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Anne Burke; Diane R. Collier – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2024
This paper is located within a larger study of children's voice and storytelling. The focus is on how children use artifacts, such as special objects and photographs, to tell stories about their lives. We studied the collaborative learning of educators, in two schools in Eastern Canada, as they used sharing circles and multimodal pedagogies, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Empowerment
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Villarroel, José Domingo; Sanz Ortega, Olga – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2017
The studies regarding how the comprehension of geometric shapes evolves in childhood are largely based on the assessment of children's responses during the course of tasks linked to the recognition, classification or explanation of prototypes and models. Little attention has been granted to the issue as to what extent the geometric shape turns out…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Geometry, Freehand Drawing, Childrens Art
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Ahi, Berat – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2017
The purpose of the current study is to determine the effect of talking drawings on Turkish preschool children's mental models of the water cycle. The study was conducted in the city of Kastamonu, located in the north-west of Turkey. A total of 40 five-year-old preschool children participated in the study in the spring term of the 2015-2016 school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Kouvou, Ourania – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2016
This report outlines the cognitive accomplishments of young children involved in graphic dialogue with adults. A token of collaborative drawing is examined exhibiting the degree to which adult informed tutoring enabled children in their drawing development, enhanced their motivation and ability in narration and resulted in drawings meaningful to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Freehand Drawing, Childrens Art, Tutoring
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Aktin, Kibar – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
This study was performed to determine how pre-school children fictionalize the past by using their imagination skills in the process of historical thinking. The participants were 14 children who attended pre-school. The data for the study were collected through the pictures drawn by the children and through the interviews made with them about…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Thinking Skills, Preschool Children, Interviews
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Kocaman-Karoglu, Aslihan – Educational Media International, 2015
With the emergence of the new technologies, twenty-first-century learning involves the application of new media in educational environments. Digital storytelling (DST) is a method that blends traditional storytelling with new technologies. This study was designed to compare the conceptual understanding of preschool students in DST classrooms with…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Pretests Posttests, Control Groups, Preschool Children
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Tomljenovic, Zlata – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2015
The present research focuses on modernising the approach to learning and teaching the visual arts in teaching practice, as well as examining the performance of an interactive approach to learning and teaching in visual arts classes with the use of a combination of general and specific (visual arts) teaching methods. The study uses quantitative…
Descriptors: Art Education, Visual Arts, Statistical Analysis, Elementary School Students
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Belleville, Rebecca – Art Education, 2014
In this article, the author examines how art educators can create narrators of art history rather than those who ascribe truth to the opinion of a few. She presents a series of tangible classroom activities that will potentially help art history become meaningful to students' lives. The author states that students have a right to access art…
Descriptors: Art History, Art Education, Class Activities, Narration
Guiney, Jess; Wilton, Sheena; Curtis, Deb – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2012
Jessica and Isabella were immediately drawn to the new chalk available on the patio. As soon as they saw the big basket, they found an open space and began testing the colors. The authors recently brought this story to their planning time with Deb, to share the photos and notes they had collected of Jessica and Isabella working with the chalk.…
Descriptors: Sensory Experience, Freehand Drawing, Aesthetics, Teaching Experience
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Chang, EunJung; Lim, Maria; Kim, Minam – Art Education, 2012
In this article, three art educators reflect on their ideas and experiences in developing and implementing innovative projects for their courses focusing on art for elementary education majors. They explore three different approaches. The three areas that are discussed in depth include: (1) understanding child art; (2) visual culture; and (3)…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Art Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Childrens Art
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Gillespie, Jethro – Art Education, 2014
This article describes how High School Visual Arts Teacher Jethro Gillespie built a portable art gallery for his students--essentially an 8-foot cube made from plywood and lightweight boards that can be assembled with bolts and taken apart in sections. The ceiling pieces of the gallery have track lights, the interior walls have been painted gray,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Art Education, Art Activities
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Morais, Carla – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
The dissemination of chemistry has been experienced as a difficult task, largely because of the negative image that the public has of this science, but also because of its inherent complexity and its own semantics and symbolism. Science centers, as informal learning environments, can contribute to a more effective dissemination of chemistry to an…
Descriptors: Hands on Science, Story Telling, Chemistry, Science Activities
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Rufo, David – Art Education, 2011
The author was interested in seeing what would happen if children were given more latitude when making art in school. In January 2009, he began by setting up environments in his classroom wherein he hoped his students would feel free to create self-initiated forms of artmaking. Two times each week an hour was set aside for an activity called Open…
Descriptors: Art Education, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students, Personal Autonomy
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Gijlers, Hannie; Weinberger, Armin; van Dijk, Alieke Mattia; Bollen, Lars; van Joolingen, Wouter – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2013
Creating shared representations can foster knowledge acquisition by elementary school students by promoting active integration and translation of new information. In this study, we investigate to what extent awareness support and scripting facilitate knowledge construction and discourse quality of elementary school students (n?=?94) in a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Cooperative Learning
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Beltchenko, Laura – Gifted Child Today, 2016
In this article, I will examine the use of picture books as a means of supporting the intellectual pursuits of young children. Theoretical frameworks will be discussed as they pertain to the integration of these books in the Municipal Infant Toddler Centers and Preschools of Reggio Emilia and Pistoia, Italy. The pedagogical framework of these…
Descriptors: Young Children, Literacy, Literacy Education, Picture Books
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