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Loreain Martinez-lejarreta; Lorna Arnott; Kate Wall – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
This article explores the usefulness of detective role-play as a research method to facilitate young children's critical thinking. The study examines four specifically designed detective play experiences, adopting an ethical rights-based approach to research with children. This qualitative multiple-case study is grounded in play-based pedagogy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Critical Thinking, Active Learning
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Lynsey A. Burke; Divya Jindal-Snape; Anne Douglas – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
There is a paucity of research that has effectively listened to children's voices on matters important to them and has asked them how they would like to be listened to. This study used a playful approach to listen to children's voices about play spaces in their primary school. The research questions were: How can a playful approach be used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Elena E. Forzani; Christina Dobbs; Christine Leider; Emily Malik; Melanie Gragg; Clara Greszczuk; Courtney Jesberger – Reading Teacher, 2024
This article offers a framework for more equitable classroom reading assessment known as a Critical Assessment Practices (CAPS) approach. CAPS includes a set of four principles that teachers can use to partner with, and to empower, students to support more equitable and informative classroom-based reading assessment. Teachers can apply the CAPS…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Empowerment, Educational Principles
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Champagne, Zachary – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2021
Providing students the autonomy and choice to learn when productive struggle becomes unproductive is a core teaching belief in the author's classroom. The author teaches in a multiage classroom where he has 16 first- and second-grade students, ages 6, 7, and 8. Like other educators, he believes in the importance of productive struggle. The author…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Bronwyn Reid O'Connor – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2024
A 7-month mathematics proficiency program was conducted in a primary Australian Indigenous community school. This paper focuses on outlining the specific methodologies employed to explore how students' mathematical proficiency changed throughout the implementation of the program in Years 2 to 4 (~ 7 to 9 years old). A mixed methods research design…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Education
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Casesa, Rhianna Henry; LaDuke, Aja E.; Quiñonez, Vanessa Chavez; Garibay, Heidy – Reading Teacher, 2023
This article details a classroom-based study designed to provide agency and voice to first and second grade emergent bilinguals as they processed the COVID-19 pandemic. Two California teachers created a narrative writing unit not only to teach specific writing skills, but also to challenge pervasive deficit assumptions that young children…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2, Pandemics
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Truxaw, Mary P. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2020
This qualitative research study investigates dialogic discourse (i.e., give-and-take communication where students actively construct meaning) aimed at supporting mathematical meaning making in linguistically diverse elementary classrooms. For this study, linguistically diverse classrooms refer to classrooms where Spanish is the home language of…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Student Empowerment, Elementary School Students, Student Diversity
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Loizou, Eleni – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine how an early childhood education (ECE) curriculum responds to children's voices in reference to transition from kindergarten to first grade. Drawing from the findings of a previous study which examined the empowering and limiting aspects of transition as voiced by first graders, I consider the points where…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Childrens Attitudes, Adjustment (to Environment), Elementary School Students
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Lakkala, Suvi; Uusiautti, Satu; Kyrö-Ämmälä, Outi; Grönfors, Perttu – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2020
In this study, we assessed how Finnish teachers' professional actions support their students' engagement and positive self-image at school. This qualitative multimethod study is comprised of three sub-studies: (1) the research Data Set A included pedagogical reflective journals, observations of, and interviews with, two Finnish teachers and their…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Learner Engagement, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods
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Häggström, Margaretha; Schmidt, Catarina – Environmental Education Research, 2020
This article advocates a holistic approach to education concerning literacy and ecological literacy development and builds on data from two different case studies in compulsory school classes in Sweden. The study is built on action-based research and the data material was analysed through directed qualitative content analysis. We argue that place…
Descriptors: Young Children, Grade 1, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
Rooney, Maeve – Online Submission, 2020
The purpose of this study was to determine how trauma-informed approaches in an urban elementary school art room can foster empowerment in students who have been exposed to trauma and have developed Emotional and/or Behavioral Disorders. I implemented a pedagogy focused on promoting empowerment through art making, then collected data on the…
Descriptors: Trauma, Art Education, Urban Schools, Elementary School Students
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West-Burns, Nicole; Murray, Karen – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2016
In classroom spaces on a daily basis, students are encouraged to express who they are as learners and demonstrate their own understanding of their learning. Students' ability to contribute to their own learning is an essential characteristic of an engaging classroom space and supports high academic achievement. The authors' work highlights one…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Power Structure, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
Baker, Rachel – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016
Let's face it--teaching can be stressful. In this generation of Common Core Standards and highstakes testing, educators are often left without the time to plan positive behavioral supports or the sanity to cultivate compassionate relationships with their students. Even though they understand the critical relationship between behavior and…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Norén, Eva – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2015
This paper draws on data from a first grade multilingual mathematics classroom in Sweden. I explore how students' agency is pronounced in the classroom that actually can be a site where mathematics reform-oriented pedagogy thrives and how the emphasis on language support in such classrooms can support reform-oriented pedagogy. I argue that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Multilingualism, Elementary School Mathematics
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Colegrove, Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki; Adair, Jennifer Keys – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2014
This article documents what happened in a first grade classroom when young Latina/o children of immigrants had consistent classroom-based opportunities to use their agency in their learning. Applying theoretical constructs from development economics to data from the Agency and Young Children ethnographic project, we explore three forms of agency…
Descriptors: Young Children, Elementary School Students, Student Empowerment, Learning Experience
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