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What a Difference a Coach Makes!
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Verieux Vow Mourillon – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2024
This paper explores the critical difference a certified Action Learning Coach makes to the outcomes of the Action Learning process, which underscores WIAL's insistence that the coach is indispensable to achieving breakthrough solutions with Action Learning. Real-life coaching examples are used to illustrate three key benefits of having a coach:…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Influences, Group Guidance, Learning Experience
Transgressing Personal Foregrounds through the Learning of Mathematics
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Pieronkiewicz, Barbara; Szczygiel, Monika – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
According to humanistic psychology, human beings have the potential to shape and change their lives. People are self-determining creatures capable of making decisions about what their existence will be like and who they will become. We interpret this specifically human feature as an empowerment to design one's life and also to influence…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Mathematics Instruction, Self Esteem, Self Efficacy
Is There a Generational Divide in Environmental Optimism? PISA in Focus. No. 95
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OECD Publishing, 2019
Problems associated with the environment loom large over the future well-being of young generations. A previous issue of PISA in Focus (PISA in Focus 87) shows that in 2015 many 15-year-old students believed that the future -- their future -- was going to be worse, environmentally, than the present. In particular, only a minority of students…
Descriptors: Positive Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
Unsettling the Familiar: Challenging Discourses of Deficit through the Hesitation and Pause of an Appreciative Lens
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Rogers, Bev; Thambi, Melinda; Shifana, Mariyam – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2015
Whilst deficit discourses in classrooms and staff rooms are pervasive and dominant, there is some research which supports teachers disrupting deficit thinking and reconnecting with student "funds of knowledge". Processes for disrupting deficit knowledges tend to assume individual teacher construction of deficit views in conversation with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, Inquiry, Teacher Attitudes
Understanding Creativity in Mathematics for Improving Mathematical Education
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Grégoire, Jacques – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2016
Mathematical creativity is rooted in the intellectual abilities and personality traits of each individual, in which the direct influence of education is only moderate. However, education could have more influence on three important components of creativity: expertise, original thinking, and intrinsic motivation, which underlie individual creative…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Improvement, Positive Attitudes, Creativity
eLearning Hubs and Edu-Business: How Private Companies Can Serve Common Good--The Case of Samsung School
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Dell'Acqua, Silvia – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
"You are never too old, too young or too busy to learn". This means that you can be a lifelong learner, truly enjoying your learning experience. This has been quite an interesting change of perspective in learning, which is worth investigating. Both in environments primarily thought for education and during "ad hoc" experiences…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Educational Attitudes, Positive Attitudes, Electronic Learning