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Direct linkVanessa Cappelle; Luiz Gustavo Franco; Danusa Munford – Science & Education, 2025
The paper reports how a teacher and her students use drawings as a resource for observations and how such observations are connected to different epistemic practices in science lessons. Interactional data in a 1st grade classroom were analyzed based on Ethnography in Education. Results show that the use of drawings materialized children's…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Epistemology, Grade 1, Elementary School Science
Kewalramani, Sarika; Veresov, Nikolay – Research in Science Education, 2022
This paper discusses how multimodal creative inquiry might be conceptualised and implemented for children's meaning-making in science. We consider Halliday's (1978) and Vygotsky's (1987, 2016) theoretical ideas for showing how the most important characteristics of social semiotics are connected to imagination, play-based and creative inquiry for…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Creative Thinking, Inquiry, Semiotics
Download full textCharara, Jeanane; Miller, Emily Adah; Krajcik, Joseph – Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research, 2021
Decades of research support integrating play in kindergarten to benefit young students' social, emotional, and cognitive development. As academic readiness becomes a focus, time for play has decreased. As a result, there has been a demand for integration of play with content. This study modifies a project-based science curriculum about how living…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Play, Kindergarten, Young Children
Caiman, Cecilia; Jakobson, Britt – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
The purpose is to contribute knowledge to the field regarding the role of aesthetic experience when young students participate in intertwined science-art activities in science class. More precisely, we scrutinise how science suggestions are shaped in students' processes of imagination when exploring animal's ecology. Data corpus comprises audio…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Education, Grade 1
Chermeleu, Adia – Journal of Educational Sciences, 2017
The hermeneutics of fairytales, understood as a new way to get their deep significances and therapeutic effects on children by the process of psychic conflicts awareness, represents a frequent topic in the current research, a real source of inspiration for those delivering literature for children or for those using fairytales for therapeutic…
Descriptors: Hermeneutics, Fairy Tales, Therapy, Conflict
Sunday, Kris, Ed.; McClure, Marissa, Ed.; Schulte, Christopher, Ed. – Bank Street College of Education, 2015
This issue explores the nature of childhood by offering selections that re/imagine the idea of the child as art maker; inquire about the relationships between children and adults when they are making art; and investigate how physical space influences approaches to art instruction. Readers are invited to join a dialogue that questions long-standing…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Art, Art Education, Play
Fleer, Marilyn – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2012
Christina Siry and Johaira Lara in researching pre-service teachers field based experiences of elementary science education bring to the fore the importance of teacher identity. In this paper, an alterative reading of pre-service teaching experience is given, one that complements the analysis provided by Siry and Lara, but which utilizes the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Science Education, Field Experience Programs
Hoffman, James V., Ed.; Schallert, Diane L., Ed.; Fairbanks, Colleen M., Ed.; Worthy, Jo, Ed.; Maloch, Beth, Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2006
Close to 1,100 people attended the 55th Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference at the Intercontinental Hotel in Miami, Florida from November 30-December 3, 2005. A record number of proposals were submitted this year (548), with 392 papers, symposia, and round tables accepted. This year's conference theme was inclusiveness and synthesis…
Descriptors: Research Design, Research Methodology, Reading Research, Synthesis
