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Spector, Hannah – Prospects, 2021
The purpose of this article is to interrogate ways that curriculum can respond critically to already existing global emergencies (including pandemics) while also becoming more proactive toward the prevention of world risks. To do this, it calls for the fortification of the traditional course of study that introduces students to the analysis of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, World Problems, Risk
Aydin, Fatih; Somuncu Demir, Naciye; Aksüt, Pelin – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2021
The purposes of this study were to determine metaphoric perception of preservice teachers from different fields regarding technological change and to examine the differences and similarities between perceptions of preservice teachers (1st and 4th grades). This study employed single case (holistic) study as a qualitative approach. Participants…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Concept Formation
Van Stekelenburg, Lieke H.; De Ruyter, Doret; Sanderse, Wouter – Ethics and Education, 2021
The expression that professionals should be led by their moral or ethical compass is increasingly used by academics, policy makers, professionals, and educational institutes. Dutch universities of applied sciences (UAS), for example, explicitly aim to educate their students to become professionals equipped with a moral compass. This moral or…
Descriptors: Ethics, Teaching Methods, Moral Values, Universities
Lukin, Karina – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
This article discusses language materialities and the Otherworld through the findings of mammoth remains and text-artifacts representing Nenets verbal art. The remains and verbal art are read together as a network of mythic knowledge that forms a semiotic whole, where different signs interact and create potentials for new significations. The…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Mythology, Networks, Semiotics
O'Reilly, David; Marsden, Emma – Applied Linguistics, 2021
In 1988 and 2006, "Applied Linguistics" published Low's and Littlemore and Low's seminal theoretical accounts of second language (L2) metaphoric competence (MC). Meanwhile, attempts to elicit metaphor-related skills/competences have been mixed. Instrumentation has varied in reliability, been limited in scope, and used arguably flawed…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Figurative Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Factor Analysis
Özdemir, Banuçiçek – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2021
This research was performed to determine the Common Metaphorical Perceptions of Prospective Teachers on DNA-Gene-Chromosome Concepts, despite classroom levels and university differences. For the baseline group studies, two State Universities, one from the east and the other from the north of Turkey, were selected to be studied in the Fall Semester…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
Bokhorst-Heng, Wendy D.; Marshall, Kelle L. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2021
This study explores the identities that Grade 8 early French immersion students construct as learners of French within school-based communities of practice. It suggests a model by which metaphors on language learning can be considered a form of narrative used to both elicit and analyze metacognitive representations of their socially situated…
Descriptors: French, Figurative Language, Identification (Psychology), Grade 8
Ertürk, Ramazan; Akgün, Nuri – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2021
When the literature is examined, in some studies where the school administrator is considered a variable, only the school principal is considered the school administrator. In some studies, the views of the manager and assistant managers are evaluated together under the manager variable. This study aimed to reveal the metaphorical perceptions of…
Descriptors: Principals, Assistant Principals, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers
Gilmore, Amir – Curriculum Inquiry, 2021
Inspired by jazz's epistemologies and structures, this article was written as a Black liberatory jazz album on Black Boy Joy. Threaded through musical tracks, Black Boy Joy is conceptualized as a Black spiritual Life Force and a liberatory emotional expression that refuses the anti-Black curriculum antagonizing Black boys. Black Boy Joy centers…
Descriptors: Music, Males, Blacks, Aesthetics
Pre-Service Teachers' Perceptions of Social Media -- A Qualitative Survey Study in Turkey and Sweden
Karakoyun, Ferit; Lindberg, Ola J. – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2021
The purpose of this study was to investigate pre-service teachers' perceptions of social media. The phenomenology approach, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. The participants of the study included 201 pre-service teachers studying at two state universities, one in Turkey and the other in Sweden, in the spring term of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Negative Attitudes, Figurative Language
Lindsey Edwards; Marc Marschark; William G. Kronenberger; Kathryn Crowe; Dawn Walton – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2021
Understanding nonliteral language requires inferencing ability and is an important but complex aspect of social interaction, involving cognitive (e.g., theory of mind, executive function) as well as language skill, areas in which many deaf individuals struggle. This study examined comprehension of metaphor and sarcasm, assessing the contributions…
Descriptors: Inferences, Deafness, Children, Figurative Language
Erbeli, Florina; Peng, Peng; Rice, Marianne – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
Research on the question of creative benefit accompanying dyslexia has produced conflicting findings. In this meta-analysis, we determined summary effects of mean and variance differences in creativity between groups with and without dyslexia. Twenty studies were included (n = 770 individuals with dyslexia, n = 1,671 controls). A random-effects…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Dyslexia, Creativity, Comparative Analysis
Wessman-Enzinger, Nicole M.; Stilwell, Clara – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2022
Unpacking middle school students' mathematical relationships is important as a step towards improving mathematical relationships. In this study, 500 middle school students drew personifications of mathematics. We examined these personifications of mathematics for insight into their relationships with mathematics. Using constant comparative…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Student Attitudes, Figurative Language
Akman, Özkan; Açikgöz, Bedriye – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
Metaphor is a tool that helps us perceive the world by expressing more than word art. Metaphors are used in certain areas of education. It appears in different ways in the fields of literature, philosophy, sociology, educational sciences, social studies. Teachers also tell concrete and abstract data through metaphors to make it easier to keep in…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Figurative Language, Cognitive Processes, Phenomenology
Castillo-Montoya, Milagros; Hunter, Truth; Moore, W. Corey; Sulé, Thandi – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2022
Drawing largely on the work of Maya Angelou, we use decolonial collaborative autoethnography to explore why the caged bird sings in the academy. We offer a "caged bird sings" framework based on Angelou's book and use it to analyze our autoethnographic performances. What we found through this work is that the legacy of colonialism in the…
Descriptors: Decolonization, Colonialism, African American Teachers, Puerto Ricans