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Frank Bird – Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, 2024
More than fifty years ago, an idea took hold in Georgia. Eventually called the Foxfire Approach, its main idea is centered around a view of a democratic classroom. Following a general sense of John Dewey's pragmatism, Eliot Wigginton invested his energy and skills into his English classroom to propel students to choose worthwhile activities. This…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Student Centered Learning, Teachers, Story Telling
Aygün, Murat; Demir, Elif Kübra; Murathan, Talha – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
Sports activities contribute both to the physical, mental and psychological development of the individual and to the development of skills. The effectiveness of the desire to learn becomes more apparent with the continuity of development. The objective is to analyse relationship between metacognitive learning strategies and image levels of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Imagination
Arnett, Ronald C. – Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2020
In this historical moment defined by the coronavirus (COVID-19), the global community struggles with and against a seemingly invisible foe. Students, faculty, and administrators open the blinds on windows in the morning, witnessing the brightness of the sun and seemingly the clarity of a morning welcome. Yet, there lurks, not in the shadows, but…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Autobiographies, Ethnography
Wang, Cathy Yue – Children's Literature in Education, 2020
Situated within the changing economic and political contexts of China's modernization and globalization, children's fantasy novels prove to be apt vehicles for exploring the plights and challenges that women and girls face in the new millennium in China. This article provides a feminist critique of two contemporary Chinese children's fantasy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Literature, Fantasy, Novels
Bourke, Lorna; Marriott-Fellows, Megan; Jones, Amanda; Humphreys, Lorna; Davies, Simon J.; Zuffiano, Antonio; López-Pérez, Belén – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
The current study investigated the extent cognitive and emotion regulation deficits (i.e., executive functions) associated with autism impact on the development of imagination in writing. Sixty-one children participated in the study (M age = 9 years 7 months, SD = 14 months, 18 female, 43 male), comprising a selected group with autism…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Imagination, Creative Writing, Autism
Jany, Berit – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2020
Schools and universities continuously face new generations of students who struggle with stress management. Many learners have sedentary lifestyles in which they are deprived of somatic learning opportunities. Other learners experience feelings of dissociation and sensations of disembodiment that have a negative impact on their learning. This…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Stress Management
Weiland, Ricarda F.; Polderman, Tinca J. C.; Smit, Dirk J. A.; Begeer, Sander; Van der Burg, Erik – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
To facilitate multisensory processing, the brain binds multisensory information when presented within a certain maximum time lag (temporal binding window). In addition, and in audiovisual perception specifically, the brain adapts rapidly to asynchronies within a single trial and shifts the point of subjective simultaneity. Both processes, temporal…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Auditory Perception, Visual Perception
Wood, Margaret; Pennington, Andrew; Su, Feng – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
This article analyses, mingles and blends divergent and complementary strands from the thinking of Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and Sir Alec Clegg (1909-1986), two contemporaneous but different influential public figures and thinkers in the post-World War Two period. The paper uses these strands to construct a critique of the current colonisation of…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational History, Futures (of Society), Criticism
Dickey, Jan; Pahk, Sang-hyoun; Rost-Banik, Colleen – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
In this article we attempt to envision what utopian higher education could be given the realities that currently shape students' experiences. Postsecondary education is fraught with admissions that favor those with social, cultural, and economic capital; with course enrollment, class size, and instructor accessibility governed by bureaucratic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Futures (of Society), Fiction, Democracy
Derya Gok – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation examines the meaning-making of children (ages 2-5) as they read and play with picture books related to social justice themes, such as identity and diversity, in a preschool and childcare center. The study goal is to investigate the analysis of children's meaning-making of picture books to understand the social world around them…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Social Justice, Self Concept, Diversity
Gregory, Maughn Rollins; Laverty, Megan Jane – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
Gareth B. Matthews (1929-2011) inaugurated the study of philosophy in children's literature by simultaneously arguing (1) that philosophy is essentially an encounter with certain kinds of perplexities, (2) that genuine philosophical perplexities are readily found in many children's stories, and (3) that many children are capable of appreciating…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Philosophy, Authors, Teaching Guides
Su, Francis – American Educator, 2022
Freedom is a basic human desire. It is a central idea behind historic human rights movements and a sign of human flourishing. In this article, the author highlights five freedoms that are central to doing mathematics: (1) The freedom of knowledge; (2) The freedom to explore; (3) The freedom of understanding; (4) The freedom to imagine; and (5) The…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Freedom, Disadvantaged, Low Income Students
Ferreira, Jonathan; Kendrick, Maureen; Panangamu, Sam – Literacy, 2022
In 2021, more than 80 million people worldwide will have been forced to flee their homes. Upon arrival in their new country, families may endure numerous hardships, yet succumbing to these challenges is not their single story. To understand how migrant-background and refugee-background children imagine more liveable futures beyond social and…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Play, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Prendergast, Barbara T. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative action research study was to examine a published language arts curriculum, determine how Anna Craft's possibility thinking framework could be integrated into the curriculum, and then observe how students responded to the implementation of lessons integrating the elements of possibility thinking. The findings…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Language Arts, Teaching Methods, Creativity
Kadowaki, Joy – Teaching Sociology, 2021
A common learning goal of law-related courses taught in sociology classrooms is for students to gain an understanding of the sociological approach to law. This approach emphasizes viewing law as a social process and studying law by analyzing both legal and nonlegal phenomena. A challenge to students' achievement of this learning goal is their…
Descriptors: Sociology, Law Related Education, Writing Assignments, Content Area Writing