Teachers have used projects in children's education for over a century. More recently, project management knowledge and skills have become essential when students manage technological solutions from inception to presentation. This paper presents the first scoping literature review on teaching project management to primary school students. A total…

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…

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.…

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…

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.…

This article reports on Nevada's Reading First program and positions it as a source of reflection for future worldwide literacy reform efforts. Qualitative methodology was used for this analysis. Students' literacy achievement improved throughout the program until the last year of implementation. Students who remained at a Reading First school…

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…

Proposes a model to help teachers become consumers and producers of research as an integral part of classroom instruction. The strategy begins with teachers' concerns and aims at helping them become more responsible for directing their own professional development. Suggests employment of the model in preservice teacher education. (TRS)

Explores to what extent the pedagogics of primary education may be considered a discipline of empirical research. Studies writings on the theoretical self-understanding of the pedagogics of primary education and examines educational-psychological research that claims to be relevant to the field of primary education. (CMK)

A study is reported which involved elementary school teachers being exposed to a new teaching approach, practicing the approach by way of in-service opportunities, and then studying the effects on their own class. (MN)

Responses to area and preimeter questions asked of 9-, 13-, 17-year-olds and young adults in the National Assessment are summarized. Recommendations for instruction aimed at improving these results are described. (SD) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Results (Interpretation).

Results of National Assessment problems on area are used to highlight the difficulties elementary students have with area and volume concepts. Recommendations for instruction include the provision for substantial practice with coverings before the introduction of computational short-cuts. (SD) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in…

This document reports the results of two studies performed to determine the effectiveness of special lessons in facilitating the attainment by children of the basic concept "tree." The first study, which utilized 103 fifth-grade students, also investigated the effects of pretesting. Results showed no significant effects of pretesting and…

Experiments by Russian educators on teaching algebra in elementary grades are summarized by the author. The algebra taught consisted of generalized solutions to concrete problems that are usually presented with fixed numerical values. (JP)

Investigated was growth in creativity under two different teacher behavioral strategies (student-structured and teacher-structured learning). Results indicated that students in a nondirective, student-structured science class made significant gains in figural creativity with no loss or gain in student verbal creativity. (BT)