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Allatt, Gwyneth; Tett, Lyn – Journal of Education Policy, 2019
We draw on theories of policy enactment to explore the ways in which the situated, material and external contexts and professional cultures in adult literacy in the UK have influenced practitioners. Our analysis of the transnational (OECD, EU) and UK external policy contexts found that skills-related education is prioritised, with a focus on…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Policy, Literacy Education, Job Skills
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Donna L. Miller – English Journal, 2015
This piece explores conditions that stimulate classroom activities to facilitate creative habits of mind in an effort to motivate educators and students to better understand the complexities of creativity and how to promote it.
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Students
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Mohanty, Atasi – SAGE Open, 2015
This study attempts to assess and compare the residential and non-residential schoolchildren in information-processing skills and creative thinking abilities. A sample of 80 children from Classes 5 and 7 were selected from two types of schools, residential/ashram (02) and non-residential/formal schools (02) in Bolpur subdivision of West Bengal in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Residential Schools
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Levenson, Esther – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2013
Promoting mathematical creativity is one of the aims of mathematics education. This study investigates the tasks teachers chose when their aim was to occasion mathematical creativity in the classroom. Five cases are described in depth, and general trends found among these cases as well as in additional data are discussed. Findings indicated that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Creativity, Creative Teaching, Teaching Methods
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Madkour, Magda – International Education Studies, 2016
This quantitative-qualitative analytical research aimed at investigating the effect of integrating project-based teaching methodology into teaching machine translation on students' performance. Data was collected from the graduate students in the College of Languages and Translation, at Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Qualitative Research, Second Language Learning
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Gibson, Robyn – Teaching in Higher Education, 2010
Richard Florida's "The rise of the creative class" (2002) delivered a strong wake-up call to higher education institutions worldwide. By linking creativity to technological innovation and economic prosperity, Florida argued that universities and colleges should nurture creativity in their students. But for many years, the higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Creativity, Creative Teaching, Innovation
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Wingate, Richard J. T. – Journal of Biological Education, 2011
An enduring focus in education on how scientists formulate experiments and "do science" in the laboratory has excluded a vital element of scientific practice: the creative and imaginative thinking that generates models and testable hypotheses. In this case study, final-year biomedical sciences university students were invited to create and justify…
Descriptors: Play, Biomedicine, Classification, Cognitive Processes
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Rohrig, Brian – Science Teacher, 2010
A major goal of education is to help learners store information in long-term memory and use that information on later occasions to effectively solve problems (Vockell 2010). Therefore, this author began to use the Rubik's cube to help students learn to problem solve. There is something special about this colorful three-dimensional puzzle that…
Descriptors: Long Term Memory, Teaching Methods, Problem Solving, Puzzles
Curtis, Deb – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2009
One of the author's worries about the growing focus on academics and school readiness in programs for young children is it keeps many teachers from seeing children's innate, lively minds at work. When teachers are overly concerned about teaching the alphabet and other isolated skills and facts, they may miss children's serious approaches to tasks…
Descriptors: Young Children, Creativity, Cognitive Processes, Thinking Skills
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Harwood, Valerie – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2010
Conceptualising difference is a key task for inclusive pedagogy, and vital to the politics of inclusion. My purpose in this paper is to consider the place that imagination has in helping us to conceptualise difference, and to argue that imagination has a key part to play in inclusive pedagogy. To do this I draw closely on the work of Maxine Greene…
Descriptors: Imagination, Creative Teaching, Teaching Methods, Inclusive Schools
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2016
For the thirty-ninth time, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two volumes.…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Conference Papers, Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Technology
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Turner, Thomas – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2008
In the author's article in the 1988 premiere issue of "Social Studies and the Young Learner," he suggested that chain songs and rounds, simple folk and summer camp standards, could be easily transformed with lyrics (written by the teacher or students) that contained useful, purposeful social studies content. He argued then, and still does, that…
Descriptors: Music, Singing, Social Studies, Teaching Methods
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Al-Balushi, Sulaiman M. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2009
This study explores the mental images at the microscopic level of matter created by 22 preservice science teachers in Oman. Participants were encouraged during a guided imagery session to construct mental images for a scenario written about the explanation of the reaction of sodium in water. They were then asked to describe what they envisioned in…
Descriptors: Imagination, Imagery, Chemistry, Long Term Memory
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Swaggerty, Elizabeth – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2009
What happens when children come across texts that push the boundaries of what they expect to encounter when they pick up a picture book? There exists a genre of nontraditional picture books, commonly referred to as "postmodern picture books," which is characterized by a variety of alternative literary and illustrative devices. Given that…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Picture Books, Postmodernism
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Laidlaw, Linda – English Quarterly, 2003
Considers how the possibility that the use of the specific "technology" of writing might itself alter thought, language, relations, identities, or pedagogical practice. Hopes to create learning environments which acknowledge and support the complex processes involved in learning to write, addressing literacy as an emergent phenomenon of language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Teaching, Literacy, Primary Education
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