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Mahmoud Mohammad Sayed Abdallah – Online Submission, 2025
This article introduces my C.H.A.T.S. model (Conversational, Holistic, Authentic, Transformative, Situated), a novel pedagogical framework I designed to revolutionize language learning and teaching through the strategic integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and conversational chatbots with established learning theories. The model addresses…
Descriptors: Models, Artificial Intelligence, Second Language Learning, Learning Theories
Demetrion, George – Adult Literacy Education, 2021
This essay tracks and expands upon critical exchanges with graduate students in a course for adult educators, highlighting conflicting perspectives among participants on the relative value of theory in enhancing practice. An underlying focus of the course consisted of comparing constructivist and cognitive perspectives on learning theory and their…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Learning Theories, Theory Practice Relationship, Instructional Design
Russo, James Anthony – McGill Journal of Education, 2018
This essay explores how elementary school teachers can support students in becoming effective peer tutors. Drawing on the author's personal experience as an elementary educator and researcher, it discusses how cognitive load theory can be used to generate a framework to support practicing teachers in implementing peer tutoring in their own…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Elementary School Students, Theory Practice Relationship
Margolis, Jason; Durbin, Rebecca; Doring, Anne – Professional Development in Education, 2017
With a continuing disconnect between structural changes to the work of teaching and the work of teachers engaged with students in classrooms, this paper addresses a growing need to attend to the way teacher professional development (TPD) is enacted in today's schools. Specifically, drawing from theories of teacher learning and numerous models of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Role, Learning Theories
Karimi-Aghdam, Saeed – Online Submission, 2020
James P. Lantolf is George and Jane Greer Professor Emeritus of Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics and former director of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics in the same academic unit at Xi'an Jiaotong…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Sociocultural Patterns, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Landry-Meyer, Laura; Bae, Su Yun; Zibbel, John; Peet, Susan; Wooldridge, Deborah G. – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2019
The aim of this article is to connect transformative learning theory with the practice of teaching in higher education. Connecting theory to effective active learning pedagogy is good practice in teaching adults, andragogy. Using transformative learning theory as a guide, this article describes the historical evolution of transformative learning…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Theory Practice Relationship, Educational Practices, Active Learning
Cunningham, Kathleen M. W.; VanGronigen, Bryan A.; Tucker, Pamela D.; Young, Michelle D. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2019
Addressing systemic inequities in schools requires preparation of leaders who are bold, adaptive, and well-versed in addressing problems of practice so they can be effective leaders. This article offers a theory-to-practice resource for educational leadership faculty who are committed to developing such leadership. Drawing upon learning theories,…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Administrator Education, Instructional Leadership, Equal Education
Leake, Maria D. – Art Education, 2014
In this article, Leake is arguing for the relevance of contemporary art as a way to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the spaces of art education. Graeme Sullivan develops a similar argument in his "Studies" article, "The Art of Research." Where Leake looks to possibilities for contemporary art as it is presented in…
Descriptors: Art, Art Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Socialization
Haythornthwaite, Caroline – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2014
A career spent in research, teaching, and engagement with community entails a lifetime of assemblage of meaning from people, resources, technologies and experience. In his work, Bertram (Chip) Bruce has long engaged with how we create such an assemblage of meaning from our formal and found learning, and from the "lived experience" of…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Learning Experience, Epistemology, Technology Uses in Education
Yelich Biniecki, Susan M.; Conceição, Simone C. O. – Adult Learning, 2016
An understanding of learning theories can help adult educators become more effective practitioners and meet the needs of the learners they serve. Adult educators who understand how individuals learn can be better prepared to use effective strategies during the learning process. This article addresses the use of concept maps as a strategy to engage…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Adult Learning, Learning Theories, Educational Strategies
Grabman, Rebecca; Stol, Talia; McNamara, Annie; Brahms, Lisa – Journal of Museum Education, 2019
This article describes Children's Museum of Pittsburgh's multi-phase approach to developing professional development (PD) for its maker educators. Researchers engaged maker educator staff in research-practice partnerships at each stage of the process, with the intention of supporting maker educators in developing their practice. Grounded in…
Descriptors: Museums, Faculty Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Sociocultural Patterns
Boonma, Malai; Phaiboonnugulkij, Malinee – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This article calls for a strong need to propose the theoretical framework of the Multiple Intelligences theory (MI) and provide a suitable answer of the doubt in part of foreign language teaching. The article addresses the application of MI theory following various sources from Howard Gardner and the authors who revised this theory for use in the…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Jackson, Rebecca L. W.; Ammerman, Sarah B.; Trautwein, Blane A. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2015
Earlier indentification has increased the number of infants identified with hearing loss. A significant and growing proportion of children who are D/deaf or hard of hearing have a disability (DWD). Literature related to infants and toddlers who are DWD is scarce because of the heterogeneity of the population and because many disabilities may go…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Early Intervention, Disability Identification
Yanchar, Stephen C.; Faulconer, James E. – Educational Technology, 2011
This article presents the concept of facilitative theorizing as an alternative to prescriptive and descriptive theory in educational technology. The authors contend that these traditional forms of theory do not offer sufficient assistance to practitioners as they go about everyday design work. Facilitative theorizing, as an alternative, is…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational Theories, Learning Theories, Theory Practice Relationship
Bussey, Thomas J.; Orgill, MaryKay; Crippen, Kent J. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2013
Instructors are constantly baffled by the fact that two students who are sitting in the same class, who have access to the same materials, can come to understand a particular chemistry concept differently. Variation theory offers a theoretical framework from which to explore possible variations in experience and the resulting differences in…
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Instruction, Prior Learning, Learning Theories