NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Audience
Teachers1
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing all 15 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Madhu Prabakaran – Higher Education for the Future, 2025
This article explores the diverse epistemic perspectives on intelligence, tracing its conceptual evolution across early Indian philosophy, Western philosophical thought and contemporary computational theories. Intelligence is examined as a dynamic, multifaceted phenomenon that transcends mere cognition, extending into embodied, ecological and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Philosophy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Naoko Saito; Tomohiro Akiyama – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024
Against the prevailing outcomes-based education and the instrumentalization of education, a movement has arisen towards holistic education. This aims to go beyond objective measurement of the outcomes of education in order to treat the student as a whole person. In this paper, we shall examine some strands of education in Japan which in some way…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Holistic Approach, Educational Anthropology, Outcomes of Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Nicola Broderick – Irish Educational Studies, 2025
This discussion paper focuses on the purpose of, and vision for, Irish primary science education prior to the redevelopment and publication of the primary science curriculum in 2024. Scientific literacy is broadly accepted as the goal of science education. Despite this, curricular analysis focusing on scientific literacy in Europe is scarce. There…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Elementary School Science, Teaching Methods, Science Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Heinrich, William F.; Green, Patrick M. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2020
Background: Experiential learning approaches applied in classrooms are often disconnected from theory and loosely connected in classroom practice. Given critiques of experiential learning, there is a significant need for process learning theory with a practice-driven model. Scholars have only begun to explore the enhanced learning that often…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Learning Theories, Teaching Methods, Criticism
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Graham, Mark A.; Lewis, Rebecca – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2023
This article presents an overview and continuation of a study investigating how artist awareness and critical response might provide a better understanding of mindfulness and its practice within art education. While there are distinct advantages to mindfulness practices in education, these practices might also have problematic aspects, such as…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Art Education, Educational Practices, Power Structure
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Nisula, Karoliina; Pekkola, Samuli – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
Business education has been criticized for being theoretical and distant from the dynamisms of the business life. To answer to this criticism, different types of experiential learning environments, such as manual role-plays, computer simulations, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, have been used. In this paper, we study how a holistic…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Case Studies, Criticism, Role Playing
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Fitzpatrick, Katie; Burrows, Lisette – Sport, Education and Society, 2017
Health education in Aotearoa New Zealand is an enigma. Premised on ostensibly open and holistic philosophical premises, the school curriculum not only permits, but in some ways prescribes, pedagogies and teacher dispositions that engage with the diversity of young people at its centre. A capacity, to not only understand contemporary health…
Descriptors: Health Education, Course Descriptions, Criticism, Sociocultural Patterns
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Castner, Daniel J.; Schneider, Jennifer L.; Henderson, James G. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2017
This article opens with an overview of the current policy interest in "teacher leadership" with its particular challenges and opportunities. Teacher-leader interpretations based on standardized instructional management platforms grounded in neoliberalism are critically challenged. The referent for this critical questioning is a normative…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Democratic Values, Ethics, Educational Policy
Choo, Suzanne S. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2013
The purpose of this book is restore the centrality of pedagogy in governing the ways literary texts are received, experienced, and interpreted by students in the classroom. Utilizing a method of pedagogical criticism, it provides an account of core approaches to teaching literature that have emerged across history and the conceptual values…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English Literature, Global Approach, Reading Materials
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Weisberg, Deena Skolnick; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick – Psychological Bulletin, 2013
Lillard et al. (2013) concluded that pretend play is not causally related to child outcomes and charged that the field is subject to a "play ethos", whereby research is tainted by a bias to find positive effects of play on child development. In this commentary, we embrace their call for a more solidly scientific approach to questions in this…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Play, Child Development, Academic Achievement
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Glenn, Mairin – Educational Action Research, 2011
This article outlines how I, as a primary teacher engaging with a self-study action research process, have come to a deeper understanding of my practice. It explains how I have also come to an understanding of why I work in the way I do; of how this understanding influences my work, and the significance of this new understanding. My work as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Action Research, Creativity
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bonilla, James Francisco – Journal of Faculty Development, 2011
In this article the author's review of the literature uncovers six potentially negative effects of technology in the classroom. These include: 1) Limiting pedagogy in teaching for cultural competence; 2) Reinforcing the Digital Divide; 3) Constraining the potential for holistic, humanistic education; 4) Privileging one style of communication while…
Descriptors: Humanistic Education, Educational Technology, Sensory Experience, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Smith, Jennifer – Teaching Artist Journal, 2007
There are many talented and creative dance professionals working in academia today, and it can be stifling to an artist to feel that one must give students traditional class assignments to evaluate their progress. Dance is a creative endeavor, and all aspects of the curricula, even non-movement-based classwork, can and should reflect this fact. In…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Holistic Approach, College Instruction, Integrated Curriculum
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Gruenewald, David A. – Harvard Educational Review, 2002
A high school teacher's narrative of his engagement with Thoreau and experience of schooling explores themes in Thoreau's writing: experimentation, wholeness, and primacy of place. He uses these themes to critique contemporary educational practices, arguing against prescriptive teaching and for reexamination of all assumptions. (Contains 24…
Descriptors: Criticism, Educational Environment, Educational Experience, Experiments
Swartz, Linda Kay – Phi Delta Kappan, 2002
Teacher talks about difficulty of dealing with often contradictory changes in instructional methods, especially in teaching reading. (PKP)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Criticism, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education