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Fa Zhang; Christine Lee Bae; Michael D. Broda; Alison C. Koenka – Journal of Experimental Education, 2025
In this study, we investigated the relationships between three pivotal factors that influence student performance, including opportunity-to-learn (OTL) factors, which included proximal indicators that represent science-specific learning opportunities, student motivation (propensity factor), and crucial student and teacher antecedent factors by…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Predictor Variables, Science Achievement, Self Concept
Özsoy, Nesrin; Akkaya, Yildiz; Tosun, Tugba; Umurbek, Merve; Güçlü, Murat; Eray, Fatma – Online Submission, 2018
"Values Education", which added to Mathematics Teaching Program at the Turkish Academic Year of 2017-2018, is revised and updated as "Our Values" on January of 2018. "Our Values" based on a grown value system that aims to maintain the existence of societies preserve the unity and togetherness of societies and have the…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Dramatics
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Aktas, Fatma Nur; Akyildiz, Pinar; Dede, Yüksel – Education 3-13, 2023
The purpose of this cross-sectional study (n = 43764 in four cohorts/groups) is to uncover the values when learning mathematics that students at Religious Vocational Middle Schools (in Turkish: Imam-Hatip Middle Schools) where religious contexts and contents are taught intensively in Turkey. In this regard, the study investigates the mathematics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Middle School Students, Values
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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
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Msutwana, Nomawonga Veronica – South African Journal of Education, 2021
Research demonstrates that teachers' cultural perspectives influence how they teach sexuality education; however, it is not clear how this occurs. Therefore, in my study, I explored how Xhosa teachers' cultural perspectives influenced their practice of teaching sexuality education to adolescent Xhosa learners. I purposively selected 9 female Xhosa…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Females, Women Faculty, Cultural Influences
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Jackson, Glenn – Language and Education, 2021
To engage in critical praxis, teachers of literary response writing need concepts and methods for understanding the efficacy of teaching practices in helping students develop particular dispositions towards texts and the social issues they represent. In this article, the author uses concepts from Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) and Systemic…
Descriptors: Linguistics, English, Language Arts, Grade 8
Hunter, Jodie – ECNU Review of Education, 2021
Purpose: This article investigates the mathematics educational values of Pasifika students in New Zealand. It draws on student voice to examine Pasifika students' understanding of mathematics educational values and their reasons for rating values at different levels of importance. Design/Approach/Methods: The study involved Years 7 and 8 Pasifika…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Student Attitudes, Values, Pacific Islanders
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Parker, Christina; Bickmore, Kathy – Journal of Moral Education, 2021
Restorative justice pedagogies, such as dialogue or peacemaking circles, allow students to learn how to share and listen with peers, set boundaries for moral dialogue, and engage constructively with each other's perspectives. This study is part of a larger project focused on teachers' professional development and circle implementation. The focus…
Descriptors: Justice, Conflict Resolution, Peer Relationship, Power Structure
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Danielsen, Dina; Bruselius-Jensen, Maria; Laitsch, Daniel – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2017
Health promotion and education researchers and practitioners advocate for more democratic approaches to school-based health education, including participatory teaching methods and the promotion of a broad and positive concept of health and health knowledge, including aspects of the German educational concept of "bildung." Although…
Descriptors: Health Education, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Awada, Ghada; Ghaith, Ghazi; Diab, Nuwar Mawlawi – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
We argue for a transformation in the current learning and literacy education of marginalized and nondominant groups of English-as-a-Foreign Language (EFL) refugee learners in Lebanon. This paper describes the process of combining Third Space (TS) and Literature Circles (LC) to develop an instructional model of a transformative pedagogy for…
Descriptors: Literature, Teaching Methods, Transformative Learning, Disadvantaged
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Stowe, Rebeka – Social Studies, 2017
In response to the widening academic achievement gap between Native American students and other students in the United States, a culturally responsive approach was used in a Native American social studies class with positive results. Eighth-grade Oglala Lakota students in an American History classroom experienced a unit infused with lessons that…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods, American Indian Students, United States History
Casey Elizabeth Holmes – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative case study explored the implementation of critical citizenship education in an eighth grade social studies classroom. This research was guided by Johnson and Morris' (2010) framework for studying critical citizenship education and took place in a public charter school located in a capital city in the southeastern United States.…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Grade 8, Student Attitudes, Citizenship Education
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Malin, Heather; Liauw, Indrawati; Remington, Kathleen – Journal of Character Education, 2019
Purpose is an important aspect of character development and thriving in adolescence; yet, there is little research explaining how it develops or how contexts such as school can support its development. In this study, 1,304 eighth graders completed a survey that measured purpose as the integration of 2 dimensions-- beyond-the-self life goal…
Descriptors: Personality, Educational Environment, Grade 8, Student Attitudes
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Wahl-Alexander, Zachary; Curtner-Smith, Matthew; Sinelnikov, Oleg – European Physical Education Review, 2016
A small body of previous research suggests that teachers who purposefully negotiated the physical education curriculum empowered their pupils and enhanced the quality of their experience. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of one purposefully negotiated season of sport education (SE) on one teacher and his 18 male eighth grade…
Descriptors: Athletics, Physical Education, Program Effectiveness, Males
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Akin, Sibel; Calik, Basak; Engin-Demir, Cennet – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2017
Promoting active citizenship is seen as invaluable for educational practices in schools particularly in existing social, political, economic, and cultural context of Turkish society. The present study is part of a European Union project that aimed to help students develop knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to actively participate in…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Citizenship, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
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