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Somayeh Ba Akhlagh; Nicole Leggett – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2025
This article compares the conceptualisations of creativity between the early childhood policy frameworks from Iran and Australia to demonstrate how cultural differences influence understandings and representations of creativity. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 2019.…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Preschool Education, Comparative Education, Early Childhood Education
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Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen; Hang Thi Thu Nguyen; Xuesong Gao; Trang Hong Hoang; Sue Starfield – Language and Education, 2024
In this paper, we report on an international collaborative project designed to address the professional development needs of Vietnamese teachers for the implementation of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). We collected data on a group of CLIL Vietnamese teachers and leaders through online interviews. Drawing on Cultural-Historical…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Foreign Countries, International Cooperation, Learning Processes
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Higginbottom, Kate; Newman, Linda; West-Sooby, Kelly; Wood, April – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
Risky play promotes learning for children but can be challenging for adults who may then avoid providing these opportunities for children. Research about educators' intentional teaching for risky play is limited. The focus of this paper is a project where educators sought to change practice by embedding intentional teaching within children's risky…
Descriptors: Risk, Play, Teaching Methods, Intention
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Emanuelsson, Jonas; Sahlström, Fritjof – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2022
Beginning in the 1960s and early seventies, classroom research contributed to understandings and insights concerning the complexities and diversities of teaching. In the late 1990s, classroom research began to also include student voices in the classroom. Socio-cultural theory turned the empirical focus toward student interaction, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Student Attitudes, Sociocultural Patterns, Foreign Countries
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Holmes, Pete; Light, Richard L.; Sparkes, Andrew – Sport, Education and Society, 2021
This article focuses on the influence of early life experiences and socio-cultural context on coach learning in the sport of rugby league. It draws on the findings of a study that investigated the influence of cultural context on the development of elite-level rugby league coaches in England and Australia. The article focuses on the influence of…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Sociocultural Patterns, Team Sports, Athletic Coaches
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Anne Shinkfield – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2024
Across cultures, young children learn primarily within their family, with the family's culture positioning the values, language and purpose of children's learning toward the family's goals. Quality education begins within families, and at school entry age, children's learning within their families is critical to their educational success. However,…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Non Western Civilization, Western Civilization, Cultural Differences
Bennison, Anne – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2014
Teachers of all school subjects have an important role to play in developing the numeracy capabilities of students. However, to fully exploit the numeracy learning opportunities that exist in the subjects they teach, teachers need to have an identity as a teacher of numeracy. In this paper some findings are presented from a two-year study designed…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Sociocultural Patterns, Case Studies, Professional Identity
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Latukefu, Lotte; Verenikina, Irina – British Journal of Music Education, 2011
This article presents part of a five-year Australian study, the purpose of which was to look at learning singing in a pedagogical environment designed using sociocultural theory. The classroom environment was transformed over 5 years in consultation with other staff members and used the reflective journals that students wrote during that time as a…
Descriptors: Singing, Scientific Concepts, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries
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Phan, Huy P. – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2010
This theoretical article discusses the importance of learning approaches in sociocultural contexts. Our discussion synthesizes previous empirical research studies, taking into consideration the importance of individuals' cultural background and environmental settings. Research studies by Marton and Saljo (1976) and others (Biggs, 1987; Watkins…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Student Attitudes, Cultural Background, Epistemology