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Kim, Kyoung Jin; Han, Minkyung; Jung, Eunyoung; Sohn, Ji-Hyang – Childhood Education, 2022
As environmental education and sustainability education play a fundamental role in training citizens who are more aware of global change and more environmentally responsible, organic learning is a recommended alternative learning experience for young children. This article describes how one kindergarten class in South Korea applied organic…
Descriptors: Child Development, Environmental Education, Learning Experience, Kindergarten
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Claire Cassidy; Jana Mohr Lone – Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 2020
This article focuses on philosophy with children aiming to address the epistemic injustices that children encounter, in part by cultivating philosophical spaces within which children's voices are dominant. In philosophical dialogues with children, it is the children's ideas and questions that shape the progress of the inquiry, opening up new areas…
Descriptors: Child Development, Educational Philosophy, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Clarà, Marc – Educational Review, 2023
This paper addresses a problem that greatly complicates the implementation of dialogic educational approaches in schools: the dilemma between driving children's talk towards normatively accepted conceptions and, at the same time, avoiding the introduction of these normative conceptions into the dialogue by the teacher. I argue that this dilemma is…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods, Learning Theories
Helm, Judy Harris, Ed.; Snider, Karrie A., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2019
This book began as a deep discussion among administrators, teachers, researchers, teacher educators, and educational consultants concerned about the critical reduction of play, engaged learning opportunities, and intellectually stimulating experiences in classrooms for toddlers through the primary grades. This group made a pact to organize and…
Descriptors: Play, Toddlers, Preschool Education, Primary Education
Telfer-Radzat, Kimberly – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Despite a 100-year-old history and the existence of schools in nearly every country in the world, Waldorf education is a little known and poorly understood educational model that was developed in Europe by Austrian philosopher Rudolph Steiner. For many years it existed in the United States in the form of private schools. Few of their teachers or…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Educational Philosophy
Van Meeteren, Beth Dykstra, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2022
Children are intrigued by moving objects, even more so when they can engineer the movement. This volume in the STEM for Our Youngest Learners Series uses Ramps and Pathways as a context to provide children ages 3-8 with opportunities to engage in STEM every day. Ramps and Pathways is a meaningful and fun way for children to develop engineering…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Communities of Practice
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Ransom, Marilee; Manning, Maryann – Childhood Education, 2013
Worksheets hold a special place among the many well-intentioned--yet ineffective--items in the early childhood and elementary toolkit. They are nearly ubiquitous in some elementary classrooms and are even popular in preschools. Parents are encouraged when they see worksheets in their children's backpacks; they see such papers as indicators that…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Worksheets, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education
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Habok, Anita – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
School readiness evaluations are becoming increasingly popular, and their implementation has become compulsory in an increasing number of kindergartens and schools in Hungary. In recent years, Diagnostic System for Evaluating Development (DIFER), developed by Nagy et al. has been used extensively for the diagnostic study of four- to eight-year-old…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Student Projects, Concept Mapping
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Brown, Amber L. – American Journal of Distance Education, 2014
The purpose of this project was to evaluate an online course in child development in which active learning strategies were infused. Preservice teachers taking the course were future elementary teachers seeking initial prekindergarten to sixth-grade teaching certification. Sixty-one persons were enrolled in a traditional face-to-face section of the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Online Courses, Child Development, Preservice Teachers
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Engel, Susan – Harvard Educational Review, 2011
In this essay, Susan Engel argues that curiosity is both intrinsic to children's development and unfolds through social interactions. Thus, it should be cultivated in schools, even though it is often almost completely absent from classrooms. Calling on well-established research and more recent studies, Engel argues that interactions between…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Learning Activities, Childhood Interests, Teacher Student Relationship
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Bowden, Shelly Hudson – Childhood Education, 2006
Field trips provide active learning as children have firsthand experience with information they had previously encountered only in textbooks. In this article, the author describes how she used an interesting textbook to plan a field trip for her elementary social studies methods class to Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery (Alabama). The textbook,…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Active Learning, Field Trips, Elementary School Students
Haensly, Patricia – Gifted Child Today, 2003
Looking for relevant material for the Adolescent Psychology course she teaches, the author's attention was drawn to a book by Thomas Cottle, "Mind Fields: Adolescent Consciousness in a Culture of Distraction" (2001). Robert Frost's quotation, "Grant me intention, purpose, and design--That's near enough for me to the Divine," in the frontispiece…
Descriptors: Gifted, Child Psychology, Academic Discourse, Attention
Armstrong, Thomas – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2006
While most of the dialogue in education today is about accountability, standardized testing, and adequate yearly progress, the truth is that student success is deeply connected to the physical, emotional, and cognitive needs that they have at different ages. The best schools already know this and follow practices that are academically engaging and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Projects, Middle Schools, Active Learning