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Allison Witucki; Wendy Beane; Brandy Pleasants; Peng Dai; David Wÿss Rudge – Science & Education, 2024
Involving undergraduate STEM majors in authentic research has been cited as being an imperative goal in advancing the field of science and preparing students for careers and post-graduate educational programs. An important component of authentic research that is often overlooked is student understanding of the Nature of Science (NOS) and how this…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Student Research, Undergraduate Students, Scientific Principles
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Anda Fournel; Chrystelle Blanc-Lanaute; Qionghua Cai – Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 2024
Existing research recognizes the crucial role played by imagination in giving meaning to our experience, thinking critically and paying attention to difference. By using a design based on what we called 'embodied imagination' (analogical reasoning) and 'narrative imagination' (contributions from universal stories), we conduct an exploratory study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Conflict Resolution
Vasiliki Vasilaki – Online Submission, 2024
The current study explores the impact of visual arts education on early childhood, highlighting its role in enhancing creativity, imagination, and emotional expression in pre-school children. It explores the perspectives of pre-school teachers on the importance of visual arts in children's development and the challenges they face when integrating…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Visual Arts, Art Education, Educational Policy
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Guangxiang Liu; Yue Zhang; Rui Zhang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Focusing on how a world of possibilities is opened up by language learners themselves, imagination has been regarded as an elusive but indispensable element in second language (L2) education. Drawing on notions of international posture (Yashima 2002), Ideal L2 Self (Dörnyei 2009), and imagined communities (Norton 2001), we theorised imagination…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept
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Hongyan Yang; Miriam B. Larson; Rachel M. Wong – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2024
This design case centers around a creative assignment given to graduate students studying instructional design. The goal of the assignment is to facilitate mastery of learning theories through the theory-based evaluation of an instructional product, using both research and imagination. By applying learning theories in a practical and engaging…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Imagination, Research, Graduate Students
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Samrat Bisai; Smriti Singh – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
In a multilingual classroom, students come from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. They bring various cultural experiences, knowledge, and linguistic resources with them, however, most of the time, these resources remain unutilized as the medium for discourse in the classroom is often the dominant language. As a result, minority…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Language Minorities, Classroom Communication
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Emmeline E. Hoogland; Micha H. J. Ummels – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
In secondary science education, students often do not feel engaged with the scientific concepts that are taught, which hinders conceptual learning. This lack of engagement can be overcome by fictional placemaking. Therefore, the purpose of our design-based research is to explore how the creation and use of fictional places lead to meaningful…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Secondary School Students, Communities of Practice