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Cultivating Democratic Educational Technology within Pedagogical Encounters
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Waghid, Yusef; Waghid, Faiq; Waghid, Zayd – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Too much is being made of educational technology often valorizing it as a savior of pedagogical relations. The reasoning is: If educational technology 'is used' in teacher training, then teachers possessing such capacities and skills could just be the panacea education systems require to respond to the challenges of learning, teaching, and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Democratic Values, Risk, Personal Autonomy
I Can Create Mental Images to Retell and Infer Big Ideas
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Miller, Debbie – Reading Teacher, 2013
As teachers, we are always reflecting on and refining our craft. In this article, the author shares how her understanding and implementation of comprehension strategy instruction has evolved over the past ten years. These shifts include her current thinking about the gradual release of responsibility instructional model, how content and big ideas…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Reflective Teaching, Teaching Methods, Reading Comprehension
How Clear and Organized Classroom Instruction and Deep Approaches to Learning Affect Growth in Critical Thinking and Need for Cognition
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Wang, Jui-Sheng; Pascarella, Ernest T.; Nelson Laird, Thomas F.; Ribera, Amy K. – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
In this study the authors analyze longitudinal student survey data from the 17-institution Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education (WNS) to determine the extent that the influence of overall exposure to clear and organized instruction on four-year growth in two measures of cognitive development is mediated by student use of deep approaches…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Classroom Techniques, Instructional Effectiveness, Longitudinal Studies
Developing Voices: Transformative Education in a First-Grade Two-Way Spanish Immersion Classroom, a Participatory Study.
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Arce, Josephine – Bilingual Research Journal, 2000
A participatory research project examined the transformative process that a first-grade two-way Spanish immersion classroom underwent to build a community of learners. Drawing on a critical pedagogy framework, the teacher provided daily opportunities to engage young students in dialogue to develop their voices and created a literacy-rich…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Critical Pedagogy, Critical Thinking, Educational Environment
Critical Thinking in Reflective Sessions and in Online Interactions
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Celani, Maria Antonieta Alba; Collins, Heloisa – AILA Review, 2005
This paper focuses on online educational sessions of a continuing teacher education programme. The aim of this programme is to give a contribution to the continuing education of teachers of English as critical professionals, aware of discursive classroom practices, able to analyze them in the light of objectives to be reached and knowledge to be…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Continuing Education, Teacher Education Programs, English Teacher Education
Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education. New Edition.
Wilson, Arthur L., Ed.; Hayes, Elisabeth R., Ed. – 2000
This handbook presents the perspectives of more than 60 leading authorities on the study and practice of adult and continuing education. The following are among the papers included: "A Selective History of Adult Education Handbooks" (A.L. Wilson, E.R. Hayes); "The Concept of Critically Reflective Practice" (Stephen D.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning