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Rowsell, Jennifer; McQueen-Fuentes, Glenys – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2017
Movement is relatively invisible in literacy theory and pedagogy. There has been more recent scholarship on the body and embodiment, but less on connections between movements, body and literacy. In this article, we present the Community Arts Zone movement project and ways that the study opened up spaces for creativity, experimentation, and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Research Methodology, Field Studies, Notetaking
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Riveros, Augusto; Verret, Carolyne; Wei, Wei – Journal of Educational Administration, 2016
Purpose: The guiding question of this study is: how is the Ontario Leadership Framework (OLF) translated into practices in elementary and secondary schools in the province of Ontario? The purpose of this paper is to provide a contextual account of the processes by which school leadership standards are incorporated into the practices of school…
Descriptors: Leadership, Urban Schools, Educational Practices, Leadership Effectiveness
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Duignan, Patrick A. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1981
The ethnographer should be part historian, part psychologist, part sociologist, part anthropologist, and must apply rigorous and consistent rules and procedure to the various steps in his/her research in order to arrive at reliable conclusions. An ethnographic observational study of administrative behavior of eight school superintendents provides…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrators, Behavior Patterns, Data Collection
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Nash, Chris – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1984
Describes a field study of kindergarteners which found 1,006 pupils conserved identity up to 8 months, and 693 pupils conserved identity and equivalence. Follow-up studies showed no relationship between kindergarten conservation abilities and grade 1 math skills, although grade 6 math performance correlated significantly with kindergarten…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept), Educational Research
Portal-Foster, C. W.; And Others – 1969
The proposed research design, to be actualized beginning in 1969, was evolved to determine the nature and prevalence of mental retardation in Canada and to relate them to other variables. Issues raised concerning both nature and prevalence were reviewed as were surveys in seven different geographic areas. A pilot study conducted in two small…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Demography, Disadvantaged, Etiology
Curtis, Charles K. – 1979
A project is described in which slow learning high school students in British Columbia investigated community housing problems. The objective of the project was to show how investigation of contemporary community problems can help slow learning students develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes conducive to responsible citizenship. Methodology…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Community Problems, Comparative Education, Curriculum Development