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Laura M. Crispin; Molly I. Beck – Arts Education Policy Review, 2025
In prior research, museum attendance has been shown to positively impact educational outcomes for children, teens, and adults, yet little has been documented about who is attending and how often. This paper is the first to provide comprehensive descriptive and regression analyses to explore museum attendance among youth (5 to 18 year-olds) in the…
Descriptors: Museums, Youth, Cultural Capital, Children
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Hanxiang Du; Gaoxia Zhu; Wanli Xing – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: Social media provides new opportunities for teachers to learn, communicate and develop professional relationships. It has been proved to be a valid and helpful resource for teachers' professional learning purposes. Objectives: While previous studies pursued questions like how participants feel, how to support interaction and why…
Descriptors: Teachers, Professional Development, Social Media, Communities of Practice
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Lisa Hodge; Jason Murphy – Educational Review, 2025
Academic writing is an important skill in the development of researcher identity yet remains a hurdle to many. In this study, we examine the ways in which the exchange of social capital occurs in a writing group in Australia. We use Bourdieu's theoretical concepts to examine data obtained from open-ended questions in an online survey that asked…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Writing (Composition), Laboratories
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Dina Pinsky; Emily Brenner – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2025
Book censorship efforts in the USA have become increasingly concerning for champions of freedom of expression and civil liberties. The movement to ban books is seemingly driven by a desire to curtail adolescents' access to information about sexuality and gender diversity. This paper details the findings of a content analysis of the American…
Descriptors: Books, Sexuality, Censorship, Diversity
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Gazi Mahabubul Alam; Md. Abdur Rahman Forhad – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: Education can be classified into formal and informal sectors--the first category as a regular schooling system and the latter category as private tutoring. After completing secondary education, students in many countries receive education from private tutoring to get admission into the university. This study examines the effect of private…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Academic Achievement, College Admission, Foreign Countries
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Haozhe Jiang; Ritesh Chugh; Darren Turnbull; Xiaoqin Wang; Suting Chen – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
Despite the burgeoning adoption of informal learning in people's daily lives, the actual effects of informal learning activities, especially technology-related informal learning activities, are much less reported than those of formal learning. Furthermore, there is a notable lack of research on the effects of technology-related informal…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Informal Education, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Activities
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Rosie Goodman; Jon Ord – Educational Review, 2025
This UK-based study examines how people learned to identify digital misinformation. This included what experiences enabled this development, and the skills that were acquired in the process. This is a small-scale qualitative study of participants who self-reported as being confident in spotting digital misinformation and the data was analysed…
Descriptors: Misinformation, News Media, Media Literacy, Foreign Countries
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Robert W. Danielson; Neil G. Jacobson; Erika A. Patall; Gale M. Sinatra; Olusola O. Adesope; Alana A. U. Kennedy; Bethany H. Bhat; Onur Ramazan; Blessing Akinrotimi; Gabriel Nketah; Gan Jin; Oluwafemi J. Sunday – Educational Psychologist, 2025
Misinformation around scientific issues is rampant on social media platforms, raising concerns among educators and science communicators. A variety of approaches have been explored to confront this growing threat to science literacy. For example, refutations have been used both proactively as warning labels and in attempts to inoculate against…
Descriptors: Misinformation, Scientific Research, Social Media, Scientific Literacy
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Bradley J. Morris; Jacob Cason; Katie Asaro; Yin Zhang; Michelle Rivers; Whitney Owens; John Dunlosky – International Journal of Science Education, 2025
Understanding experimental design (e.g. control of variable strategy or CVS) is foundational for scientific reasoning. Previous research has demonstrated that demonstrations with cognitive conflict (e.g. asking students to evaluate and explain different experimental designs) are effective in promoting children's scientific reasoning, however, the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Informal Education, Intervention, Foods Instruction
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Yeji Kim – Educational Forum, 2025
Theoretically framed by public pedagogy, the study explores teachers' use of public sites for undocumented migrant children. The findings demonstrate that teachers utilized various non-school, informal, and public spaces including libraries/museums, open marketplaces, and public parks/squares as powerful platforms to foster children's learning,…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Children, Teaching Methods, Sense of Community
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Terrance J. McClain – Adult Learning, 2025
The purpose of this study was to examine the workplace learning activities professional academic advisors (AAs) utilize to serve their African American male advisees more effectively. Workplace learning was used as a lens to identify learning strategies through: (a) formal learning, (b) nonformal learning, and (c) informal learning. Findings from…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Workplace Learning, Academic Advising
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Heidi J. Torres – Social Studies, 2025
This article describes research investigating mass media's influence on elementary-aged children's understanding of world cultures through the lens of serendipitous learning. The qualitative study explored the ideas children constructed about other countries, cultures, and people through their unmediated use of various media including movies,…
Descriptors: Mass Media Effects, Cultural Awareness, Schemata (Cognition), Elementary School Students
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Berk Kesim; Elif Bengü – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to explore interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary interactions around sustainability, focusing on the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs). By using the city as an informal learning space, it presents a case study to raise SDG awareness, promote interdisciplinarity, foster critical thinking and empower…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Environmental Education, Urban Areas, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Day Greenberg; Won Jung Kim; Sinead Brien; Angela Calabrese Barton; Micaela Balzer; Louise Archer – Science Education, 2025
We explore how experienced informal educators worked towards equitable and consequential opportunities for learning in informal STEM settings through pedagogical practice. Drawing from a justice-centered social practice stance we argue that pedagogical practice that promotes social transformation towards more just futures must confront and respond…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Social Justice, Informal Education, Equal Education
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Xianhan Huang; Shiyu Zhang; Mingyao Sun; Masoumeh Kouhsari; Dongsheng Wang – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2025
Purpose: Most of the current literature investigates workplace-based formal and informal learning separately; thus, the relationship between these two types of learning remains unclear. This study aims to fill this research gap, drawing on self-determination theory to bridge teachers' formal and informal learning and uncover the relationship…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education
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