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Ludvik, Marilee Bresciani; Wills-Jackson, Celestial; Eberhart, Tonya Lea; Mulholland, Shaila; Bhansali, Sonia; Nolan-Arañez, Shannon; Henline, Jenn – International Review of Education, 2023
Effective Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) benefit from three interrelated dimensions of learning identified by UNESCO: cognitive, social-emotional and behavioural. The latter two of these are especially relevant to mindful compassion pedagogies, and the purpose of the literature review presented…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Altruism, Global Approach, Citizenship Education
Seale, Colin – Prufrock Press Inc., 2020
Critical thinking is the essential tool for ensuring that students fulfill their promise. But, in reality, critical thinking is still a luxury good, and students with the greatest potential are too often challenged the least. "Thinking Like a Lawyer": (1) Introduces a powerful but practical framework to close the critical thinking gap;…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Computer Software, Equal Education
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Takkac Tulgar, Aysegul – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2019
As a popular social media application, WhatsApp has become an integral part of daily lives of many people on earth. Researchers have investigated the individual, social and pedagogical benefits of the tool. However, the possible contributions of WhatsApp as a platform for cultural interaction in the glocal sense has not been examined yet. To call…
Descriptors: Social Media, Computer Software, Global Approach, Second Language Learning
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Lo, Joe Tin-Yau – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2010
In the face of the challenges of globalization, nation states try to reinvigorate their traditional or national values and local identities as a kind of counterbalance to globalizing influences. Hence, social and citizenship education across nations in Asia takes different forms with certain distinctive varieties in terms of policies, practices…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
Howe, Alan, Ed.; Richards, Val, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
The transition from primary to secondary school can often be a difficult time for children, and managing the transition smoothly has posed a problem for teachers at both upper primary and lower secondary level. At a time when "childhood" recedes and "adulthood" beckons, the inequalities between individual children can widen,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Physical Development, Teaching Methods, Transitional Programs
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Taylor, Howard E.; Larson, Susan – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1998
Stresses the need for all students, even ones with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), to interact within cooperative learning activities. Asserts that cooperative groups help develop social studies knowledge, literacy skills, and global understanding. Presents practical suggestions for addressing the special needs of students with…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Cooperative Learning, Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education
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Namukasa, Immaculate – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2004
This essay reviews the principles motivating contemporary"critical mathematics" discourses. Drawing from varied critical discourses including ethno-mathematics, critical theory, post-structural theory, and situated and ecological cognition, the essay examines the pragmatics of critiques to the privileged role of school mathematics in the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Improvement, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
Almgren, Eva; Gustafsson, Evy – Educational and Psychological Interactions, 1974
The subproject on world citizen responsibility, part of a larger project on social development and training, is summarized. Major objectives of the subproject are the following: (1) to construct, adapt, and test measuring methods to map the social development of student ideas and attitudes to foreign peoples and international relations; (2) to map…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitude Change, Cultural Images, Educational Research
Levy, Tedd – Schools in the Middle, 1991
A September 1991 National Council for Social Studies report urges that social studies instruction for middle school students should focus on developing young adolescents' self-esteem, personal ethics, democratic values, and concern for the larger world. These values are fostered by using experiential learning, interdisciplinary instruction,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Development, Democratic Values
National Council for the Social Studies, Washington, DC. – 1991
This task force report is designed to focus attention on the young adolescent learner and provide direction for developing appropriate and meaningful social studies instruction for the middle school. Schools at the middle level characteristically focus on the unique developmental needs of young adolescents. A number of these needs are listed, in…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Citizenship Education, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
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Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Ermenc, Klara Skubic, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Chigisheva, Oksana, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
This volume contains papers submitted to the 12th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Sofia and Nessebar, Bulgaria, in June 2014, and papers submitted to the 2nd International Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre 'Scientific Cooperation,' Rostov-on-Don,…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Global Approach, Competence, Comparative Education
Indiana State Dept. of Public Instruction, Indianapolis. – 1978
This social studies curriculum guide is designed for grades K-12. Divided into seven sections, the first section offers a brief introduction and calls attention to the laws and rulings in Indiana which affect the teaching of social studies. Section two outlines the guide's rationale which stresses that knowledge must be combined with rational…
Descriptors: American History, Anthropology, Citizenship, Classroom Observation Techniques