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Bleier, Mitch – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2023
Simplified, reductionist approaches to curriculum design and delivery are pervasive in science education. In ecological curricula--particularly in, but not limited to K-12--biomes, ecosystems, habitats, and other units of study are simplified and presented as static, easily identified and described entities. Characteristics, components, and…
Descriptors: Classification, Science Instruction, Ecology, Teaching Methods
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Tondeur, J.; De Bruyne, E.; Van Den Driessche, M.; McKenney, S.; Zandvliet, D. – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2015
The purpose of this study was to gain deeper insights into how technology restructures the classroom as a spatial setting and how the positioning of these technologies can be associated with educational practices. The research includes a photographic and schematic representation of 115 classrooms in 12 primary schools in Belgium, resulting in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Primary Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Sofkova Hashemi, Sylvana – Language and Education, 2017
Access to digital technology in the classroom enables the composition and organization of ideas on screen with a variety of semiotic systems of different modes and media. This study explores patterns of communication and preference of design in digital meaning-making of twelve 7-8 years old students. Meanings were shaped in complex uses and…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Elementary School Students, Information Technology, Cultural Influences
Töman, Ögr. Gör. Ufuk; Ergen, Yusuf – Online Submission, 2014
Today's World is in period of rapid development of science and technology. There is science and technology education that not based on rote, practical on the basis of development in science and technology. Misconceptions are a major obstacle in order to take the desired efficiency. Because concepts that learned wrong obstacle attainment of right…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Astronomy, Scientific Attitudes
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Lavega, Pere; Filella, Gemma; Agullo, Maria Jesus; Soldevila, Anna; March, Jaume – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2011
Introduction: The aim of this study was to provide guidelines to help professionals make decisions regarding the types of emotions produced by different sporting games classified into four domains of motor action (psychomotor, co-operation, opposition and cooperation/opposition). Method: The sample comprised 284 first-year university students of…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Physical Education, Primary Education, Cooperation
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Gottfried, Michael A. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2014
The increasing trend of placing students with disabilities in general education classrooms has raised questions among researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and parents about classmate peer effects on all students. However, little is known about the peer effects of classmates with disabilities on the outcomes of other students in the classroom;…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Mainstreaming, Peer Influence, Peer Relationship
Slama, Rachel B. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
A major problem facing educators in the United States is how to determine when the nation's five million English language learners (ELL) are ready to exit language-learning programs, i.e. to be "reclassified" as fluent English proficient (R-FEP) and placed in mainstream classrooms without additional language support. No Child Left Behind…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Public Schools, Language Proficiency, Mainstreaming