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Gembo Tshering; David R. Byrd – Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education, 2024
Primary education plays a critical role in any country's education system, and it is essential to review its effectiveness periodically. To draw accurate conclusions from the review, it is crucial to develop a framework that will effectually and efficiently guide educators and others in comprehending the complexities of primary education and aid…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement
Khanna, Devi; Peterson, Amelia – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2023
The Happiness Curriculum is made up of compulsory 45-minute daily lessons with the aim of developing mindfulness, critical thinking, reflection, and social-emotional skills among students in more than 1,000 government-run schools in Delhi, India. Three units--Exploring Happiness through Learning and Awareness; Experiencing Happiness in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschools, Elementary Education, Curriculum
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Papanthymou, Anastasia; Darra, Maria – Journal of Education and Learning, 2019
The present study is a literature review of 37 empirical studies from Greece and internationally of the last decade and aims at investigating the contribution of learner self-assessment to: a. enhancement of learning motivation, b. improvement of academic performance/learning, c. development of self-regulating learning and d. raise of self-esteem.…
Descriptors: Instruction, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Physical Education, Self Esteem
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Sims, Laura; Asselin, Madeleine; Falkenberg, Thomas – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2020
This qualitative case study examines the effectiveness of environmental and sustainability education (ESE) pedagogical strategies used in two Université de Saint-Boniface pre-service teacher education Curriculum and Instruction courses. The methods used to teach these ESE pedagogical strategies are described. Findings from interviews with former…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Environmental Education, Sustainability, Teaching Methods
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2020
This book contains the full text of papers and posters presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2020), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.), that this year had to be transformed into a fully Virtual Conference as a result of the Coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic.…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Educational Quality, Academic Standards
Higgins, Mary Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This phenomenological study investigates the ways in which practitioner inquiry influences preservice teachers' beliefs about teaching and learning. The study followed five teacher candidates (interns) completing an internship in a K-4 Professional Development School (PDS). This study focused on the interns' engagement in practitioner inquiry and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Researchers, Educational Research, Teacher Interns
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Gilpin, Lorraine – Teacher Education and Practice, 2011
While there are obvious benefits of summer school for students and faculty alike, summer teaching/learning poses some unique challenges. Summer class meeting periods often have fewer contact hours but are longer and more frequent than sessions during the regular academic year. Thus, there are shorter periods between formative and summative…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Scholarship, Instruction, Learning
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Uçus, Sükran; Dedeoglu, Hakan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2016
Children's rights education is to enable children to gain the necessary social behaviors and essential knowledge for creating a democratic society that is based on respecting human rights. The purpose of this study was to investigate the preparation, application and assessment of a curriculum for teaching children's rights in elementary education.…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Curriculum Development, Action Research, Elementary Education
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Casey, Leo; Bruce, Bertram C. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
This article elaborates on the Inquiry Cycle as an appropriate model of learning for the digitally enhanced classroom. Its goal is to provide a useful link between theory and pedagogic practice. This involves taking a new look at the concept of digital literacy. The authors propose a conceptual framework connecting classroom practices and elements…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Classrooms
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers
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Hyvonen, Pirkko Tellervo – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
Playful learning environments (PLEs) have been constructed in schoolyards in Finland with the aim of increasing learning through play in curriculum-based education. In order to better understand and inform this development, the Hyvonen sets out to ascertain how teachers view and use play in kindergarten and elementary education. Fourteen teachers…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Play, Teacher Education Programs, Elementary Education
Babini, Kathleen Callanan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Public schools stress the need for students to become informed and engaged citizens, however social studies instruction is becoming marginalized in many elementary schools today, the very area where they learn citizenship and about the world around them. This study seeks to: understand the reason for the loss of instructional time for social…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Elementary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
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Schwabsky, Nitza – Journal of School Leadership, 2013
The present study examines the nonroutine problems that eight Anglo-American principals encountered in managing three elementary bilingual immersion schools in the Northwest United States. Using qualitative inquiry to collect data, I employed the multisited ethnographic research model. The principals reported nonroutine problems in the following…
Descriptors: Principals, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Immersion Programs
Padilla, Michael J. – 1976
Reported is a test of retention related to a weight, texture, and force experiment performed by a group of 120 first grade students who had been randomly grouped into three treatment strategies. The results of the retention task, accuracy test, an analysis of the strategies used on both posttests and retention tests, and some miscellaneous post…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Holliday, William G.; Partridge, Louise A. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to evaluate a practical procedure for determining the optimum sequencing of pictorial classification tasks in science using mean difficulty indices generated by a standard sample of grade two students. Acquisition of such skills can affect the learner's performance on subsequent material and the teacher's efforts in…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Instruction
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