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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,997 Views
15 Pages

Pupil-Generated Questions in a Collaborative Open Inquiry

  • Susanna Pöntinen,
  • Sirpa Kärkkäinen,
  • Kaisa Pihlainen and
  • Sinikka Räty-Záborszky

Formulating questions is an integral part of pupils’ learning process and scientific inquiry. Investigating pupil-generated questions in a collaborative science learning setting, combining self-regulation theory and phases of inquiry, can exten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
12,825 Views
13 Pages

1 January 2021

This paper illustrates the efficiency of implementing an inquiry-based teaching and learning module on the development of workplace communication competence and collaborative mindset in a college-level English as a Foreign Language context. In partic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,303 Views
14 Pages

18 February 2024

While initial teacher education (ITE) has been acknowledged as an important process for improving the quality of education by preparing future teachers, less attention has been paid to the support of the continuous professional learning of teacher ed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,753 Views
13 Pages

30 October 2023

This paper explores the potential for a collaborative guided inquiry task to stimulate geographic thinking using core geographic concepts of ‘location’, ‘distance and direction’, ‘scale’, ‘symbols’, &ls...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,006 Views
22 Pages

Inquiry is featured prominently in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) as a promising pedagogical approach. Building on current conceptions of inquiry, a mixed-methods research design was used to explore the effects of Project-Based Inquiry...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,184 Views
15 Pages

15 August 2023

The topics of intergenerational trauma, resilience, and wellbeing as they relate to forced migration are receiving more attention in the arts and health literature. Yet, we know very little about how refugee-background young adults manage their psych...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,610 Views
22 Pages

19 October 2025

This study examines the effects of integrating an inquiry-based final project into an early childhood robotics program, focusing on its influence on children’s problem-solving self-efficacy, attitudes toward collaboration, confidence in applyin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,578 Views
14 Pages

There is a need for research on the effect of different types of model progressions and learner age on learning and engagement in inquiry-based science settings. This study builds on the Scientific Discovery as Dual Search model to introduce less spe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
786 Views
14 Pages

Constraints and Opportunities of Co-Designing an Interdisciplinary MathCityMap Trail

  • Janka Medová,
  • Veronika Bočková,
  • Silvia Haringová and
  • Ľubomíra Valovičová

25 March 2025

Interdisciplinary teaching enhances student learning but poses challenges in practical implementation. This study examines the co-design of an interdisciplinary MathCityMap trail by mathematics and physics educators, analyzing tensions and synergies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,255 Views
31 Pages

Designing Dialogic Peer Feedback in Collaborative Learning: The Role of Thinq Tank

  • Amber Van Hoe,
  • Joel Wiebe,
  • Jim Slotta,
  • Tijs Rotsaert and
  • Tammy Schellens

11 November 2024

As technology continues to reshape education, the integration of peer feedback (PF) is increasingly recognized as a key element in promoting student collaboration and learning. This design study tracks the development and implementation of the Thinq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
20,738 Views
22 Pages

7 March 2012

This paper explores the use of Web 2.0 technologies for collaborative learning in a higher education context. A review of the literature exploring the strengths and weaknesses of Web 2.0 technology is presented, and a conceptual model of a Web 2.0 co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,344 Views
13 Pages

23 October 2024

Background/Objectives Leadership is central to the development of effective workplace cultures and as such should be viewed as a practice that is relational, exercised through a process of mutual and reciprocal influence. Person-centred leadership is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,269 Views
18 Pages

Leadership in both theory and practice usually emphasizes a person and a position. There has been a shift from emphasizing the senior level of organizational roles, to include the middle level and other sources of leadership. Nomenclature has emerged...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,402 Views
19 Pages

The intersection of education and genealogy is of interest to academia. Although learning is an important aspect of the genealogist’s need to understand the connection with family relationships, there is a paucity of research about the intersec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,312 Views
15 Pages

Care and Social Sustainability in Early Childhood Education: Transnational Perspectives

  • Kassahun Weldemariam,
  • Angel Chan,
  • Ingrid Engdahl,
  • Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson,
  • Timothy Chepkwesi Katiba,
  • Tewodros Habte and
  • Roland Muchanga

20 April 2022

This article explores how the notion of care is conceptualised and described in early childhood education policies across countries in the majority (Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia) and minority (New Zealand and Sweden) world. A central focus is the relat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,516 Views
18 Pages

Cross-Border Dialogues: A Collaborative Instructional Design Inquiry to Promote Equity and Diversity

  • Zheng Zhang,
  • Icy Lee,
  • Helen Wan Yu Chan,
  • Qi Guo,
  • Angela Kuan,
  • Jessica Sum Laam Lee,
  • Qianhui Ma,
  • Natalie Ching Tung Ng and
  • Rozan Trad

The COVID-19 pandemic complicates ingrained educational inequalities around the globe and foregrounds the pertaining challenges that teachers have encountered due to school closures and the shift to distance learning. This cross-border teacher educat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,356 Views
18 Pages

15 April 2023

Writing protocols is a central activity in the natural sciences, but is also a part of science education. In the context of inquiry-based learning, keeping records is considered beneficial for the comprehension of scientific reasoning and the associa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,938 Views
16 Pages

28 November 2024

The issue of suicide has garnered considerable attention in refugee scholarship, where research examines how unique forced migration and resettlement challenges exacerbate risks and vulnerabilities to suicide. However, there are gaps in understanding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,334 Views
20 Pages

12 November 2020

Teachers play a critical role in promoting dialogic interaction in their students. The purpose of this case study was to investigate how one very effective teacher taught two, cooperative, inquiry-based science units to her Year 6 class. In particula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,352 Views
12 Pages

11 December 2018

Even though there is a plethora of research that can be used by educators to inform their practice, the deep implementation of evidence-based strategies remains unrealized in many schools and classrooms. The question we set out to answer was: What co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,880 Views
16 Pages

18 March 2015

Background: There is currently a resurgence of interest in interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) and its potential to positively impact health outcomes at both the patient level and population level, healthcare delivery, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,364 Views
46 Pages

Pattern Shared Vision Refinement for Enhancing Collaboration and Decision-Making in Government Software Projects

  • Mohammad Daud Haiderzai,
  • Pavle Dakić,
  • Igor Stupavský,
  • Marijana Aleksić and
  • Vladimir Todorović

This study proposes a new approach and explores how pattern recognition enhances collaboration between users and Agile teams in software development, focusing on shared resources and decision-making efficiency. Using domain-specific modeling language...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,946 Views
14 Pages

Digital vs. Analog Learning—Two Content-Similar Interventions and Learning Outcomes

  • Juliane Fleissner-Martin,
  • Franz X. Bogner and
  • Jürgen Paul

4 September 2023

The digitization of classrooms has enormously changed teaching during the COVID-19 lockdowns. The rapid introduction of tablet classes subsequently raised questions about potential learning outputs, as only a few studies had produced quite contradict...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,061 Views
15 Pages

In this article, we overview the research literature exploring the teaching of evaluative language in written and/or visual texts in the elementary years of schooling. We then review the recently redrafted Australian Curriculum: English to identify t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,630 Views
17 Pages

This study examined how incorporating art into an upper-level undergraduate field-based ecology research course influenced students’ communication and collaboration skills, their career goals, and how they conceptualized the scientific method....

  • Article
  • Open Access
837 Views
17 Pages

Understanding the Social and Cognitive Nature of Collaboration: Implications for Practice

  • Peter Ellerton,
  • Kathy Smith,
  • Timothy Smith and
  • Tanya Stephenson

5 November 2025

Understanding how cognition develops as a result of collaboration is a continuing educational endeavour along with identifying effective strategies and understandings related to collaborative learning. With this endeavour in mind, this paper reports...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,664 Views
13 Pages

11 October 2024

This study investigates the experiences of a professional learning community (PLC) composed of six secondary math teachers enrolled in a graduate math methods course. Through the discussion of educational texts and collaborative inquiry, the teachers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,041 Views
13 Pages

30 January 2023

Schools are responsible for developing students’ learning abilities in order to prepare them for the future. However, learning power was rarely explored in previous studies. This study considered classrooms as a proximal level of influences fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,704 Views
19 Pages

19 December 2020

In many studies, the focus has been on students’ written scientific argumentation rather than on their spoken argumentation. The main aim of this study was to relate the quality of spoken argumentation to groups’ learning achievement duri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
849 Views
24 Pages

Bridging STEAM and Cultural Heritage Through Inclusive Inquiry: The SciArt Professional Development Program

  • Angelos Sofianidis,
  • Eleni Petridou,
  • Elena Stylianou,
  • Christina Tsaliki,
  • Lamprini Malletzidou,
  • Clara Sarmento,
  • Constadina Charalambous,
  • Sapfo Fotiadou,
  • Tereza Makridou and
  • Anastasios Molohidis
  • + 6 authors

18 November 2025

This study presents a professional development (PD) program designed within the “SciArt—Promoting 21st-century skills through an inclusive STEAM approach to Cultural Heritage” project, which aims to prepare teachers to implement an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,353 Views
11 Pages

The Church and Academia Model: New Paradigm for Spirituality and Mental Health Research

  • Marta Illueca,
  • Samantha M. Meints,
  • Megan M. Miller,
  • Dikachi Osaji and
  • Benjamin R. Doolittle

31 July 2025

Ongoing interest in the intersection of spirituality and health has prompted a need for integrated research. This report proposes a distinct approach in a model that allows for successful and harmonious cross-fertilization within these latter two are...

  • Article
  • Open Access

Development of Critical Thinking in Pre-Service Early Childhood Education Teachers Using Scientific Inquiry Practices in STEM Projects

  • Teresa Lupión-Cobos,
  • Marta Alarcón-Orozco,
  • Mario Caracuel-González and
  • Ángel Blanco-López

18 February 2026

Critical thinking (CT) is increasingly recognized as a transversal competence within STEM education, yet it is often addressed implicitly in preservice teacher training. This study analyzes the development of critical thinking in 130 Preservice Early...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,063 Views
21 Pages

Assessing Students’ Awareness of 4Cs Skills after Mobile-Technology-Supported Inquiry-Based Learning

  • Manolis Kousloglou,
  • Eleni Petridou,
  • Anastasios Molohidis and
  • Euripides Hatzikraniotis

16 April 2023

Inquiry-based learning (IBL) is essential to Science Education since it improves students’ conceptual comprehension, higher-order thinking abilities, and interpersonal skills. Mobile technology (mIBL) promotes active learning, facilitates acces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,918 Views
21 Pages

This study examines how young children engage with picturebooks, discussion, dramatic inquiry, and writing to negotiate diverse perspectives and develop empathy in an early childhood classroom. Grounded in sociocultural and critical literacy theories...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,957 Views
4 Pages

29 October 2018

During the 2017/2018 school year, in the Master’s Degree Program developed at the Campus of Ceuta, in the area of Educational Processes and Contexts, we applied the B-learning method, associated with other methods, such as cooperative, collaborative,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,350 Views
13 Pages

Teachers are critical to the success of students, and when school districts struggle to fill vacant positions with highly qualified teachers, student success suffers. To mitigate the problems that persist with ongoing teacher shortages, we are at a c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,473 Views
10 Pages

Similar to other professions, pharmacy educators use workplace learning opportunities to prepare students for collaborative practice. Thus, collaborative relationships between educators of different professions are important for planning, implementin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,790 Views
18 Pages

Inquiring in the Science Classroom by PBL: A Design-Based Research Study

  • Jorge Pozuelo-Muñoz,
  • Ana de Echave Sanz and
  • Esther Cascarosa Salillas

8 January 2025

The aim of this study has been the design and evaluation of a sequence of activities that promotes the development of scientific skills in secondary school. For this purpose, design-based research was conducted using a problem-solving methodology to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
10,415 Views
27 Pages

A Descriptive Account of an Inter-Professional Collaborative Leadership Project

  • Maura MacPhee,
  • Li-Lu Chang,
  • Farinaz Havaei and
  • Wen-Shan Chou

17 September 2014

A collaborative project between an academic healthcare faculty and a professional development director resulted in the design, delivery and evaluation of an inter-professional collaborative leadership workshop with ongoing leadership development acti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,570 Views
12 Pages

Project-Based Inquiry (PBI) Global during a Pandemic: A New Learning Ecology Perspective

  • Marie P. Himes,
  • Hiller A. Spires,
  • Erin E. Krupa,
  • Margaret L. Borden and
  • Jessica L. Eagle

31 October 2023

Building on new learning ecology theory and situated in the COVID-19 pandemic context, a qualitative research design was used to examine student and teacher perspectives on Project-Based Inquiry (PBI) Global. Drawing on Problem-Based Learning (PBL) a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,327 Views
18 Pages

19 July 2021

This study examines the problem of the fragmentation of asynchronous online discourse by using the Knowledge Connection Analyzer (KCA) framework and tools and explores how students could use the KCA data in classroom reflections to deepen their knowl...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5,872 Views
12 Pages

Dearfield Dream Project: Developing an Interdisciplinary Historical/Cultural Research Network

  • Robert Brunswig,
  • George Junne,
  • Gillian Bowser,
  • Erin Renfrew,
  • Ellyn Dickmann,
  • Amanda Purnell and
  • Mark Brown

16 August 2013

The Dearfield Dream Project is a collaborative research initiative to conduct historical, cultural, archaeological, and environmental studies on the early 20th Century African-American colony site of Dearfield, Colorado, USA. Because the breadth and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,922 Views
19 Pages

10 August 2025

This qualitative case study explores how preschool teachers enact inclusive pedagogical practices by integrating tangible technologies, low-tech, and no-tech tools within an inquiry-based learning framework. Focusing on teacher decision-making and ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,454 Views
20 Pages

9 September 2023

This paper describes how plan-do-study-act cycles engaged a classroom mentor teacher and student teacher in a professional collaboration that resulted in two inquiry activities for high-school geometry classes. The PDSA cycles were carried out in fou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,982 Views
17 Pages

27 March 2025

This study investigated the impact of sustained, inquiry-based professional development (PD) on K-12 STEM educators’ instructional practices, with a particular focus on integrated mathematics and science teaching. As STEM education becomes incr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,844 Views
19 Pages

Validation of the Italian Version of the Community of Inquiry Survey

  • Salvatore Nizzolino,
  • Agustí Canals and
  • Marco Temperini

29 November 2023

This work presents the process of validation of the community of inquiry (CoI) survey in its Italian version. For over two decades, the CoI framework has been used to conceptualize online higher-order teaching/learning experiences as processes of inq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,053 Views
16 Pages

This paper presents the results of a Participatory Action Research, whose main objective was to validate a pedagogical intervention characterized by adopting an inquiry-based learning methodology (IBL), and the paradigm of Practice as Research focuse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,112 Views
33 Pages

7 December 2023

Over the past decades, the construction industry has benefited from implementing Lean Construction (LC) principles, extensive usage of Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools, and application of advanced Facilities Management (FM) theories as stand...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,523 Views
22 Pages

13 August 2025

This study investigates how staycations enhance the experiences of staycationers and foster stakeholder collaboration to promote sustainable tourism. A qualitative case study approach, guided by constructivist narrative inquiry, involved in-depth int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,549 Views
23 Pages

8 June 2022

Science education enhances students’ scientific literacy in order to interact with the world responsibly and contribute to democratic and informed decision-making. The emergence of place-responsive pedagogy and mobile technology with a variety...

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