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Dag, Nilgun; Sozer, Mehmet Akif; Sel, Burcu – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
Political education is a term with negative associations and triggering prejudiced approaches and discourses--maybe some paranoid thoughts--like "keep politics away from education!" in the minds of several people. This article deals with "political education" phenomenon almost never discussed and made subject to scientific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Political Science, Political Attitudes, Elementary School Students
Slakmon, Benzi; Schwarz, Baruch B. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2017
The aim of this article is to increase understanding of the development of spatial practices in virtual learning environments. The spatial change and development in 38 small-group e-discussions taken from a data set of a yearlong 8th-grade humanities course are described and analyzed. We show that the focus on spatial changes in computer-supported…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Virtual Classrooms, Group Discussion, Spatial Ability
Borge, Julie A. Ødegaard – Journal of Social Science Education, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine mock elections as political education in school, taking the Norwegian case as an empirical example. Methodology: This study's qualitative content analysis is based on data collected through fieldwork in five upper secondary schools in the Western region of Norway, through observations and in 18…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Political Attitudes
Arens, A. Katrin; Watermann, Rainer – Developmental Psychology, 2017
The present study focuses on political efficacy in terms of students' competence self-perceptions related to the domain of politics. The investigation addresses the mean level development and longitudinal relations to outcome variables including gender differences. Drawing on a sample of N = 2,504 German students, political efficacy, along with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes
Gronostay, Dorothee – Journal of Social Science Education, 2016
Being challenged by opposing views in a controversial discussion can stimulate the production of more elaborate and sophisticated argumentations. According to the model of argument reappraisal (Leitão, 2000), such processes require transactivity, meaning that students do not only give reasons to support their own position (e.g., pro/contra…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Classroom Communication, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Debate
Hickey, Sam, Ed.; Hossain, Naomi, Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2019
Why have many developing countries that have succeeded in expanding access to education made such limited progress on improving learning outcomes? There is a growing recognition that the learning crisis constitutes a significant dimension of global inequality and also that educational outcomes in developing countries are shaped by political as…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Politics of Education, Access to Education, Educational Quality
Utler, Stine Johansen – Journal of Social Science Education, 2021
Purpose: This study investigated the political aspects of 1st- to 4th-grade social studies education in Norwegian primary schools through qualitative interviews with 30 social studies teachers. The research examined how and to what extent politics is in focus in initial social studies education using the pre-political perspective as a theoretical…
Descriptors: Political Science, Elementary School Teachers, Citizenship Education, Social Studies
Moeller, Kathryn – Educational Researcher, 2020
Drawing on an integrative review of the literature on the privatization of education and an empirical case study of technology corporations in education, this article examines the corporate within the political economy of education. It argues that by analytically conceiving of corporations under the banner of the private sphere and,…
Descriptors: Privatization, Case Studies, Politics of Education, Commercialization
Paananen, Maiju – Global Studies of Childhood, 2022
This ethnographic study, carried out in public kindergartens in Finland, traces the enactments of the societal roles of early childhood education. It highlights how the intertwining of governing tools and discourses related to early childhood education's societal role participates in the formation of daily life in kindergarten. The concept of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Role of Education, Social Justice
Yonattan Araya Zemaryam – Africa Education Review, 2022
This study uncovers controversies about the use of mother tongue as a medium of instruction in Ethiopia. It examines motives for the use of the mother tongue as a medium of instruction at the elementary level, and on which grounds the rights of minority linguistic groups to be instructed in their mother tongue are overlooked. To this effect, data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Native Language, Minority Groups
Arnsby, Elise Sivertsen; Jacobsson, Katharina; Aspfors, Jessica – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2023
Studies have documented numerous positive effects of mentoring, but few studies have focused on mentor education and mentors' professional development and learning. In Norway, the focus on mentoring and mentor education has been visible in political documents and teacher education for several years. However, the scale of mentor education has been…
Descriptors: Mentors, Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries, College School Cooperation
Gursel-Bilgin, Gulistan; Flinders, David J. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2020
This article reports a case study that examined the peace education practice of a 5th and 6th grade teacher at an independent, non-profit school in the Mid-western United States. The study used Paulo Freire's (1970) conception of dialogue as its conceptual framework. After describing the study's context and methods, we present data focusing on the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Peace, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
Waite, Shannon R. – Journal of Educational Supervision, 2021
COVID-19 and the demand for racial justice caused the dark underbelly of white supremacy to be laid bare during 2020. These events call for a reexamination of the ontological and epistemological frameworks in academe and specifically within the field of educational leadership. The legacy of white supremacist ideology prevails as the existing and…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Instructional Leadership, Educational Administration, Educational History
Cassar, Charlot; Oosterheert, Ida; Meijer, Paulien C. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2021
Controversial issues characterise life in democratic societies and they often arise unexpectedly in the classroom, without being planned for by the teacher. However, controversial issues are rarely addressed beyond a mandatory curriculum and are often avoided. The aim of this exploratory study is to investigate what teachers identify and address…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Teacher Behavior, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers
Lewis Ellison, Tisha – Reading Teacher, 2023
Due to the paucity of research that focuses on the digital and STEAM literacy practices of Black students and youth and their families in home and community spaces, this article acts as a call for awareness to understand the already-existing digital practices that acknowledges and honors their racial, cultural, and social lives. Lewis Ellison…
Descriptors: African American Students, Digital Literacy, STEM Education, Art Education