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Yandell, John – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
The 'knowledge turn' in curriculum studies has proved highly influential in the past two decades. But what is meant by knowledge remains both unclear and subject to contestation, particularly in relation to English as a school subject. Two recent books address the knowledge question in very different ways.
Descriptors: English Instruction, English Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students
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Chen, Hsin-Hao; Yuan, Yu-Hsi – SAGE Open, 2021
This study aims to investigate how a teacher's creative teaching is affected by the teacher's imagination and his or her school principal's visionary leadership, and how the contextual moderating effects are at play among the cross-hierarchical factors. The research framework is divided into two levels: the individual level on how "teacher's…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Imagination, Leadership Styles, Principals
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Kantawala, Ami – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2020
This article brings the work of cultural theorist Mieke Bal and historian Hayden White into a conversation, inviting the reader to consider framing, re-framing, and un-framing as historiographical dispositions. The concept of framing was used as a substitute for context in cultural analysis. The article argues that the concept of framing could be…
Descriptors: History, Imagination, Context Effect, Literature
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Schinkel, Anders – Educational Theory, 2018
Many authors have claimed a moral and educational significance for wonder. In this article Anders Schinkel assesses these claims in order to address the question whether we do indeed have reason to stimulate the sense of wonder and to provoke experiences of wonder in education with a view to its moral effects or importance. Are there moral effects…
Descriptors: Imagination, Ethical Instruction, Relevance (Education), Educational Needs
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Kim, So Jung; Wee, Su-Jeong; Park, Soyeon – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
Although previous studies have underlined the importance of social interactions, multicultural education, prediction/imagination, and bilingual/bi-literacy learning, the intersection of all these four areas is yet to be explored. This qualitative case study explored how young bilingual readers create meanings and develop literary responses through…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Multicultural Education, Books, Childrens Literature
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Spinner, Kaspar H. – Film Education Journal, 2019
Imparting 'literary competence' (understood here as a combination of skills involved in engaging with 'texts' of various kinds, among them film) has always been a core concern within German critical pedagogy. This article presents 11 aspects of literary learning, covering subjective involvement and the development of a text within the imagination;…
Descriptors: Literature, Films, Teaching Methods, Literary Genres
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De Leur, Tessa; Van Boxtel, Carla; Wilschut, Arie – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2017
Tasks which invite students to identify with historical actors and describe their perspectives are a common phenomenon in history education. The aim of this study is to explore the differences in students' answers when completing a writing task in first person ("imagine you are in the past") or in third person ("imagine someone in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, History Instruction, Empathy
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Verenikina, Irina; Kervin, Lisa; Rivera, Maria Clara; Lidbetter, Alison – Global Studies of Childhood, 2016
This study builds on and contributes to research on digital play with young children. Previous research has examined digital play from different viewpoints, but no studies have specifically addressed young children's perspectives as they interact with applications (apps) that have been designed specifically for their age group. While our review of…
Descriptors: Play, Information Technology, Computer Oriented Programs, Childrens Attitudes
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Jornet, Alfredo; Erstad, Ola – Digital Education Review, 2018
As digital technologies continue transforming the time and space boundaries that traditionally had been ascribed to different educational settings, the very notion of learning "context" also is being challenged in educational research literature. In this article, we contribute to this debate by offering an empirically grounded discussion…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Context Effect, Learning Processes, Lifelong Learning
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Hedegaard, Mariane – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2016
Interpretations of Vygotsky's texts have generally focused on the intellectual aspects of children's development, including his theory of play. This article presents a reinterpretation of Vygotsky's theory of play and draws on this theory of art to include emotions as an important part of children's play. I will argue that in play, children's…
Descriptors: Imagination, Emotional Response, Play, Children
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Lysaker, Judith T.; Nie, Alice Ying – Journal of Literacy Research, 2017
In this article, we present one fourth grader's unaided and illustration-aided retellings of "The Other Side." Using a qualitative clinical case study approach, we examine comprehending activity in these retellings using microethnographic discourse analysis in conjunction with dialogic self theory and a transactional model of reading.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Picture Books, Story Telling
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Marcusson-Clavertz, David; Cardeña, Etzel; Terhune, Devin Blair – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Mind wandering--mentation unrelated to one's current activity and surroundings--is a ubiquitous phenomenon, but seemingly competing ideas have been proposed regarding its relation to executive cognitive processes. The control-failure hypothesis postulates that executive processes prevent mind wandering, whereas the global availability hypothesis…
Descriptors: Imagination, Fantasy, Cognitive Style, Short Term Memory
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Sung, Chit Cheung Matthew – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2019
This article reports on a case study of a Hong Kong undergraduate student's lived experiences of second language (L2) investments and identities across different contexts, including inside and outside the classroom on the university campus, in the professional workplace, and during study abroad. Findings indicate that the student's differential L2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, Context Effect