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Roman Chvátal; Jana Slezáková; Stanislav Popelka – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
In the realm of mathematics education, geometry problems assume a pivotal role by fostering abstract thinking, establishing a connection between theory and practice, and offering a tangible portrayal of reality. This study focuses on comprehending problem-solving methodologies by observing the eye movements of 45 primary and multi-year grammar…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Learning Strategies, Imagination, Geometry
Ghudkam, Supachai; Chatwattana, Pinanta; Piriyasurawong, Pallop – Higher Education Studies, 2023
An imagineering learning model using advance organizers with the internet of things was developed to promote creative innovation for learners in the 21st century. It is an innovation initiated by integrating classroom learning and technology that connects with the internet of things. The objectives of this research were (1) to study and synthesize…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Models, Imagination, Problem Solving
Loreain Martinez-lejarreta; Lorna Arnott; Kate Wall – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
This article explores the usefulness of detective role-play as a research method to facilitate young children's critical thinking. The study examines four specifically designed detective play experiences, adopting an ethical rights-based approach to research with children. This qualitative multiple-case study is grounded in play-based pedagogy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Critical Thinking, Active Learning
Kanoknitanunt, Pongsakorn; Nilsook, Prachyanun; Wannapiroon, Panita – Journal of Education and Learning, 2021
This study aimed at developing an imagineering learning process model with logical solutions by using documentary research and relevant experts' viewpoints with regard to the process of Imagineering Learning--problem-based learning (PBL) involving logical and computational thinking. The data were then synthesized in order to find the relationship…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Imagination, Logical Thinking, Problem Solving
Patricia Esther Alonso-Galicia; Adriana Medina-Vidal; Simona Grande – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
This work addresses the importance of innovation in entrepreneurial and business education to ensure that students develop the ability to make complex decisions and solve complex challenges. The intention was to incorporate the complexity theory in decision-making and problem-solving in business and entrepreneurship. To achieve this, we present…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Thinking Skills
Li, Liang; Fleer, Marilyn; Yang, Ning – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2022
Research has suggested that system-wide professional development needs to embrace ongoing and sustainable processes such as critical reflection, being within a community of practice and the co-creation of new practices within and across early childhood systems. However, there is little research on how professional development can be designed in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
Xiaoyong Hu; Wanyi Li; Xingyu Geng; Li Zhao – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Background: Creativity is one of the key competencies for the talent of the 21st century to meet future challenges in a complex world. It is also an innovative basis for students to discover and pose questions. Purpose: This study aimed to explore which two interventions of the problem-oriented teaching model, teacher-guided problem finding (TGPF)…
Descriptors: Intervention, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Creativity
Eva Hejnová; Petr Eisenmann; Lucie Loukotová; Jirí Pribyl – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2024
The paper describes the results of a study whose main aim was to find the interrelationship between pupils' school grades in Czech language (native), mathematics, and physics and pupils' cognitive predispositions to problem-solving in science and mathematics diagnosed by the Lawson Classroom Test of Scientific Reasoning and the Culture of Problem…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Problem Solving, Slavic Languages, Grades (Scholastic)
Tian, Jing; Koh, Joyce Hwee Ling; Ren, Chang; Wang, Yiheng – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
The technical skills of using geographical information systems (GIS) are often taught in different higher education disciplines apart from geocapabilities or geographic disciplinary expertise. Theorised to include capabilities such as spatial thinking, geographical imagination and structured ways to explore places, the concept of geocapabilities…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Maps, Geography Instruction, Authentic Learning
Stuart, Michael T. – Science & Education, 2019
Imagination is necessary for scientific practice, yet there are no in vivo sociological studies on the ways that imagination is taught, thought of, or evaluated by scientists. This article begins to remedy this by presenting the results of a qualitative study performed on two systems biology laboratories. I found that the more advanced a…
Descriptors: Scientific Methodology, Science Process Skills, Imagination, Problem Solving
Tam, Po-Chi – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2021
This study aims to conceptualise a drama-integrated curriculum devised from process drama as an approach to play-based pedagogy and curriculum to realise the policy initiative of learning through play. By investigating teachers' perspectives and practices in relation to the curriculum of a local kindergarten, examples of effective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Drama, Teaching Methods, Play
Walker, Sue; Fleer, Marilyn; Veresov, Nikolai; Duhn, Iris – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2020
This paper presents the findings of a study conducted with preschool teachers trialling an intervention in which executive function activities are embedded in teachers' daily practices and imaginary play is used to build meaningful problem situations that children solve using executive functions. The participants were 227 preschool children (53%…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Imagination, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children
Buad Al Khales; Intisar Natsheh; Fathi Ihmeideh; Mina Kim – Education 3-13, 2024
This study aims to examine how five-year-old children demonstrate their learning through mathematical games in preschool settings in Palestine. It also explored the perspectives of children and teachers of different stages of play. The sample consisted of 90 children and 6 teachers. Children were guided to a wide range of mathematical games.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Educational Games, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
Kaimal, Girija; Carroll-Haskins, Katrina; Berberian, Marygrace; Dougherty, Abby; Carlton, Natalie; Ramakrishnan, Arun – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2020
Virtual reality (VR) therapies have been used in health and mental health care settings. The applicability of VR expressive tools has not yet been examined adequately in the creative arts therapies. This pilot qualitative study reports on 17 participants' experiences with VR art-making tools to determine its relevance to art therapy practice and…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Art Therapy, Self Expression, Mental Health
Steier, Rolf; Kersting, Magdalena; Silseth, Kenneth – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2019
This study contributes to our understanding of meaning making in CSCL environments by examining a specific aspect of collaborative problem solving in which students improvise, introduce, and make meaning with representations in disciplinary domains. These situations include the embodied and imaginative processes of discovering new representational…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Sociocultural Patterns, Problem Solving