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Sowell, Marsha – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2020
Since 2007, escape rooms have become increasingly popular in mainstream society. The heightened sense of urgency felt when participating in escape games, united with the possibility of engaging students both in academic and soft-skills has led teachers to add escape games to the list of game-based strategies increasingly used in classrooms.…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Problem Solving, Cooperative Learning, Middle School Students
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Vansieleghem, Nancy – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2011
The last few decades have seen a steady growth of interest in doing philosophy with children and young people in educational settings. Philosophy with children is increasingly offered as a solution to the problems associated with what is seen by many as a disoriented, cynical, indifferent and individualistic society. It represents for its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Philosophy, Children, Young Adults
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Powell, Douglas R.; Peet, Susan H. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2008
The development and evaluation of a parenting intervention based on Sigel's distancing theory and conceptualization of intervention processes is described. An iterative program development strategy was comprised of 3 studies: (1) Results of interviews with lower-income parents of Grades 1-4 children regarding views of children's futures and…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Community Programs, Intervention, Discussion Groups