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Active Learning

From Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education
Active learning is an educational approach in which teachers ask students to apply classroom content during instructional activities and to reflect on the actions they have taken. Teachers who employ active learning approaches can have students solve problems, work as part of a team, provide feedback to classmates, or peer-teach as ways to put new content to work. Active learning requires students to operate at high cognitive levels, to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate during instructional tasks. This entry looks at how active learning works and what research says about its outcomes, as well as some criticisms and challenges. When students take notes quietly during a lecture, they are operating as passive learners. Lectures invite student passivity, and research shows that passive students learn less. Lectures are teacher-centered activities that require only the instructor to process the academic content. Active learning approaches, on the other hand, are student centered, requiring…
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Full text Article Active Learning

From The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education
Active learning is an umbrella term that encompasses the many teaching methods that are student-centered and that engage students in some kind of activity. Since around 1990, active learning has been the generally recommended approach to teaching at all educational levels, including higher…
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Full text Article Learning Spaces

From The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education
Although learning can happen anywhere, including on campus or online, most educational researchers and instructors refer to the idea of learning spaces as physical environments that are either formal or informal in nature. Formal learning spaces, such as classrooms, tiered lecture auditoriums, and…
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Full text Article Experiential Learning

From The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education
In the 1980s, David A. Kolb conceptualized experiential learning theory as the process of learning by doing. Drawing upon the work of John Dewey (1938), Kurt Lewin (1951), and Jean Piaget (1978), experiential learning was initially theorized as a method of adaptation and development, and it has…
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Full text Article Education, Child-Centered

From The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies
Child-centred education can be defined as education which is oriented around the child as an active constructor of its own learning and development. Pedagogy must align itself with the child rather than the child aligning with pedagogy. The dominant pedagogy in child-centred ideology is learning…
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Full text Article Teaching and Learning

From The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education
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Full text Article Collaborative Learning

From The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education
Collaborative learning refers to a range of instructional practices that feature intellectual efforts by students working in groups and that are underpinned by divergent theoretical perspectives. This approach to learning was catalyzed by the use of peer support in teaching beginning around the…
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Full text Article Classroom Practices

From The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education
In the late 1990s, a shift began in higher education, urging those in higher education to move from a focus on how faculty members teach to how students learn. This meant moving from the focus of “in class today I will …” to “by the end of class today students will be able to …” The difference may…
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Full text Article Learning Communities

From The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice
A recent trend in higher education has been the creation of learning communities. These programs are designed to create a learning environment that encourages students to make both academic and social connections to provide a richer learning experience. Colleges and universities often create…
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Full text Article Cooperative Learning

From The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education
Cooperative learning is a form of active learning that has its roots in the educational philosophy of constructivism. The constructivist approach posits that students learn by constructing their own understanding of material in relation to their own personal experiences; the instructor does not…
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