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Stephanie L. Hudson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation explores the diversity and depth of scholarship at the intersection of feminist studies and science and questions where and how these inquiries might be taken up in the university curriculum. The dissertation theorizes a postmodern, reconceptualist curriculum as it intersects with critical and complexity theories that takes up a…
Descriptors: Science Education, Feminism, Interdisciplinary Approach, Microbiology
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María Luisa García Underwood; Reshma Ramkellawan-Arteaga – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2024
This article addresses the challenges and importance of integrating discussions on race and social justice into the classroom. Considering recent legislative actions in various states aimed at restricting such discussions, the article presents an empowering framework designed to support educators in facilitating these conversations. This…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Culturally Relevant Education, Social Justice, Racism
Josh Freeman – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2025
The school and college curriculum plays a crucial role in preparing students for higher education, but does it always leave them well equipped? This report, which has been kindly sponsored by the University of Chester, draws on fresh student polling and extensive research to show that, while most undergraduate students feel academically prepared,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Curriculum, Higher Education, College Preparation
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Ali Nouri – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2024
Since the 1950s, educational literature has explored the potential of translating art criticism into classroom practices. This eventually led to the emergence of educational criticism as a distinctive form of inquiry in the 1970s. However, despite its potential for exploring educational experiences and evaluating educational programs, educational…
Descriptors: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Art Criticism
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Rizky Agassy Sihombing; Muslim Muslim; Taufik Rahman; Nanang Winarno – Journal of Science Learning, 2024
Integrating STEM-ESD enhances educational quality through interdisciplinary, hands-on learning experiences that foster deeper understanding and cultivate skills for real-world challenges. This paper presents a systematic review examining STEM-ESD implementation in Indonesia's educational context. Guided by four research questions, the study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Educational Quality, Sustainable Development
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Jenni Conrad; Jennifer Lynn Gallagher; Wendy Chan – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2024
While recognized as a foundational practice, social studies educators struggle with enacting inquiry-based instruction. With critical inquiries that examine sociopolitical and other injustices, developing aligned compelling questions represents a challenge, particularly for elementary teachers. Informed by four lenses of criticality from social…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Inquiry, Curriculum Development, Teacher Education Programs
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Boyd M. Goodson; Qingfeng Ge; Lichang Wang – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Over the past 20 years, significant effort has been devoted to advancing the modular approach to teaching chemistry laboratory courses. The development and implementation of two modules are presented here for teaching a second-semester physical chemistry laboratory course using the modular approach: an inquiry-based module concerning proteins and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Teaira McMurtry – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
America's strength lies in its inherent diversity--an enduring truth that makes the Eurocentric nature of our educational curricula troubling. Despite this foundational reality, curricular materials remain predominantly Eurocentric, often excluding authentic representation and inclusion of Black/African American experiences in children's and young…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Cultural Context, Cultural Pluralism
Wendy Michelle Lewis – ProQuest LLC, 2022
National mathematics achievement results show that elementary students in the United States are not increasing in cognitive ability or critical thinking skills (NAEP, 2020). For this increase, mathematically promising students require more opportunities for cognitively demanding mathematics instruction. As a result, this descriptive study focused…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Skills, Cognitive Processes
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VanTassel-Baska, Joyce; Hubbard, Gail Fischer; Robbins, Janice I. – Roeper Review, 2020
This article focuses on research findings from multiple evaluation studies on the teacher use of differentiated practices for gifted learners that have implications for best practice in gifted education internationally. Research questions centered on what specific differentiation practices were employed with gifted learners and distinctions found…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Individualized Instruction, Teaching Methods, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
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Schneider, Carol Geary – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2017
The liberal arts of evidence-based inquiry are necessities for knowledgeable participation in a self-governing democracy and equally important in an innovation-dependent economy. Higher education's role in fostering these capacities has always been one of its most important contributions to the greater good. The current political environment calls…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Critical Thinking, Outcomes of Education
Hipkins, Rosemary – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2017
The big-picture vision of the New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) says it is important to foster students' dispositions to learn and to contribute as active members of society. The key competencies directly support this vision. NZC describes them as "capabilities for living and lifelong learning." Key competencies direct attention to students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Student Development, Competence
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Karikó, Sándor – Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, 2016
Douglas Martin (an editor) wrote a memoir in New York Times about Matthew Lipman, the founder of philosophy for children, today's classic thinker. Lipman's death brought attention again for the philosophy for children's status among professionals. Later one of the most prestigious international educational periodical review, the "Journal of…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Children, Critical Thinking, Child Development
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Leahy, Deana; O'Flynn, Gabrielle; Wright, Jan – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2013
A critical inquiry approach is one of five key characteristics that have shaped the development of the new Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education (AC: HPE). However, what this means is open to interpretation. In the various documents leading to the consultation draft AC: HPE and in this document itself, critical inquiry is used in…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Health Education, Physical Education, Foreign Countries
Conrad, Clifton; Dunek, Laura – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012
Inquiry-driven learners anticipate, embrace, and adapt to disruptive change. Clifton Conrad and Laura Dunek advance a transformative purpose of a college education. They invite stakeholders from across higher education to engage in vigorous dialogue about the aims of a college education--and how to realize those aims. Increasingly influenced by…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Role of Education
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