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Anda Fournel; Chrystelle Blanc-Lanaute; Qionghua Cai – Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 2024
Existing research recognizes the crucial role played by imagination in giving meaning to our experience, thinking critically and paying attention to difference. By using a design based on what we called 'embodied imagination' (analogical reasoning) and 'narrative imagination' (contributions from universal stories), we conduct an exploratory study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Conflict Resolution
Vasiliki Vasilaki – Online Submission, 2024
The current study explores the impact of visual arts education on early childhood, highlighting its role in enhancing creativity, imagination, and emotional expression in pre-school children. It explores the perspectives of pre-school teachers on the importance of visual arts in children's development and the challenges they face when integrating…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Visual Arts, Art Education, Educational Policy
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Guangxiang Liu; Yue Zhang; Rui Zhang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Focusing on how a world of possibilities is opened up by language learners themselves, imagination has been regarded as an elusive but indispensable element in second language (L2) education. Drawing on notions of international posture (Yashima 2002), Ideal L2 Self (Dörnyei 2009), and imagined communities (Norton 2001), we theorised imagination…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept
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Samrat Bisai; Smriti Singh – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
In a multilingual classroom, students come from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. They bring various cultural experiences, knowledge, and linguistic resources with them, however, most of the time, these resources remain unutilized as the medium for discourse in the classroom is often the dominant language. As a result, minority…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Language Minorities, Classroom Communication
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Wong, Marina Wai-yee – Music Education Research, 2022
To investigate music teachers' perceptions and concerns in fostering music creativity of students with intellectual disabilities, findings are presented from a study of nine music teachers purposely sampled from across all three categories (mild, medium, severe) of Hong Kong's special school for students with intellectual disabilities. Personal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Teachers, Music Education, Students with Disabilities
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Emmeline E. Hoogland; Micha H. J. Ummels – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
In secondary science education, students often do not feel engaged with the scientific concepts that are taught, which hinders conceptual learning. This lack of engagement can be overcome by fictional placemaking. Therefore, the purpose of our design-based research is to explore how the creation and use of fictional places lead to meaningful…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Secondary School Students, Communities of Practice
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Horng, Ruey-Yun; Wang, Ching-Wen; Yen, Yung-Chieh; Lu, Chia-Ying; Li, Chien-Tao – Creativity Research Journal, 2021
Conceptual combination is proposed as the mental activity by which imagination produces new ideas in creative processes. Two parallel forms of the imagination test were constructed based on conceptual combination theory. Each test comprises eighteen unrelated noun-noun pairs. For each pair, an original idea is required. The test-retest reliability…
Descriptors: Imagination, Alternative Assessment, Creativity Tests, Cognitive Processes
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Zhanat, Aliyeva; Kunimzhan, Abdikalyk; Aigul, Alimkhan; Agabekkyzy, Berkenova Rabiga; Nurziya, Abisheva – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2022
It is extremely important to bring national and universal values to young individuals from an early age. This study aims to evaluate the views of teachers about teaching modern Kazakh stories over national values. The qualitative research method was used in the research. The study group of the research consisted of 40 primary school teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Folk Culture, Story Telling, Elementary School Teachers
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Porto, Melina; Zembylas, Michalinos – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2020
In this article we depart from a conceptualisation of foreign language teaching as intercultural citizenship in schools and universities. We extend this conceptualisation by suggesting that foreign language teaching can and should also sensitise students about issues of human suffering and cultivate empathy, solidarity, hospitality and inclusion.…
Descriptors: Empathy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Zukas, Alex – History Teacher, 2020
Taking a lead from recent articles in "The History Teacher," the author placed history, popular culture, and historical literacy at the core of a history course entitled "Enchanted Capitalism: Myths, Monsters, and Markets." Drawing on folklore, literature, popular culture, and economics, the course explored the rise of…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Popular Culture, Literacy, Course Descriptions
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Orr, Edna – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This study reports on the development of new motor and behavioural indicators for recognizing symbolic acts among infants. Following five infants between the ages of 6 and 18 months and their ability to use an object in novel way yielded four levels of action, based on the number of objects and actions combined in each symbolic act. Employing…
Descriptors: Infants, Psychomotor Skills, Infant Behavior, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
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Chang, Chi-Cheng; Yao, Shu-Nung; Chen, Shi-An; King, Jung-Tai; Liang, Chaoyun – Creativity Research Journal, 2016
This article describes a structural examination of the interaction among different imaginative capacities and the entrepreneurial intention of electrical and computer engineering students. Two studies were combined to confirm the factor structure of survey items and test the hypothesised interaction model. The results indicated that imaginative…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries, Factor Structure, Creativity
Ekin, Semih – Online Submission, 2018
This study was conducted to examine the predictors of willingness to communicate (WTC) inside and outside the classroom and to examine the effect of vision/imagery capacity on willingness to communicate. The study was designed via a quantitative approach in which a composite instrument was used to examine the relationships of different variables…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Student Attitudes
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Liang, Chaoyun; Chang, Wen-Shan; Yao, Shu-Nung; King, Jung-Tai; Chen, Shi-An – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2016
Purpose: To address the dynamic challenges associated with developing a globally sustainable society, numerous scholars have stressed the need to cultivate the imagination of agricultural students. This study aimed to explore how pictorial representations stimulate the imaginative capacities of agricultural extension students.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Agricultural Education, Extension Education
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Hill, Joanna – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2017
Counterfactual thinking refers to imaginative thoughts about what might have been ("if only" or "what if") which are intrinsically linked to self-conscious emotions (regret and guilt) and social judgements (blame). Research in adults suggests that the focus of these thoughts is influenced by order (temporal and causal). Little…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Imagination, Educational Psychology
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