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Affect, Learning, and Teacher Education: Getting Stuck in Social Justice. Routledge Cultural Studies in Knowledge, Curriculum, and Education
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Erica E. Colmenares; Scott Jarvie – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
This volume inquires into student teachers' "stuck moments"--moments of felt crisis--as they occur within the context of a university-based social justice teacher education (SJTE) program. The book complicates the notion that these stuck moments are primarily effects of a gap between theory and practice. Instead, Colmenares and Jarvie…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Social Justice, Teacher Education Programs
Handbook of Language Teacher Education: Critical Review and Research Synthesis. Springer International Handbooks of Education
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Zia Tajeddin; Thomas S. C. Farrell – Springer, 2025
This handbook synthesizes accumulated research evidence about the main areas of language teacher education. It systematically applies research synthesis to the field, providing coherent, systematic insights into various aspects of language teacher education. Each chapter compares research conducted between 2010-2020 within a specialized area of…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Education, Teacher Characteristics, Reflective Teaching
What's the Buzz? A Social Skills Enrichment Programme for Primary Students
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Le Messurier, Mark; Parker, Madhavi Nawana – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Some children, for all manner of reasons, struggle to make friends and fit in socially. "What's the Buzz?" is a unique sixteen-lesson social skills enrichment programme designed to explicitly teach children how to think and relate to others in social situations. This lively, highly practical role-play and play-based programme targets everyday…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Play, Interpersonal Competence, Elementary School Students
A Study of the Factorial Invariance of the Student Engagement Instrument (SEI): Results from Middle and High School Students
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Betts, Joseph E.; Appleton, James J.; Reschly, Amy L.; Christenson, Sandra L.; Huebner, E. Scott – School Psychology Quarterly, 2010
The construct of student engagement is increasingly prevalent in the field of education, serving as the foundation of dropout prevention and high school reform initiatives. The purpose of this study was to further examine 1 measure of student engagement, the Student Engagement Instrument (SEI), designed to measure 2 subtypes of student engagement:…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Dropout Prevention, Reliability, Factor Structure
Understanding Schemas and Emotion in Early Childhood
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Arnold, Cath – SAGE Publications (UK), 2010
This book makes explicit connections between young children's spontaneous repeated actions and their representations of their emotional worlds. Drawing on the literature on schemas, attachment theory and family contexts, the author takes schema theory into the territory of the emotions, making it relevant to the social and emotional development…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Emotional Development
Lessons from the Street: An Introduction to Drug Education
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Janowiak, John – American Journal of Health Education, 2009
The instructional approach used in this teaching idea involves high-level cognitive and affective learning rather than passive learning through lecture, which often is the traditional, and ineffective, approach for students being educated about drugs. Objectives: At the conclusion of this drug education teaching strategy, students will be able to:…
Descriptors: Drug Education, Drug Abuse, Teaching Methods, Cognitive Processes