NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Pamella Mayumi Dias Inamori; Camilo Lellis-Santos – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Reading nutrition facts labels is a competency for which training is given in several nutrition education programs, especially in obesity outreach workshops. The Top Trumps-style card game is commonly used in obesity prevention educational programs to engage participants in reading nutrition facts labels; however, the success of TV cooking shows…
Descriptors: Merchandise Information, Nutrition, Obesity, Outreach Programs
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bucura, Elizabeth; Brashier, Rachel – Journal of General Music Education, 2022
This article discusses transformative learning in secondary general music (SGM), while considering students' transitions from elementary to secondary music classes. SGM is uniquely situated for expanded pedagogies and musicianship, yet a gap in music activities persists between elementary and secondary classes and between home and school. The…
Descriptors: Music Education, Transformative Learning, Prior Learning, Learning Processes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Wang, Victor C. X.; Torrisi-Steele, Geraldine – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2015
The authors of this article consider Western teaching and learning alongside Confucian teaching and learning through reviewing the literature. The paper emphasizes that we must teach lower order thinking skills first before we teach higher order thinking skills, and confirms that rote learning and memorization precede critical thinking and…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Western Civilization, Asian Culture, Thinking Skills
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Wackermann, Rainer; Trendel, Georg; Fischer, Hans E. – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
The background of the study is the theory of "basis models of teaching and learning", a comprehensive set of models of learning processes which includes, for example, learning through experience and problem-solving. The combined use of different models of learning processes has not been fully investigated and it is frequently not clear…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Learning Processes, Models
Noguchi, Fumiko – Online Submission, 2010
Since its establishment in 2003, the Japan Council on the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD-J) has paid close attention to informal learning processes in community-based efforts to promote local sustainable development. ESD-J carried out two projects to collect information on and visualise community-based ESD practice: the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Informal Education, Community Programs
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Williams, Dorothy A.; Wavell, Caroline – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2007
This paper describes empirical research examining secondary school teachers' conceptions of student information literacy and reflects on the implications for the development of information-literate students. The research was designed to be practitioner centred, focusing on curriculum-based information activities and the student learning process…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Lifelong Learning, Information Literacy, Teacher Attitudes