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Andrea Bertoni; Andrea Maffia – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2024
While the development of creativity, or creative thinking, in mathematics is considered important by many researchers, there are several difficulties in implementing creative tasks, especially before secondary school. Within the original context of a mathematical escape game, this paper reports two episodes exemplifying the difficulties met by…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Learner Engagement, Mathematics Education, Creativity
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Braswell, Matthew – Teaching Sociology, 2014
Instructors frequently utilize breaching experiments in an attempt to "bring sociology to life." However, an uncritical embrace of breaching experiments obscures the complexity of their possible effects on participants and subjects. These experiments have real potential to inflict deleterious consequences on individuals and groups.…
Descriptors: Sociology, Experiments, Social Behavior, Behavior Standards
Ludick, Pat – NAMTA Journal, 2015
Pat Ludick's commentary on grace and courtesy is established by a philosophical orientation to development: Grace is oriented to the life of the interior that is consciousness and being, and courtesy moves outward to daily living where civility reflects on success with human interactions. Pat's projected grace and courtesy across the planes is…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Prosocial Behavior, Philosophy, Consciousness Raising
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Clarke, Kyra – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2013
This paper considers three pedagogical moments in the film "Tomorrow, When the War Began" (2010), contemplating the way in which they open a space for conversations about feelings, sexuality and gender. "Tomorrow, When the War Began" follows the plight of 17-year-old Ellie who returns to her rural town from a camping trip with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Films, Sex Education, Sexuality
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Clayton, Ben; Beard, Colin; Humberstone, Barbara; Wolstenholme, Claire – Teaching in Higher Education, 2009
This paper presents a philosophy and method for an ongoing investigation into the cause and effect of student emotions in higher education. In particular, it presents the possibilities for exploring students' positive emotions as "jouissance" experiences linked to the transgression of power relations and social structures. The paper takes the form…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Emotional Response, Phenomenology, Psychological Patterns
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Kauffman, Jeffrey – Death Studies, 2008
Thanatologists, as Balk recently commented (Balk, 2004), have been saying that there is no recovery from bereavement, or that we should not speak of bereavement as leading to a recovery. The term recovery has a high level of plasticity and can be shaped to fit diverse meanings, including contradictory meanings. We will sort our way through some of…
Descriptors: Grief, Death, Sociocultural Patterns, Behavior Standards