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Kayumova, Shakhnoza; Tippins, Deborah – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2016
Rational and operationalized views of science and what it means for teachers and students to know and enact legitimate science practices have dominated science education research for many decades (Fusco and Barton in "J Res Sci Teach" 38(3):337-354, 2001. doi: 10.1002/1098-2736(200103)38:3<337::AID-TEA1009>3.0.CO;2-0). Michalinos…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Science Education, Educational Practices, Theory of Mind
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Layous, Kristin; Lyubomirsky, Sonja – School Psychology Review, 2014
The present commentary considers the theoretical and applied implications of Froh, Bono, and colleagues' benefit-appraisals intervention to promote gratitude among youth. First, we discuss the developmental competencies that children need to master before they can benefit from this intervention. The target curriculum was successful among 8- to…
Descriptors: Youth, Intervention, Children, Prosocial Behavior
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Gordon, Liz – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to respond to Jonathan Boston's article, which outlined the findings of the Expert Advisory Group (2012), in which he singled out one policy change, the 1991 budget cuts to benefit levels, as being the major cause of one-quarter of New Zealand's children now living below the poverty line. In her response, Liz Gordon…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Poverty, Advisory Committees, Children