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Carl T. Woods; Keith Davids – Sport, Education and Society, 2024
It is common to encourage people to envision life as a process of fulfilling their potential. But what exactly does this mean? Traditionally, this question has been addressed by way of 'complementarity'; dividing the human into biological and cultural components. Fulfilment is placed on the side of the cultural; an acquisition of encoded secondary…
Descriptors: Expectation, Self Efficacy, Aptitude, Individual Development
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Omid Khatin-Zadeh; Hassan Banaruee; Danyal Farsani – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
In this paper, we discuss the role of executive functions in shifting between symbolic and situational mathematical representations. Through the process of inhibition, an abstract representation is separated from concrete features and represented in terms of abstract symbols. This is a shift from a situational representation to a symbolic one.…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Mathematical Aptitude, Cognitive Processes, Orthographic Symbols
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Alvin F. Simpson III – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2024
It can be difficult to navigate the tasks of repertoire selection and part assignments in a way that produces a successful performance product while also being educationally beneficial to all students. However, researchers have explored methods of ensuring these goals through repertoire selection. In this article, I present ideas for how educators…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Music Education, Aptitude, Music
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Emma C. Gargroetzi; Gina Y. Wei – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
This activity engages students with the concept of mathematics identity to expand conceptions of what mathematics is and therefore what doing mathematics and being mathematical can mean. By mathematics identity, we refer both to ways a learner sees themselves and participates in mathematics, and the ways that others speak about or treat that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Activities, High School Teachers, Self Concept, Learner Engagement
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Marah Sutherland; David Fainstein; Taylor Lesner; Georgia L. Kimmel; Ben Clarke; Christian T. Doabler – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Being able to understand, interpret, and critically evaluate data is necessary for all individuals in our society. Using the PreK-12 Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education-II (GAISE-II; Bargagliotti et al., 2020) curriculum framework, the current paper outlines five evidence-based recommendations that teachers can use to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Multiple Literacies, Statistics Education, Data Analysis
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Fahimah Ali; Ben Braithwaite – Sign Language Studies, 2024
Deaf-sighted, deaf-blind, and hearing-sighted people have been interacting within a small community in the Bay Islands of Honduras for over a century (Ali 2023; Ali and Braithwaite 2020). In this article, we sketch the history of the community and the ways in which signers make use of their own and their interlocutor's bodies to co-construct…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Community, Deafness