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Download full textJaysveree Louw; Heidi Claassens – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
This theoretical article examines the crucial role of play-based learning (PBL) in enhancing the mathematical skills of children in the Early Childhood Phase, referred to as Foundation Phase (Grade R-3) learners, within a South African context. The article argues that the traditional approach to teaching early childhood mathematics, where teachers…
Descriptors: Play, Mathematics Skills, Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods
Direct linkAmber Beisly; Anne Moffitt – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
When children engage in play, they develop essential skills like creativity, flexibility, imagination, and problem-solving. Children who engage in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) activities also build similar skills. Both play and STEAM enable children to ask questions, try different solutions, and develop explanations for…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Activities, Creative Development, Creativity
Gregory T. Boldt; Elizabeth J. Canavan; Rachael A. Cody; E. Jean Gubbins – Grantee Submission, 2023
Because creativity is an essential 21st century skill that must be developed in gifted and talented student populations, it is important for gifted and talented programs to nurture mathematical creativity. To shed light on this topic, this article explores three questions: What is mathematical creativity? How can we develop students' mathematical…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Talent Development, Skill Development
Andreas de Barros; Junita Henry; Jacqueline W. Mathenge – Comparative Education Review, 2024
There is limited evidence on what drives teachers to change their teaching practices. Using primary qualitative data from 78 Zambian education personnel from the school to the provincial level, we combine qualitative thematic analysis with an unsupervised machine-learning technique (topic modeling) to identify drivers of pedagogical shifts. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Change Strategies, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
de Godoi, Milena Maria; Pialarissi, Elisie; de Oliveira Prado, Denielle Gonçalves – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
Logical reasoning is very important in the child's development, increasing their performance in learning as a whole, improving their concentration and decision-making when solving problems. The introduction of this tool and stimulus from the first years of education is necessary for children to grow up with a broad and more critical view, being…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Logical Thinking, Problem Solving, Decision Making
Nduduzo Brian Gcabashe – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2024
The need for problem-solving and creative thinking skills to be taught well in business studies classrooms can never be overemphasised due to the complexity of the problems and challenges faced by businesses in the 21st-century business environment. Teachers are, therefore, required to adopt pedagogies that would enable learners to acquire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Business Education, Teacher Attitudes
John Jairo Jaramillo; Andrés Chiappe – Prospects, 2024
This article describes a systematic literature review focused on identifying substantial drawbacks in the current curricula and on the challenges to developing AI-driven curricula. One hundred thirty articles were read in depth and qualitatively analyzed. The results suggest that educational stakeholders should integrate AI into the curriculum…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Interdisciplinary Approach, Problem Solving, Futures (of Society)
Jessica Mantei; Lisa Kervin – Qualitative Research Journal, 2025
Purpose: Being "literate" is well established as key to active civic participation, right from the earliest years of life. Young children's natural curiosity and motivation to understand the world and their places within it through playful explorations offers rich opportunities for learning. Reported here are findings from a STEAM…
Descriptors: Play, STEM Education, Story Telling, Creative Activities
Carrie L. James; Sarah J. McCarthey – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2024
Literacy scholars have called for writing instruction to promote civic engagement, student agency, and multimodal composing. This study addressed this call by describing a research-practice partnership to reimagine writing instruction in a high school English course by incorporating human-centered design challenges. Using case study methods, we…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, High Schools
Ana Elena Builes-Vélez; Juliana Restrepo; Juan Diego Martínez – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to identify how the faculties of a Colombian University have understood the concept of sustainability and the way they have embedded it into their training. Design/methodology/approach: Qualitative research was done using documentary and content analysis which allowed researchers to recognize features correlated to…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Universities
Robiul Islam; Happy Kumar Das – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2024
This study investigates the role of English literature in fostering essential soft skills necessary for employability in the context of Bangladesh's educational system. This paper employs qualitative methods, including interviews with faculty members and senior students from tertiary-level colleges affiliated with the National University. The…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Literature, Soft Skills, Skill Development
Amos Oyelere Sunday; Friday Joseph Agbo; Jarkko Suhonen – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2025
The recent popularity of computational thinking (CT) and the desire to apply CT in our daily lives have prompted the need for a successful pedagogical technique for learning CT in K-12 education. The application of co-design pedagogical techniques has the potential to improve students' CT learning through knowledge sharing and the creation of…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Computer Science Education, Research Reports, Teaching Methods
Fischer, Frank; Bauer, Elisabeth; Seidel, Tina; Schmidmaier, Ralf; Radkowitsch, Anika; Neuhaus, Birgit J.; Hofer, Sarah I.; Sommerhoff, Daniel; Ufer, Stefan; Kuhn, Jochen; Küchemann, Stefan; Sailer, Michael; Koenen, Jenna; Gartmeier, Martin; Berberat, Pascal; Frenzel, Anne; Heitzmann, Nicole; Holzberger, Doris; Pfeffer, Jürgen; Lewalter, Doris; Niklas, Frank; Schmidt-Hertha, Bernhard; Gollwitzer, Mario; Vorholzer, Andreas; Chernikova, Olga; Schons, Christian; Pickal, Amadeus J.; Bannert, Maria; Michaeli, Tilman; Stadler, Matthias; Fischer, Martin R. – Information and Learning Sciences, 2022
Purpose: To advance the learning of professional practices in teacher education and medical education, this conceptual paper aims to introduce the idea of representational scaffolding for digital simulations in higher education. Design/methodology/approach: This study outlines the ideas of core practices in two important fields of higher…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods, Computer Simulation, Higher Education
Dawn Lees; Anka Djordjevic – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2024
Taking action is crucial at all stages of career development learning to develop skills and employability with no particular career goal, or for specific career ambitions. This article explores the concept of grand challenges in the context of education for employability through the case study of an extra-curricular programme at a UK university.…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Foreign Countries, Career Development, Skill Development
Webster, Dustin – Educational Theory, 2021
In this essay Dustin Webster argues that it is not the teaching of academics, but instead contributing to the ethical development of students that allows teachers to flourish in their roles. Engaging in what he calls "ethics education" provides intrinsic value that serves a teacher's flourishing as well as adding instrumental value in…
Descriptors: Ethics, Teaching Methods, Ethical Instruction, Moral Development
