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A report examines the situation of adult education for immigrants and refugees in Australia. The first section situates the nation's immigration program within national economic development. The second section outlines the development of policy and programs relating to language and literacy education for migrants and refugees, and describes how policy and institutional approaches recognize diversity in the design and delivery of services. The third section summarizes research undertaken within the Adult Migrant English Program to identify groups of adult learners with special needs and the learning barriers that face them. These studies focus on how characteristics, expectations, and previous experiences of learning influence migrant learners' attempts to interpret and cope with the curriculum, teaching methods, resources, and tasks of the Australian language classroom. This section also details policies and practices developed to overcome these barriers and improve the effectiveness of learning. (Contains 56 references.) (MSE)

This booklet describes the offerings of the Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden, a large institute of higher education (a polytechnic) in the north of The Netherlands. Special emphasis is placed on the social studies teacher training programs and the social studies general and applied programs. Blending the definition of the social studies of the National Council for the Social Studies with the Dutch tradition and educational mission of the College of Education, a unique perspective of the social studies is created for the student. "Learning How To Earn" forms the core concept of the design of the social studies curriculum with special emphasis on professionalism, society, and the future. (EH)

In experiential learning, on-field experience needs to be processed consciously in order for learning to take place. Reflection plays a crucial role by providing a bridge between practical experience and conceptualization. Despite being a protected environment, university traineeship is a form of experiential learning that offers students a chance to learn from the fields and reflect on a possible future profession. In this paper we present and discuss a research project whose goal is the development of a methodology to educate trainees’ reflective thinking and writing

In experiential learning, on-field experience needs to be processed consciously in order for learning to take place. Reflection plays a crucial role by providing a bridge between practical experience and conceptualization. Despite being a protected environment, university traineeship is a form of experiential learning that offers students a chance to learn from the fields and reflect on a possible future profession. In this paper we present and discuss a research project whose goal is the development of a methodology to educate trainees’ reflective thinking and writing

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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE (1) TO IDENTIFY AND COMPARE THREE KINDS OF TRANSFER EFFECTS--AN EFFECT ASSOCIATED WITH CUE REPETITION, A LEARNING-TO-LEARN EFFECT, AND A WARM-UP EFFECT, AND (2) TO EVALUATE THE USEFULNESS OF CUE-RESPONSE CORRELATIONS IN EXPLAINING TRANSFER EFFECTS. THE STUDY WAS BASED ON THE DEFINITION OF TRANSFER EFFECTS AS CHANGES IN ABILITY TO DEAL WITH SITUATIONS NOT ENCOUNTERED DURING TRAINING. SUBJECTS WERE UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO WERE DIVIDED INTO SIX GROUPS. FOR HALF OF THE SAMPLE, THE TRAINING AND CRITERIA TASKS WERE SIMILAR. FOR THE OTHER HALF, THE TRAINING AND CRITERIA TASKS WERE QUITE DIFFERENT. FOR ONE GROUP FROM EACH HALF OF THE SAMPLE, THE RELEVANT AND IRRELEVANT CUES REMAINED THE SAME FOR ALL TASKS. FOR THE SECOND GROUP FROM EACH HALF, THE RELEVANT AND IRRELEVANT CUES WERE REVERSED ON THE CRITERION TASK. FOR THE REMAINING GROUPS, COMPLETELY NEW CUES WERE INTRODUCED DURING THE CRITERION TASK. A CONTROL GROUP PERFORMED ONLY THE CRITERION TASK. THE ENTIRE EXPERIMENT WAS CARRIED OUT TWICE, ONCE USING LARGE GROUP TESTING PROCEDURES AND ONCE WITH GROUPS OF EITHER SEVEN OR 14 AT A TIME. ERROR SCORES WERE USED AS A MEASURE OF RATE OF LEARNING. THE INVESTIGATOR ATTRIBUTED THE GREATEST TRANSFER EFFECT TO WARM-UP, AND THE NEXT LARGEST TO LEARNING-TO-LEARN EFFECTS. NO SIGNIFICANT EFFECT WAS FOUND FOR CUE REPETITION. SINGLE-TRIAL, CUE-RESPONSE CORRELATIONS (CRITERIALITIES) PROVED USEFUL IN INTERPRETING THE TEST RESULTS. THEY ALSO DEMONSTRATED THE PRESENCE OF CUE-SIMILARITY EFFECTS NOT DETECTABLE IN THE ERROR SCORES. (AL)

Presented at the IL-CTO TechCon 2008 Conference. Presentation slides can be viewed at http://www.slideshare.net/cchausis/web2techcon08-presentation

Many learning disabled secondary school students have difficulties with text organization in both subject area reading and expository writing. Problems may include difficulty in following the main ideas in text, recognizing the main text topics and their interrelationships, or recognizing the subordinate and superordinate ideas and examples. Often, recall ability is poor and writing skills are inadequate. Several concepts derived from current theories and research in text processing can provide a guide for the improvement of instruction in both reading and writing for learning disabled secondary school students. The microstructure model of text comprehension allows students to transform sentences into their underlying microstructure propositions which express the surface structure information of the passage. Research on the skills involved in summarizing a text has shown that an important aspect of text processing involves the ability to identify main topics of the text and their interrelatedness. Another line of research has emphasized the central role of topic structure processing in reading and writing. Text structure or organization has been found to have a major role in the recognition and recall of main ideas in text. Research has also indicated that the recognition and use of objective textual cues to the relevant information in a text contributes to the identification of the important ideas and their interrelatedness. Instructional programs based on these concepts have the potential for improving both the comprehension and recall of expository material and the quality of expository writing for learning disabled secondary students, thus enhancing their opportunities for success in academic settings. A list of 31 references is appended. (CB)

Many learning disabled secondary school students have difficulties with text organization in both subject area reading and expository writing. Problems may include difficulty in following the main ideas in text, recognizing the main text topics and their interrelationships, or recognizing the subordinate and superordinate ideas and examples. Often, recall ability is poor and writing skills are inadequate. Several concepts derived from current theories and research in text processing can provide a guide for the improvement of instruction in both reading and writing for learning disabled secondary school students. The microstructure model of text comprehension allows students to transform sentences into their underlying microstructure propositions which express the surface structure information of the passage. Research on the skills involved in summarizing a text has shown that an important aspect of text processing involves the ability to identify main topics of the text and their interrelatedness. Another line of research has emphasized the central role of topic structure processing in reading and writing. Text structure or organization has been found to have a major role in the recognition and recall of main ideas in text. Research has also indicated that the recognition and use of objective textual cues to the relevant information in a text contributes to the identification of the important ideas and their interrelatedness. Instructional programs based on these concepts have the potential for improving both the comprehension and recall of expository material and the quality of expository writing for learning disabled secondary students, thus enhancing their opportunities for success in academic settings. A list of 31 references is appended. (CB)

Many learning disabled secondary school students have difficulties with text organization in both subject area reading and expository writing. Problems may include difficulty in following the main ideas in text, recognizing the main text topics and their interrelationships, or recognizing the subordinate and superordinate ideas and examples. Often, recall ability is poor and writing skills are inadequate. Several concepts derived from current theories and research in text processing can provide a guide for the improvement of instruction in both reading and writing for learning disabled secondary school students. The microstructure model of text comprehension allows students to transform sentences into their underlying microstructure propositions which express the surface structure information of the passage. Research on the skills involved in summarizing a text has shown that an important aspect of text processing involves the ability to identify main topics of the text and their interrelatedness. Another line of research has emphasized the central role of topic structure processing in reading and writing. Text structure or organization has been found to have a major role in the recognition and recall of main ideas in text. Research has also indicated that the recognition and use of objective textual cues to the relevant information in a text contributes to the identification of the important ideas and their interrelatedness. Instructional programs based on these concepts have the potential for improving both the comprehension and recall of expository material and the quality of expository writing for learning disabled secondary students, thus enhancing their opportunities for success in academic settings. A list of 31 references is appended. (CB)

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Many of the problems encountered by learning disabled high school students in the transition from secondary to postsecondary education settings can be minimized if planning for transition occurs at high school entry. Transition planning for the college bound learning disabled student needs to include the design of a relevant high school curriculum based on the requisite entry level skills that have been identified as important for success in college settings. At the same time, curriculum referenced assessment procedures that focus on these skills need to be developed and implemented in order to link assessment results with instructional planning. Student progress with the curriculum or individualized education program (IEP) designed from the assessments must also be monitored and further adapted to the student's individual needs, if necessary. The curriculum or IEP must also be evaluated to determine followup needs for the student's successful transition to college. (Author/CB)

Many of the problems encountered by learning disabled high school students in the transition from secondary to postsecondary education settings can be minimized if planning for transition occurs at high school entry. Transition planning for the college bound learning disabled student needs to include the design of a relevant high school curriculum based on the requisite entry level skills that have been identified as important for success in college settings. At the same time, curriculum referenced assessment procedures that focus on these skills need to be developed and implemented in order to link assessment results with instructional planning. Student progress with the curriculum or individualized education program (IEP) designed from the assessments must also be monitored and further adapted to the student's individual needs, if necessary. The curriculum or IEP must also be evaluated to determine followup needs for the student's successful transition to college. (Author/CB)

Many of the problems encountered by learning disabled high school students in the transition from secondary to postsecondary education settings can be minimized if planning for transition occurs at high school entry. Transition planning for the college bound learning disabled student needs to include the design of a relevant high school curriculum based on the requisite entry level skills that have been identified as important for success in college settings. At the same time, curriculum referenced assessment procedures that focus on these skills need to be developed and implemented in order to link assessment results with instructional planning. Student progress with the curriculum or individualized education program (IEP) designed from the assessments must also be monitored and further adapted to the student's individual needs, if necessary. The curriculum or IEP must also be evaluated to determine followup needs for the student's successful transition to college. (Author/CB)

Students in higher education are being taught pedagogically. Moreover, pedagogy has long persisted as the basis for the entire educational system. Education is, however, discovering that adults learn differently than children learn even though they have been taught as children were taught. Students tend to behave dependently when they are in a structured, pedagogical educational setting. This dependent behavior may be because these learners do not know how to learn, they only know how to be taught. In pedagogy, the instructor is in charge and held entirely responsible for all learning: what is to be taught, how it is to be taught, when it is to be taught, how it is to be measured, etc. Adult students need to be taught how to learn in order to become life-long, autonomous learners. Research demonstrates that adult students being taught andragogically become engaged in the learning process. They are ready for learning, learn more, experience more meaningful learning, and enjoy learning. This paper presents a six point plan for promoting engagement for students in the college classroom: create a safe environment for learning; ask students what they need to know; explain why students are learning certain concepts, theories, skills, etc.; provide real-life learning opportunities; offer opportunities for collegial collaboration; and have students evaluate their own learning. Collaboration between educators on the six points will also increase the likelihood of engaging students. Student engagement leads to improved retention and ultimately to student success.

This paper is concerned with findings and results of recent experimentation in learning in music, and with studies in philosophy as they relate to aesthetics in music. Because the importance of music in the growth and development of the child has been underestimated, music educators are urged first, to utilize to the fullest extent the inherent values in music as a creative art; and second, to continuously reevaluate and analyze the status of music education in terms of related fields and developments. Without exhaustive inquiry into contemporary psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and related fields, music educators will not be able to answer such basic questions as: To what extent are we utilizing applicable contemporary findings from other vitally related areas of learning? What is the relationship of these findings to learning in music? Some research findings relevant to learning music are summarized, and some new behavioral objectives are proposed based on some of the research studies. (CS)

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This paper describes the design of a major development and research project within the Teaching and Learning Research Programme in the United Kingdom. It outlines the project's aims to enhance teaching and learning in schools through innovative practice at classroom and school level and through networking. It describes the assumptions and principles on which the design of the study was based and how the overall plan for research evolved. This account is located within debates about research quality, which are current in both the United States and the United Kingdom, and specifically in discussions of issues surrounding research capacity building. It concludes that this complex intervention study as a variant of the "design experiment" and offers opportunities for deepening research capacity by knowledge creation and dissemination both within and beyond the research team. (Contains 2 figures and 28 references.) (Author/SLD)

This paper describes the design of a major development and research project within the Teaching and Learning Research Programme in the United Kingdom. It outlines the project's aims to enhance teaching and learning in schools through innovative practice at classroom and school level and through networking. It describes the assumptions and principles on which the design of the study was based and how the overall plan for research evolved. This account is located within debates about research quality, which are current in both the United States and the United Kingdom, and specifically in discussions of issues surrounding research capacity building. It concludes that this complex intervention study as a variant of the "design experiment" and offers opportunities for deepening research capacity by knowledge creation and dissemination both within and beyond the research team. (Contains 2 figures and 28 references.) (Author/SLD)

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Research on the learning disabilities of adolescents and young adults and the findings on metacognitive development and its impact on academic learning provide a framework for the design and development of a secondary school curriculum foundation program for college bound learning disabled students. The major practical implications of the research on learning disabled secondary and postsecondary students are that many of these students frequently exhibit skill deficits in reading, related study strategies such as comprehension monitoring, notetaking, summarizing, outlining, and scanning, and that these students can be supported in a regular academic curriculum by teaching specific learning strategies that will help them meet the academic demands of secondary and postsecondary classrooms. The major practical implication of the research on metacognitive development is that students must be taught the factors involved in learning from text and how those factors interact to influence learner outcomes. General comprehension and specific study strategies as well as instruction related to learner characteristics should be components in instruction designed for learning disabled students. A 42-item reference list is appended. (Author/CB)

This handbook was prepared for use in any classroom to aid the student in understanding how to become a better learner and how to learn meaningfully. This program is based on Ausubel's cognitive learning theory which places emphasis on the differences between meaningful learning and rote learning. To acquire knowledge meaningfully means that the learner must incorporate new knowledge into concepts the learner already has. The program is designed to extend, modify and elaborate these concepts, partly through providing instruction in new relationships among concepts that the student already has, and partly by providing new relevant concepts about learning. Included are: (1) the learning process, (2) the nature of knowledge, and (3) how to extract meaning from materials studied. Also included are instructions on how to make concept maps and the use of Gowins Knowledge "V". (Author/DS)

This handbook was prepared for use in any classroom to aid the student in understanding how to become a better learner and how to learn meaningfully. This program is based on Ausubel's cognitive learning theory which places emphasis on the differences between meaningful learning and rote learning. To acquire knowledge meaningfully means that the learner must incorporate new knowledge into concepts the learner already has. The program is designed to extend, modify and elaborate these concepts, partly through providing instruction in new relationships among concepts that the student already has, and partly by providing new relevant concepts about learning. Included are: (1) the learning process, (2) the nature of knowledge, and (3) how to extract meaning from materials studied. Also included are instructions on how to make concept maps and the use of Gowins Knowledge "V". (Author/DS)

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Barbara Oakley is a professor of engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. She has received many awards for her teaching, including the coveted National Science Foundation New Century Scholar Award.

Based on a hypothetical situation in which second language learners must attain substantial skills in a very short time, the paper recommends intensive training not in the language itself, but in skills and strategies for learning the language. This requires achieving self-directed learning skills to: create a climate maximizing learning; identify one's own learning needs; draw realistic learning objectives from the learning needs; plan learning activities that effectively uses learning resources; locate relevant resources; carry out the learning plan; and self-monitor the learning process using appropriate measures and criteria. Each of these elements/steps in the self-directed learning process is detailed and illustrated with the case of a young woman deciding to learn Japanese on her own, for business purposes. Then the self-directed learning concept is applied to the college language curriculum, with discussion of the adjustments that must be made to accommodate the varied student population, introductory course content, and time restrictions of college instruction. Barriers to achieving self-directed learning in college language instruction are examined briefly, including logistical restrictions and learner and teacher characteristics and attitudes. A number of techniques to promote autonomous language learning are described. Contains 47 references. (MSE)

This booklet describes the ideas underpinning a learning to learn course, a course that teaches students what they need to learn to read and write in tertiary academic settings in Australia. An introduction explains how this approach to academic discourse draws on other approaches and also differs from them. Section 1 describes some forces shaping the new culture (academic discourse) that students are entering. Section 2 sketches a history of academic life to identify some key (competing) elements that make up academic discourse. It suggests that all these historical traces remain present in academic discourse and need to be taken into account in constructing a course intended to bridge students into academic discourse. Section 3 describes contemporary debates about academic discourse and, linked to this, how to introduce students to academic discourse. Section 4 shows how different approaches to the teaching of reading are associated with different educational goals. It describes how educators draw on these different approaches to the teaching of academic reading in the course and provide reasons for the way educators sequence reading activities in the course. Section 5 describes some writing activities students are introduced to in the course and positions the course's approach vis-a-vis other contemporary approaches to the teaching of writing. Section 6 provides a nine point summary of key ideas of the approach. (Contains a 64-item bibliography.) (YLB)

This booklet describes the ideas underpinning a learning to learn course, a course that teaches students what they need to learn to read and write in tertiary academic settings in Australia. An introduction explains how this approach to academic discourse draws on other approaches and also differs from them. Section 1 describes some forces shaping the new culture (academic discourse) that students are entering. Section 2 sketches a history of academic life to identify some key (competing) elements that make up academic discourse. It suggests that all these historical traces remain present in academic discourse and need to be taken into account in constructing a course intended to bridge students into academic discourse. Section 3 describes contemporary debates about academic discourse and, linked to this, how to introduce students to academic discourse. Section 4 shows how different approaches to the teaching of reading are associated with different educational goals. It describes how educators draw on these different approaches to the teaching of academic reading in the course and provide reasons for the way educators sequence reading activities in the course. Section 5 describes some writing activities students are introduced to in the course and positions the course's approach vis-a-vis other contemporary approaches to the teaching of writing. Section 6 provides a nine point summary of key ideas of the approach. (Contains a 64-item bibliography.) (YLB)

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Incoming freshmen frequently struggle with the transition from high school to collegiate academics. This appears to be particularly evident in the sciences. Students often lack the self assessment skills and metacognition skills required to self-identify problems with their academic learning strategy. This does not allow them to diagnose and modify their learning strategies to allow them to be successful. Instructors often have little experience with such learning challenges and therefore may not be able to offer students appropriate learning strategy modifications. I present and assess a model for teaching learning strategies to students in an introductory biology course. This model presents specific techniques to assist students in accurate self assessment which then leads to recommendations for modifying their learning strategies. This model was used in an introductory biology course and students who attended these learning strategy workshops performed significantly better in the subsequent exam than students who did not attend a workshop. I present an outline of the workshop and learning strategy modifications and discuss the ramifications of incorporating learning strategy workshops on a broad scale for freshmen. (Contains 2 tables.)

We discuss the results of a study aimed at shedding light on the influence that the sharing of professional teaching experiences may have on teachers' professional learning. The focus is on the uses that participants make of their notes about their lesson planning experience in an in-service blended learning course, and the mediation strategies undertaken by the tutor in the virtual sessions. The study suggests that bringing in professional experience, which is generally well accepted, appears to be irrelevant, or may show a modest impact on professional learning development. Specific expertise is necessary for tutors to be able to support the meaning making process and effectively help in-service teachers to move from the mere exchange of experiences towards the appropriation of the target concepts.

This conference presentation describes how students develop the cognitive processes through which they acquire knowledge from their classroom experiences. The data were taken from five studies of individual students' classroom experience and its relationship to the learning of curriculum content in typical science and social studies units in the upper elementary school. Data on classroom experience were obtained from simultaneous video-recordings, audio-recordings with individual microphones, and continuous observation of selected students. Data on student learning came from tests and interviews conducted before and after each unit and 12 months later. The resulting model of knowledge acquisition, which predicted with 80 percent success exactly which curriculum concepts and propositions each student learned and remembered 12 months later is described. The conditions of knowledge acquisition and the role of working memory in the sorting and organizing of experience are described. The paper then develops a theory of internalization from the work of Piaget, Vygotsky, and others, and examples of the classroom experiences of students are used to describe how students participate simultaneously in the public, semi-private, and private worlds of the classroom. Evidence for the private world is taken from individually recorded self-talk. Five activities/processes that are involved in acquiring knowledge from classroom experience are described both as simultaneously private processes and social activities. The transactional relationship between the enactment of these processes in the public, semi-private, and private worlds of students' experience provides the conditions for their internalization. Contains 59 references. (Author/KB)

This paper discusses how language teachers can teach students how to learn using several approaches to learning strategies. The first section describes current English language teaching in Japan. The second section discusses the theoretical background of learning strategies, looking at cognitive learning models, which emphasize learner's mental processes, and social-cognitive models, which investigate the roles of interaction between individuals and group processes in learning. The third section illustrates the learning strategies in the metacognitive model of strategic learning, focusing on the planning process, monitoring process, problem solving process, evaluating process, and strategies for memorization. The fourth section highlights practical suggestions for classroom application, looking at the selection of learning strategies, instructional framework, learning styles, and choice of instructional language. The fifth section presents a lesson plan for a high school student's first day of school. The paper concludes that once teachers succeed in teaching students to appreciate the effectiveness of strategies, students will be able to use them as powerful tools whenever they need to learn something, and eventually, they will become lifetime learners. (Contains 15 references.) (SM)

This book contains the full text of papers and posters presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2024), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (WIARS). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and acts. One of the most important contributions resides in what and how we learn through the improvement of educational processes, both in formal and informal settings. The International Conference seeks to provide some answers and explore the processes, actions, challenges and outcomes of learning, teaching and human development. The goal is to offer a worldwide connection between teachers, students, researchers and lecturers, from a wide range of academic fields, interested in exploring and giving their contribution in educational issues. We take pride in having been able to connect and bring together academics, scholars, practitioners and others interested in a field that is fertile in new perspectives, ideas and knowledge. We counted on an extensive variety of contributors and presenters, which can supplement our view of the human essence and behavior, showing the impact of their different personal, academic and cultural experiences. This is, certainly, one of the reasons we have many nationalities and cultures represented, inspiring multi-disciplinary collaborative links, fomenting intellectual encounter and development. END 2024 received 729 submissions, from more than 50 different countries, reviewed by a double-blind process. Submissions were prepared to take form of Oral Presentations, Posters, Virtual Presentations and Workshops. The conference accepted for presentation 284 submissions (39% acceptance rate). This is the Volume 1 of the book titled Education and New Developments 2024, that showcases the outcomes of dedicated research and developments undertaken by authors who are driven by their passion to enhance research methods that directly relate to teaching, learning, and the practical applications of education in the present day. Within its pages, you will find a diverse array of contributors and presenters who expand our perspectives by delving into various educational matters. This first volume focuses on the main areas of TEACHERS AND STUDENTS and TEACHING AND LEARNING.

This book contains the full text of papers and posters presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2024), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (WIARS). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and acts. One of the most important contributions resides in what and how we learn through the improvement of educational processes, both in formal and informal settings. The International Conference seeks to provide some answers and explore the processes, actions, challenges and outcomes of learning, teaching and human development. The goal is to offer a worldwide connection between teachers, students, researchers and lecturers, from a wide range of academic fields, interested in exploring and giving their contribution in educational issues. We take pride in having been able to connect and bring together academics, scholars, practitioners and others interested in a field that is fertile in new perspectives, ideas and knowledge. We counted on an extensive variety of contributors and presenters, which can supplement our view of the human essence and behavior, showing the impact of their different personal, academic and cultural experiences. This is, certainly, one of the reasons we have many nationalities and cultures represented, inspiring multi-disciplinary collaborative links, fomenting intellectual encounter and development. END 2024 received 729 submissions, from more than 50 different countries, reviewed by a double-blind process. Submissions were prepared to take form of Oral Presentations, Posters, Virtual Presentations and Workshops. The conference accepted for presentation 284 submissions (39% acceptance rate). This is the Volume 1 of the book titled Education and New Developments 2024, that showcases the outcomes of dedicated research and developments undertaken by authors who are driven by their passion to enhance research methods that directly relate to teaching, learning, and the practical applications of education in the present day. Within its pages, you will find a diverse array of contributors and presenters who expand our perspectives by delving into various educational matters. This first volume focuses on the main areas of TEACHERS AND STUDENTS and TEACHING AND LEARNING.

Students' individual learning strategies have been identified as important skills in order to succeed in school as well as important for lifelong learning. The Swedish steering documents are permeated by an epistemological and a methodological variation based on the individual student's learning. Learning how to learn has been identified by the EU as one of eight key competences. There is not much research on elementary school students and meta-learning. This study is therefore aimed to examine these students' own perceptions of their learning, and compare how student think that they learn to their learning styles preferences according to the learning styles assessment Learning Styles Inventory (LSI). The theoretical framework is based on previous Swedish research and Dunn's Learning Styles Model. A multi-method design was selected. After the LSI-test the students estimated their preferences. Finally, interviews were conducted with 15 students. When comparing students' learning styles profiles to their estimation of how they thought they learn, there was a clear discrepancy. The students estimated more preferences than was evident in the analysis. This applies above all to the perceptual strengths, and time of day. The smallest difference, however, was found in the environmental elements. The interviews showed that students have difficulties explaining how they learn. What the students pointed out, however, was their need to work in peace, learning by reading and working on the computer, and also varied learning environments. Their response on learning showed that they were building their insights on the school context and experience from there.

Reported is a research project which investigated whether junior high students in the Ithaca, New York, area can acquire and use the "concept mapping" and "Gowin's 'V' mapping" strategies to facilitate meaningful learning. Concept mapping involves the identification, hierarchical organization, and graphic depiction of relationships among concepts in a body of study material. These procedures are consistent with Ausubel's theory of meaningful learning. The second learning strategy involves recognizing that all knowledge in the sciences is constructed by using records and record transforming procedures which are guided by the concepts, principles and theories that people employ. Gowin's "V" is a heuristic device that students use to graphically illustrate the interplay between the methodological and conceptual elements of each episode of knowledge-making, such as a laboratory investigation. Although many project activities centered on implementation of the two learning strategies, the positive cognitive and affective data lend support to the effectiveness of this "learning how to learn" project. Included in the appendix are the teacher's handbook and samples of student-constructed concept maps and "V" maps. (Author/WB)

Reported is a research project which investigated whether junior high students in the Ithaca, New York, area can acquire and use the "concept mapping" and "Gowin's 'V' mapping" strategies to facilitate meaningful learning. Concept mapping involves the identification, hierarchical organization, and graphic depiction of relationships among concepts in a body of study material. These procedures are consistent with Ausubel's theory of meaningful learning. The second learning strategy involves recognizing that all knowledge in the sciences is constructed by using records and record transforming procedures which are guided by the concepts, principles and theories that people employ. Gowin's "V" is a heuristic device that students use to graphically illustrate the interplay between the methodological and conceptual elements of each episode of knowledge-making, such as a laboratory investigation. Although many project activities centered on implementation of the two learning strategies, the positive cognitive and affective data lend support to the effectiveness of this "learning how to learn" project. Included in the appendix are the teacher's handbook and samples of student-constructed concept maps and "V" maps. (Author/WB)

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The purpose of this study was to develop a survey instrument that could be used to determine the degree to which faculty members perceive themselves to have knowledge and skills that they can use to help their adult students learn how to learn. Informal surveys of students at the Anderson Adult Education Center in South Carolina, which has a high dropout rate, indicated that students dropped out primarily because they found the subjects that they studied uninteresting and unhelpful. The center's director, however, believed that a large part of the problem was due to learning difficulties or a lack of "learning how to learn" knowledge and skills on the part of these students, and this idea led to the development of a survey instrument constructed to identify perceived strengths and weaknesses of the center faculty as regards their ability to model and teach their adult students the art and science of learning. Steps in the process included the following: a literature review that revealed that students need "learning how to learn" skills more than ever; creation of a draft of a survey instrument and its review by a panel of experts; sampling of the instrument with some faculty groups; and creation of the final version of the survey. The completed instrument is expected to be administered to all 16 faculty members of the center as soon as feasible and the results used to create a training program to meet their perceived needs as they go about educating their adult students. (The report includes the survey form and 47 references.) (KC)

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