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Warden, Claire – Childhood Education, 2019
Recognizing the valuable role nature plays in human development as well as humans' responsibility toward the earth is critically important when considering how to transform education for the betterment of the individual and society. In this article, the author views nature as a force or phenomenon of the metaphysical world. As such, she suggests…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Individual Development, Educational Change, Environment
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Pearce, Marni; Crowe, Charlene; Letendre, Martha; Letendre, Charlie; Baydala, Lola – Childhood Education, 2005
Throughout her 10-year teaching career, Charlene Crowe was concerned that the minds, spirits, and physical needs of indigenous children were not being addressed, let alone embraced, through the public school system in Canada. In the fall of 1996, Charlene shared her vision for a better educational approach with two aboriginal Elders. Her vision…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Charter Schools, Canada Natives, Indigenous Populations
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Wassermann, Selma – Childhood Education, 1985
Identifies technological changes and the implications of computer-based learning for students and classroom activities. Presents person-oriented goals that teachers might implement in the classroom (based on a vision of the future) and encourages individual teacher's self-appraisal to close the gap between real and idealized classroom functioning.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Cognitive Ability
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Preston, Richard A.; Salinger, Marion – Childhood Education, 1984
Suggests that the Association for Childhood Education International Study Conference will provide American teachers with ideas for promoting global understanding through an awareness of differences between the United States and Canada. Some of these differences include regionalism in Canada, constitutional variation, and multiculturalism. (BJD)
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Conferences, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
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Dixon, Glen T. – Childhood Education, 1982
Reports impressions about the current context of education for children in the Yukon as well as some unusual aspects of teaching in this harsh northern climate. Problems of evaluating education in the Yukon are briefly indicated. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Environment, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries
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Egan, Kieran – Childhood Education, 1997
Argues that the arts are basic to educational development, as they provide the tools and skills that are central to early language development including story, metaphor, rhyme and rhythm, binary structuring and mediation, image formation from words, affective abstraction, and others that underlie more complex learning. (Author)
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Art Education, Child Development