities. The researcher …

Energy is a principal concept in the learning of Physics, yet it is a concept that students found abstract and challenging to grasp, especially the key ideas of Transfer, Transform and Conservation. This paper proposes that a multiple representation approach in the teaching and learning of this topic helps support and deepen students’ learning of …

The sudden shift into online education has greatly affected the Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs) since they were forced to move to the virtual classroom without preparations. Thus, using concurrent nested mixed-method research, this study investigated the lived experiences of 59 teachers of the 4 TEIs in their conduct of online learning. An open-ended questionnaire was …

The move to emergency remote teaching (ERT) in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic forced instructors to seek ways of providing their course content remotely. It also compelled them to consider how they might carry out their standard non-content-related classroom practices of taking attendance and creating and maintaining student-teacher communication channels while distanced from students. …

This paper contributes to discussion regarding creative and arts-based research methods for researchers interested in pedagogies aiming for more meaningful engagement with decolonization and Indigenous reconciliation in graduate/undergraduate education of social workers in postsecondary university settings. We share our research and pedagogical process from SSHRC funded research carried out in a recent postsecondary course. We …