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Sheehan, Helen; Riddle, Stewart – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
This paper examines the utility of Campbell's narrative construction of 'the hero's journey' as a conceptual apparatus to understand how international students from Confucian heritage cultures navigate their experiences in Western schooling systems like Australia. The hero's journey framework was used to investigate the commonalities and…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Secondary Education, Confucianism, Foreign Countries
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Yli-Panula, Eija; Jeronen, Eila; Koskinen, Salla; Mäki, Sanna – Education Sciences, 2022
Climate change (CC) has widespread impacts on human and natural systems and thus threatens the future of contemporary youths. Only a few studies on climate change education (CCE) have been published in Finland, and no research has been conducted on upper secondary education. Thus, this study investigated Finnish university students' views on CCE…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, College Students, Secondary Education
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Talanquer, Vicente; Novodvorsky, Ingrid; Tomanek, Debra – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
The present study was designed to identify and characterize the major factors that influence entering science teacher candidates' preferences for different types of instructional activities, and to analyze what these factors suggest about teacher candidates' orientations towards science teaching. The study involved prospective teachers enrolled in…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Interviews, Science Process Skills, Science Teachers
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Johns, Robert W. – 1979
Social studies classroom teachers can enliven high school history courses and motivate students to learn about history by using dramatic or heroic biographies in teaching history. The biographical approach centers on study of the lives, beliefs, and surroundings of historical actors. This approach differs from the "great man" theory of history in…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Biographies, Educational Needs, Higher Education
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Hudley, Cynthia – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1997
Used social-cognitive framework to identify teacher and program characteristics supporting student-perceived competence and intrinsic motivation in two junior high classes. Found that student beliefs were related to choices provided in academic activities, the type of behavior management techniques used, teachers' beliefs regarding reasons for low…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Beliefs, Case Studies