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Direct linkLuís Almeida; Teresa Dias; Nuno Corte-Real; Isabel Menezes; António Fonseca – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2025
Background: Over the two last decades, the interest in personal and psychosocial youth development has been growing due to its engagement in sport activities. Furthermore, participation in sport has been referenced as a favourable mechanism and context for positive youth development (PYD). However, some studies and researchers continue to question…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Secondary School Students, Athletics
Almarode, John; Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy – Corwin, 2021
The content, skills, and understandings students need to learn today are as diverse, complex, and multidimensional as the students in our classrooms. How can educators best create the learning experiences students need to truly learn? "How Learning Works: A Playbook" unpacks the science of how students learn and translates that knowledge…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Experience, Context Effect, Classroom Environment
Willingham, Daniel T. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2021
In this new edition of the highly regarded "Why Don't Students Like School?" cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham turns his research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning into workable teaching techniques. This book will help you improve your teaching practice by explaining how you and your students think and learn. It…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Psychology, Psychologists, Learning Processes
Reid, Norman – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2008
Around 1960, there were quite radical changes in emphasis in many countries in school chemistry education, with subsequent changes in many university courses. Considerable research was undertaken to explore the learning problems students were reporting and the common thread underlying became apparent: it related to the way humans process new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Download full textGillespie, Marilyn K. – 2002
A key concept underlying Equipped for the Future (EFF) relates to its contextualized approach to curriculum and instruction. While drawing on the body of cognitive research, research on the transfer of learning is of key importance for this principle. Effective learning requires not only acquisition but also active application of knowledge,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Constructivism (Learning), Context Effect, Educational Research
McAlonan, Susan; Hotchkiss, Heather; Urich, Laurie – 1999
This manual explains how to foster contextual learning and curriculum integration. There are 12 sections: "Contextual Learning"; "Connecting Academic Standards with Contextual Learning"; "Using Career Development to Add Context and Relevancy to the Classroom"; "Curriculum Integration"; "Guidelines for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Adult Learning, Career Development
Dilworth, Robert L.; Willis, Verna J. – 2003
This book provides information and strategies on how adult educators can integrate action learning concepts in their teaching practice. The book defines action learning as going beyond the traditional idea of "learn by doing" and applies it to various organizational cultures and educational contexts. Chapter 1 introduces the origins of action…
Descriptors: Action Research, Active Learning, Adult Development, Adult Education
