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Stephanie M. Moody; Bethany Rice – Action in Teacher Education, 2025
Metaphors situated within critical reflections provide powerful insight into how preservice teachers (PSTs) understand their experiences and the world around them, particularly in areas like writing which is consistently understudied in teacher education programs. The present qualitative study uses metaphor data from Fall 2021, Spring 2022, and…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Writing Research, Conferences (Gatherings)
Determining Students' Reflective Thinking Levels and Examining Their Reflections on Science Concepts
Bozan, Serhan – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
The study aims to learn that they want to reflect on their reflective thoughts and reveal how they reflect what they have learned. Reflective thinking, one of the higher-order thinking skills, enables students to learn more easily and permanently. Students with high reflective thinking skills will be more successful both in their academic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reflection, Science Instruction, College Science
Jihea Maddamsetti; Rui Yuan – Research Papers in Education, 2024
This study examines how primary-level preservice teachers (PSTs) in an online asynchronous course (co-)constructed and (re)negotiated their professional identities through the use of metaphors in online asynchronous courses in the U.S. By using metaphors and narrating their lived experiences in relation to their chosen metaphors, participants…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Self Concept, Personal Narratives
Chien, Chin-Wen – Research in Education, 2020
This study analyzed eight Taiwanese English as a foreign language student teachers' metaphors to explore their self and professional identity. This study has four major findings. First, metaphor writing was able to reveal important information about student teachers' professional identities. Second, in terms of teaching demonstrations, metaphors…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Professional Identity, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries
McKay, Loraine; Manning, Heather – Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
Preservice teachers enter university with a range of personally held beliefs related to inclusive education and themselves as educators. This article reports on one case study from a larger qualitative research project. The study examined a preservice teacher's perceptions of herself as an inclusive educator as she approached the final year of her…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Social Justice, Professional Identity, Beliefs
Botha, Carolina S. – South African Journal of Education, 2017
This article explores the contribution that a teaching strategy, such as metaphoric body-mapping, can make towards the discourse on the development of professional teacher identity. Second-year students in a Life Orientation methodology module in a B.Ed programme were offered the opportunity to validate their local knowledge and make new meaning…
Descriptors: Reflection, Preservice Teachers, Professional Identity, Foreign Countries
Shaw, Donita; Andrei, Elena – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2020
Building upon the theory of teacher cognition, the purpose of this study was to discover how pre-service teachers envision "learning" English as English Language Learners (ELLs) and "teaching" English to ELLs. We examined metaphors of 98 pre-service teachers who were enrolled in their first literacy methods course in their…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Preservice Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Simsek, Meliha R. – European Journal of Educational Research, 2020
Despite its well-documented benefits for training a wide range of professionals, including teacher candidates in almost all content areas, the incorporation of service-learning into foreign language teacher education is relatively new, and most research only dealt with narrative accounts of non-work-related charitable activities. Consequently,…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Preservice Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Coffey, Simon – Modern Language Journal, 2015
As theoretical developments in applied linguistics challenge the dominant mentalist framing of cognition as knowledge residing in the head, new ways of understanding and recording teachers' and students' engagement with languages are needed. Structural and competence-based formats for measuring proficiency posit an incremental model of learning as…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Workshops
Bagci, Hasan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
This research has been done for the purpose of searching out the perceptions of the Turkish preservice teachers related to the term of "Literature" by the help of the concept of metaphors. 230 students have been participated to the study who have studied at Mehmet Akif Ersoy University(Turkey),Faculty of Education, Department of Turkish…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries, Phenomenology
Seung, Eulsun; Park, Soonhye; Narayan, Ratna – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2011
This study examined elementary preservice teachers' beliefs about the role/image of a science teacher and science teaching and how these beliefs change during an elementary science methods course; this examination was conducted through an analysis of their metaphor writing. Data included personal metaphors and rationale papers for supporting them…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Constructivism (Learning), Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Science
Tran, Huong Quynh – English Language Teaching, 2012
This study investigated the situation of teaching and learning idioms at a university level in Vietnam, a foreign language context. It also examined the evaluation of the idiom teaching process in three language classes over a 15-week period for pre-service teachers of English. The data were collected though questionnaires, in-depth interviews and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Figurative Language
Barnes, Natalie Selden – Art Education, 2009
Art is visual literacy, some would say more basic than writing and speaking, because it is not hampered by the barrier of language. The process of creating a visual narrative and understanding visual literacy is multi-faceted. Because similar cognitive strategies are used in the practice of both visual and written literacy, incorporation of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Peer Evaluation, Art Education, Artists
Taylor, Pamela G. – International Education Journal, 2005
This paper presents the case of a service-learning art experience in an after-school housing development program. Beginning with a dialogue concerning peace and how it can become part of their world, children and pre-service teachers explored and connected the idea of peace through symbols, metaphor and idealism in works of art. A critical and…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Art Education, Figurative Language, Art Teachers