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Rachel N. Arbor; Kevin Matteson – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Amidst increasing concerns about children's mental health, this paper explores the integration of interdisciplinary nature journaling within a middle school English Language Arts classroom as a method to enhance student well-being and environmental literacy. 61 5th-7th students in Garrison, NY engaged in a 75-minute nature journaling activity. We…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mental Health, Student Journals, Naturalistic Observation
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Kim, Ji-Yun; Chung, Hyunsong; Jung, Eun Young; Kim, Jin-Ok; Lee, Tae-Wuk – Education Sciences, 2020
This study aimed to raise awareness of maker education for pre-service teachers and discuss maker education in their major subjects by developing and applying a maker education course for pre-service teachers with various majors based on novel engineering (NE), a teaching and learning method that combines humanities and engineering. Accordingly,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, STEM Education, Preservice Teachers
Elam, Jesse Russell – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this exploratory mixed-methods action research study was to expose six students studying Oral Communications 1 (OC1) at Japan's Technical University (JTU) to a sociocultural component using the textbook "Mirrors and Windows" (Huber-Kriegler, Lazar, & Strange, 2003) over an eight-week period with the assistance of…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Student Projects, Active Learning, Teaching Methods
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Williams, Sheri – Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, and Research, 2018
Objective: This study investigated the practices and impact of interdisciplinary faculty at a flagship university in the American Southwest who were engaged in the process of redesigning curriculum in order to center candidates on what they need to know and do as culturally competent school leaders. Method: Participants were 31 interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Leadership Training, Culturally Relevant Education, Outcomes of Education
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Lac, Van T. – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2017
This qualitative research study employs a teacher action research methodology to study how a teacher develops and implements a critical race pedagogy (CRP) curriculum. CRP pairs the liberatory practices of critical pedagogy (Friere, 1970), such a problem-posing classroom and praxis, with the maxims of critical race theory (Delgado & Stefancic,…
Descriptors: Race, Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Qualitative Research
Shapiro, Cory Adam – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose for this doctoral action research study was to discover if and how an updated training and development curriculum benefited residential student organization advisers at Arizona State University (ASU). Eleven advisers of residential student organizations completed a pilot training and development program and agreed to participate in a…
Descriptors: Action Research, Doctoral Programs, Student Organizations, Resident Advisers
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Green, Jennifer L.; Blankenship, Erin E. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2013
We developed an introductory statistics course for pre-service elementary teachers. In this paper, we describe the goals and structure of the course, as well as the assessments we implemented. Additionally, we use example course work to demonstrate pre-service teachers' progress both in learning statistics and as novice teachers. Overall, the…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Statistics, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Tal, Clodie – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2014
This study seeks to determine how and to what extent the core principles of the early childhood education programme at Levinsky College of Education in Israel were applied by a third-year student teacher in a traditional fieldwork placement. At the beginning of the school year, the student planned to engage two small groups of children in her…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Case Studies, Early Childhood Education
Engebretson, Kathryn Ellerhoff – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation examines the discourses around gender present among a cohort of preservice secondary social studies teachers (n = 25) and how gender discourses manifested throughout their preparatory year with particular interest paid to their thoughts about curricula, schools, and students. Using ethnographic study design, the author presents…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Preservice Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Social Studies
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Narkon, Drue E.; Black, Rhonda S.; Jenkins, Amelia – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
Five undergraduate, dual preparation pre-service teachers who began their program in the fall of 2005 were followed through their second and third semesters of their two-year program of study. The study examined their (a) beliefs about how to teach reading to students with learning disabilities and to students without learning disabilities, and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Journal Writing, Reading Programs, Learning Disabilities
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Mio, Jeffery Scott; Barker-Hackett, Lori – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2003
Writing reaction papers and journal entries has been a common assignment for multicultural courses. However, few individuals have discussed this technique in the literature in order to provide a model for those developing multicultural courses. The authors also discuss the use of reaction papers to address student resistance in multicultural…
Descriptors: Courses, Curriculum Development, Multicultural Education, Resistance (Psychology)
Piburn, Michael D.; Middleton, James A. – 1997
Teacher Education for Arizona Mathematics and Science (TEAMS) is a technology-based program for preparing scientists and mathematicians for a career in middle school teaching. The metaphor of "reflective practitioner" guided the design and delivery of this program. Students did not respond well to journal keeping and many failed to…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
Boersma, Gloria; And Others – 1995
This report describes a series of curricular modifications made in an effort to increase students' ability to self-assess and set goals. The targeted population consisted of grade school students in kindergarten and grades one and five in one parochial and one public school in northern Illinois with populations of 288 and 367 students,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education
Pagni, David, Ed. – 1991
The National Science Foundation funded Calculators and Mathematics Project, Los Angeles (CAMP-LA) developed curriculum materials focused solely on the use of calculators. The project was developed in three stages. The first stage studied the mathematics curriculums from different states and identified topics that are not included but should be if…
Descriptors: Addition, Algebra, Arithmetic, Calculators