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Schelling, Natalie; Mason, Lance E. – Education and Culture, 2021
This paper considers elementary teachers' perceptions of data-driven decision making (DDDM) through the lens of Dewey's science of education. Dewey argues that educational science can be used to improve teaching and learning, but it must be flexible, attendant to multiple dimensions of growth, and grounded in real classroom experiences with…
Descriptors: Data Use, Decision Making, Progressive Education, Science Education
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Goldberg, Sabrina R. – Education and Culture, 2019
Drawing on Dewey's concepts and thinking, a middle school mathematics teacher at The School at Columbia University describes her teaching practice and role as a field-based teacher-educator and professional development leader during EdTech Summit Africa. Through a first-person account of her experiences in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Pretoria,…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Educators
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Baer, Stephanie A. – Education and Culture, 2012
Prospective teachers often walk into my course, Arts in the Elementary Classroom, carrying a guarded consciousness that constrains unencumbered artistic exploration. My responsibility as their instructor is to question mantras that reflect insecurity in process and make pedagogical use of their fears. Through studying the nature of these fears…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Fear, Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers
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Kennedy, David – Education and Culture, 2012
The revolution that Matthew Lipman inaugurated in educational theory and practice in his Philosophy for Children program has two dimensions. The first--introducing philosophy as a subject matter in the elementary school--is based on the assumption that childhood is an appropriate stage of life to read, think, and talk about philosophical issues…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Educational Theories, Educational Practices, Elementary Schools