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Local Rural Knowledge and Early Childhood Informal Science Education in Rural Nebraska
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Sarah M. Paulos – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study aims to discover the existing experiences that lead to local rural knowledge (LRK) of specific rural Northeast Nebraska communities. This information will assist in understanding the impact that LRK has on young children's science knowledge in rural communities. By engaging in hands-on experiences and interactions, science learning…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Informal Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Early Childhood Education
Learners' Engagement in Transdisciplinary STEAM Activities: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Perceptions, Self-Efficacy, and Self-Determination within an Out-of-School Science Program
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Areej Mawasi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In this three-article dissertation, I explore how ten Palestinian fifth and sixth-grade students perceive and engage with science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and art (STEAM) activities within an out-of-school context. I collaborated with a local organization, Al-Roward for Science and Technology which developed the programming for the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Intersectionality, Art Education, STEM Education
Understanding the Impact of a Kit-Based Science Resource on Teachers' Ability to Engage Students in Science: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
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Larsen, Kristin – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The lack of time and attention dedicated to science at the elementary level is a problem that results in a missed opportunity to engage students in science at an early age, potentially perpetuating the gender gap at the secondary, college and career levels. There are many factors contributing to the lack of science education at the elementary…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Phenomenology, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science
Square Pegs in Round Holes: Montessori Principals' Perceptions of Science Education in Texas Public Schools
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Pollock, Lindsey – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine the perceptions of Texas public Montessori school principals as instructional leaders in science. Twelve public Montessori school principals were interviewed for this study. Two research questions were used: How do public Montessori principals perceive Texas science standards in public…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Montessori Schools
Digital Fabrication as an Instructional Technology for Supporting Upper Elementary and Middle School Science and Mathematics Education
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Tillman, Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this three-paper manuscript dissertation was to study digital fabrication as an instructional technology for supporting elementary and middle school science and mathematics education. Article one analyzed the effects of digital fabrication activities that were designed to contextualize mathematics education at a summer mathematics…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Mathematics, Secondary School Science
An Analysis of the Design and Implementation of Elementary Science Methods Class Instruction in Colleges and Universities in Arkansas
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Lee, Carole K. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study aims to understand the design and implementation of elementary methods classes focused in science instruction by teacher educators in the colleges and universities in the state of Arkansas. All 18 institutions with an Early Childhood Education program approved by the Arkansas Department of Education were reviewed with interviews, site…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Science, Early Childhood Education