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Svalina, Vesna – British Journal of Music Education, 2023
This paper presents the results of a study conducted to determine the importance of listening to music in relation to other music activities in teaching music in Croatian primary schools, and whether teachers' listening habits affect how much listening activity is used in music lessons. The results showed that in the teaching of music at the…
Descriptors: Listening Skills, Music Education, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods
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Kamsa, Imane; Elouahbi, Rachid; El Khoukhi, Fatima – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2018
Learners' concentration is an essential factor for learning and acquisition. The duration of concentration varies from one individual to another. Some learners have a long duration of concentration; whereas, others have a short one. Leaving the learner in front of a screen for a random duration is a strategy that does not optimize online learning.…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Attention, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Ekinci, Nurullah Emir; Yalcin, Hilal – Journal of Educational Issues, 2019
This study aimed to investigate the leisure involvement level of individuals 40 years and over according to various variables. The study sample consisted of 106 volunteers aged 40 years and over in Hendek district of Sakarya city. As a data collection tool "leisure involvement scale" which developed by Kyle et al. (2007) and adapted to…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Adults, Older Adults, Foreign Countries
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Aksoy, Yener; Arslan, Oguzan – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2019
Recreation, which means relaxing and pleasant activities that people do voluntarily in their free time, is a concept that provides the physical and psychological renewal of individuals. The study was conducted on a total of 497 students, 248 men participating in recreational sports activities and 249 men who did not participate in any recreational…
Descriptors: Recreational Activities, Leisure Time, Team Sports, Measures (Individuals)
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Broemmel, Amy D.; Evans, Katherine R.; Lester, Jessica N.; Rigell, Amanda; Lochmiller, Chad R. – Reading Horizons, 2019
Over the past four decades, a number of researchers have attempted to describe the reading habits of teachers. Some have investigated the impact of reading habits generally, while most have focused on some kind of loosely defined "professional reading." In relationship to this body of literature, the purpose of our descriptive survey…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, School Districts, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development
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Rachel Surprenant; Isabelle Cabot – Journal of Education and Learning, 2023
It is known that the practice of physical activity (PA) drops off drastically in late adolescence, during the transition to adulthood, leading to a deterioration in physical fitness among post-secondary students. Given the importance of the consequences of physical inactivity, interventions aimed at the sustained adoption of sufficient PA practice…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Physical Education, Physical Activity Level, Outcomes of Education
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Öztürk, Mehmet Ali – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2019
The aim of the study is to compare the participation constraint for leisure activities of teachers who working In the Ministry of National Education (MNE). In order to determine the leisure time constraints leisure constraints scales (LCS) were applied to the participants. A total of 413 teachers (258 male and 155 female) working in the Ministry…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Physical Activities, Foreign Countries, Recreation
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Fang, Menglin; Tapalova, Olga; Zhiyenbayeva, Nadezhda; Kozlovskaya, Svetlana – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Digital gaming has become a regular part of life for today's pre-schoolers. Hence, there is a need to look at the integration of digital technology into the preschool education. The present study aims to examine the effect digital games have on children's behaviour and their social competence if played to reach an educational purpose (supervised…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Interpersonal Competence, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
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Svicher, Andrea; Di Fabio, Annamaria; Gori, Alessio – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2022
The present study investigated the Italian version of the Decent Work Scale (DWS) with a sample of 645 workers (females = 65.1%; mean age = 43.9 years; SD = 10.9) according to a network perspective. We compared factorial and network models and estimated the regularized partial correlations for the five DWS domains: "physically and…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Work Attitudes, Work Environment, Comparative Analysis
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Gross, Zehavit – Educational Practice and Theory, 2016
The aim of this paper is to analyse the disparity between the time adolescents devote to various leisure activities and the significance they attribute to them. The gap between amount and significance mirrors the way that adolescents in Israel perceive the concept of leisure and the content with which they fill it. Leisure is a phenomenon that is…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Leisure Time, Recreational Activities, Qualitative Research
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Inci-Kavak, Vildan; Kavak, Enes – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
This study analyses variation sets in a sample of child-directed speech (CDS) in Turkish in terms of their structure and effect on child speech. The term "variation set" was first introduced to describe the sequences of repetitions, in which the intention behind expressions stays the same throughout the whole conversation while the form…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Turkish, Longitudinal Studies, Speech Communication
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Tükel, Yalçin – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2020
The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between smartphone addiction and leisure satisfaction of university students in terms of some variables. In the study, correlational survey research model was used and smartphone addiction and leisure satisfaction of university students were examined with a comparative approach. The population…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Correlation, Addictive Behavior
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Romar, Jan-Erik; Enqvist, Ida; Kulmala, Janne; Kallio, Jouni; Tammelin, Tuija – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2019
In this study, we aimed at comparing Finnish primary school students' physical activity and sedentary time during outdoor-learning and traditional school days. Outdoor learning is defined as purposeful and planned learning experiences in the outdoors . The study population consisted 20 students in grades 1-6 at one primary school. Physical…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Physical Activity Level, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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El-Shaimaa Talaat Abumandour – Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning, 2021
Purpose: Public libraries play a pivotal role in supporting education and literacy. They provide numerous services, activities, collections and resources for education and leisure. Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) is an international renowned public library that provides numerous services for different users worldwide. E-learning is an emergent and…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Role, Electronic Learning, Lifelong Learning
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Bajrami, Teuta Jusufi; Kadriu, Lulzime Lutfiu; Ceka, Ardita – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The rapid development undertaken in science, technique and technology, has strongly influenced the radical change of the pace of human existence, and therefore as a very important part in the everyday life of society along with mandatory time is regarded leisure time, also. Given the fact that free time as a pedagogical and sociological issue is…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Social Change, Time Management, Child Development
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