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Van Groenou, Meher – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2020
Maria Montessori arrived in India in 1939 to conduct the first training course on the Asian continent. Thus began Montessori's extended stay in India. She wrote and published "The Absorbent Mind," crystallized the Elementary curriculum, and developed the theory of "Planes of Development" as the basis for the curriculum from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Montessori Method, Montessori Schools, Educational History
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Jensen, Rikke A. A.; Kirkegaard Thomsen, Dorthe; O'Connor, Maja; Mehlsen, Mimi Y. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
We examined whether age differences in life stories and personality traits mediated age differences in subjective well-being. One hundred one young, 77 middle-aged, and 81 older participants completed measures of subjective well-being and personality traits. They described chapters and specific memories in their life stories and rated these on…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Biographies, Personality Traits, Well Being
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Evans, R. J. W. – Oxford Review of Education, 2020
T R ('Tim') Miles (1923-2008) was one of the most important pioneers of dyslexia research and treatment in the UK. He worked with dyslexics from the time of his appointment to a lectureship at Bangor in 1949 and later, with his wife, established the Dyslexia Centre there. Miles' professional role and theoretical contribution are reasonably well…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, College Faculty, Research
Anna C. Baeth – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Empirical studies have documented a drastic decline and a continuing stagnation in the percentage of women in collegiate coaching positions since the inception of Title IX in 1972 (LaVoi, 2018a; Lapchick, 2017; Acosta & Carpenter, 2014). Although a number of researchers have examined why women leave coaching, limited attention has been given…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Females, Career Development, Profiles
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Gilliam, Tianna M. – Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 2023
The purpose of this historical investigation was to contribute to the growing body of knowledge about women in music education by means of documenting the life and career of Genevieve F. Hargiss (1912-1995), a lesser known yet exemplary twentieth-century music educator. Through the investigation of primary source materials including Hargiss's…
Descriptors: Music Education, Teacher Education Programs, Mentors, Females
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Park-Taylor, Jennie; Reynolds, Jason D.; Jackson, Margo A.; Ponterotto, Joseph G. – Journal of Career Development, 2021
Careerography, which is the intensive examination of the work experiences and career life course of an individual of historical or present significance through a vocational theoretical lens, has several important applications for psychologists. The present article provides a brief overview of careerography in the context of the more established…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Psychology, Biographies, Graduate Study
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Young, Terrell A.; Monroe, Eula Ewing; Roth-McDuffie, Amy – Reading Teacher, 2021
Read-alouds of picturebook biographies offer children engaging windows into the lives and work of famous (and sometimes not-so-famous) mathematicians to observe and discuss their ways of learning and doing mathematics--their mathematical practices. The Standards for Mathematical Practice (SMPs), although generally embodied in the work of…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Reading Aloud to Others, Biographies, Professional Personnel
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Reyes, Vicente; McLay, Katherine; Thomasse, Lauren; Olave-Encina, Karen; Karimi, Arafeh; Rahman, Mohammed Tareque; Seneviratne, Lalanthi; Tran, Tran Le Nghi – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2021
Scholars and practitioners argue that information and communication technology (ICT) provides flexibility of time and place and softens boundaries between students' learning lives. The fluid movement between formal and informal learning contexts afforded by digital technology has prompted a re-definition of higher education learning environments…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Change, Biographies
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El Halwany, Sarah; Bencze, Larry; Hassan, Nurul; Schaffer, Kristen; Milanovic, Minja; Zouda, Majd – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2021
In life history methodologies, 'human' lives appear to take primacy over other lives. Within science education literature, life history methods often are approached as reflective tools to make meaning out of teachers' pedagogical practices and commitments. In the present research, we tinker with life history research, to follow its performative…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Research, Biographies, College Faculty
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Salar, Riza; Aksakalli, Ayhan – LUMAT: International Journal on Math, Science and Technology Education, 2021
Biographies of scientists are often used in the teaching environment, both in textbooks and in course contents - sections from the lives of scientists are often included to encourage students to pursue and enjoy science. This research investigated the effect of social content biographical texts of scientists on students' attitudes towards science…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Instructional Effectiveness, Science Education, Biographies
Charles M. McCoin – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this multi-method single-case study was to examine the application of Joseph Campbell's Heroic Journey model as a means of professional identity creation in the life of Walt Disney. Walt Disney was an entrepreneur, cartoonist, filmmaker, inventor, studio head, and family man whose career stretched through the first half of the 20th…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Time Perspective, Biographies, Self Concept
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MacGill, Belinda; Whitehead, Kay; Rigney, Lester – History of Education Review, 2022
Purpose: This article explores the childhood, professional life and social activism of Alice Rigney (1942-2017) who became Australia's first Aboriginal woman principal in 1986. Design/methodology/approach: The article draws on interviews with Alice Rigney along with newspapers, education department correspondence and reports of relevant…
Descriptors: Educational History, Women Administrators, Indigenous Populations, Principals
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Karollil, Mamatha – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
This paper presents constructions of 'work' through a comparative charting of the manner in which young people across rural India, urban India, and the urban UK account for their educational and work trajectories. The comparison grounds an interrogation of the individualisation thesis and the reflexive biography, an influential analytical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment, Work Attitudes, Cultural Influences
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Simon-Martin, Meritxell – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2022
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827-1891) was an English educationist, artist, philanthropist, and feminist. Her personal correspondence is quite extensive, containing letters exchanged with her family, friends, and acquaintances. The bulk of her epistolary archive though consists of letters sent to her. Instead of viewing this fragmentation and…
Descriptors: Archives, Letters (Correspondence), Information Sources, Personal Narratives
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Panos Bourlessas; Matteo Puttilli – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2025
The way that the relationship between university students and the city is conceptualised in geographic literature is strongly determined by the studentification debate, which risks subjectifying students in redundant and unilateral ways. This paper suggests that geographic education and its spatialities can inform this debate with an alternative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Geography, Urban Areas, Graduate Students
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