scholarly journals Exploring the Concepts of Fidelity and Adaptation in the Implementation of Project Based Learning in the Elementary Classroom: Case Studies from Qatar

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiangyun Du ◽  
Youmen Chaaban ◽  
Yasameen AL Mabrd
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Elementary Classroom ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Fidelity And Adaptation

Civics education in Malaysia: a clash between ethics, religion and cultural norms

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vishalache Balakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Digital Citizenship ◽  
Civics Education ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Qualitative Approaches

PurposeTo showcase the importance of digital citizenship in the current era. This article compares the nine features of digital citizen provided by Ribble and Bailey (2007) with a case study conducted in a multicultural setting and identifies the tensions between ethics, religion and cultural norms in that environment.Design/methodology/approachA case study approach has been used in this research. Why case study? Because it is unique and provides in-depth, unique and invaluable findings. Case studies researchers have contributed to the development of case study research from diverse disciplines. Historical examples of case studies go back as far as the nineteenth century with the biography of Charles Darwin (Stewart, 2014). The dominance of positivism in science in the late 1940 and 1950s in social science sidelined qualitative approaches such as case studies. Although case study research was often criticized for its inability to support generalizations, and thus, provided limited validity and value as a research design (Merriam, 2009; Stewart, 2014), case study research provides intensive analysis of an issue. A Case study is intrinsic, instrumental and collective (Stake, 1995, 2006). Case study research encourages the detailed enquiry of a unit of analysis within its context.FindingsFindings show that current society needs to be educated on the nine aspects of digital citizenship. In the current era, changes are so rapid that every now and then, there must be collaboration and cooperation between different agencies to ensure that the tension between religiosity, cultural norms and ethics would be able to find some common ground. With more knowledge and wisdom on human rights, sustainability education and project-based learning in Civics Education, teachers, students, parents and community should often meet to decide on controversial issues and find ways to ensure that each one in society has the knowledge, skills and values for digital citizenship to grow and flourish.Originality/valueThe article is original in nature and has much social impact.

Value of Adaptation of Methodologies Between Different Knowledge Areas

2018 ◽  
pp. 221-248
Author(s):  
Eduardo Manchado-Pérez ◽  
Ignacio López-Forniés ◽  
Luis Berges-Muro
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Graphic Design ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Engineering Degree ◽  
First Moment ◽  
University Degree ◽  
Shared Context

Project-based learning (PBL) is a powerful tool for teaching that helps students to get the best in terms of ratio effort/learning outcomes, especially in studies with a very practical basis, such as university degree studies in engineering. A way of getting even more out of this is by means of the adaptation of methodologies from different knowledge areas, because this allows the launch of innovative ways of working with certain guarantees of success from the very first moment, and at the same time to integrate skills from different fields within a shared context. Furthermore, it helps to put into practice some transversal competences, which are very useful for future professionals. The chapter also includes some case studies on the successful adaptation of different methodologies coming from different fields such as graphic design, biology, and social sciences in the context of a university engineering degree in industrial design and product development.

scholarly journals “Do You Want to Be in My Story?”: Collaborative Writing in an Urban Elementary Classroom

1997 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Elementary Classroom ◽  
Interpretive Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Single Text ◽  
Writing Community ◽  
Interactions With Peers

Based on a year-long interpretive research project, this article describes the arrangements for collaborative writing in an urban elementary classroom. In contrast to typical descriptions of collaboration, this study suggests a more complex view, one that includes a range of ways for students to participate in writing together. This study begins to answer the following questions: What happens when teachers allow students to talk as they write? What does a classroom look like when collaboration is conceptualized as more than a technique, but as a way to understand students as members of a writing community? In this classroom, collaborative writing included the following arrangements: Students wrote alone and shared their work with others; they wrote in pairs or small, consistent groups called networks; and they worked together to author a single text. Brief case studies are used to illustrate each of these types of collaboration. This study describes the ways students responded to opportunities for collaboration. Collaboration was more than a technique; through interactions with peers, students developed their own voices and ways of writing.

Designing Study Abroad With Empathy and Engagement

2021 ◽  
pp. 168-191
Author(s):  
Cathy Cooper ◽  
Dominic DelliCarpini ◽  
David Fyfe ◽  
Annie Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Human Centered Design ◽  
Health Agencies ◽  
Parallel Case

This chapter describes results from a student-driven partnership between York College of Pennsylvania and governmental/non-governmental health agencies in Liberia. Presented as two parallel case studies, and narrating research processes and outcomes of the project, it argues that by combining the empathy techniques of “human-centered design” (commonly known as Design Thinking) with principles of project-based learning, this people-centered method can produce richer global experiences for students. This method can also produce qualitative data that is useful for intercultural problem-solving, and therefore can inform ongoing and productive partnerships that employ a human-centered approach to interdisciplinary collaboration.

Multiple Case Studies to Enhance Project-Based Learning in a Computer Architecture Course

2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 482-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Martinez-Mones ◽  
E. Gomez-Sanchez ◽  
Y.A. Dimitriadis ◽  
I.M. Jorrin-Abellan ◽  
B. Rubia-Avi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computer Architecture ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Multiple Case Studies
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