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Jenny Renlund; Kristiina Kumpulainen; Jenny Byman; Chin Chin Wong; Sara Sintonen – Environmental Education Research, 2024
Although sensuous and embodied engagement is an integral part of child--environment relationalities, the intersections of aesthetics, children and environments remain scarcely addressed. As a response, this study develops a concept of 'aesthetic flux' to delve into the sensuous dynamics of matter and bodies in the context of a storying workshop in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Environmental Education
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Nugent, C. L. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2018
Outdoor, and in particular, nature-based pedagogies are distinctive in that the environments where practice is situated, afford opportunities for pedagogues to encourage children to foreground meaning making through engagement with nature's sensory and kinesthetic cues. Observational methods, however, have rarely used approaches sympathetic to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Observation, Natural Resources
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Kumpulainen, Kaisu; Vierimaa, Sanna-Mari; Koskinen-Koivisto, Eerika – Education Sciences, 2019
The article examines the challenges university teachers face when adopting connective pedagogy in organizing teaching. Instead of studying the learning outcomes of the method, we decided in this research to focus on the teachers' experiences when doing things differently in a fairly traditional pedagogical institution like a university. In spring…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Tourism, Social Change, Diaries
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Kyrö-Ämmälä, Outi; Määttä, Kaarina – World Journal of Education, 2011
In this article, the remediation of pupils' cognitive skills is studied and a practical framework for educational and remedial work at primary level is introduced. This article is based on a doctorate research that studied by means of action research the development and enhancement of the most low-grade school entrants' reasoning and cognitive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Thinking Skills, Action Research, Grade 1