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Wouter Sanderse – Journal of Moral Education, 2024
This paper aims to offer a new perspective on role modelling by examining adolescents' own efforts to lead a morally virtuous life. While traditional approaches to moral education emphasize the importance of teachers as role models, this study proposes a shift in focus towards adolescents' own role models. Drawing on the philosophical concept of…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Role Models, Modeling (Psychology), Self Concept
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Kinkopf, Dara; Dack, Hilary – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2023
A gender gap persists in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Although females constitute half the total workforce in the United States, they make up just greater than a quarter of employees in STEM fields. In recent years, one approach to addressing the gender gap in STEM has involved middle grades science…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, STEM Education, Gender Differences, Females
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Alireza Mohseni; Ahmad Abedi; Salar Faramarzi; Sareh Karami – Gifted and Talented International, 2024
In this study, Iranian teachers were selected and interviewed using semi-structured interviews. The purpose of conducting interviews was to discover the perceptions of gifted school teachers about strategies for improving wisdom among Iranian students. The participants believed that teachers themselves should be wisdom role models, wisdom role…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Gifted Education, Academically Gifted
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Khathi, Joseph Lamlani; Ajani, Oluwatoyin Ayodele; Govender, Samantha – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2022
Values education has become a necessary tool in response to the rise in moral deterioration in an average South African society today. The school is viewed as one of the key players in nurturing children into adulthood. The teaching of values that can give the growing generation, necessary moral development is one of the responsibilities of the…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Values Education, High School Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Cohen, Joel I. – Journal of Education, 2023
Naturalists enrich our scientific understanding of biodiversity. However, just as countries have fallen behind on commitments to provide biodiversity conservation funding, so has the focus of life science stayed arm's length. The purpose of this article is to consider why biodiversity should be the center of life sciences education and how…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Biodiversity, Teaching Methods
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Di Stefano, Marialuisa; Almazán-Vázquez, Abelardo; Yepes-Amaya, William; Britton, Emma Razifard – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
This article reports about a 2-year participatory action research (PAR) study in which three instructors engaged in an ongoing PAR cycle to develop and implement an explicit social justice teaching approach in their differing instructional contexts in the Northeastern US: a graduate course for teacher education and two secondary school Spanish…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Education, Graduate Study
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McCarthy, Andrew; Farr, Fiona – TESL-EJ, 2022
Role models and motivators can influence young people in a general sense and have a significant effect on their values and beliefs. As part of a larger project, we investigated the presence of L2 (second language) role models and motivators among 12 Japanese high school students (aged between 15 and 18), who took part in one-to-one interviews with…
Descriptors: Role Models, High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Nygård, Tuula; Hirvonen, Noora; Räisänen, Sari; Korkeamäki, Riitta-Liisa – Health Education, 2021
Purpose: This article describes how Finnish health education teachers verbalise and construct their teacher identity based on their lifestyle, subject area and relationships with their students. Design/methodology/approach: Narrative interviews were conducted amongst eight secondary and upper secondary school teachers. The nexus analysis was used…
Descriptors: Health Education, Professional Identity, Foreign Countries, Life Style
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Hatipoglu, Cenk; Semerci, Nuriye – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2023
In terms of ethics, the study deals with the hidden curriculum in terms of teaching programs. The aim of the study is to reveal the context in which the practices related to the teaching of values in the curriculum put into practice are handled. The phenomenological design, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. Five…
Descriptors: Hidden Curriculum, Secondary School Teachers, Ethics, Teaching Methods
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Wahrman, Hillel; Hartaf, Hagit – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2021
This article investigates the phenomenology of "Social Education Coordinators" in Israeli high schools regarding school's civic education. Twenty-one semi-structured interviews were conducted, followed by a two-stage coding process. The Social Education Coordinators indicate that their schools seem to be unified behind the goal of…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Citizenship Education, Teaching Methods, Informal Education
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Lawton, Ericka; Obenland, Carrie; Barr, Christopher; Cushing, Matthew; Nichol, Carolyn – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Physics program for girls (PPG) is a two-week program held every summer since 2006, with the goal of engaging young women in inquiry-based physics experiments and to connect them with female science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professional role models. The program recruits young women to participate the summer after they have taken…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education
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Albrecht, Nicole J. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
Mindfulness is taking a preeminent role in today's education system. In the current study the author explored how experienced MindBody Wellness instructors make sense of teaching children mindfulness. The methodology of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis combined with autoethnography was used to interview eight teachers from the United…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Attention, Role Models, Teacher Role
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Ryu, Minjung; Mentzer, Nathan; Knobloch, Neil – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2019
In the United States, recent STEM education reform initiatives call for teaching STEM subjects through integration of multiple related subjects. In response to this call, an integrated STEM education methods course was developed for secondary preservice teachers in STEM disciplines. At the conclusion of the course, qualitative data (e.g.,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Attitudes, Preservice Teachers, Role Models
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Siregar, Linda Sari Bulan – Online Submission, 2021
In school, teachers are the most critical factor and should inculcate moral values among their students. This study seeks to identify the factors that support the strategies of Islamic Education teachers in akhlaq (character) building among students in an Islamic Private Secondary School. The research applied qualitative design with in-depth…
Descriptors: Islam, Religious Education, Private Schools, Secondary School Teachers
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Suyatno; Pambudi, Dholina Inang; Mardati, Asih; Wantini; Nuraini, Eka; Yoyo – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
This research aims to reveal the education values of teachers; where they recognized the values, the importance of the values for teachers in performing their duties, the effects on their teaching methods, and how well the undergraduate program has equipped them with the competence of values education. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 56…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Teacher Competencies, Values Education
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