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McLaughlin, Tara; Aspden, Karyn; Clarke, Linda – Early Childhood Folio, 2017
Social-emotional skills provide a critical foundation for learning and wellbeing in early childhood and beyond. In this article we present specific teaching strategies that teachers can implement within the context of supportive, responsive relationships to foster young children's developing social-emotional competence. The teaching strategies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Development, Emotional Development, Well Being
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Aitken, V. – Research in Drama Education, 2014
This article describes the drama-based research strategy "researcher-in-role," developed during the two-year "Connecting Curriculum, Connecting Learning" project, based in New Zealand. First, a definition of researcher-in-role is offered along with a survey of relevant literature. Then the evolution and implementation of the…
Descriptors: Role, Children, Classroom Research, Drama
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Thwaites, Trevor – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2015
Global economic and advanced capitalist agendas have taken on ideological dimensions that are flat, precise and which assert "undeniable" facts. These agendas are gradually shaping a society and its education based on consumerism and a global economic order which is "not accidentally or superficially spectacular, it is fundamentally…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Economic Factors, Teacher Role, Educational Philosophy
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Skrypnyk, Oleksandra; Joksimovic, Srec´ko; Kovanovic, Vitomir; Gas?evic, Dragan; Dawson, Shane – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015
Distributed Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are based on the premise that online learning occurs through a network of interconnected learners. The teachers' role in distributed courses extends to forming such a network by facilitating communication that connects learners and their separate personal learning environments scattered around the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Teacher Role, Social Networks
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Falloon, Garry – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2017
Considerable work over many years has explored the contribution technology can make to science learning, at all levels of education. In the school sector, historically this has focused on the use of fixed, desktop-based or semi-mobile laptop systems for purposes such as experiment data collection or analysis, or as a means of engaging or…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices
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Trevethan, Helen – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2017
Classroom experience is an important part of initial teacher education (ITE) and the teachers who work with student teachers in schools have a significant impact on learning in this context. While many studies have documented what the role of these teachers should be, it is also important to consider how the role is conceptualised by the teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mentors, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Wright, Noeline – Educational Action Research, 2017
This article presents and discusses findings related to the relationship between a university researcher acting as the external agent and three self-selected teachers involved in a professional learning and research project. The role of an external agent in supporting teachers' professional development is of interest because it has not always been…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Vongsila, Vatsana; Reinders, Hayo – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2016
Developing English for communicative purposes is a key objective of language classes in many parts of the world. As a logical prerequisite to communication practice, learners need to have Willingness to Communicate (WTC) before they will engage in L2 interaction (Macintyre et al., 1998). Teachers can play an important role in helping learners to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Instruction
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Terreni, Lisa – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
In order to examine the existing literature in relation to the benefits of art museum education for the young, as well as to emphasise the literature gap in early childhood education research pertaining to access to and use of art museums by young children, a review of literature that discussed museum education for young children was undertaken. A…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Museums, Communities of Practice, Art
OECD Publishing, 2020
The COVID 19 pandemic has disrupted education around the world. As the first shock passes, planning is taking place on two timescales: the short-term challenges in the return to school, and the challenges over the next 18-24 months as systems work to build resilience and adaptability for the future. This "Trends Shaping Education…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Testing, Disease Control
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Billot, Jennie; King, Virginia – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
The effectiveness of academic induction is under-monitored by higher education institutions (HEIs) despite growing evidence that some academics, facing increased expectations and rising accountability within higher education (HE), perceive a lack of support from their institution. In this paper, we argue that HEIs should follow the example of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction
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Watanabe, Kanae; Dickinson, Annette – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2015
In New Zealand (NZ) and Japan, despite comprehensive national health and physical education (HPE) curriculums in schools, there continues to be significant health issues for children. A qualitative interpretative descriptive research method was used to compare how primary school teachers taught HPE in both countries. In NZ, there is some freedom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Health, Qualitative Research, Health Education
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Arndt, Sonja; Tesar, Marek – Journal of Pedagogy, 2015
This paper engages with assessment practices in Aotearoa New Zealand. "Te Whariki," the internationally recognized early childhood curriculum framework, lies at the root of contemporary narrative assessment practices, and the concept of learning stories. We outline historical and societal underpinnings of these practices, and elevate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Curriculum, Educational History
Bonne, Linda; MacDonald, Jo – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2019
These are the key findings from New Zealand Council for Educational Research's (NZCER's) latest survey of secondary schools, conducted in August and September 2018. In the 2018 survey responses, there was a general theme of growing demands being made on schools to respond to increasingly complex needs of students. Teachers were feeling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Student Needs, Stress Variables
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Fitzsimons, Peter – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2014
Philosophy and schools, children and dynamite, elephants and postage stamps: each has a place, but not necessarily in any natural combination with the other. Whether schools and philosophy belong together depends largely on what we mean by both. To the extent that schools are instruments of government regulation and a mechanism for production of…
Descriptors: Criticism, Philosophy, Problem Solving, Educational Policy
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