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Todd, Tessa Tyler – National Literacy Trust, 2021
Primary school libraries are a vital part of the education system. A well-resourced primary school library not only supports literacy levels but has a positive effect on the mental wellbeing of pupils. Despite their numerous benefits, there is currently no statutory requirement for primary schools to have a library and even before the COVID-19…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Elementary Schools, Futures (of Society), Library Services
Ursavas, Nazihan; Kandemir, Raif – Journal of Science Learning, 2020
Antarctica has been an object of interest for a long. It is considered important to increase individuals awareness and knowledge about Antarctica. The accuracy of individuals' scientific knowledge plays an important role in creating the awareness. In this study, the 349 secondary school students' knowledge and awareness about Antarctica was…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Knowledge Level, Foreign Countries, Geography
Dennis, Mike – Primary Science, 2020
The author has spent almost all his life working in and enthusing about primary science. From being a class teacher in the 1980s, to running Curioxity, a small hands-on science centre in Oxford, to lecturing trainee primary teachers at Oxford Brookes University and finally working with Science Oxford to help create their wonderful new Science…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Science Activities, Elementary School Science
du Val d'Eprémesnil, Diane – Journal of Religious Education, 2020
This article introduces us to the benefits of contemplative practices integrated to the RE classroom. The author promotes contemplative practices in religious education, investigating how these can be integrated to the curriculum and the multiple modes of inquiry already present. After accounting for contemplation in the West, and especially in…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Reflection, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
Marsh, Jackie – Journal of Research in Reading, 2014
This paper reports on a study of the purposes for literacy discernible in young children's use of the virtual world, "Club Penguin." Twenty-six children aged between 5 and 11 took part in semi-structured interviews in which their use of virtual worlds was explored. Further, three 11-year-old children were filmed using "Club…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Educational Technology, Clubs, Semi Structured Interviews
Sheerer, Katherine; Schnittka, Christine – Science and Children, 2012
Maybe it's the peculiar way they walk or their cute little suits, but students of all ages are drawn to penguins. To meet younger students' curiosity, the authors adapted a middle-school level, penguin-themed curriculum unit called Save the Penguins (Schnittka, Bell, and Richards 2010) for third-grade students. The students loved learning about…
Descriptors: Climate, Teaching Methods, Animals, Elementary School Science
Zedadra, Amina; Lafifi, Yacine; Zedadra, Ouarda – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2016
This paper presents a new approach of learners grouping in collaborative learning systems. This grouping process is based on traces left by learners. The goal is the circular dynamic grouping to achieve collaborative projects. The proposed approach consists of two main algorithms: (1) the circular grouping algorithm and (2) the dynamic grouping…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Animals, Animal Behavior, Homogeneous Grouping
Henderson, Juliet – Teaching in Higher Education, 2020
Taking as its premise the ethical responsibility of the educator towards diversity, both in students and the materiality of their knowledge production practices, this paper examines four surfaces of emergence of academic writing governmentality. These are characterised as different 'styles' of knowledge production: Style 1 (canonic, Western…
Descriptors: Ethics, Academic Language, Literary Genres, Student Diversity
Meir, David – Sport, Education and Society, 2022
This is the first systematic qualitative review to examine and organise the current body of research that addresses the practical application of critical pedagogy within Physical Education and Sport for Development. Following a rigorous systematic review process, this paper analyses critical pedagogy, social justice and social transformation…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Physical Education, Athletics, Social Justice
Phillips, Adam; Williams, Emma – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2022
Adam Phillips is a leading psychoanalyst and author. Phillips was educated at Clifton College and studied English Literature at Oxford University. He trained to be a psychoanalyst at the Institute of Child Psychology. Across the course of his professional career, he has worked at Guys Hospital, with a school for 'maladjusted children', at…
Descriptors: Psychiatry, Child Psychology, Authors, Biographies
Stoller, Aaron – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2018
Recently Graham Badley (Stud High Educ 41(4):631-641, 2016) made the case that the "pragmatic university" represents a viable future for the post-modern institution. In his construction of the pragmatic university, Badley largely draws upon the vision laid out by Richard Rorty (Philosophy and social hope. Penguin Books, London, 1999).…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Universities, Educational Experience, Knowledge Level
Hess, Juliet – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2023
In this paper, I consider pedagogical moments when the project of pedagogy is to "not understand," as understanding would entail complicity with dehumanization. I explore the slipperiness of understanding and parse when understanding is helpful and when it reinscribes structures of dehumanization. I examine when it might be important in…
Descriptors: Music Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Humanization
DePalma, Renée – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
From 2006 to 2008 UK-based primary school teachers in the "No Outsiders" project explored possibilities for addressing sexualities equality in their classrooms. What all teachers had in common was a resource pack that included 27 children's books exploring themes of gender and sexuality diversity either directly or indirectly (i.e. by…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Childrens Literature, Gender Differences, Sexuality
Hannaford, Jeanette; Beavis, Catherine – Literacy, 2018
Increasing numbers of children are caught up in global flows of moving peoples. This movement may be voluntary or forced and is experienced within a range of settings. Coming from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and moving around the world due to their parents' employment, the children found in traditional International Schools are a…
Descriptors: Internet, Access to Information, Global Education, Relocation
Barreto, Daisyane; Vasconcelos, Lucas; Orey, Michael – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2017
Purpose: With video games being a source of leisure and learning, educators and researchers alike are interested in understanding children's motivation for playing video games as a way to learn. This study explores student motivation and engagement levels in playing two math video games in the game "Club Penguin." Method: This is a…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Mathematics Instruction, Educational Games