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Direct linkMorgan, Hani – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2022
Critical race theory has recently been blamed for causing harmful outcomes. Conservative activists are believed to be distorting this theory in order to ban it. The campaign to ban critical race theory has affected many schools across the United States. In some cases, school personnel have resigned because of the way some groups have responded to…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, Activism, Elementary Secondary Education
Paz, Enrique – Across the Disciplines, 2022
This essay explores how students' misconceptions about writing might be transformed into accurate threshold concepts of writing through disciplinary writing experiences. Through an activity analysis of a geology major and students' writing in that program, I demonstrate that these students' conceptions of writing changed through their legitimate…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Geology, Writing Attitudes, Misconceptions
Hassanpour, Ali; Batmani, Sedighe; Bolandhematan, Keyvan – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to identify and investigate barriers to multicultural education in Iran. Design/methodology/approach: This research is a qualitative research that was done using the phenomenological method. Participants included all experts and key informants in the field of multicultural education in the country who were selected as a…
Descriptors: Barriers, Multicultural Education, Foreign Countries, Phenomenology
Jones, Tiffany; Jones, Timothy W.; Power, Jennifer; Pallotta-Chiarolli, Maria; Despott, Nathan – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2022
Lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and asexual (LGBTQA+) Australians are vulnerable to religion-based attempts to change or suppress their sexuality and/or gender identity, including conversion ideology messaging in school-based sex education. Conversion bans are currently being debated across the country. This paper reports on a critical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, LGBTQ People, Misconceptions, Social Bias
Essex, Jane – Primary Science, 2022
In this article, the author champions the benefits for everyone of a more inclusive approach to primary science. She relates some of her experiences based on 35 years of teaching science to people with special educational needs and disabilities/additional support needs (SEND/ASN) and offers some tips to enhance inclusion.
Descriptors: Inclusion, Elementary School Science, Students with Disabilities, Special Needs Students
Mutambara, Lillias Hamufari Natsai; Bansilal, Sarah – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2022
Many mathematics education researchers agree that students struggle to understand the key concepts in linear algebra courses. The purpose of this study was to examine in-service teachers' errors and misconceptions in the area of linear combinations. The participants were 73 Zimbabwean mathematics teachers who were enrolled in an in-service…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Error Patterns, Misconceptions
Ariso, José María – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
Wittgenstein's conception of 'persuasion', understood as the persuader's attempt to modify the persuadee's certainties, has been recently misinterpreted by some scholars. For Persichetti has overlooked the fact that one cannot persuade unintentionally, while Marconi and Perissinotto have not only taken for granted that persuasion consists in the…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Misconceptions, Teacher Student Relationship, Persuasive Discourse
Tulis, Maria – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2022
This experimental field study (pre-post-follow-up design) with 184 student teachers examined the effectiveness of an intervention to reduce misconceptions about psychology within an introductory psychology course. For this purpose, over the course's one-semester duration, all students attended six lectures and, in addition, worked individually on…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Psychology, Misconceptions, Preservice Teachers
Wolk, Steven – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
After 30 years of practicing, researching, and teaching project-based learning (PBL), Steven Wolk offers insight into what he has learned. He discusses what PBL is and responds to common misunderstandings about how it works. He describes how PBL units are structured, the role of direct instruction in PBL, how students learn content and skills…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Misconceptions, Direct Instruction
Download full textReed, Elaine; Figueroa, Elba; Carpenter, Mignon – Research Issues in Contemporary Education, 2022
Despite emerging from legal scholars in the 1970s, the term Critical Race Theory is currently at the forefront with increased attention focused on its framework and its use to explore and analyze racism in education. While this has led to school districts examining structural racism and making equitable changes, a subsequent backlash has also…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, Definitions, Misconceptions
Johansen, Mikkel Willum; Goddiksen, Mads Paludan; Centa, Mateja; Clavien, Christine; Gefenas, Eugenijus; Globokar, Roman; Hogan, Linda; Merit, Marcus Tang; Nielsen, Soren Saxmose; Olsson, I. Anna S.; Poskute, Margarita; Quinn, Una; Santos, Júlio Borlido; Santos, Rita; Schöpfer, Céline; Strahovnik, Vojko; Wall, P. J.; Sandoe, Peter; Lund, Thomas Boker – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2022
Plagiarism and other transgressions of the norms of academic integrity appear to be a persistent problem among upper secondary students. Numerous surveys have revealed high levels of infringement of what appear to be clearly stated rules. Less attention has been given to students' understanding of academic integrity, and to the potential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Integrity, Cheating
Lara-Steidel, Henry – Theory and Research in Education, 2022
Writing in 2011, Philip Kitcher worried in 'Public knowledge and its enemies' that flaws in the dissemination of public knowledge would lead from a state of widespread ignorance to active resistance against expertise and more. Today, we seem to be living in the world Kitcher predicted, where a wide range of facts ranging from the results of…
Descriptors: Social Media, Misconceptions, Information Dissemination, Media Literacy
Edo, Sri Imelda; Tasik, Wahyuni Fanggi – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2022
Several studies related to mathematics understanding found that many undergraduate students lack some basic knowledge of algebra. They memorized only a few topics, formulas, and algorithms without understanding them conceptually, even though they could manipulate those limited number of points correctly or incorrectly. In comparison, most…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematical Concepts, Problem Solving, Word Problems (Mathematics)
Housiaux, Andrew; Dickson, Bowman – Educational Leadership, 2022
Teachers spend tremendous amounts of time giving students feedback and grades. Their efforts fill weekends, late nights, and planning periods. The time they spend correcting student misconceptions, engaging with their thoughts, and coaching them toward deeper intellectual work is often deeply intertwined with their identity as educators. In their…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Misconceptions, Teacher Student Relationship, Reflection
Kang, Hyun Jung – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2022
The present study examined preservice elementary teachers' performance on the problems of multiplication and division of fractions and compared their performances and analyzed the misconceptions. An instrument including 11 fraction multiplication and division tasks was given and the task involved three contexts: making own story problem,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Knowledge Level, Fractions
