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Detective Mystery Play: Play-Based Research Methods for Facilitating Young Children's Critical Thinking
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Loreain Martinez-lejarreta; Lorna Arnott; Kate Wall – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
This article explores the usefulness of detective role-play as a research method to facilitate young children's critical thinking. The study examines four specifically designed detective play experiences, adopting an ethical rights-based approach to research with children. This qualitative multiple-case study is grounded in play-based pedagogy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Critical Thinking, Active Learning
Enhancing Executive Function through Imaginary Play: A Promising New Practice Principle
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Walker, Sue; Fleer, Marilyn; Veresov, Nikolai; Duhn, Iris – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2020
This paper presents the findings of a study conducted with preschool teachers trialling an intervention in which executive function activities are embedded in teachers' daily practices and imaginary play is used to build meaningful problem situations that children solve using executive functions. The participants were 227 preschool children (53%…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Imagination, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children
Forum-Theatre Technique to Foster Creative and Active Problem Solving: A Resilience-Building Intervention among In-Service Teachers
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Sappa, Viviana; Barabasch, Antje – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2020
This paper introduces the results of an evaluation of the Forum-theatre workshop method, which was designed within the framework of a resilience-building intervention. About 230 in-service vocational school teachers in Canton of Ticino participated in the study. A mixed-methods research design was applied to investigate potentialities of the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Resilience (Psychology), Inservice Teacher Education, Intervention
Using Forum Theatre to Develop Various Levels of Thinking Skills among Moral Education Students in Secondary School
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Thambu, Nadarajan; Haji Othman, Mohamad Khairi; Mahadir Naidu, Noor Banu – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2020
Purpose: The power of forum theatre in education and various other fields is well known by educators. However, the use of forum theatre in Malaysia, particularly in the field of moral education, is still limited. At the same time, the development of thinking skills is one of the aims of the Malaysian moral education curriculum. Therefore, this…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Dramatic Play, Values Education, Moral Values
Cognitive and Social Play of Australian Preschoolers.
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Wyver, Shirley R.; Spence, Susan H. – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 1995
Observed behaviors of 37 female and 23 male Australian preschoolers. Found that only 20% engaged in thematic pretend play (linked to perspective taking, language development, impulse control, divergent problem solving) whereas 24% used cooperative social play (linked to divergent problem solving). Results suggest need for assistance in the…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Cognitive Development, Dramatic Play, Early Childhood Education
Brockhill Park School.
Munn, Dawn – Environmental Education, 1995
Recounts a week-long environmental program that revolved around staff dressing up as Alpha Centaurions to point out pollution on Earth. Activities were chosen to teach students about ways in which our environment is being ruined and students were encouraged to look for solutions. Activities included zoo visits, ecological study of Brockhill Valley…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Conservation Education, Dramatic Play, Ecology