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Bertenthal, Bennett I.; Scheutz, Matthias – Cognitive Science, 2013
Cooper et al. (this issue) develop an interactive activation model of spatial and imitative compatibilities that simulates the key results from Catmur and Heyes (2011) and thus conclude that both compatibilities are mediated by the same processes since their single model can predict all the results. Although the model is impressive, the…
Descriptors: Models, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Reader Response
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Brooks, Wanda; Browne, Susan – Children's Literature in Education, 2012
This article describes a theory of how culture enables literary interpretations of texts. We begin with a brief overview of the reader response field. From there, we introduce the theory and provide illustrative participant data examples. These data examples illustrate the four cultural positions middle grade students in our research assumed when…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, African American Children, Reader Response, Novels
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Stover, Katie; Sparrow, Amanda; Siefert, Bobbi – Preventing School Failure, 2017
Despite sound instructional practices to develop foundational reading skills with young learners, numerous learners continue to lag behind in literacy learning. Many do not view themselves as readers, lack motivation, and become disengaged with learning in general. This article shares a research-based instructional framework developed by one of…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties, Evidence Based Practice
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Gibson, Karen; Parks, Marguerite W. – Multicultural Education, 2014
The purpose of this article is to investigate the struggles of teacher education students when confronted with establishing a social justice curriculum. The authors' work focuses on using multicultural literature as a starting point for the critical conversations that drive curricular changes. Introducing ideas of culturally responsive pedagogy…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Literature, Teaching Methods, Teacher Education
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Xerri, Daniel – Arts Education Policy Review, 2014
This article explores the views of children's poet Michael Rosen in relation to poetry in education. It is based on an interview in which Rosen not only discusses the significance of encouraging young people to engage with poetry at school but also analyzes a number of threats to poetry's place in the English curriculum. This article identifies…
Descriptors: Poetry, English Curriculum, Educational Research, Educational Policy
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Pantaleo, Sylvia – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2016
One of the purposes of the classroom-based research featured in this article was to explore how the ongoing development of young children's understanding of elements of visual art and design would affect their comprehension, interpretation and analysis of the artwork in a selection of picturebooks. Social semiotics, multimodality, sociocultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Elementary School Students, Primary Education
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Chou, I-Chia – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2015
E-book reading is generally considered suboptimal because people engaging in e-book reading tend to browse through digital texts. As a result, studies concerning students' e-book preference in academic contexts have shown that students less prefer using e-books than hardcopy books when engaging in academic reading which is considered intensive…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reader Response, Electronic Publishing
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Galda, Lee – Journal of Children's Literature, 2013
Reflecting on 45 years of teaching and research, Lee Galda argues that practice based on transactional theory is essential for the effective teaching of literature.
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Literature Appreciation, Childrens Literature, Instructional Effectiveness
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Carnicom, Scott – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2013
This essay is written in response to Jerry Herron's essay, "Notes toward an Excellent Marxist-Elitist Honors Admissions Policy," which inquired how honors administrators predicted student success and how they used that predictive power wisely and objectively to admit students and maintain quality. The author of this essay, Scott Carnicom…
Descriptors: Success, Honors Curriculum, At Risk Students, Educational Quality
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Adams, David – Journal of Peace Education, 2013
The Culture of Peace News Network, an internet news service, is analyzed in the framework of a general approach to education for a culture of peace. Its format reflects the eight program areas for a culture of peace as adopted by the UN General Assembly. Among its other operating principles are universality of news with all cultures and regions of…
Descriptors: Peace, Teaching Methods, Internet, News Reporting
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Chang-Kredl, Sandra – Children's Literature in Education, 2013
In this article, I present a narrative conversation that combines six teachers' responses to Maurice Sendak's picture book, "Outside Over There" (1981) with my own responses to their discussions and to the book. The purpose of this research is three-fold: first, to examine how children's literature can be used to evoke reflections in early years…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, Picture Books, Preschool Teachers
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Lilienfeld, Scott O. – American Psychologist, 2012
Responds to the comments made by Newman et al., Tryon, and Teo on the current author's original article. In the original article on public skepticism toward psychology, the author delineated eight reasons why many laypersons are dubious of our field's scientific status. The author argued that although some of these sources (e.g., hindsight bias,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Psychology, Reputation, Public Opinion
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Aukerman, Maren – Theory Into Practice, 2012
The author proposes that teachers of critical literacy must not only decenter texts as infallible authorities, but also decenter teachers as infallible (textual) authorities. She outlines problematic aspects of pursuing critical literacy as outcome, where there is heavy emphasis on having students parrot the teacher's viewpoint, and of pursuing…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Teacher Role, Teaching Methods, Reader Response
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Scheerens, Jaap – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2014
In this commentary, the 3 review papers by Reynolds et al. (this issue), Muijs et al. (this issue), and Hopkins, Stringfield, Harris, Stoll, and Mackay (this issue) on "educational effectiveness", "teaching effectiveness", and "school and system improvement" are discussed. In the text, the 3 papers are occasionally…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, School Effectiveness, Educational Improvement, Systems Development
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Janssen, Fred; Westbroek, Hanna; Doyle, Walter – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2015
In his article "Principled Practical Knowledge: Not a Bridge but a Ladder," Carl Bereiter (2014) argues that theoretical knowledge is too shallow to support the generation of innovative learning activities. He makes a case for principled practical knowledge (PPK)--"principled know-how and know-why"--to fulfill this practical…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Best Practices, Educational Principles, Praxis
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