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Dentith, Audrey M.; Thompson, Onah P. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2017
An ecojustice seminar, held in May 2016 at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, is described in this chapter. The ecojustice theoretical framework, the seminar class design, and our findings relative to student learning as gleaned from follow-up focus groups, reflection papers, and online discussion are reported. Seminars such as…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Social Justice, Seminars, Focus Groups
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Levine, S. Joseph – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2007
Discussion boards have the unique capacity to support higher-order constructivist learning and the development of a learning community, This chapter provides ten conditions that support the effective use of an online discussion.
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Constructivism (Learning), Computer Mediated Communication, Group Discussion
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Jarvis, Christine – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
This chapter examines how the study of popular romantic fiction was used to transform students' understandings of the ways in which gendered identities are constructed and their perception of the way textual meanings are determined.
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Fiction, Reader Text Relationship, Gender Issues