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Download full textBrowne, Susan; Madden, Marjorie – LEARNing Landscapes, 2020
Based in anthropology (Cole & Knowles, 2001), life history inquiry into literature emphasizes deep understandings of literary characters that are expressed through dramatic performance. For teachers or teacher-educators, life histories offer a powerful teaching strategy. Life histories support locating readers in a particular pattern or…
Descriptors: Biographies, Inquiry, Teaching Methods, Reading
Leonard, Gerard; Allen, Kathleen – NAMTA Journal, 2013
Gerard Leonard and Kathleen Allen describe a variety of nature experiences as a part of the Montessori elementary tradition, beginning with a warning about the way contemporary life constrains children's experience of nature. Through a lyrical rendering of the nature-based expressions of children, Leonard and Allen look at a variety of approaches…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Montessori Schools, Elementary Education, Natural Resources
Direct linkFingon, Joan C.; Fingon, Shallon D. – Science Scope, 2009
Who hasn't heard of Einstein? Science educators everywhere are familiar with Einstein's genius and general theory of relativity. Students easily recognize Einstein's image by his white flyaway hair and bushy mustache. It is well known that Einstein was a brilliant physicist and an abstract thinker who often used his creativity and imagination in…
Descriptors: Science Interests, Scientific Concepts, Biographies, Scientists
Abramova, Inna – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation is an inquiry into the experiences and beliefs of six Russian-speaking immigrant teachers, including myself, about the role of a teacher. We were all brought up and educated in the former republics of the Soviet Union and arrived in the United States at different times after its collapse in 1991. Our experiences of living in…
Descriptors: Creativity, Speech Communication, Multicultural Education, Curriculum Research
Oram-Sterling, Jacqueline – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation is a biographical study of the life of a retired high school principal in Jamaica. Joan Miller Wint was born on May 10, 1946, in the small rural district of Success in Westmoreland, Jamaica. This study of Wint's life centers on school transformation and organizational change, exploring her leadership as a principal through the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, High Schools, Mothers, Interviews
Peer reviewedMacDonald, Stuart Wyllie – Scottish Educational Review, 1995
Describes the career of Scottish artist and art educator William Johnstone (1897-1981) and how his achievements, which are traced to 20th-century modernism, have influenced both art design and childrens' art education. Concludes that through Johnstone, progressivism in art and education converged, producing a model for creative expression in art…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art History, Art Teachers, Artists
