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Saetbyul Kim; Tzu-Jung Lin; Michael Glassman; Seung Yon Ha; Ziye Wen; Manisha Nagpal; Trent N. Cash; Elizabeth Kraatz – Journal of Moral Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine whether justifying one's own social knowledge (moral, societal, psychological) toward complex social-moral issues through collaborative argumentation was associated with the improvement of social perspective taking for elementary students. A total of 129 5th graders (52% female, Mage = 10.98) from six…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Social Attitudes, Diversity, Persuasive Discourse
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Zakiah, Linda; Sarkadi; Marini, Arita – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
The purpose of this study is to determine the strategies teachers use in teaching social tolerance to elementary school students. Social tolerance is an attitude where a person accepts a difference in terms of religion, race, culture, ethnicity, nation, and others. In the context of social tolerance, students can understand others who are from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods
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Ward, Cara; Matthews, Travis – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2017
History labs invite students to examine primary and secondary source documents related to an essential question. The sources used in a history lab should represent multiple perspectives so that students are aware of the varying accounts of and opinions about historic events. By being exposed to multiple perspectives, students also learn about…
Descriptors: Presidents, Slavery, History Instruction, United States History
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Hudson, Melissa E.; Browder, Diane M. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2014
This study evaluated the effects of a peer-delivered least prompts intervention and adapted read-alouds of a grade-level novel on correct listening comprehension responses for participants with moderate intellectual disability. Before the study began, participants were taught concepts for wh- words (i.e., who, what, why, when, and where), to…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Prompting, Intervention, Oral Reading
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Elton-Chalcraft, Sally – Education 3-13, 2011
Research concerning children is often presented with only a brief comment on the research methods adopted. This paper takes a "behind the scenes" view and I discuss my adoption of a non-hierarchical "least adult role" adapted from Mandell's work in 1991 to undertake qualitative research in the sensitive area of children's…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Teaching Methods, Cultural Pluralism, Minority Groups
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Gest, Scott D.; Rodkin, Philip C. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2011
Teachers and students in 39 1st, 3rd and 5th grade classrooms participated in a study of teaching practices and classroom peer networks. Teachers reported on their attitudes towards aggression and withdrawal, provided rationales for their seating arrangements, and were observed on patterns of emotional and instructional support and classroom…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Social Status, Peer Relationship, Friendship
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Hamston, Julie – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2005
Changing global and local conditions have given rise to complex issues of identity. Within such conditions, the challenge for educators is to help students to develop a language with which to describe the new and dynamic cultural identities and relationships constitutive of what Hall (1996a, p.223) describes as "New Times". Students need…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Ethics