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Leveraging Languages for Learning: Incorporating Plurilingual Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education and Care
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Cohrssen, Caroline; Slaughter, Yvette; Nicolas, Edith – TESOL in Context, 2021
Children are members of families and communities, and the languages learnt within these contexts contribute to a child's sense of "belonging, being and becoming" throughout life (Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations, 2009). Encouraging children to bring their home languages into early childhood education and care…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Correlation, Native Language, Early Childhood Education
Further Exploring the Dynamicity, Situatedness, and Emergence of the Self: The Key Role of Context
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Serafini, Ellen J. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
Drawing on theoretical insights from a complex dynamic systems framework, this work explores the ways that learner selves, as they relate to learning and using languages, manifest across different contexts and timescales and emerge in interaction with various factors. First, a broad overview of dynamically-oriented L2 motivation research is…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Systems Approach, Learning Motivation
Learning and Collective Knowledge Construction with Social Media: A Process-Oriented Perspective
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Kimmerle, Joachim; Moskaliuk, Johannes; Oeberst, Aileen; Cress, Ulrike – Educational Psychologist, 2015
Social media are increasingly being used for educational purposes. The first part of this article briefly reviews literature that reports on educational applications of social media tools. The second part discusses theories that may provide a basis for analyzing the processes that are relevant for individual learning and collective knowledge…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Social Systems, Social Networks, Instructional Design
Two-Eyed Seeing into Environmental Education: Revealing Its "Natural" Readiness to Indigenize
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McKeon, Margaret – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2012
Recent visions for environmental education now include a foundational acknowledgement that the well-being of humans and the environment are inseparable. This vision of environmental education, with a focus on interconnectedness as well as concepts of transformation, holism, caring, and responsibility, rooted in experiences of nature, community,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Caring, Systems Approach, Indigenous Populations
The Challenge of New Science
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Rowland, Gordon – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2007
A wide range of developments in science in recent years has altered our views of our world and ourselves in significant ways. These views challenge the direction of applied science and technology in many fields, including those associated with learning and performance in organizations. At the same time, they open up opportunities and…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Technology, Science Instruction, Correlation
Promoting Health Literacy through the Health Education Assessment Project
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Marx, Eva; Hudson, Nancy; Deal, Tami B.; Pateman, Beth; Middleton, Kathleen – Journal of School Health, 2007
Background: The Council of Chief State School Officers' State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards Health Education Assessment Project (SCASS-HEAP) allows states to pool financial and human resources to develop effective ready-to-use health education assessment resources through a collaborative process. The purpose of this article is…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Systems Approach, State Departments of Education, Health Education