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Jorge Sanabria-Z; Berenice Alfaro-Ponce; Laura Icela González-Pérez; María Soledad Ramírez-Montoya – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
In the context of rapid technological advancements and the increasing availability of Open Educational Resources (OER), there is a growing need to foster complex thinking skills in higher education. The study aims to characterize OER platforms that facilitate the development of such skills, grounded in UNESCO's recommendations and the evolving…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Technological Advancement, Thinking Skills, Educational Practices
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Helen Burns – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
This paper presents a theoretical exploration of the relationship between imagination, cognition and metacognition, conceptualised within "emergent models." These models are offered to enable dialogue and tools to understand and support imagination in education practice, through the presence of ever-transforming theory, conceived as…
Descriptors: Imagination, Metacognition, Cognitive Processes, Correlation
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Álvarez-Huerta, Paula; Muela, Alexander; Larrea, Inaki – Innovative Higher Education, 2023
Developing student critical thinking skills is a core purpose of higher education, and requires the cognitive and disposition components of critical thinking to be fostered. The present study aims to examine the relationship between disposition towards critical thinking and engagement in higher education students. Participants were 836 students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Critical Thinking
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Mark A. Creager – Australian Mathematics Education Journal, 2023
Mark Creager noticed that how we teach students to reason mathematically may be counter-productive to our teaching goals. Sometimes a linear approach, focusing on sub-processes leading to a proof works well. But not always. Students should be made aware that reasoning is not always a straight forward process, but one filled with false starts and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Instruction, Logical Thinking
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Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2023
The editors of "Montessori Life" discuss how Montessori practice and outcomes align with the skills children will need to thrive in the future.
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Educational Practices, Educational Innovation, Educational Development
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Soukaina Essalih; Mustapha Ourahay; Salah-eddine Khzami – Education 3-13, 2024
The main objective of this study is to examine teachers' perceptions of their approach to help learners to develop critical thinking and consistency of their classroom practices with their perceptions. The study was conducted with Moroccan primary school teachers, and to achieve our goal, data in the form of class observation and interviews were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Critical Thinking
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Funda Örge Yasar; Mehtap Özden; Enes Yasar – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2025
This study examines the distinct and overlapping dimensions of critical and analytical thinking from the perspective of teacher candidates. In the rapidly evolving landscape of the 21st century, these cognitive skills are fundamental to academic achievement and social adaptation. The research aims to evaluate pre-service teachers' tendencies…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Logical Thinking, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
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McLean, Natalie; Georgiou, Helen; Matruglio, Erika; Turney, Annette; Gardiner, Paul; Jones, Pauline; Groves, Christine Edwards – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
Creativity is recognised as an essential twenty-first century skill. Despite the significant volume of research on creativity, there remains considerable ambiguity in the way it is conceptualised within education. This study uses a qualitative approach to explore primary educators' (n = 9) perceptions of creativity in English, science, and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Creativity, English Instruction, History Instruction
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Mohammadi, Moloud; Abbasian, Gholam-Reza; Siyyari, Masood – Cogent Education, 2022
Characterizing a critically-thinker second language learner as well as the way such characteristics can be developed and implemented in instructed second language have received momentum in applied linguistics. As a novel practice, this mixed-methods study was designed to feature a critically-thinker reader in developing both her critical thinking…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Critical Thinking, Reading Ability, Skill Development
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Deniz, Fatmana Kara – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2023
Students with learning disabilities (LD) often leave school without the necessary cognitive autonomy skills to independently navigate adulthood and meet the life challenges of the 21st century. Acquiring and maintaining cognitive autonomy skills (i.e., decision-making, voicing an opinion, evaluating the consequences of decisions, self-assessing…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Cognitive Processes, Thinking Skills
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Bin Wang; Ping-ping Li – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
This paper investigates the impact of digital creativity educational practices on the improvement of academic performance and creative thinking development of Chinese high school students. The study defined the importance of the concept of STEM learning in the development of modern skills needed to live and work in a digital socio-economic change…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Creativity, STEM Education, Teaching Methods
Shah, Priten – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2023
Among teachers, there is a cloud of rumors, confusion, and fear surrounding the rise of artificial intelligence. "AI and the Future of Education" is a timely response to this general state of panic, showing you that AI is a tool to leverage, not a threat to teaching and learning. By understanding what AI is, what it does, and how it can…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Futures (of Society), Teaching (Occupation), Ethics
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Cargas, Sarita – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2018
In "Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?," Neil Gross introduces research that suggests fifty to sixty percent of college professors are leftist or liberal, a much higher proportion than the seventeen percent of Americans in general. He posits the conservative fear that "bias" in higher education is a…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Honors Curriculum, Thinking Skills, Skill Development
Grossman, Pam, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2018
In "Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education," Pam Grossman and her colleagues advocate an approach to practice-based teacher education that identifies "core practices" of teaching and supports novice teachers in learning how to enact them competently. Examples of core practices include facilitating whole-class discussion,…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Beginning Teachers, Educational Practices, Evidence Based Practice
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Anderson, Nicole D. – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2016
Computational thinking is an approach to problem solving that is typically employed by computer programmers. The advantage of this approach is that solutions can be generated through algorithms that can be implemented as computer code. Although computational thinking has historically been a skill that is exclusively taught within computer science,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Psychology, Problem Solving, Thinking Skills
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