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Ksenia Filatov – History of Education Review, 2024
Purpose: In January 2021, the state government of NSW, Australia, announced that all year 9 and 10 elective courses developed by schools will be phased out. This paper offers a brief historical account of school-developed board-endorsed courses (SDBECs) in NSW and a close analysis of the policy to phase them out. Design/methodology/approach: I…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elective Courses, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Jihea Maddamsetti; Rui Yuan – Research Papers in Education, 2024
This study examines how primary-level preservice teachers (PSTs) in an online asynchronous course (co-)constructed and (re)negotiated their professional identities through the use of metaphors in online asynchronous courses in the U.S. By using metaphors and narrating their lived experiences in relation to their chosen metaphors, participants…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Self Concept, Personal Narratives
Hassan Saleh Mahdi; Yousef Sahari – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2024
Purpose: Audio-visual translation (AVT) is recognized as the most vibrant type of translation. While AVT plays a vital function in the field of translation, its significance within cultural studies hasn't been thoroughly investigated. This research aims to uncover the predominant techniques employed in translating idiomatic expressions found in…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Translation, Grammar, Second Language Learning
Polat, Murat – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2022
The COVID-19 Pandemic process has brought with it a climate of uncertainty. This uncertain environment also contains a lot of uncertainty about classroom management for preservice teachers. The main purpose of this study was to reveal the metaphorical perceptions and views of preservice teachers about the source of the uncertainties they encounter…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
Songsirisak, Prommin; Jitpranee, Jutharat; Lisec, Albert; Boonjanawiroj, Prasobkan; Wetpichetkosol, Bhudtree; Kantamas, Kannikar – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2022
Purpose: This paper discusses Chinese students' negative and positive written feedback about Thai teachers using metaphorical descriptions and the links between it and their classroom experiences. Methodology: An open-response questionnaire was employed to collect the data from 21 Chinese female students. The questionnaire provided both positive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Figurative Language, Foreign Students
Stallings, Jessica Woolhiser – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2022
A hallmark symptom of autism includes restricted repetitive behaviors that manifest as special interest fixations. These interests can aid in building therapeutic relationships in art therapy. A retrospective review of clinical notes based in grounded theory identified 6 ways pop culture special interests function in the art therapy relationship:…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Popular Culture, Art Therapy, Behavior Problems
Yesilyurt, Ezgi – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2022
To inform teacher education programs, it is imperative to uncover preservice teachers' (PSTs) implicit and tacit beliefs about teaching and learning science. The study of teachers' beliefs requires a range of methodological approaches to unearth their tacit beliefs. In that regard, this study used metaphor construction in conjunction with drawing…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Beliefs, Science Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
Sade Memisoglu, Asli; Erçelik, Betül – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2022
Besides being a necessity for science education, understanding the nature of science and its concept also facilitates individuals' daily lives and affects their decisions as conscious citizens. This study aims to determine the pre-service science teachers' perceptions of science and their views on the nature of science and their relationship. The…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Education, Student Attitudes
Gül, Metin; Özdemir, Olcay – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2023
There is widespread acknowledgement that importance of reading skill is increasing day by day. Reading is the first step to learning and revealing something new. Beyond the primary grades, it plays a vital role in keeping up with the requirements of the age. Individuals who read, understand, question, think and produce develop societies. Thus, it…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Reading Difficulties
Fernández-Sánchez, Javier; García-Pardo, Alfredo – Hispania, 2023
In this paper we analyze the semantic and pragmatic properties of a colloquial interrogative construction attested in European Spanish, which we label invariable "qué" questions (IQQs). In doing so, we contribute to the better understanding of a relatively understudied phenomenon in Spanish, given that IQQs have been mainly approached…
Descriptors: Semantics, Pragmatics, Language Variation, Spanish
Zübeyde Er; Perihan Dinç Artut – Journal on Mathematics Education, 2023
This research aims to determine the metaphorical perceptions of gifted and normally developing students attending primary education regarding solving mathematical problems. In the research, the qualitative research method was employed. In the 2022-2023 academic year, 206 students studying at the primary school level in Turkey were determined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Gifted, Academically Gifted
Matthew M. Mars; Judith L. Bronstein – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2023
Metaphors are prominent across a wide range of research literatures, serving as imaginative sparks for innovative approaches to complex problems and provocative questions. Research metaphors are very often interdisciplinary in nature, with scholars drawing insight and inspiration from disciplines outside of their own. Yet, research metaphors are…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Figurative Language, Ecological Factors, Holistic Approach
Kvernbekk, Tone; Jarning, Harald – European Educational Research Journal, 2019
This paper is about education as a discipline and a research field and various attempts to circumscribe and map it. First, we look at different Norwegian attempts to represent education understood as a discipline, in terms of maps of the discipline from 1926 to date. Second, we inquire into the historical changes in the landscape supposedly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Intellectual Disciplines, Concept Mapping
Bañuelos, Nidia – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2019
In a 2017 speech at the Brookings Institute, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos drew a striking comparison between K-12 schools and ride share services. This idea--that education, like other consumer goods, improves through competition between providers--has been around a long time. Whenever existing schools fail to deliver what students, parents, or…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Higher Education, Educational Change, Comparative Analysis
Ting Ma; Lawrence Jun Zhang; Judy M. Parr – Language Awareness, 2025
Studies have shown that raising L2 learners' metaphor awareness contributes to the acquisition of figurative language, which fosters students' development of language skills. However, the instruments measuring metaphor awareness, in the majority of relevant research, did not seem to have undergone proper methodological procedures for checking…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Figurative Language