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Park, Do-Yong; Park, Mi-Hwa; Bates, Alan B. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2018
This case study explores young children's understanding and application of the concept of volume through the practices of engineering design in a STEM activity. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. However, engineering stands out as a challenging area to implement. In addition, most early engineering education…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Engineering Education, Geometry, Design
Oakley, Grace; Pegrum, Mark; Xiong, Xi Bei; Lim, Cher Ping; Yan, Hanbing – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2018
In a 2013-2014 Australia-China Council project, middle school students in Australia and China shared digital stories about their everyday lives and local cultures, and traditional tales with a modern twist. This article reports on research that aimed to explore the successes and challenges associated with this digital story exchange between…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Story Telling, Computer Mediated Communication, International Educational Exchange
Mykkänen, Arttu; Perry, Nancy; Järvelä, Sanna – Education 3-13, 2017
The aim of this study was to investigate how finnish students explain factors that contribute to their achievement in classroom learning activities and whether these factors are related to support of self-regulated learning (SRL) in classroom. Over seven weeks, 24 primary school students were videotaped during their typical classroom activities in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Activities, Class Activities, Academic Achievement
Tsai, Chia-Yen – International Education Studies, 2017
In this research I investigated the views preschool educators in Taiwan on play and the role of play in the curriculum. Adopting a qualitative methodology, I conducted semi-structured interviews with 11 educators at preschools affiliated with elementary schools. The results indicate that preschool educators generally agree that, in addition to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Play, Teaching Methods
Tam, Angela Choi Fung – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
This longitudinal study aimed to examine the role of a professional learning community (PLC) in changing teachers' beliefs and practices. Teachers of a Chinese department in a Hong Kong secondary school were interviewed and observed. The findings indicate that the features of a PLC-facilitating teacher change are development of a coherent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Teacher Attitudes, Longitudinal Studies
Baiduri – International Journal of Instruction, 2017
Students' activities in the learning process are very important to indicate the quality of learning process. One of which is spoken activity. This study was intended to analyze the elementary school students' spoken activities and their responses in joining Math learning process by peer-tutoring. Descriptive qualitative design was piloted by means…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Peer Teaching, Mathematics Instruction, Learning Activities
Shaari, Imran; Lim, Victor; Hung, David; Kwan, Yew Meng – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2018
This study investigates how sustained professional learning for teachers within a centralised system was cultivated. Specifically, the sustained professional learning was initiated by officers from the headquarters (HQ) and involved interested teachers across schools in Singapore. Qualitative instruments were used to collect and analyse the data…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Faculty Development
Sagasser, Margaretha H.; Kramer, Anneke W. M.; Fluit, Cornelia R. M. G.; van Weel, Chris; van der Vleuten, Cees P. M. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
Clinical workplaces offer postgraduate trainees a wealth of opportunities to learn from experience. To promote deliberate and meaningful learning self-regulated learning skills are foundational. We explored trainees' learning activities related to patient encounters to better understand what aspects of self-regulated learning contribute to…
Descriptors: Graduate Medical Education, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Learning Strategies
Sak, Ramazan; Tantekin-Erden, Feyza; Morrison, George S. – Education 3-13, 2018
This study describes the beliefs, self-reported practices and actual practices related to child-centred education of five female preschool teachers in Ankara, Turkey, and assesses the consistency between the participants' beliefs and practices. Data were collected through interviews, classroom observations and document review. The results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Vezne, Rabia; Günbayi, Ilhan; Hromatko, Ivan – Online Submission, 2018
The aim of this research was to classify the opinions of the disabled participants and educators on Erasmus+ Key Action 2 Project on non-formal learning regarding whether they knew the meaning of non-formal learning, through which non-formal learning activities happening during the Project workshop, and whether this learning had a contribution to…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Case Studies, Nonformal Education, Teachers
Jones, Phyllis; Lawson, Hazel – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2015
This article examines teacher professional learning about pedagogy for teachers of students with severe intellectual disabilities within broader teacher education and pedagogical frameworks for this group of learners. The article presents and discusses findings from a USA-England research project, involving classroom observations and interviews…
Descriptors: Severe Mental Retardation, Special Education Teachers, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods
Scheuch, Martin; Panhuber, Tanja; Winter, Silvia; Kelemen-Finan, Julia; Bardy-Durchhalter, Manfred; Kapelari, Suzanne – Journal of Biological Education, 2018
Citizen science is a rapidly growing emerging field in science and it is gaining importance in education. Therefore, this study was conducted to document the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of biology teachers who participated in a citizen science project involving observation of wild bees and identification of butterflies. In this paper,…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Observation
Carse, Nicola – European Physical Education Review, 2015
There has been some exploration of the conceptualisation of teachers as change agents within educational change literature. While this body of work does consider how teachers understand, harness and influence the process of curriculum change, within the policy rhetoric and educational change literature there is limited reference made to how the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Physical Education, Change Agents, Teacher Role
Turgut, Umit; Colak, Alp; Salar, Riza – Online Submission, 2017
The aim of this research is to reveal the results in the planning, implementation and evaluation of the process for learning environments to be designed in compliance with 7E learning cycle model in physics lesson. "Action research", which is a qualitative research pattern, is employed in this research in accordance with the aim of the…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Physics, Models, Teaching Methods
Alkaher, Iris; Tal, Tali – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2016
This interpretive study identifies challenges of working with Bedouin and Jewish Israeli youth in two multicultural projects: education for sustainability and place-conscious education. It also describes the ways the adult project leaders addressed these challenges and their views on the effectiveness of their decisions. Participants comprised 16…
Descriptors: Jews, Minority Groups, Cognitive Style, Conservation (Environment)