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Murphy, Michael P. A. – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2020
The status of learning styles theory in educational studies is uncertain as we inhabit the liminal phase between the theory's death as proclaimed by educational psychologists who avow to have disproven it and whatever afterlife will follow. At this moment, with both past and future in view, that we have an opportunity to reflect on the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Teaching Methods, Educational Theories, Educational Philosophy
Rachel L. Schechter; Anna Robinson; Manvi Teki – Online Submission, 2024
This study investigates the impact of the MindPlay Reading program on student literacy achievement in Dayton City Schools, Ohio, during the 2021-2022 academic year. A correlational analysis was conducted in collaboration with LXD Research to examine the relationship between MindPlay usage and student outcomes on literacy assessments. The sample…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Processes, Play, Theory of Mind
Howard S. Adelman; Linda Taylor – Center for MH in Schools and Student/Learning Supports at UCLA, 2024
The purpose of this monograph is to advance thinking about transforming how schools play their role in addressing barriers to learning and teaching. In the process, the authors discuss embedding and framing the evolving literatures related to improvement and implementation sciences into a general intervention perspective. Part I of this monograph…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Barriers, Educational Improvement, Research and Development
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Saracho, Olivia N.; Evans, Roy – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Major developmental theories been a resource to early childhood education researchers and educators. They help to explain how child development unfolds, sources of vulnerability and protection that influences child development, and how the course of development may be altered by prevention and intervention efforts. Understanding factors which may…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Prevention
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Dahlbeck, Johan – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2021
This article turns to the neglected pedagogical concept of "ingenium" in order to address some shortcomings of the admiration-emulation model of Linda Zabzebski's influential exemplarist moral theory. I will start by introducing the problem of the admiration-emulation model by way of a fictional example. I will then briefly outline the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy, Moral Values, Social Theories
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Miksa, Shawne D. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2021
Dr. Elfreda Chatman was a professor of library and information science at the University of North Carolina and Florida State University in the 1990s and early 2000s until her passing in 2002. Her research incorporated the disciplines of education, sociology, and LIS, covering topics at the nexus of these fields, from which she worked to develop a…
Descriptors: Library Science, Information Science, Information Science Education, College Faculty
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Tummons, Jonathan – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
In this article, I pick up established critical explorations of the role and use of theory in higher education research, focusing on the theoretical affordances of the work of Bruno Latour, one of the architects of actor-network theory. Actor-network theory is increasingly widely used within education research, although Latour has moved away from…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Educational Research
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Chijioke, Onah Celestine; Ikechukwu, Asadu; Aloysius, Aduma – Teaching Public Administration, 2021
The role theory plays in research work cannot be over-emphasized. A theory that is apt gives direction to research work in explaining, organizing, analyzing, and predicting phenomenon and showing their relationships in order to enhance understanding. Despite these roles played by theory, upcoming scholars and students many at times fail to use…
Descriptors: Theories, Social Science Research, Theory Practice Relationship, Definitions
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Demirdis, Muharrem; Aksoy, Hasan Hüseyin – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2021
This study examines Bertolt Brecht's theatrical techniques in terms of critical pedagogy and their potential application by critical educators to overcome neoliberalization, neoconservatization, and authoritarization in learning environments. Brecht creates his 'learning plays' in a peculiar form that can be called 'Brechtian dialectics'. Brecht…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Neoliberalism
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Holgersen, Ståle – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2021
Classroom teaching and field trips are both conventional ways of teaching geography in higher education. But where the former can be highly theoretical and abstract, the latter is rather practical, empirical, and concrete. In this paper, I argue there is a need to better incorporate theory into field trips. I seek to explore relations between…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Field Trips, Physical Environment, Educational Theories
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John Canning; Emma-Louise Jay – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2024
Social acceleration, the rapidly increasing speeding up of the pace of life, has been described and theorised by contemporary social theorists including Paul Virilio, Ben Agger, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, and Hartmut Rosa. While these theorists use illustrations from education, and others such as Foucault and Adam have considered the relationship…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Social Change, Social Theories, Educational Philosophy
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Lais Oliveira Leite; Sari Havu-Nuutinen; Erkko Sointu – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
Understanding how student teacher professional agency (STPA) develops during teacher education is crucial for educators and curriculum developers interested in strengthening it. To explore this process comprehensively, environmental factors (i.e., curriculum coherence between theory and practice and the learning environment) and individual factors…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Student Teachers, Professional Identity, Teacher Education
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Bernie Sullivan; Caitriona McDonagh; Cornelia Connolly; Máirín Glenn; Mary Roche – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
Building on Woolf's (2020. "Exploring Pedagogies to Elevate Inquiry: Teaching Action Research in the Third Space." "Educational Action Research" 28 (4): 579--596) conceptions of `third space theory' this article describes how, in order to find continuity between theory and practice, the convenors of a network for educational…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Professional Development, Intergenerational Programs, Educational Research
Cheryl M. Bowrin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The debate about the nature and role of teacher professionalism in teacher education contexts has a long history but little research has been conducted in small island states of the Caribbean, especially focused on the understanding of prospective teachers. Therefore, this interpretive descriptive study engaged 16 prospective teachers from a…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teachers
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Adrian M. Downey – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2024
This paper revisits the well-known and often-taught novel "The Chrysalids" toward a reconsideration of the novel's place within curriculum and the pedagogies it may offer. Framed as a mourning ceremony, a way of revisioning what the novel could mean in the present by saying goodbye to what it has meant in the past, the paper progresses…
Descriptors: Novels, Literature Appreciation, Grief, Affective Behavior
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