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Lin, Alex R.; Lawrence, Joshua F.; Snow, Catherine E.; Taylor, Karen S. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2016
Communicative self-efficacy serves as an important link between discussing controversial issues and civic engagement because confidence in one's discourse skills is important to managing conflicting perspectives and developing solutions to community-based problems. Freely available to schools, "Word Generation" is a cross-content…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Communication Skills, Content Area Reading, Literacy Education
Newton, Lynn D., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
"Creativity for a New Curriculum: 5-11" provides an account of what creativity really means in the context of children's learning in the primary school, and describes in practical terms what teachers can do to foster it. At a time of curriculum development and change, it focuses on the opportunity to build a new curriculum that is inclusive of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Creativity, Problem Solving, Creative Thinking
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Settlage, John; Sabik, Cindy Meyer – Theory into Practice, 1997
This paper advocates a philosophy of science teaching that embraces intellectual conflict, suggesting that it is important to engage students in productive intellectual conflict in order to teach for conceptual change. Presents two approaches that could actualize the philosophy of "teaching the conflicts" within science instruction. (SM)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Consciousness Raising, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development
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Wright, Emmett L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1981
Reports long-term effects of intensive instruction in the cue attendance or hypothesis generation on open-exploration behavior of 120 ninth graders. Five dependent measures included: number of observed details; number and quality of hypotheses; and number and diversity of questions. Results suggest long-term benefits. (Author/JN)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conflict Resolution, Cues, Discovery Learning