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Piantadosi, Steven T. – Child Development, 2023
The study of how children learn numbers has yielded one of the most productive research programs in cognitive development, spanning empirical and computational methods, as well as nativist and empiricist philosophies. This paper provides a tutorial on how to think computationally about learning models in a domain like number, where learners take…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Child Development, Computation, Models
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Kathryn N. Hayes; Jessica R. Gladstone; Brit Toven-Lindsey; Christine L. Bae – Science Education, 2025
This paper is part of the special issue on Teacher Learning and Practice within Organizational Contexts. Shifting instructional practices in elementary schools to include more equitable, reform-based pedagogies is imperative for supporting students' development as science learners. Teachers need high quality professional development (PD) to learn…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Equal Education, Student Development, Context Effect
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Anna H. Hall; Grace Bache-Wiig; Kelley M. White – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on the mental health of young children, and schools are being tasked with providing greater support for their emotional well-being. While gratitude practices have proven beneficial for the mental health of adults, less is known about the efficacy of their use in promoting positive character…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Young Children, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Sella, Enrico; Bolognesi, Monica; Bergamini, Emma; Mason, Lucia; Pazzaglia, Francesca – Educational Psychology Review, 2023
Forest school is a form of outdoor learning that takes children into regular and repeated learning experiences in natural settings. Being based on a comprehensive experience with nature, it is assumed to be beneficial for learning and to promote restorative effects on cognitive and emotional function in preschool children. This review aimed to…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Outdoor Education, Preschool Children, Literature Reviews
Fritz, Stephanie – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative case study sought to better understand the complexity of developing executives to lead in a landscape of disruption and uncertainty, and how to evaluate the effectiveness of the development intervention in a world that is constantly changing. The purpose of this study was to explore how executives make meaning from what they…
Descriptors: Management Development, Professional Development, Transfer of Training, Leadership
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Lotta Bergman; Frida Hessel – Journal of Transformative Education, 2024
This article explores students' experiences of intellectual, social, and emotional growth during the first year at university and the extent to which these experiences can be considered transformative (Mezirow, 1981). The study is a qualitative interpretive multiple-case study built on semi-structured interviews with students in two higher…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Higher Education, World Views, Self Esteem
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Elvira G. Rincon-Flores; Nohemi Rivera; Juanjo Mena; Eunice López-Camacho – Educational Process: International Journal, 2024
Background/purpose: Student mentoring aims to contribute to learner development beyond that of their academic program. In this study, we focus on a student mentoring program (SMP) consisting of mentors, communities, and peers, which aimed to promote students' seven dimensions of well-being (Emotional, Social, Physical, Intellectual, Occupational,…
Descriptors: Mentors, Well Being, Program Effectiveness, College Students
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Mohammad Awad AlAfnan; Samira Dishari – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
Recent studies claimed that the absence of a paradigm is a challenge to developing education for sustainable development and soft skills competencies. This integrative study examines stimulating these transferable and transversal competencies through constructivist approaches to teaching from the cognitive, social, radical, and critical…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Soft Skills, Competence, Constructivism (Learning)
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Iman Freij – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2024
This study aimed at investigating the undergraduates' soft skills in a private HE institute in Lebanon from various perspectives. The study adopted a mixed-method approach for collecting and analyzing the data. Two different surveys, compiling major features of incorporating soft skills into USAL's study programs, were administered. 108…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Soft Skills, Skill Development, Private Colleges
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Emily Yeager; Beth Bee; Anjalee Hou; Taylor Cash; Kelsi Dew; Daniel Dickerson; Kelly White-Singleton; Michael Schilling; Sierra Jones – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2024
Through a multistakeholder partnership, this research aims to catalyze the development of a blue economy corridor (BEC) through community-based asset mapping in the eastern portion of the Tar-Pamlico River Basin in North Carolina, a geographic area predominated by physically and culturally rural landscapes. Underpinned by appreciative inquiry,…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Natural Resources, Geographic Information Systems, Community Development
Yolanda L. Whidbee – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This cross-sectional qualitative study was designed to examine the educational and professional development needs of existing entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship students in educational and professional development in Gloucester and Cumberland Counties in Southern New Jersey. The organization that sponsored the study, the Division of Business…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Economic Development, Educational Needs, Entrepreneurship
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Duygu Akagündüz Egrikilinç; Zeynep Dere – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2024
Sense enables babies to perceive the physical and chemical changes that occur in the external environment. It occurs as a result of the dynamic interaction of sensory stimuli with sensory receptors in the eyes, ears, tongue, nose, and skin. The stimuli that newborns see, touch, and hear affect their brain development. The brain develops faster in…
Descriptors: Infants, Perceptual Development, Stimuli, Brain
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Ehrenhard Skiera – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2024
The main concern of this article is to introduce the concept of the authentic gesture as a vital, largely self-determined expression of the child and to make it fruitful for art education. Because of the assumed educational importance of the concept, some hints to other learning areas will also be given. This should be done from a historical and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Intellectual Freedom, Imagination
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Kara Dadswell; Stjepan Sambol; Zali Yager; Nina Van Dyke; Michaela Pascoe; Clare Dallat; Claire Brown; Alexandra G. Parker – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2024
Design thinking is often proposed as an educative strategy to enhance growth mindset, problem solving, and creativity, but there are very few evaluations of the impact of experiential design thinking programs. The primary aim of this study was to investigate whether an online design-thinking workshop provided to outdoor education staff could…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Program Evaluation, Teacher Workshops, Faculty Development
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Aaron DeMasi; Emiel Schoneveld; Sarah E. Berger – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Infant motor development is affected by the sociocultural context in which it takes place. Because societal and cultural practices are dynamic, this exploratory study examined whether the ages at which infants typically learned to crawl, cruise, and walk changed over the past 3 decades. We compiled archival data from 1,306 infants born between…
Descriptors: Infants, Motor Development, Psychomotor Skills, Social Influences
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