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Framing Inclusion: Intellectual Disability, Interactive Kinds and Imaginary Companions
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Snipstad, Øyvind Ibrahim Marøy – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2020
A central aspect of inclusion is to grant all children opportunities to participate and gain from a fellowship in school. However, some categorised groups of children are more prone to segregation and exclusion than others. Drawing on philosopher Ian Hacking's theories of the interactive relationship between how categories influence the…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Imagination, Inclusion, Social Isolation
Chinese Teachers' Imaginaries: Comparing the Pros and Cons of Chinese Education and Other Education Systems
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Wang, Xi; Wang, Ting – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
The article presents a qualitative study which explores Chinese school teachers' imaginaries of Chinese and other education systems. It also investigates how social media has shaped their imaginaries. By reference to the literature on imaginary, discourse, and media, the study views imaginary as an instantiation of a particular discourse or…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Teacher Attitudes, Social Networks, Social Media
Metacognitive Awareness and Visualisation in the Imagination: The Case of the Invisible Circles
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Jagals, Divan; van der Walt, Marthie – Pythagoras, 2018
Awareness of one's own strengths and weaknesses during visualisation is often initiated by the imagination -- the faculty for intuitively visualising and modelling an object. Towards exploring the role of metacognitive awareness and imagination in facilitating visualisation in solving a mathematics task, four secondary schools in the North West…
Descriptors: Visualization, Metacognition, Imagination, Role
Re-Imagining Otherness: An Exploration of the Global Imaginaries of Children from Immigrant Backgrounds in Primary Schools in France and England
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Welply, Oakleigh – European Educational Research Journal, 2015
This article examines the role of global representations in immigrant-background children's social imaginaries in primary schools in France and England. Increased globalisation, mobility and migration hold strong implications in terms of identity and belonging for children from immigrant backgrounds in schools in European countries, based on…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Self Concept
Visual Culture in the Elementary-School Classroom: Moving from Box-Store Commodities to Out-of-the-Box Thinking
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Fattal, Laura Felleman – New Educator, 2017
The goal of the action research project on visual culture is to contribute to the dialogue on the exploratory ecology vs commodity culture of the elementary school classroom. Exploratory culture, unlike commodity culture, applauds open-ended thinking, inchoate imaginings, and critical thinking with its attachment to divergent paths to resolving…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Teachers, Teacher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Imagination "First": Unleash the Power of Possibility
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Handa, Manoj Chandra – Gifted Education International, 2015
The creativity program, "imagination 'first': unleash the power of possibility," implemented in public primary and secondary schools in Northern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, deals with the power of imagination in unleashing creativity among gifted students and teachers. Following an in-depth literature review on creativity for…
Descriptors: Creativity, Role, Imagination, Creative Thinking