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Iorio, Jeanne Marie; Hamm, Catherine; Krechevsky, Mara – Global Studies of Childhood, 2022
This article shares two research projects in the United States and Australia where children and teachers lead their local communities towards living well in precarious times. Rooted in the image of 'children as citizens of the now', the research projects offer innovative pedagogies as a way for children to generate meaningful relationships with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Citizen Participation, Citizen Role
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Kei Nishiyama – SUNY Press, 2025
How children participate in democracy has shifted toward more communicative, networked, and creative models than before. In political science and political theory, however, surprisingly little is understood about what if anything children can contribute to democracy and how they would do so. Traditionally, children have been considered as mere…
Descriptors: Democracy, Citizen Participation, Children, Futures (of Society)
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Victoria Whitington; Jamie Sisson; Anne-Marie Shin – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
The Australian Early Years' Learning Framework aspires to put democratic participation at the centre of policy and practice by positioning children and families as able, and children as contributing citizens from birth. Examination of current pedagogical efforts to achieve this aspiration are needed to expand knowledge of the supports and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democratic Values, Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Education
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Bryan Smith – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2024
The worlds we inhabit tell stories, stitched into the material and symbolic representations of the past that comes to define the features of our places. These stories are never neutral, anchored as they are in the intentional (re)presentation of a racialized white, masculine, and settler story as "our" story. Indeed, space, as an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Colonialism, Decolonization, Teaching Methods
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Angelina Wang; Graham McPhail – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
Musical Futures (MF) is an internationally recognised approach to music teaching aimed at developing high levels of student engagement through practical music making. Set up in the UK in 2003 "Musical Futures" is typical of approaches to education aimed at increasing levels of student autonomy through a strong emphasis on student-led…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Teachers, Music Education, Learner Engagement
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Karen Kyriakou – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2022
For the past 12 years I have been involved teaching music at a deaf school in Melbourne, philanthropically supported by Musica Viva's Equal Music program. The students use Auslan as their primary language and prior to the residency there had not been a music program in the school for more than a decade. Students now participate fully in the…
Descriptors: Music Education, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Sign Language
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Laura Loucks; Wendi Beamish; Stephen Hay; Mark Tyler – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
Providing behavioural support to all students is increasingly recognised as an integral part of teaching and learning in schools throughout the world. This small-scale, qualitative study reports on the perceived challenges faced by staff in implementing school-wide behavioural support at two remote Indigenous primary schools in Queensland,…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Rural Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Barriers
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Amy Large; Reearna Morgan; Stella Kalas; Katherine Appleton; Roslyn Giglia – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
Established healthy eating behaviours in childhood underpin the development of similar patterns into adulthood. School-based nutrition and cooking programs have been found to enhance nutrition and cooking knowledge and cooking self-efficacy. This scoping review examined the literature about the effectiveness of nutrition education programs…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Nutrition Instruction, Teaching Methods, Eating Habits
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Robertson, Natalie; Yim, Bonnie; Paatsch, Louise – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
Dramatic play is a typical activity that provides many benefits for preschool children's learning and development. This paper presents the findings of a mixed-method study that examined the level of preschool children's involvement in dramatic play and the connection between this involvement and the quality of the classroom environment. The study…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Educational Quality, Teaching Methods, Student Participation
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Bacchus, Ruth; Colvin, Emma; Knight, Elizabeth Bronwen; Ritter, Leonora – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2020
This study considers and evaluates the implementation of two strategies to improve student engagement with assessment -- the provision of exemplars in conjunction with rubrics, and student co-construction of rubrics -- as, respectively, a supplement and an alternative to teacher-designed rubrics. It follows our 2016 finding that teacher-designed…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Learner Engagement, Student Evaluation, Student Participation
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Messiou, Kyriaki; Bui, Lien Thien; Ainscow, Mel; Gasteiger-Klicpera, Barbara; Bešic, Edvina; Paleczek, Lisa; Hedegaard-Sørensen, Lotte; Ulvseth, Hilde; Vitorino, Teresa; Santos, Jorge; Simon, Cecilia; Sandoval, Marta; Echeita, Gerardo – European Educational Research Journal, 2022
This article analyses the ways in which notions of student diversity and student voice are defined in five European countries, two terms directly related to notions of inclusion. In so doing, it examines links between the two terms, noting that, often, they are used in international research without acknowledging the ways that they are defined…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Student Attitudes, Inclusion, Cross Cultural Studies
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Downton, Ann; Russo, James; Hughes, Sally; Bobis, Janette; Livy, Sharyn; Sullivan, Peter – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2022
Just as students experience productive struggle or spend time in the 'zone of confusion' when engaging with challenging tasks, teachers also experience similar difficulties and periods of confusion when engaging with new pedagogical approaches. Prior to a 19-week lockdown due to Coronavirus (COVID-19) during 2020, two Foundation teachers…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Learning Experience, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Adamson, Gracie Scala; Rouse, Elizabeth; Emmett, Susan – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2021
Recent reforms for the early childhood education and care sector in Australia have led in part to the development of a national Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) which presents play based learning as "a context for learning through which children organize and make sense of their social worlds, as they engage actively with people, objects…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Play, Participation, Teaching Methods
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Veldhaus, Ian; DeJarnette, Anna F.; Gamel, Zach; Hord, Casey – Australian Mathematics Education Journal, 2020
The authors describe strategies a pre-service teacher used to orchestrate classroom discussions that encourage thinking. They show how small shifts in the questions posed can lead to substantial changes in student participation in classroom discourse.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Classroom Communication, Preservice Teachers
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Reaburn, Robyn – Issues in Educational Research, 2021
Homeschooling, where parents take on the prime responsibility for their children's education, is a growing phenomenon in Australia. Homeschooling is different from distance education or the education at home that has taken place in the COVID-19 pandemic in that the parents make all the decisions about their children's education, including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Schooling, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement
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