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Reyes, Reynaldo, III – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2020
English learners have long been defined as faulty linguistic beings, liabilities in a school system that values immediate academic readiness to perform like those in the mainstream. With a need to look at the many other facets that constitute who English learners are and what they are capable of in their academic pursuits, this case study looked…
Descriptors: Imagination, Cues, English Language Learners, School Readiness
Shih, Yi-Huang – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2020
Aesthetic education is fundamental to young children's holistic development and future lives. The development of aesthetic sensibility has been promoted in early childhood education in various countries and is an important issue in Taiwan's current educational practice. This paper aims to examine the aesthetic domain of the "Early Childhood…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Aesthetic Education, Foreign Countries, Child Development
Charles D. Woods – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study explores the phenomenon of computational thinking indicated by the use of Bloom's taxonomy's cognitive domain verbs in the Scratch community, the online, collaborative environment for the Scratch Visual Programming Language (VPL). A corpus of 660,984 words from three Scratch community sub-forums provide the data for this study. By…
Descriptors: Mental Computation, Thinking Skills, Discussion Groups, Programming
Fradkin, Chris; Weschenfelder, Gelson V.; Yunes, Maria Angela Mattar – Pastoral Care in Education, 2017
Since the early 1940s, superheroes have been used by educators and clinicians to instill community and confidence; resiliency and courage; tolerance and sharing among children. Through superhero play, the early childhood classroom has become a laboratory filled with capes and costumes. In the therapist's milieu, the empowered superhero provides a…
Descriptors: Children, Play, Resilience (Psychology), Empowerment
Schultz, Jaime – Quest, 2017
This article draws on Mills' sociological imagination (from the 1959 publication "The Sociological Imagination") to consider the connections between personal trouble and social issues when it comes to the causes and consequences of obesity. These connections may be important for assuaging the "obesity bias" that pervades our…
Descriptors: Obesity, Imagination, Social Problems, Sociology
Quilty, Aideen – Irish Educational Studies, 2017
Deborah Britzman, over 15 years ago in her insightful essay "Is There a Queer Pedagogy? Or Stop Thinking Straight", posed questions that continue to resonate (Britzman, Deborah P. 1998. "Curriculum: Toward New Identities", edited by William Pinar, 211. New York: Routledge). What if lesbian and gay theories were understood as…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Teaching Methods, Feminism, Higher Education
Medina, Carmen Liliana; Costa, María del Rocío; Soto, Nayda – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2017
In this paper, we present a collaboration project within one urban Puerto Rican classroom, focused on constructing a critical literacy inquiry curriculum grounded in the students' out-of-school literacy practices in their communities, including their experiences with media and popular culture. We focused on a critical literacy and media inquiry…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Critical Literacy, Drama, Play
Dieleman, Hans – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2017
This article explores the concept of transdisciplinarity as a cultural endeavor. It centers on the concept of transdisciplinary hermeneutics, as a form of contextualizing science in the framework of cultural ideas, subjective experiences of the researchers involved in the research process, and of imagination and the artful creation of possible new…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Hermeneutics, Teamwork, World Views
Tan, Ai-Girl – Creativity Theory and Action in Education, 2017
Creative imagination and memorization are complementary abilities in learning mathematics (Vygotsky, J Russian East Eur Psychol 42(1):7-97, 2004). These complementary abilities engage "movement" in learning mathematics among "realities" (e.g., personal and social experience, emotion, and cultural practices) (see also Dewey,…
Descriptors: Creativity, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills, Imagination
Foster, Carla – NAMTA Journal, 2016
Presenting the Montessori tools of the Great Lessons highlights the power of storytelling in teaching. Carla Foster suggests that children should be aware of how their learning increases as wonder points them to the mystery of the unknown. Engaging in the dialect of wonder during presentations can bring participants to attention by suggesting that…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Story Telling, Teaching Methods, Imagination
Horell, Harold D. – Religious Education, 2016
When the Religious Education Association (REA) was founded in 1903 in Chicago, the purpose of the organization was to explore innovative ways of envisioning, or we could say imagining, religious and moral instruction. At its first convention William Rainey Harper articulated a guiding vision for religious education that included foci on both…
Descriptors: Imagination, Religious Education, Organizations (Groups), Moral Development
Hauk, Marna – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This paper aims to unstick domination narratives embedded in Disneyland by using creative imagination and futurecast cultural imaginaries in which the earth system reinhabits agentic powers. I seek to open up alternative understandings of non-dominated, regenerative creativities in order to begin to heal the colonized imagination of Disneyland and…
Descriptors: Corporations, Creativity, Imagination, Children
Kamogelo Amanda Matebekwane – in education, 2022
In this essay, I reflect on my lived experiences as a girl child growing up in my home country of Botswana, and also as a mother in a foreign country, Canada. I am experimenting with my personal essay and making connections with academic articles that will help me understand my behaviors, attitudes, and responses to challenging situations that…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Early Childhood Education, Critical Race Theory, Inclusion
Steedman, Carolyn – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2015
The sources and motives for children writing are discussed in the context of 1950s Britain. The images and objects that furnish the story-making imagination are related to Charles Lamb's account of looking at old china (teacups and plates) as a child in the 1790s. A focus of this essay is the little-discussed topic of a writer's failure to write…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Motivation, Imagination, Personal Narratives
Ragatz, Carolyn; Ragatz, Zach – Parenting for High Potential, 2018
Why encourage children to play board games? In the increasing disconnect of our digital lives, playing games provides a way to connect and relate with others on a human level. Strategy and role-playing games provide intellectual challenges and stretch creativity to keep the gifted mind engaged in solving problems. At the same time, the players…
Descriptors: Games, Role Playing, Gifted, Children