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Kathleen Allen – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This is a story about some of the women of Cornell University who became an integral part of the nature study movement during the years from 1880-1930. The Nature Study movement's aim was to bring children and rural citizens back into a deeper relationship with nature. It is an important precursor to our contemporary environmental movements. Using…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Historical Interpretation, Environmental Education, Biographies
Moore, Tara – Children's Literature in Education, 2023
Students in the English Language Arts classroom have access to more author commentary than ever. While following authors on social media may deepen students' engagement with their assigned reading, it also threatens to subdue students' own interpretations of the authors' texts. This essay explains how educators can introduce basic aspects of…
Descriptors: Authors, Childrens Literature, Death, Literary Criticism
Stone, Beth; Cameron, Ailsa; Dowling, Sandra – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Emerging research suggests autistic people are disproportionately represented in homeless populations. Less is known about how autistic people experience homelessness and what prevents them from exiting homelessness. This article presents findings from a narrative enquiry investigating the link between autism and homelessness. Ten autistic adults…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Homeless People, Experience, Biographies
Hammons, Michelle – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2020
In this article, the author reflects on a trip to Italy where she visited Dr. Montessori's birthplace in Chiaravalle.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Montessori Method, Montessori Schools, Educational History
Carlos Alberto Torres – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
The tone of this article is biographical and theoretical. Biographical, insofar as it concerns the author and his circumstances while also serving as a testimonial, probably partial and idiosyncratic, of the successes experienced by an entire generation of Argentineans in Diaspora. Although biographical, this is also a theoretical text that…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Marxian Analysis, Biographies
Stimpson, Catharine R. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2021
Florence Rosenfeld Howe died on Saturday, September 12, 2020. She had created an indelible life of magnitude and consequence. In 1982, when Howe was 53 years old, she published an influential article in "Change," "Feminist Scholarship: The Extent of the Revolution." If the article now seems conventional, that is a sign of how…
Descriptors: Biographies, Feminism, Scholarship, Womens Studies
Sunah Chung – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2024
Visuals in picturebooks play an important role in supporting children's reading comprehension and literacy development. This qualitative case study analyzes three American families' shared reading practices at home by analyzing their online surveys for family literacy environments, reading logs for a month, mother interviews, and video observation…
Descriptors: College Students, Parents, Parent Student Relationship, Reading Comprehension
J. Fabian Cabaluz – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2025
The Bolivian Marxist René Zavaleta (1937-1984) is considered Bolivia's most notable political thinker of the 20th century, an eminent figure in Latin American Marxism, since he produced critical thought anchored in the concrete history of our societies, and developed a set of theoretical and conceptual approaches relevant to understanding the…
Descriptors: Democracy, Social Systems, Political Attitudes, Critical Theory
Merrotsy, Peter – Australian Mathematics Education Journal, 2020
This is the first of two articles on the life and mathematical legacy of the Indian mathematician Ramanujan, who died one hundred years ago. Here, the story of Ramanujan's life is related. His cultural and social background are briefly described and his educational experiences are outlined. Attention is then drawn to the deep nature of his…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Professional Personnel, Biographies, Cultural Background
Brockett, Mary R.; Brockett, Ralph G. – International Journal of Self-Directed Learning, 2020
Biography can be a valuable tool in understanding historical perspectives on adult learning. The purpose of this study was to look at three examples of times throughout Abraham Lincoln's life when he demonstrated a high level of self-directedness in learning in order to solve problems that he faced. Specifically, we examined (a) Lincoln's youth,…
Descriptors: Presidents, Biographies, Independent Study, Adult Education
Rose, Heath; Mckinley, Jim – Modern Language Journal, 2022
There is a growing popular discourse that the intellectualization of the field of language teaching has resulted in a growing divide between language teaching researchers and professionals. Some scholars have called for more holistic professionals, that is, people who embody the identities of both researcher and practitioner. To explore such…
Descriptors: Credentials, Expertise, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Spraggins, Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to explore the ways graduate students' interpretive lenses manifested in reflective storytelling of their collaborative object-based learning (OBL) experiences with Andean textiles in the John and Mary Carter Collection. This occurred in the context of visitor-centered exhibition (VCE) development. Adapted Feminist…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Textiles Instruction, Graduate Students, Reflection
Nicholas Ryan McBride – Visions of Research in Music Education, 2022
Countless scholars have utilized Critical Pedagogy as a philosophical frame to reorient teaching and learning as, among other things, a conversation between teacher and student. As an educator and theorist, Frank Abrahams has championed a Critical Pedagogy for Music Education that aims for the "acquisition of a critical consciousness, the…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Biographies, Educational Practices
Silva Fernández, Marta A.; Berríos, Waleska; Sanzana, Paulina; Sigerson, Andrew L. – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
The ways in which children and adolescents become interested in science have been well studied. However, little is known from a lifespan perspective about how this process continues from childhood through adulthood. This cross-national study builds an understanding of doctoral students in the sciences in the Chile and the United States and how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Biographies, Science Interests
Joan Boulware; Eula Monroe – International Journal of the Whole Child, 2023
Learning and innovation skills such as creativity, critical thinking and problem solving, communication, and collaboration can be fostered through learning about STEAM role models. Using selected picture book biographies, teachers can help their elementary students visualize the experiences of these individuals as they developed and refined ideas…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Biographies, Interdisciplinary Approach, Instructional Materials