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Davis, Elizabeth A., Ed.; Stephens, Amy, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2022
Starting in early childhood, children are capable of learning sophisticated science and engineering concepts and engage in disciplinary practices. They are deeply curious about the world around them and eager to investigate the many questions they have about their environment. Educators can develop learning environments that support the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Engineering Education, Scientific Concepts, Preschool Education
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Yuan, Rui; Liu, Wei; Lee, Icy – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2019
Despite a surge of research interest in pre-service teachers' identities over the past years, scant attention has been paid to the "process" of their identity construction during their teaching practicum. Adopting a qualitative case study approach, this study seeks to fill this gap by examining the identity construction experiences of…
Descriptors: Practicums, Preservice Teachers, Student Teaching, Transformative Learning
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Jornet, Alfredo; Erstad, Ola – Digital Education Review, 2018
As digital technologies continue transforming the time and space boundaries that traditionally had been ascribed to different educational settings, the very notion of learning "context" also is being challenged in educational research literature. In this article, we contribute to this debate by offering an empirically grounded discussion…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Context Effect, Learning Processes, Lifelong Learning
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Kennedy, Aileen – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
Increasing global pressure to enhance teacher quality has led to increasing numbers of new ITE programmes, yet there is a dearth of policy studies interrogating exactly how both macro and micro-policy processes combine to shape the development of these programmes. This article examines one particular new programme--the MSc Transformative Learning…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Policy, Transformative Learning, Political Issues
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Jimenez, Jeremy; Moorhead, Laura – Education Sciences, 2021
Many education professionals are looking to Environmental and Sustainability Education as a guide to incorporate curricular lessons and activities into school classrooms and other learning environments. Building upon the framework of Jickling and Wals (2008) of identifying how to teach about environmental education in transformative ways, this…
Descriptors: Climate, Transformative Learning, Environmental Education, Sustainability