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Scott, David; Gani, Raphaël – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2018
From 2005-2010 the province of Alberta introduced a social studies program of study mandating that all K-12 teachers use the lens of First Nations, Metis, and Inuit perspectives to help students understand the past as well as key concepts and contemporary issues. This paper offers a systematic examination of a range of data sources, including…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, American Indians
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Métioui, Abdeljalil; MacWillie, Mireille Baulu – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
A qualitative research approach was chosen to analyse the conceptions of pupils attending elementary school from Canada (N = 135), France (N = 30) and Morocco (N = 92) between 10 and 12 years of age. Their conceptions were identified while being mobilised on energy transformations during the working of a simple electric circuit made of a battery,…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Teacher Education, Science Education, Foreign Countries
Lenoir, Yves; Hasni, Abelkrim – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2010
This article presents a portrait of interdisciplinarity in the Quebec school system. Following a contextual overview of this system, including its sociohistorical evolution and current organization in order to define the problem of interdisciplinarity, a second section, beginning with a clarification of terms related to interdisciplinarity,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Program Implementation, Barriers
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Bullock, Merry; Russell, James A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1984
A structural model of emotions was used to reveal patterns in how children interpret the emotional facial expressions of others. Tests with young children and adults indicate that children organize the emotional domain in a systematic fashion, initially according to pleasure and arousal and later in terms of adult-like categories. (Author/AS)
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Associative Learning, Classification
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Barman, Charles R.; Stein, Mary; Barman, Natalie S.; McNair, Shannan – Science and Children, 2003
Last fall, "Science and Children" invited kindergarten to grade eight teachers to participate in a study investigating students' ideas about plants and plant growth (Barman et al. 2002). Two hundred twenty-seven individuals from 16 states in the United States, one U.S. Territory, and one Canadian Province responded to this invitation and…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Elementary School Teachers
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Fox, Eric J.; Sullivan, Howard J. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2007
The purpose of this study was to compare traditional classification training for a set of abstract concepts with multiple-relations training consisting of inference practice and the use of a content diagram. To examine this, 200 undergraduate and graduate psychology students completed a Web-based tutorial covering the abstract concepts of a…
Descriptors: Classification, Psychology, Internet, Higher Education