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Using Visual and Textual Metaphors to Explore Teachers' Professional Roles and Identities
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Bessette, Harriet J.; Paris, Nita A. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2020
In this study, teachers explored their professional identities by reflecting on their teaching role(s) and contexts through elicitation of textual (written) metaphors and visual (drawn) metaphors of teaching. Participants created impromptu drawings emblematic of their conceptualized metaphor. Analysis of participants' written metaphors and…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Teacher Attitudes, Reflection, Teaching Methods
A Study of Pre-Service Classroom Teachers' Beliefs about Teachers' and Students' Roles
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Kögce, Davut – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2017
The aim of this study is to determine pre-service classroom teachers' beliefs and thoughts about the roles of teachers and students in the classroom before taking the Mathematics Teaching I course. With this purpose, the study employed the survey method, a descriptive research technique. The study sample included 75 pre-service teachers (55…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
Theory-Based Assessment in Environmental Education: A Tool for Formative Evaluation
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Granit-Dgani, Dafna; Kaplan, Avi; Flum, Hanoch – Environmental Education Research, 2017
This article reports on the development of a theory-informed assessment instrument for use in evaluating environmental education programs. The instrument involves coding learners' brief reflective writing on five established educational and social psychological constructs that correspond to five important goals of environmental education:…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Formative Evaluation, Coding, Writing (Composition)
Youth Narratives on Community Experiences and Sense of Community and Their Relation to Participation in an Early Childhood Development Program
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Hasford, Julian; Loomis, Colleen; Nelson, Geoffrey; Pancer, S. Mark – Youth & Society, 2016
This comparative study examined how participation in an early childhood development (ECD) program, "Better Beginnings, Better Futures," for children (ages 4-8) relates to sense of community (SOC) in later adolescence (ages 18-19). Youths' stories (N = 96) about community experiences, collected by semistructured, open-ended interviews,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Sense of Community, Children, Late Adolescents
Understanding the Learning of Values Using a Domains-of-Socialization Framework
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Vinik, Julia; Johnston, Megan; Grusec, Joan E.; Farrell, Renee – Journal of Moral Education, 2013
The narratives that emerging adults wrote about a time when they learned an important moral, value or lesson were explored in order to determine the characteristics of events that lead to internalized values as well as to compare the way different kinds of moral values are socialized. Lessons resulting from misbehavior were reported most…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Young Adults, Moral Values, Reflection
Evaluating How the Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Community Fosters Critical Reflective Practices
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Ma, Ada W.W. – Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 2013
In recent research, little attention has been paid to issues of methodology and analysis methods to evaluate the quality of the collaborative learning community. To address such issues, an attempt is made to adopt the Activity System Model as an analytical framework to examine the relationship between computer supported collaborative learning…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Cooperative Learning, Critical Thinking, Reflection