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Davis, Tammi R.; Sydnor, Jackie; Daley, Sharon – Teaching Education, 2023
Teaching is a complex profession. Much of the work of teachers is hidden from view, happening behind the scenes. It is not until one becomes a teacher that they fully understand the complexities. Preparing teacher candidates before they enter their own classrooms for the potential tensions between their individual perspectives and educational…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching Experience, Reflective Teaching
Karn, Sara – Canadian Journal of Education, 2023
Historical empathy involves a process of attempting to understand the thoughts, feelings, experiences, decisions, and actions of people from the past within specific historical contexts. Although historical empathy has been a rich area of study in history education for several decades, this research has largely taken place outside of Canada. In…
Descriptors: History, History Instruction, Empathy, Teaching Methods
Peng Dai – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Scholars over the past few years have drawn attention to the enormous potential role historical stories can play in promoting student understanding of issues associated with the nature of science (NOS). Such stories, often referred to as "historical narratives," are thought to do so by providing a rich historical context within which…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science History, Narration, Science Education
Andrea Baer – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
This essay explores the tension between pursuing meaningful work in instruction librarianship and the realities of working in a society in which many jobs provide little fulfillment or pleasure, or, as the journalist Sarah Jaffe puts it, "Work won't love you back." Drawing on a recent conference keynote by Anne Helen Petersen, C. Wright…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Work Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, Professional Autonomy
Colegrove, Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki; McManus, Molly E.; Adair, Jennifer Keys; Payne, Katherina A. – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2023
This article shows how two Latina bilingual teachers provided opportunities for their Latinx students from immigrant families to enact their agency in a highly regulated Head Start bilingual preschool classroom in ways that aligned with culturally sustaining pedagogy. Using video-cued ethnography and data from the Blinded Study, the authors center…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Personal Autonomy, Immigrants, Bilingual Students
Li, Chunlin; Wang, Jianqin; Otgaar, Henry – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
The current experiments examined the creation of nonbelieved true and false memories after imagining bizarre and familiar actions using the imagination inflation procedure (Goff & Roediger, 1998). In both experiments, participants took part in three sessions. In Session 1, participants had to perform or imagine simple familiar actions (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Memory, Beliefs, Recall (Psychology), Imagination
Wah, Alejandra – American Journal of Play, 2020
Drawing on evolutionary theory, the author questions which cognitive processes underlie the capacities to play and to pretend play and the degree to which they are present in both humans and nonhuman animals. Considering cognitive capacities not all-or-nothing phenomena, she argues they are present in varying degrees in a wide range of species.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Play, Imagination, Animals
Smith-Christmas, Cassie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Through analysis of a video recording of two bilingual siblings playing with rubber ducks, this article explores the concept that imaginative play can serve as a potential site for language shift. The article argues that the siblings use English as a means to 'double voice' (Bakhtin, M. M. (1981[1963]). "The Dialogic Imagination" (C.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Siblings, Toys, Play
Feng, Mengyu – ECNU Review of Education, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the potential of the drama pedagogy that may contribute to primary children's moral growth in the Chinese educational context. It argues that drama may offer an ensemble-based, dialogic, and narrative pedagogy for teaching morality to complement the didactic traditional model. Design/Approach/Methods: The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Drama, Teaching Methods, Moral Development
Chung, Chih-Chao; Huang, Shu-Lan; Cheng, Yuh-Ming; Lou, Shi-Jer – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022
The purposes of this study were to integrate imagination and STEAM education to construct a special topic course on wearable devices for pets for technology senior high school students studying electronic science; to explore the impacts of the learning process on students' imagination, STEAM competences and satisfaction with learning…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Active Learning, Student Projects
Patan, Aysenur; Kucuk, Mehmet – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
This study aimed to investigate the influence of teaching materials that can enrich the views of middle school students about the role of imagination and creativity in scientific research. The study was conducted in a village middle school in Rize Turkey. It used a case study method within the scope of the qualitative research approach, seven…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Creativity
Egmose, Jonas; Hauggaard-Nielsen, Henrik; Jacobsen, Stefan Gaarsmand – Educational Action Research, 2022
Finding ourselves in the midst of a plural eco-social crisis, this paper addresses roles and guiding questions for action research understanding, envisioning, practicing, and organising eco-social action, with the aim of renewing our human entanglements with the living ecologies, in which we are embedded. Driven by the aim of democratising…
Descriptors: Action Research, Social Change, Ecology, Climate
Leaton Gray, Sandra – London Review of Education, 2022
This article discusses the work of Susan Isaacs (1885-1948), the IOE's (Institute of Education), first director of the Department of Child Development. In addition to introducing child psychoanalysis to the UK, Isaacs was instrumental in mapping out the basis for a conceptual understanding of the role of aspects of imagination (which she termed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Child Psychology, Fantasy
Davoodi, Telli; Clegg, Jennifer M. – Child Development Perspectives, 2022
Across diverse cultural contexts, children and adults believe in the existence of religious and supernatural unobservables (e.g., gods, angels) as well as scientific and natural unobservables (e.g., germs, oxygen). In this article, we explore the role of cultural input and testimony in children's developing beliefs in supernatural and natural…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Religious Factors, Beliefs, Role
Devi, Anamika – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2022
There are some studies indicating that parents make a significant contribution to children's conceptual learning through play, whereas very few studies have been done to identify parents' pedagogical positioning in children's imaginative play for supporting their learning and development. This paper is seeking how Indian-Australian immigrant…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Play, Parent Role, Immigrants