NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 33 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Jean-Christophe Goulet-Pelletier; Denis Cousineau – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2024
This study aimed to understand the factors predicting creative activities and creative achievements among university students. Based on a recently proposed framework of 10 creative spaces, we hypothesized that exploring those creative spaces, alongside the personality trait openness to experience and divergent thinking abilities would predict…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Public Colleges, Foreign Countries, Creativity
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Armstrong, Alayne; Gerofsky, Susan – Research in Mathematics Education, 2023
In this article, we consider the phenomenon of improvisation by small groups of middle years students while engaged in rich mathematical tasks in a classroom setting. Working from the premise that improvisation comprises a spectrum of behaviour, we propose that there is a range of improvisational behaviours that may be observed as the students…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Activities
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lemieux, Amélie – Professional Development in Education, 2021
This new materialist analysis gives insights into thinking about teacher learning, practice, and issues of social justice in maker education, disrupting the constructivist notion that making is a determinist action that brings about outcomes linked to unilateral views of success and performance, and that crafted products are not bound entities…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Faculty Development, Productivity, Philosophy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Jenna Magrath; C. Din; V. Paglione; S. J. Kenny; M. H. McDonough – Research in Dance Education, 2024
This study examines the pedagogical strategies of a dance instructor working with older adults in a virtual asynchronous community dance class, and the ways in which dance instruction influences older adults' physical literacy. Physical literacy is a multidimensional framework which helps us understand meaningful and motivating physical activity…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Dance Education, Teaching Methods, Computer Simulation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Selman, Matt – Teaching Artist Journal, 2020
An interview with Shawn Kinley, teacher and performer of improvisational theatre, whose work has taken him to 52 countries across five continents over a 30-year career. His diverse teaching experience includes working with scientists, opera companies, the military, family therapists, and more. Shawn shares his thoughts about the need for the…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Artists, Art Teachers, Theater Arts
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Corcoran, Sean – International Journal of Music Education, 2021
El Sistema music programmes have blossomed over the past decade, with the aim of fostering social development through intensive orchestral music instruction. Many scholars agree that creative music making can facilitate student agency development, increase a sense of belonging and promote creative expression by allowing students to bring their…
Descriptors: Music Education, After School Programs, Foreign Countries, Creative Activities
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lenters, Kimberly; Whitford, Alec – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2020
Purpose: In this paper, the authors engage with embodied critical literacies through an exploration of the possibilities provided by the use of improvisational comedy (improv) in the classroom. The purpose of this paper is to extend understandings of critical literacy to consider how embodied critical literacy may be transformative for both…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Critical Literacy, Creative Activities, Case Studies
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Beauregard, Caroline; Papazian-Zohrabian, Garine; Rousseau, Cécile – Intercultural Education, 2017
Identity construction can be very complex for refugee children, especially for Palestinian refugee children. For refugee children, organised violence and immigration are important parts of their life experience that can lead to trauma, which in turn influences how they construct their collective identity. Schools have to consider this specific…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Trauma, Refugees, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Jornet, Alfredo; Erstad, Ola – Digital Education Review, 2018
As digital technologies continue transforming the time and space boundaries that traditionally had been ascribed to different educational settings, the very notion of learning "context" also is being challenged in educational research literature. In this article, we contribute to this debate by offering an empirically grounded discussion…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Context Effect, Learning Processes, Lifelong Learning
Istance, David; Paniagua, Alejandro – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2019
This report follows up on the book "Leapfrogging Inequality: Remaking Education to Help Young People Thrive," published in 2018 by the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at the Brookings Institution. The book argued the importance of education leapfrogging--creating transformative shifts rather than incremental evolution by harnessing…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Teacher Role
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Kleefeld, John C.; Farnese, Patricia L. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
For some students, law school leads to a perception of legal education as favouring technical proficiency and structural similarity over innovation and creativity, leading to disengagement in learning. To address this, we offered a creative option in two first-year law courses, worth 20% of the grade. Students who chose this option created a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Legal Education (Professions), Educational Change, Creativity
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Rogers, Marg; Dovigo, Fabio; Doan, Laura – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2020
In most majority countries, early childhood educators' work occurs in a context increasingly dominated by neoliberal logic. A large body of literature emphasises that neoliberalism flourishes in society by fuelling mutual distrust and competition among people to pursue individual performance and material gain. This system has crept into education…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Preschool Teachers
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Maslany, George – Creativity Research Journal, 2015
Arthur Cropley's academic career began in the early 1960s and, more than 50 years later, shows few signs of abating. Over this lengthy period, he has made important contributions not only to creativity research, but to a range of related areas of psychology. Arthur Cropley has also been an influential figure in the careers of several generations…
Descriptors: Careers, Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Teaching
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Wilson, Jay; Gobeil, Marc – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2017
This research project examined the impact on student engagement of a makerspace approach in an all-First Nations high school. First Nations learners have many factors limiting their success in the K-12 system such as lack of connection to the curriculum, limited cultural relevance of course content, and poor attendance. A common concern for those…
Descriptors: High School Students, Active Learning, Student Projects, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Perry, J. Adam – Research in Drama Education, 2012
This article summarises the ways in which Image Theatre, a practice originally developed by Augusto Boal which continues to be developed in the hands of applied theatre practitioners and critical arts educators worldwide, can be used as a pedagogical and dramaturgical system of decolonisation at the level of communities and individuals. Through…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Creative Activities, Social Change, Instruction
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3