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Kristen A. Foltz – Communication Teacher, 2024
Storytelling plays a central role in human communication and in conflict. This activity can be used to teach students the importance of telling stories to better understand conflict or simply to practice storytelling. By engaging in mediations, students simulate the process of resolving conflict, practice storytelling, and improve their active…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Conflict Resolution, Mediation Theory, Skill Development
Piske, Fernanda Hellen Ribeiro; Stoltz, Tania; Guérios, Ettiène; de Camargo, Denise; Vestena, Carla Luciane Blum; de Freitas, Samarah Perszel; de Oliveira Machado Barby, Ana Aparecida; Santinello, Jamille – Online Submission, 2017
The creativity is expressed in all individuals, but it manifests itself in different proportions and it may be carried out at different levels. Development levels of this attribute depend on the teacher's mediation in the process of learning. Creativity can be a challenge for most teachers, since they are unaware of its importance and unwittingly…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Training, Gifted, Creativity
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Maracci, Mirko; Mariotti, Maria Alessandra – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2013
This article is meant to present a specific elaboration of the notion of mediation in relation to the use of artefacts to enhance mathematics teaching and learning: the elaboration offered by the Theory of Semiotic Mediation. In particular, it provides an explicit model--consistent with the activity-actions-operations framework--of the actions…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Semiotics, Mediation Theory, Theories
Semple, Patrice M.; Semple, Edward E., Jr. – 1983
Through the years, motor skills have been taught by having students practice motor responses as the teacher verbally cued and corrected them. This teaching strategy may work in the long run, but it costs teachers an enormous amount of unnecessary time. Verbal cues and mediation training comprise a short cut process that allows for quicker learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cues, Elementary Secondary Education, Mediation Theory
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Roman, Christine A.; Zimmerman, George J. – RE:view, 1994
This article discusses the metacognitive approach of mediated learning theory and its application to orientation and mobility (O&M) instruction for individuals with visual impairments. The theory is explained, and the structure of a typical O&M lesson is outlined, followed by an example of using the approach in a trip to the drug store. (DB)
Descriptors: Blindness, Daily Living Skills, Instructional Development, Learning Processes
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Notari-Syverson, Angela R.; And Others – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1996
The Mediated Learning Program (MLP) is a comprehensive preschool curriculum for children with and without disabilities, based on theories of mediated learning, with a mediator facilitating children's thought processes and problem-solving strategies. MLP includes 19 curriculum units broken into specific daily principles or objectives used to teach…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Disabilities, Interpersonal Competence, Mainstreaming
Martin, David S. – 1995
A classroom cognitive intervention model for adolescents and adults who are deaf is described. The model provides mediated learning experiences whereby a person assists the learner in interpreting experience and learning problem-solving strategies. The program, entitled instrumental enrichment (IE), is based on the following principles: IE uses a…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Restructuring, Deafness
Ikegulu, Nelson T. – 1997
This paper discusses the effectiveness of mediated instructional strategies in culturally and linguistically diverse learning environments, focusing on the use of computer-mediated instruction and its relationship to various learning styles. It examines learning style dimensions and reviews related literature on the relationship between…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cultural Relevance, Curriculum Design
National Education Association, Washington, DC. Project on Utilization of Inservice Education R & D Outcomes. – 1977
The inservice and preservice learning module described here focuses on processing procedures used by students, the objective being to help teachers to stimulate cognitive processes. Perceptual and mediational processing and associative learning are specifically covered in the module, and methods for stimulating cognitive processes are presented.…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education
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Greenholtz, Joe – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2003
This paper explores the interplay between Western conceptions of education and students from other educational traditions, most specifically Japan, through the lens of the author's practice in international education. He examines models of the private and public spheres and public discourse advanced by Hannah Arendt and Jurgen Habermas in relation…
Descriptors: International Education, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Context Effect