The purpose of this study was to determine students' communication in the college classroom through faculty-led methods of enhancing classroom participation. The students in this study perceived that faculty members work to engage them in various classroom activities and enhance their participation through discussions, debates, dialogue, group work, and presentations; students understood these …
Emerson University and the School of Medicine of Tufts University have launched a joint program to create a masteral program in health communication studies. The cooperative effort will link the communications faculty of Emerson with Tufts experienced medical staff, creating a synergistic team that can approach health communication education in an innovative and progressive manner.
The ubiquitous social networking site, Facebook, registered over one billion active users in 2012 and continues to grow (Facebook, 2018a). Not surprisingly, communication researchers around the world noticed this phenomenal shift in communication practice, a practice aided by a combination of digital communication tools--easy to access communication networks, low cost bandwidth, smartphones, ap…
As colleges of education prepare to meet NCATE standards they will find technically savvy allies and willing partners at their campus libraries. The information literacy and technology targets in the standards of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) parallel the information literacy standards developed by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). A…
This study analyzes the connections among multilingual language practices, multilingual literacy practices, and social identities in two Sunni madrassahs in Mauritius. The study is framed by sociolinguistic and poststructuralist perspectives on language and identity, and social practice views of literacy. Data collection and analysis involved observations, interviews, and the analysis of writte…
This article traces the early and medieval Islamic scholarship to the development of critical and scientific thinking and how they contributed to the development of an Islamic theory of epistemology and scientific thinking education. The article elucidates how the Qur'an and the Sunna of Prophet Muhammad have also contributed to the development of Islamic epistemology and the production of the …
In the last decade, social media gradually increased their popularity on daily routines since people have accustomed to the new information and communication technologies. In terms of university students, the popularity of the internet is obvious, with the fact that their intense mood for searching adventures usually end up in social media. This study examined social media, particularly Faceboo…
One purpose of this paper is to present a concept of intercultural communication skills. It describes the international online debate as a method of long distance learning in marketing and management education, and as a way to promote the discourse about sustainability. While such online debates have been part of the curriculum at a few U.S. and German universities for some time, they were intr…
This study examined 24 elementary teacher education students' thoughts, feelings, and attitudes about university team teaching. More specifically, overall perceptions of course team teaching approaches, and their understanding of the course concepts, environments, and evaluations were investigated over the Spring Quarter, 2001. The data were collected using open-ended questions and were analyze…
The study aimed to determine the management philosophies of primary school principals. Stratification method of sampling was used in the study. The study sample consisted of 33 school principals and 132 teachers serving at primary education schools in Isparta in the academic year 2008-2009. The "Manager Philosophy Scale" developed by Tanriogen and Cermik (2002) was used in order to survey the v…