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Kokkotas, Panos; Rizaki, Aikaterini; Malamitsa, Katerina – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2010
In our research, we investigated whether students will develop inquiry skills, such as hypothesis exploration and formulation and interpretation, and metacognitive skills, such as comprehension of new knowledge, as a result of a storytelling strategy employed during teaching. We also investigated whether students will utilize the skills and…
Descriptors: Imagination, Institutional Cooperation, Metacognition, Teaching Methods
Weston, Marla; Biin, Dianne – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
The goal of the ANCESTOR program is to use digital storytelling as a means of promoting an interest in technology careers for Aboriginal learners, as well as increasing cultural literacy. A curriculum was developed and first tested with Aboriginal students at the LÁU,WELNEW Tribal School near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Based on feedback…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Story Telling, Computer Science Education, Canada Natives
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Kostenius, Catrine – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2011
The aim of this study was to make visible, and understand, possible opportunities for school improvement based on schoolchildren's lived experience and visionary ideas of school. Schoolchildren aged 10-12 from the northern part of Sweden participated in the study. The phenomenological analysis resulted in three themes, with no particular order of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement, Opportunities, Phenomenology
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Lin, Yu-sien – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2010
The aim of the study was to examine how drama fosters children's everyday creativity, its relationship with creative pedagogy, and what teachers can provide for children's development in creativity in an Asian context. A series of drama lessons were designed and taught to two six-grade (11-12 years old) classes by involving pedagogical strategies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Diaries, Teacher Role, Instructional Innovation
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Dilek, Dursun – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2009
The aim of this research is to understand how sixth grade students use their imagination skills in the historical thinking process and, by doing so, how they construct the past. In this respect, first, an exhibition/museum was visited in the context of social studies during history lessons in a primary school in Kadikoy district in Istanbul. Then,…
Descriptors: Imagination, Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Cognitive Processes
Yeung, Alexander Seeshing; Chow, Alan Ping-Yan; Chow, Phoebe Ching-Wa – International Education Journal, 2005
Disruptive students are often perceived to be unmotivated, low in self-concept, and lacking in creative characteristics such as originality in thinking and imagination. A total of 99 students from 6th Grade classes of a primary school in Hong Kong completed a survey asking about their effort goal orientation in school motivation, academic…
Descriptors: Imagination, Gifted, Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation
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