Empowering Students in Transition

Empowering Students in Transition

The purpose of this study was to (a) identify potential benefits for students with disabilities taking part in a physical activity program with same-age typical peers on a Midwest university campus and (b) to determine if the program impacted the students with disabilities empowerment. Empowerment theory was used to determine how transition students' attitudes change over the course of the seme...

Empowering Students with Design-Build

Empowering Students to be Self-Directed Learners

Self-directed learning has been a central topic of discussion in adult education for many years. After analyzing several articles and books regarding autonomous learning, I have taken a stance of my own on the matter. In the sections that follow I have summarized my readings of Gerald Grow and Mark Tennant’s articles regarding self-directed learning, to include an explanation of my position on ...

Spirit of the game: Empowering students as designers in schools?

Cher Ping Lirn is an associate professor of teaching and learning in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University. He is also the director of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Excellence for Teacher Education and Innovations. He has been working as a teacher, teacher educator and researcher in technologyenhanced learning environments for the last fifteen years. He has published widely in educatio...

Empowering students through mentoring, learning and reflective portfolios

This paper describes some of the issues raised by a higher education institution (HEI) in implementing systems to empower students in programmes developed in partnership with industry. As organizations focus on economic indicators and return on investment their approaches to learning and development opportunities must be effective and efficient. The resulting award or qualification can be devel...