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Gustavo González-Calvo; Valeria Varea; J. Eduardo Sierra-Nieto – Education 3-13, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to widespread changes in the ways teaching and learning take place under the pandemic. This has affected more significantly pre-service teachers, as they did not have the opportunity to experience their practicum period in a 'normal' context. Therefore, the aims of this paper are: (1) to explore how pre-service…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Cartoons
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Johnson, Marcus W. – Education 3-13, 2023
Research has shown that classroom instruction can be precarious when addressing potentially 'controversial' issues. Yet, students can benefit from examining the narratives of those who have questioned the merits of United States democratic citizenship. By employing critical childhood studies and windows, mirrors and sliding glass doors as…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Elementary School Students, Racism, Activism
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Whitehouse, Sarah; Vickers-Hulse, Karan; Carter, Jane – Education 3-13, 2018
Engel, S. [2011. "Children's Need to Know: Curiosity in Schools." "Harvard Educational Review" 81 (4): 625-645] stated that curiosity should be cultivated in our schools as it is intrinsic to children's development. However, this is often absent from classrooms. In this paper we aim to explore some of the factors that have led…
Descriptors: Child Development, Learning Motivation, Case Studies, History Instruction
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Stolare, Martin – Education 3-13, 2017
The topic of this article is history education in upper primary school. Traditionally, the history subject has had a narrative orientation at this school level in Sweden, but it is also pattern that is discernible internationally. The recent Swedish upper primary school syllabus places more emphasis on the procedural aspects of the subject. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Course Content, Elementary School Students
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Dennis, Danielle V.; Gelfuso, Andrea; Sweeney, Sherridon – Education 3-13, 2018
In Democracy and Education, Dewey aligns trying and undergoing as experience. Undergoing the consequences of trying by reflecting entails noticing and naming the details of the connections between the activity and the consequences. In this paper, we explore two novice teacher educators' first attempts at guiding pre-service teachers (PSTs)…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Educators, Preservice Teachers, Reflection
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Bracey, Paul; Jackson, Darius; Gove-Humphries, Alison – Education 3-13, 2011
This paper is based on the premise that controversial issues related to diversity are an important aspect of teaching and learning with all pupils. It was stimulated by a newspaper article which criticised teaching Key Stage 1 (5-7-year-old children) about Grace O'Malley, an Irish Queen. We argue that sixteenth century Anglo-Irish relations can be…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Irish, Students, Young Children