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Incorporating Collaborative Learning in Teacher Education to Foster Self-Efficacy to Implement Environmental Citizenship: An Action Research
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Gan, Dafna; Alkaher, Iris; Segal, Tamar – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: Engaging students in environmental citizenship to promote education for sustainability (EfS) as an explicit goal of academic courses is not common, notwithstanding wide consensus on its importance. Collaborative learning has rarely been investigated using action research methods in the context of environmental citizenship in higher…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teacher Education Programs, Self Efficacy, Sustainability
Developing a Framework of Scientific Enquiry in Early Childhood: An Action Research Project to Support Staff Development and Improve Science Teaching
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McNerney, Karen; Hall, Nichola – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Research in science in early childhood is an area that has not received much attention (Fleer, M., & Robbins, J. (2003). "Hit and run research" with "hit and miss" results in early childhood science education. "Research in Science Education," 33, 405-431.) and it has been reported that early children teachers lack…
Descriptors: Science Education, Early Childhood Education, Action Research, Faculty Development
Teachers in Action Research: Assumptions and Potentials
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Li, Yuen-Ling – Educational Action Research, 2008
Research literature has long indicated that action research may stimulate practitioners themselves to actively evaluate the quality of their practice. This study is designed to report the use of action research for the development of early years professional practice by analyzing the pre-project and the post-project video-filmed teaching events.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Literature, Reflective Teaching, Teacher Characteristics