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Warren, Erica Adela – Middle School Journal, 2023
AMLE advocates for educators to respect and value young adolescents. Yet, the narrative surrounding early adolescence in the United States centers chaos, hormones, and emotional drama. Middle school educators repeat or hear some version of this narrative daily, yet it remains unchecked and unaddressed in professional development. Deficit…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Transformative Learning, Faculty Development, Early Adolescents
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Bishop, Penny A. – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2023
The integration of social and emotional learning into school curricula has been linked to a number of positive student outcomes, including increased academic achievement, the development of healthy relationships, and improved emotional self-regulation. Rarely, however, has research considered students' perspectives on which social and emotional…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Peer Evaluation, Social Emotional Learning, Self Control
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Guldin, Rachel; Madison, Ed; Anderson, Ross C. – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2021
This study examines the experiences of 15 Latinx sixth-grade students in Los Angeles who participated in a yearlong journalism-based media literacy program embedded in their social studies classes. Students researched, interviewed, wrote, and published articles on the Internet about social justice themes, like immigration, racism, and LGBTQ…
Descriptors: Journalism Education, Social Studies, Social Justice, Social Problems
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Idrissi, Hajar – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2020
This research paper aims to examine the effects of extracurricular activities in building knowledge, skills and attitudes that attempt to develop ecological citizenship as a subset of global citizenship among middle school students. I focus on one extracurricular programme entitled 'The Friends of Nature' that was provided in a Moroccan private…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Behavior Change, Extracurricular Activities
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Karaman, Pinar; Demirci, Ibrahim; Özdemir, Atilla – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2019
This study examines the structural relationship among motivation, deep learning approach, and academic achievement of middle school students in Turkey. Participants were 746 seventh grade and eighth grade students enrolled in public middle schools in Sinop and Ankara, Turkey. Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire, Study Process…
Descriptors: Correlation, Student Motivation, Academic Achievement, Middle School Students
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Kate, Hawkey; James, Jon; Tidmarsh, Celia – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2019
An uncertain world characterised by the complexity associated with 'Wicked' problems presents formidable challenges for the preparation of teachers. This paper reports on one cycle in a larger action research project in which subject specialist trainee teachers worked in inter-disciplinary groups to design and run classroom-based workshops on…
Descriptors: World Problems, Interdisciplinary Approach, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Kim, Yanghee; Searle, Kristin – Computers in the Schools, 2017
Over the last two decades online technology and digital media have provided space for students to participate and express their voices. This paper further explores how new digital technologies, such as humanoid robots and wearable electronics, can be used to offer additional spaces where students' voices are heard. In these spaces, young students…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Robotics, Electronics, Technology Uses in Education