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Ann E. Williams; Natalie E. Williams – Communication Teacher, 2024
This paper provides a theory-based introduction to instructional design that can be used in pedagogy seminars, training sessions, professional development events, colloquiums, and/or programmatic guidebooks. It includes a series of activities designed to assist instructors in the classes they teach. The exercises combine theory with practice to…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Educational Theories, Seminars, Teacher Workshops
Seunghyun Lee – Educational Theory, 2025
Whether open-mindedness (OM) counts as an admirable epistemic aim of education has been a surprisingly contentious matter. Skeptics point out that OM is only contingently truth-conducive and that open-minded students may be maladaptive to the hostile epistemic environment outside school. Here, Seunghyun Lee contends that, while these critiques are…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Epistemology, Thinking Skills, Cognitive Processes
Lutsenko, Olena, Ed. – IntechOpen, 2022
In the context of globalization changes in educational systems, it is important to modify approaches to the educational process and introduce learning technologies that allow for maximum involvement in learning. One such technology is the technology of active learning, which engages learners through participation in the cognitive process and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Theory Practice Relationship, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology
Ying Hu – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The capacity of educators to dynamically adjust their thought processes and behaviors in response to the diverse needs and characteristics of students in an unfolding teaching situation is widely acknowledged as a cornerstone of effective teaching. While teachers' instructional adaptations have been documented and studied from various angles, the…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Cognitive Processes, Teaching Methods, Student Needs
Scholz, Marcel – Global Education Review, 2023
This paper uses a selected case study to show how the theoretical topos of formal stage theory of Herbartian provenance, which originated in the German-speaking world, underwent an adaptation and semantic shift in U.S. discourse around 1900. The findings presented here relate to the interpretation of the human cognitive process and the subsequent…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Theories, Discourse Analysis, Educational History
Julian Elliott; Joanna Stanbridge; Kirsten Branigan – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
This paper examines the operation of the English Special Educational Needs and Disability tribunal system in relation to children who present with a dyslexia diagnosis. It identifies a number of significant weaknesses; in particular, the absence of clear diagnostic criteria capable of differentiating such children from large numbers of other…
Descriptors: Special Education, Dyslexia, Cognitive Processes, Students with Disabilities
Dominic Wyse; Charlotte Hacking – Literacy, 2024
This paper presents a new theory and model of the teaching of decoding, reading and writing. The first part of the paper reviews a selection of influential models of learning to read and write that to varying degrees have been used as the basis for approaches to teaching, including the "Simple View of Reading." As well as noting some…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
Jennie F. Lane; Servet Altan; Rebecca L. Franzen – Environmental Education Research, 2024
This study was launched after re-analyzing teacher narratives from an earlier study; the narratives were reflections on environmental education practices. The analysis involved using a framework that relates Habits of Mind to educational theories. An unsurprising outcome was finding Habits of Mind associated with mindfulness and constructivism. An…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Cognitive Processes, Thinking Skills, Self Efficacy
Katherine I. Kang – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study investigates the effects of four online vocabulary tasks on second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition among learners of different proficiency levels. While tasks are widely used to support L2 vocabulary learning, the efficacy of a task depends on the interplay between task and learner factors. Thus, choosing an appropriate task…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Nana Ariel – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
The common reproach: "think before you speak!," epitomises an educational paradigm in which speech is only the act of transmission finalised ideas. In his inspiring short essay "On the Gradual Formation of Thoughts During Speech" from 1805, the German writer Heinrich von Kleist challenged this approach when he described his…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Philosophy, Educational Theories
Paul Howard-Jones; Bethany Woollacott; Camilla Gilmore – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2025
We consider what is known about the potential internal processes involved when educators come to use research findings in their classroom practice. We undertook a conceptual review drawing on a range of disciplines, with findings ultimately categorised under six phases regarding research uptake and implementation. This categorisation provides a…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Teaching Methods, Educational Research, Research Utilization
Biyao Liang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Teacher knowledge of students' mathematical thinking has been a growing research area in mathematics education. Although researchers have made substantial progress in understanding students' mathematical thinking and created research programs and curricula tailored to the research findings, teacher education programs have, by and large, not been…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Teacher Student Relationship
Joelash R. Honra; Sheryl Lyn C. Monterola – Cogent Education, 2024
Bridging theoretical learning with practical applications is crucial in biology education, where the relevance of concepts directly influences learners' adaptability across educational contexts. This study assessed how Design-Based Biology Instruction (DBBI) impacts students' cognitive flexibility. Employing a three-group pretest-posttest…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Design, Thinking Skills, Biology
Celestini, Ann – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2020
Games have been socially entrenched throughout history as a form of entertainment. Current rapidly changing technological advances have permitted an increasingly prominent means of utilizing these entertainment sources in an instructional capacity for educational purposes. As a result, serious games focus on engaging learners in activities which…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Distance Education, Game Based Learning, Educational Games
Wang Xiaotian; Nirat Jantharajit; Sarit Srikhao – Asian Journal of Contemporary Education, 2024
The aim of this study is to investigate how to foster vocational college students' autonomy in learning by integrating metacognitive strategies and social cognitive learning theory. The study uses social cognitive learning theory to look at metacognitive strategies in a systematic and thorough way. It looks for similarities and places where the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories, Social Cognition