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Emily K. Olsen; Danielle F. Lawson; Lucy R. McClain; Julia D. Plummer – Environmental Education Research, 2024
Can environmental education help to mitigate learners eco/climate anxiety? Anxiety surrounding climate change has drastically risen in youth in recent years. This paper aims to answer the call from Pihkala's (2020) previous review for more concrete information on educational approaches to support learners in processing eco/climate anxiety. As…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Ecology, Climate, Anxiety
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Jane Perryman; Sandra Leaton Gray; Eleanore Hargreaves; Katya Saville – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
The normal lives of schools were significantly affected by the recent global pandemic. Some countries closed all schools nationally, others such as the USA closed at a local level according to state law. Much of the focus of research in this area is on the effect on children and learning loss, but this paper uses secondary analysis of data from a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Professionalism, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Atayero, Sarah; Dunton, Kate; Mattock, Sasha; Gore, Amanda; Douglas, Sarah; Leman, Patrick; Zunszain, Patricia – Health Education, 2021
Purpose: Interdisciplinary approaches to health education are becoming increasingly common. Here, the authors describe an arts-based approach designed by academics and artists to both supplement the study of mental illness and support the individual mental health of undergraduate and postgraduate university students, by raising the visibility of…
Descriptors: College Students, Mental Health, Art Activities, Teaching Methods
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Holt, Stephanie; Atkinson, Cathy; Douglas-Osborn, Erica – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2022
Children as young as pre-school are experiencing difficulties related to stress, anxiety and inattention which could be supported through the use of mindfulness. However, there is very little research on how to effectively deliver mindfulness approaches within Early Years (EYs) practice. A year-long action research project was conducted with an…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Action Research, Educational Benefits, Preschool Children
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Wenham, Lucy; Din, Iqra; Eaves, Liam – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2021
Not all parents across England are happy about sending their children back to school, following the lifting of lockdown measures in March 2021. Our qualitative research, listening to accounts from eighty-five such families, finds that these concerns stem from COVID-related anxiety, most commonly linked to protecting members of the household at…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Special Education, Special Needs Students, Parent Attitudes
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Montero-Marin, Jesus; Taylor, Laura; Crane, Catherine; Greenberg, Mark T.; Ford, Tamsin J.; Williams, J. Mark G.; García-Campayo, Javier; Sonley, Anna; Lord, Liz; Dalgleish, Tim; Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne; Kuyken, Willem – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Mindfulness training (MT) is considered appropriate for school teachers and enhances well-being. Most research has investigated the efficacy of instructor-led MT. However, little is known about the benefits of using self-taught formats, nor what the key mechanisms of change are that contribute to enhanced teacher well-being. This study compared…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Teaching Methods, Daily Living Skills, Well Being
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Sinclair, Jane; Aho, Anne-Maria – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
Learning management systems (LMSs) are widely used in higher education and offer a gateway to innovative, technology-enhanced teaching and learning. However, many university staff still choose not to adopt them or do not explore the more creative functionality. Previous research has developed models of technology adoption which map observed…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, College Faculty
Duncan, S.; Levy, R.; Bradbury, A.; Braun, A.; Moss, G. – Institute of Education - London, 2021
During the COVID pandemic, schools have found new ways of working with children and, crucially, their families. This has far-reaching implications for how schools and policy-makers consider homeschool communication as a means of developing parental and community engagement in the future. The Institute of Education's project, "Learning Through…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Educational Change
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Bennett, Liz – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
This paper explores the emotional journey associated with changing one's teaching and learning practices and how this constitutes emotional work. The paper analyses the emotions evident in the data from a small-scale phenomenological study of lecturers who are using technological tools in their teaching, learning and assessment practices in one…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education
Sander, Jane; Conway, Paula – Think Global, 2013
In this paper the authors explore what gets in the way of embedding a meaningful global learning curriculum and why some teachers and students find it difficult to engage with global issues. The authors use a psychodynamic model to try and make sense of what some global learning practitioners might find puzzling and frustrating. A psychodynamic…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Global Education, Global Approach, Child Development
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Cook, Hera – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2012
The reluctance of parents to provide sex education has been a problem for educators since the first attempts at the modernisation of sex education in the early twentieth century, yet the sexual needs, desires and fears of parents are rarely even mentioned in pedagogical debates. This article examines the intense anxiety and embarrassment felt by…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Sex Education, Anxiety, Foreign Countries
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Henderson, Peter; Hodgen, Jeremy; Foster, Colin; Kuchemann, Dietmar – Education Endowment Foundation, 2017
This guidance report focuses on the teaching of mathematics to pupils in Key Stages 2 and 3. It is not intended to provide a comprehensive guide to mathematics teaching. We have made recommendations where there are research findings that schools can use to make a significant difference to pupils' learning, and have focused on the questions that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Elementary Education, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction
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Cobb, Stephanie; Heaney, Rose; Corcoran, Olivia; Henderson-Begg, Stephanie – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2010
This study examines the possible benefits of using mobile phones to increase interaction and promote active learning in large classroom settings. First year undergraduate students studying Cellular Processes at the University of East London took part in a trial of a new text-based classroom interaction system and evaluated their experience by…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Computer Mediated Communication, Active Learning, Interaction
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
These proceedings contain the papers of the 14th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2017), 18-20 October 2017, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and endorsed by the Japanese Society for Information and Systems in…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Student Journals, Diaries, Self Management
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Newstead, Karen – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1998
Focuses on mathematics anxiety in 9- to 11-year-old children. Compares the mathematics anxiety of pupils taught in a traditional manner with that of pupils whose teachers adopted an alternative teaching approach that emphasizes problem solving and discussion of the pupil's own informal strategies. Concludes that pupils exposed to the traditional…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Instruction
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