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Lam, Ho Cheong – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2016
One of the purposes of introducing the use of action research in schools is to bring about educational change in policy and practice. To make this happen, it is of paramount importance to look into how teachers actually see action research. We, the writers of this paper, are teacher educators, teaching preschool teachers courses related to action…
Descriptors: Investigations, Action Research, Phenomenology, Educational Change
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Kullberg, Angelika; Mårtensson, Pernilla; Runesson, Ulla – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Within the phenomenographic research tradition, the "object of learning" depicts the capability that is to be learned by the learner. It has been argued that the object of learning cannot be fully known in advance since what is to be learned depends on the learners as well as on the content taught. The object of learning and its nature…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Phenomenology, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Researchers
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Barker, Dean; Annerstedt, Claes – Sport, Education and Society, 2016
Physical education (PE) lessons involve complex and dynamic interactive sequences between students, equipment and teacher. The potential for unexpected and/or unintended events is relatively large, a point reflected in an increasing amount of scholarship dealing with classroom management (CM). This scholarship further suggests that unexpected and…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Foreign Countries, Classroom Techniques, Physical Education Teachers
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Bauer, Patricia J.; Blue, Shala N.; Xu, Aoxiang; Esposito, Alena G. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
We investigated 7- to 10-year-old children's productive extension of semantic memory through self-generation of new factual knowledge derived through integration of separate yet related facts learned through instruction or through reading. In Experiment 1, an experimenter read the to-be-integrated facts. Children successfully learned and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Memory, Reading Comprehension, Investigations
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Rybczynski, Stephen; Li, Zheng; Hickey, R. James – Science Teacher, 2014
Civilization simply would not exist without plants, yet their importance is often overlooked. As the nation's ability to respond to the botanical challenges associated with food production, climate change, invasive species, and biodiversity loss continues to decrease (Kramer, Zorn- Arnold, and Havens 2010), educators must discourage this…
Descriptors: Botany, Plants (Botany), Inquiry, Ecology
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Galvão, Afonso; Brasil, Ive – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2014
This qualitative and exploratory research is aimed at investigating the underlying reasons for the professional choice of Brazilian teachers who work within early education. Seventeen teachers (seven from public schools and 10 from private schools) were interviewed in depth in a semi-structured manner. Questions concerned the reasons that guided…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Early Childhood Education, Qualitative Research
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Macfarlane, Bruce; Zhang, Jingjing; Pun, Annie – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
This article provides a literature review on academic integrity, which encompasses the values, behaviour and conduct of academics in all aspects of their practice. This is a growing area of academic research as a result of the expansion of higher education on a global basis and concerns about standards of professional conduct. The article maps the…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Integrity, Values, Teacher Behavior
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Anacleto, Tâmile Stella; Adamowicz, Taísa; Simões da Costa Pinto, Laura; Louzada, Fernando Mazzilli – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2014
Although the environmental light/dark cycle is the main zeitgeber for the human species, the social cues seem to be important in the synchronization of circadian rhythms. In Brazil, the existence of two school schedules--one with only morning classes (MG) and other with only afternoon classes (AG)--allows the investigation of the effect of school…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Sleep, Children, Fatigue (Biology)
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Dean, J.; Allwood, D. A. – Physics Education, 2014
We describe a range of practical activities that allows students to investigate the properties and applications of magnets. The activities can be used in isolation or used together to build a rounded understanding of the subject area. The activities include simple demonstrations using common or inexpensive equipment, hands-on experiments for small…
Descriptors: Magnets, Integrated Activities, Science Activities, Investigations
Sangster, Margaret – Mathematics Teaching, 2012
As with much in life the term "investigative", when used to describe an approach to teaching and learning, can have many interpretations. Some might consider that the term "investigations" is somehow "mired in the past", others might consider "investigations" to be a "credo" that sustains their own mathematics teaching and learning. With…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Investigations, Mathematics Curriculum
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Gennari, Silvia P.; Mirkovic, Jelena; MacDonald, Maryellen C. – Cognitive Psychology, 2012
This work investigates production preferences in different languages. Specifically, it examines how animacy, competition processes, and language-specific constraints shape speakers' choices of structure. English, Spanish and Serbian speakers were presented with depicted events in which either an animate or inanimate entity was acted upon by an…
Descriptors: Semantics, Competition, English, Spanish
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Sun, Fang; Hoshi-Shiba, Reiko; Abla, Dilshat; Okanoya, Kazuo – Neuropsychologia, 2012
Abstract rule learning is a fundamental aspect of human cognition, and is essential for language acquisition. However, despite its importance, the neural mechanisms underlying abstract rule learning are still largely unclear. In this study, we investigated the neural correlates of abstract rule learning by recording auditory event-related…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Infants, Investigations, Syllables
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Trout, K. P.; Gaston, Charles A. – Physics Teacher, 2012
It's common knowledge that light can produce chemical and electronic changes (photography is based on those effects); however, many people consider light to have no mechanical effect. Some are familiar with the novelty of a radiometer that spins when placed in the light. Fewer are aware that a cymbal will vibrate audibly if hit by the light from a…
Descriptors: Photography, Science Activities, Investigations, Engines
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Chambon, Valerian; Haggard, Patrick – Cognition, 2012
Sense of agency refers to the feeling of controlling one's own actions, and, through these actions, events in the outside world. Sense of agency is widely held to involve a retrospective inference based on matching actual effects of an action with its expected effects. We hypothesise a second, prospective aspect of sense of agency, reflecting the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Priming, Adaptive Testing, Inferences
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Koser, John – Physics Teacher, 2013
While I was co-teaching an introductory course in musical acoustics a few years ago, our class investigated several pieces of equipment designed for audio purposes. One piece of such equipment was a pair of noise-canceling headphones. Our students were curious as to how these devices were in eliminating background noise and whether they indeed…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Acoustics, Science Instruction, Science Laboratories
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