This participatory action research examines the effectiveness of the movement-based constructivist "Lighthouse Framework" (Weatherly & Weatherly, 2023) within the higher education context of Macau. The study adopts a mixed-methods design within the participatory action research, employing both pre- and postintervention surveys (N =…

This study investigates the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) among academics working in the field of educational science in Türkiye. Employing a mixed-methods research design, the study aimed to explore both quantitative and qualitative aspects of academics' interactions with ChatGPT.…

In 2020, Kentucky embarked on a journey to transform teaching and learning in the state through its "United We Learn" initiative. As a result of that work, Kentucky learning communities are making significant strides toward innovative deeper learning practices. In Aurora Institute's glossary, the term "deeper learning"…

The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in education plays a crucial role in teacher training digitalisation. Although AI has enormous potential, not much is known about how pre-service teachers perceive and utilise AI tools in professional practice. Hence, this study, guided by the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology framework,…

Background/purpose: There is increasing interest in incorporating maker culture into primary and secondary education to foster student competencies beyond academic achievement and prepare students for 21st-century challenges. This systematic literature review examines the implementation of maker education in formal educational contexts, focusing…

For many years, creativity research had been yielding contradictory results. More recently, these results have come to be regarded as creativity paradoxes. This research reviews a growing body of evidence that highly creative people tend to operate, either simultaneously or dynamically, at extremes along continuums, where the extremes are…

The relationship between two-dimensional elements and three-dimensional objects is an abstract process which generates difficulty for learning. This ability can be improved with exercises designed to improve spatial abilities. Many of those exercises aim at offering a single solution with the result that they are not the most suitable for…

This article explores how the notion of a serendipitous curriculum relates to young children's artmaking events in an early childhood center in the Midwest. A new materialist theoretical lens is used that not only considers the agency and action of children, but also enables ALL matter within a relation to act. In doing so, it offers a way to…

Based in anthropology (Cole & Knowles, 2001), life history inquiry into literature emphasizes deep understandings of literary characters that are expressed through dramatic performance. For teachers or teacher-educators, life histories offer a powerful teaching strategy. Life histories support locating readers in a particular pattern or…

The purpose of this study is to explore the strength of relationships between 7th, 8th, and 9th grade students' scientific process skills and scientific creativity through structural equation modeling (SEM). For this purpose, data were collected from 353 students in grades 7-9 in Turkey. Scientific Process Skills and Scientific Creativity survey…

This study investigated the effects of different types of creativity interventions on different facets of creative potential, also including more school-related creativity demands. In a sample of 77 fourth-graders in the age between 9 and 12 years, we administered a verbal and a figural creativity training, realized in two school lessons over two…

This study examined the validity of a 14-item two-factor person-environment fit scale for creativity (PEFSC) to measure the personal and environmental components of creativity. A sample of 2,475 participants completed the PEFSC for evaluating the factor structure. For convergent, discriminant, and incremental validities, a subsample (N = 362)…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the influences of creativity, psychological ownership (PO) and perceived organizational support (POS) on knowledge creation, using the integrative systems model of creativity. Design/methodology/approach: A survey was used to collect data from 188 workers in Korean public service organizations.…

This article discusses historical competence as reading and understanding use-of-history as it is expressed in different texts. Students need to develop competence in the use-of-history in order to approach the diversity and complexity of uses of history in our time. The use-of-history is also an aim in the curricula of Nordic countries. This…

The emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines in schools has caused advocates for art education to propose the addition of the arts to the study of STEM, transforming STEM into STEAM. One method of implementing STEAM is Design Thinking (Henriksen, 2017). STEAM education and Design Thinking are both models for…