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Direct linkEllie Christoffina van Aswegen; Donna Pendergast – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
The literature defines curiosity and interest, but it is not clear how interest can be generated, where interest is positioned in the learning process, and what the impact of interest is on cognitive and emotional development. This paper reports on a three-year, iterative design-based research project involving three separate cohorts totalling 57…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Interests
Lockhart, Cathy; Miller, Evonne – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2016
Despite over three decades of legislation and initiatives designed to tackle the traditional gender divide in the science, technology and design fields, only a quarter of the registered architects in Australia are women. There are no statistics available for other design disciplines, with little known about why women choose design as a career path…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Womens Education, Student Educational Objectives, Student Interests
Breidenstein, Georg – Ethnography and Education, 2007
Spending just a few hours in the classroom situation as a participant observer, one definitely recognizes "boredom" as one of the main features of this situation. In spite of the obvious relevance of boredom in the classroom situation there is almost no research on the topic of boredom at school. Boredom seems to be a taboo of sorts in…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Ethnography, Interaction, Classroom Environment
Peterson, Jim – 1976
This paper reports a survey of children's interests at two ages. Data was obtained from a questionnaire administered to 200 grade 1 and 180 grade 7 boys and girls in ten different primary schools in the Perth, Australia area. Children were administered a 10-question questionnaire designed to measure leisure and academic interests. First grade…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Interests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Hameen-Anttila, Katri; Juvonen, Mirja; Ahonen, Riita; Bush, Patricia J.; Airaksinen, Marja – Health Education, 2005
Purpose: This study is part of a larger project, which aims to develop medicine education materials for teachers. The aim of the present study was to discover children's interests in medicines and teachers' opinions on what should be taught about medicines to children of different ages. Furthermore, teachers' opinions were assessed about the…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Comprehensive School Health Education, Focus Groups, Childhood Interests
Download full textClarke, Gerry; And Others – 1990
The elementary social studies curriculum should be restructured in a way that promotes a broader study of people, places, and events that are distant in space and time. The "Expanding Horizons" framework guides social studies curriculum in New Brunswick, as well as in many other Canadian provinces and the United States. It emphasizes moving from…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Cognitive Development, Curriculum Development
Balding, John – 1994
The Schools Health Education Unit (SHEU) supports and promotes effective health education in primary and secondary schools in the United Kingdom. This book lists the results taken from "The Health Related Behaviour Questionnaire" collected from 29,074 participants (14,757 boys and 14,317 girls) between the ages of 11 and 16, from 171…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Athletics, Child Behavior, Child Health
