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Kelly, Katie; Siekman, Madison; Mahan, Reilly – Reading Teacher, 2023
During recess a conflict occurred between two fourth graders. A peer attempted to mediate unsuccessfully. Frustrated, the student protested, "[Teachers] never listen to us!" The student felt unheard and sought to play a more active role in conflict resolution. This article explores the use of literature to facilitate restorative…
Descriptors: Literature, Restorative Practices, Conflict Resolution, Student Empowerment
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Fu-Yun Yu; Ju-Ko Wei – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2024
While enabling students to refer to and build on peer-produced work (termed 'citing' herein) during content creation appears pedagogically promising, its associated learning effects remain under-studied. This research aimed at examining the effects of online citing of peer-generated assessment items during student test-construction on promoting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Science Instruction, Peer Teaching
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Miri Shonfeld – Intercultural Education, 2024
This study explores the potential of empowering children as peace agents through education by using the case of the TEC4Schools program. The program is based on Allport's Contact Theory and promotes prolonged exposure to the 'other' culture among culturally diverse groups of students. It is based on the hypothesis that extended contact periods…
Descriptors: Peace, Children, Empowerment, Cultural Awareness
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Sarah Baker-Cano – English in Texas, 2024
Professional learning should be designed in a way that is responsive to the needs of teachers and intentionally planned with adult learning principles in mind. This article outlines one practitioner's professional journey to redefine how professional learning is designed with best practices in adult learning in mind. Strategies utilized during…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Empowerment, Best Practices, Adult Learning
Merritt, Eileen; Harkins, Tracy; Rimm-Kaufman, Sara – Grantee Submission, 2021
Student agency is a critical feature of impactful service-learning programs. In this article, we describe lessons learned from a study of Connect Science, and environmental service-learning curriculum and teacher professional development program. We present five ways to amplify student voices in service-learning. Examples from teachers that we…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Elementary School Students, Environmental Education, Service Learning
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Leah Bryars; Bethanie Pletcher – Reading Teacher, 2024
Before ever entering a formal educational setting, children use writing to make themselves known. Yet by the time students reach the fourth grade, only a small minority of students demonstrate writing skills considered competent by national standards. By this time in their school career, many have begun to internalize that they are poor writers…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, After School Programs, Books
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Jennifer Watt; Heather Krepski; Rebeca Heringer – McGill Journal of Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore how teacherpractitioners in a Canadian middle school perceive students' experiences of well-being in student-led service learning projects (SLPs). Through semistructured interviews, we explored five school practitioners' accounts of how SLPs contributed to student relating and functioning in a well-being…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Lucas Schoppe – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The current music education paradigm may be considered an oppressive experience for both students and teachers through its historical foundation, standardized nature, and focus on Western art repertoire and its associated skill building. Realizing the oppressive nature of many aspects of music education, some scholars and practitioners have sought…
Descriptors: Music Education, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Computer Software
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Lena Wintermantel; Christine Grove; Stella Laletas – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2025
Therapy dogs can improve the social and mental health outcomes for children and adolescents. School-based interventions that address social and emotional learning (SEL) can promote children's overall wellbeing and educational outcomes. This study used a qualitative approach to explore children's perceptions of a 12-week therapy dog-assisted SEL…
Descriptors: Animals, Therapy, Social Emotional Learning, Intervention
Mandy Dunphy – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explores the dynamics of a formal classroom and an informal nature-based learning environment, focusing on their impact on student subjectification and knowledge authority. The study, conducted with a cohort of 27 fifth-grade students and their teacher, employs a comparative case study methodology to analyze how teaching…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Informal Education
Zohar Roy Badenhausen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study addresses a problem of practice at Nipmuc Elementary School (NES), a large urban elementary school in New England. State standardized test data and student writing samples showed that students were performing well-below grade level in writing. The primary factors driving this problem included teachers' lack of knowledge and low…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Self Efficacy, Writing Instruction, Communities of Practice
Faten Baroudi – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The Critical Literacy (CritLit) project promotes using critical texts to engage readers in examining their lived experiences and understanding of social justice issues. This study used a qualitative participatory approach with a narrative design to research the students' engagement in a book club using critical texts. Participants were fourth- and…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Social Justice, Books, Clubs
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Gan, Dafna; Gal, Adiv – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Emotion is a central aspect for protecting the environment in environmental and sustainability education (ESE). As such, positive emotions toward nature can increase motivation to learn and take environmental action. This qualitative case study explored the complex interrelationship among place-based education, emotions and values related to ESE,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Emotional Response, Environmental Education, Sustainability
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Dickenson, Beau; Thacker, Emma – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2023
This article details how a team of fourth-grade teachers in Rockingham County, Virginia used the Inquiry Design Model (IDM) to deepen student understanding of Barbara Johns and the Moton Student Strike's fight for racial justice in Virginia and to reframe their overall approach to Black history in general. Although Rockingham County Schools are…
Descriptors: Race, Social Justice, Blacks, African Americans
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Stockdale, Fiona – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2020
This essay explores the place of debating, talk and group work in the Secondary English classroom. It discusses the ways in which pupils in one student teacher's year 7 class thrive in the dialogic classroom against the backdrop of curricular and attitudinal change. It considers the importance of talk and debate amongst the 'communities of…
Descriptors: Debate, English Instruction, Middle School Students, Grade 6
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