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Lyngfelt, Anna; Sporre, Karin; Lifmark, David; Lilja, Annika; Osbeck, Christina; Franck, Olof – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2023
The overarching aim is to explore what teachers perceive as the opportunities provided by using literature in ethics education in compulsory school. When being interviewed, in what ways do the teachers express views on the potential of fiction to encourage students to accept certain human conditions as imaginable, or to create motivation for…
Descriptors: Ethics, Fiction, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes
Stiles, Deborah A. – Online Submission, 2005
In most ways the island nations of Iceland and Singapore could not be more different from each other: Iceland is sparsely populated, located near the Arctic Circle, and a very free and individualistic democratic society; Singapore is densely populated, located near the equator, and a very regulated and collectivist meritocracy. But both nations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, Democracy, Cognitive Development
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Mason, Lucia; Boldrin, Angela; Zurlo, Giovanna – International Journal of Educational Research, 2006
This article reports a theoretically based study on the model of development of epistemological understanding proposed by Kuhn (2000) [Kuhn, D. (2000). Theory of mind, metacognition, and reasoning: A life-span perspective. In P. Mitchell & K. J. Riggs (Eds.), "Children's reasoning and the mind" (pp. 301-326). Hove, UK: Psychology…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Cognitive Development, Epistemology, Curriculum