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Ramdani, Dani; Susilo, Herawati; Suhadi; Sueb – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This review explores research into the effects of collaborative learning interventions on critical thinking, creative thinking, and metacognitive skill ability on biological learning. The search was conducted from 2000 to 2021. We found 36 critical thinking studies, 18 creative thinking studies, and 14 metacognitive skill studies that met the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Group Dynamics, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
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Jaysveree Louw; Heidi Claassens – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
This theoretical article examines the crucial role of play-based learning (PBL) in enhancing the mathematical skills of children in the Early Childhood Phase, referred to as Foundation Phase (Grade R-3) learners, within a South African context. The article argues that the traditional approach to teaching early childhood mathematics, where teachers…
Descriptors: Play, Mathematics Skills, Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods
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Wu, Wan-Rou; Yang, Kai-Lin – Cogent Education, 2022
This review study synthesises the literature on how computational thinking (CT) and mathematical thinking (MT) are integrated into mathematics education research with a focus on tasks. A review of 28 relevant articles on the Web of Science Core Collection database indicated that (1) CT helps students develop and apply mathematical concepts and…
Descriptors: Computation, Mathematics Education, Thinking Skills, Relationship
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Alperen Ceylan; Sumeyra Akkaya – International Technology and Education Journal, 2024
The aim of this study is to systematically examine graduate studies on digital game addiction in the field of education. Document analysis technique was used in the study. The 57 graduate studies included in the study were determined by criterion sampling. The data obtained was analyzed using content analysis. As a result of the study, it was seen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Computer Games, Addictive Behavior
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Ibragimkyzy, Shynar; Slambekova, Tolkyn S.; Saylaubay, Yerlan E.; Albytova, Nazymgul – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
This article provides analysis of research papers by different scholars, dedicated to topical issues of pedagogical creativity development in the educational process. The authors determined that pedagogical creativity could be considered at five levels: information-reproducing, adaptive-prognostic, innovative, research and creative-prognostic. In…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creative Activities, Creativity, Learning Processes
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Kupers, Elisa; Lehmann-Wermser, Andreas; McPherson, Gary; van Geert, Paul – Review of Educational Research, 2019
Within education, the importance of creativity is recognized as an essential 21st-century skill. Based on this premise, the first aim of this article is to provide a theoretical integration through the development of a framework based on the principles of complex dynamic systems theory, which describes and explains children's creativity. This…
Descriptors: Children, Creativity, Child Development, Student Development
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Liu, Chia-Ju; Chiang, Wen-Wei – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2014
This report provides an overview of neuroscience research that is applicable for science educators. It first offers a brief analysis of empirical studies in educational neuroscience literature, followed by six science concept learning constructs based on the whole brain theory: gaining an understanding of brain function; pattern recognition and…
Descriptors: Science Education, Neurosciences, Scientific Research, Scientific Concepts
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Pauk, Walter – Reading World, 1982
Discusses a 1944 University of Minnesota study in which volunteers existed on a semistarvation diet. Uses data from the study to examine the effects of starvation on intellectual powers. (FL)
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Learning Processes, Nutrition
Dalili, Farid – 1982
In relating brain hemisphere differences to education and educational administration, the author reviews literature on the issue and discusses the concepts involved. For background, he briefly goes over the history of brain and cognition studies and the advent of "split-brain" studies and the "triune" brain theory. Definitions…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Brain, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Style
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Boyd, Gary M. – Canadian Journal of Educational Communication, 1996
Presents a theoretical systems model for computer-mediated conferencing. Discusses Habermas' criteria for emancipative discourse (i.e., liberation or emancipation is increasing a person's abilities and opportunities to make rational choices about matters important to that person). Demonstrates why computer conferencing is best suited to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Creative Thinking, Educational Environment, Educational Principles
Parker, Sarah J. – 1983
The teaching of decision-making, problem-solving, and higher-order thinking skills is necessary to ensure adaptability to our world of accelerated change. Living skills in the technology and information age will include the understanding and application of higher level thinking skills, which will be the educational "basics" of tomorrow.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Convergent Thinking, Creative Thinking
Beals, Mark G. – 1981
The main thrust of American education has been cognitively oriented. Recent research on the human brain suggests that such orientation is a general function of only one hemisphere of the brain, the left. Because of the close relationships among speech, language, thinking, reasoning, and the higher mental functions, the left brain hemisphere…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Convergent Thinking
Harnsten, Gunilla – 1994
The research circle is a form of cooperation between trade unions and researchers that is spreading all over Sweden and beyond its national borders. The research circles described in this book were arranged jointly by SKAF (Swedish Municipal Workers' Union) and the Uppsala University Department of Education. A research circle is a study circle in…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Creative Thinking, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Level
Kirk, James J.; Huff, Steve – 1996
This article provides a brief introduction to learning organization and systems thinking. It contains three experiential learning activities designed to teach systems thinking concepts. The first activity, "Pellets," helps learners discover the advantages of applying systems thinking to the solutions of workplace problems. The next two…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Continuing Education, Creative Thinking
Turner, Thomas N.; Alexander, J. Estill – 1980
The research on the effect of attitudes on reading is reviewed in this paper to support the position that the affective part of learning is as important to learning to read well as are the cognitive skills. Suggestions for improving reading attitudes are given. Activities are suggested for five forms of creative reading: (1) model imitations, in…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Critical Reading, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education
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