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Mavropoulou, Angeliki; Barkoukis, Vassilis; Douka, Styliani; Alexandris, Konstantinos; Hatzimanouil, Dimitris – Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Physical education in elementary education usually provides children's first contact with sports. According to the trans-contextual model of motivation, physical education teachers can positively influence children's beliefs toward and actual leisure time physical activity behavior. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of a dance-based…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Student Motivation, Beliefs, Extracurricular Activities
Wong, Kevin M.; Neuman, Susan B. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Educational media is ubiquitous in the lives of young children, promising high-quality programming to equip them with vocabulary knowledge and school readiness. To meet the needs of preschool-aged dual-language learners (DLLs), many educational programs are marketed to promote vocabulary learning in two languages. In this study, we use a content…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Content Analysis
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Malott, Curry; Ford, Derek R. – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2015
Part two: This article is the second part of a project concerned with developing a Marxist critical pedagogy that moves beyond a critique of capital and toward a communist future. The article performs an educational reading of Marx's Critique of the Gotha Programme in order to delineate what a Marxist critical pedagogy of becoming communist might…
Descriptors: Marxian Analysis, Critical Theory, Social Systems, Political Attitudes
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Potts, Anthony – Education Research and Perspectives, 2015
This article develops a theory of socialisation based on the Chicago School of symbolic interactionism but infused with new and important insights offered by contemporary scholars and their writings on roles and relationships in the twenty first century and life in the informational, network and global world. While still rooted in the seminal…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Theories, Socialization, Social Theories
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Lichterman, Paul; Reed, Isaac Ariail – Sociological Methods & Research, 2015
We propose three interlinked ways that theory helps researchers build causal claims from ethnographic research. First, theory guides the casing and re-casing of a topic of study. Second, theoretical work helps craft a clear causal question via the construction of a contrast space of the topic of investigation. Third, the researcher uses theory to…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Attribution Theory, Role, Sociology
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Magrini, James M. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
The argumentation in this paper is grounded in a critical and conceptual analysis of Ted Aoki's phenomenology, wherein curriculum is read as "phenomenological text." The problem explored emerges from Aoki's critique of the Tyler rationale for curriculum design, implementation and evaluation as it is conceived and practised in…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Curriculum Implementation, Praxis, Educational Theories
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Migliarini, Valentina – Intercultural Education, 2017
This paper intends to address the challenges that the Italian education system is facing in terms of policies and practices relating to dis/abled asylum-seeking and refugee children, in order to make sense of the politics of daily life inside schools and the network of social services for forced migrants, and to pay renewed attention to the notion…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Refugees, Foreign Countries, Critical Theory
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Godor, Brian P. – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2017
Student drop-out remains a critical issue facing educational professionals. For higher education, the vast research in the past 40 years has been influenced by the work of Tinto and his model of student persistence. In this model are several elements that have proven to sharpen the focus of student drop-out research such as the concept of…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Social Theories, Dropouts, Dropout Research
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Dogan, C. Deha; Uluman, Müge – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2017
The aim of this study was to determine the extent at which graded-category rating scales and rubrics contribute to inter-rater reliability. The research was designed as a correlational study. Study group consisted of 82 students attending sixth grade and three writing course teachers in a private elementary school. A performance task was…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Scoring Rubrics, Rating Scales, Interrater Reliability
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Christie, Michael; de Graaff, Erik – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
In this paper the authors draw on three sequential keynote addresses that they gave at Active Learning in Engineering Education (ALE) workshops in Copenhagen (2012), Caxias do Sol (2014) and San Sebastian (2015). Active Learning in Engineering Education is an informal international network of engineering educators dedicated to improving…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Active Learning, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories
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Naidoo, Kara – Research in Science Education, 2017
This study examines the transformation and dynamic nature of one teacher candidate's (Susan) identity as a learner and teacher of science throughout an innovative science methods course. The goal of this paper is to use theoretically derived themes grounded in cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) and situated learning theory to determine the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science
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Cognition and Instruction, 2017
What responsibilities do researchers of learning have in the wake of Trump's election and the proliferation of far-right, populist nationalism across the globe? In this essay, we seek to prompt and engage a dialogue about the political role and responsibilities of our field at this historical moment. First, we situate the social hierarchies that…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Nationalism, Politics of Education, Educational Research
Harmon, Stefanie Anderson – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The problem at an elementary school is teachers' lack of knowledge and information on the perceptions and motivation of students to complete independent mathematics homework. The purpose of this study was to identify students' perceptions regarding their homework environment and academic motivation in mathematics. The study's conceptual framework,…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Student Attitudes, Homework, Elementary School Mathematics
Tseng, Vivian – William T. Grant Foundation, 2017
Many of the researchers in research-practice partnerships (RPPs) are drawn to them because of frustrations that their work--while esteemed by academic colleagues--too infrequently influences education policies or practices. Many district partners in RPPs also have backgrounds as researchers, and they too want to see research address stubborn…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Research Utilization
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Squires, David R. – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2017
There are a multitude of different theories on intelligence and achievement. While intelligence theory remains a highly contentious issue, there are commonalties among prominent research based and non-research based theories, particularly the adoption of belief over testable theory by researchers. The embracing of speculative theory exemplifies a…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Achievement
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