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Monika Stelzl; Lynnee M. R. Pevie – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
In this collaborative professor-student contribution, an experiential nature-based university psychology course is described and discussed. Existing scholarship on experiential environmental education informed the course, with the overall aim of educating the "whole student". Experiential environmental education has been identified as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Environmental Education
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Islek, Önder – Online Submission, 2017
Like every child, children with visual impairments have the right to access education and become fully independent individuals. However, vision is one of the most essential senses to access information. Therefore, children with visual impairments face significant challenges in accessing information and participate into educational activities. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Core Curriculum, National Curriculum, Visual Impairments
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Eilam, Billie; Poyas, Yael – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2012
The paper examined expert literature teachers' coping with a novel textbook, integrating literature with visual arts, which is a particular interdisciplinary case of text-image relations in textbooks. Examination was performed within the framework of teachers' responses to curricular changes and of theory regarding strategies of interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Arts, Semitic Languages, Visual Arts
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Brody, David L.; Gorsetman, Chaya R. – Journal of Jewish Education, 2013
The effectiveness of outside experts in professional development in Jewish schools has been questioned in light of scholarly critique of this approach. This case study examines the sociocultural context of one such long-term project aimed at school improvement through early childhood (EC) curriculum development. The research identifies cultural…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Improvement, Faculty Development, Day Schools
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Green, Beryl – International Schools Journal, 1998
Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences theory has exciting implications for planning new curricula, especially for children with dyslexia. These children have been "educated" in a system that has failed them. Gardner's theory allows an open-ended approach to assessing dyslexic children's intelligence. Understanding the eight…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style, Curriculum Development, Dyslexia
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Chilvers, Denise; Cole, Angela – Support for Learning, 2006
In this article Denise Chilvers and Angela Cole describe a school-based study which is located very much in an action-research idiom. Starting from a questioning, but collegial, stance on identifying positive interventions for children who challenge, the authors illustrate how theory and reflection on practice can lead to significant innovations…
Descriptors: Action Research, Social Behavior, Special Needs Students, Behavior Problems
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Brown, Victoria – Design for Arts in Education, 1990
Recommends that drama be included in early childhood education, emphasizing preschool education. Cites research linking drama with enhanced language acquisition in children, ages 3-8. Emphasizes drama's effectiveness as a multisensory learning medium. Notes programs offering drama training for teachers. Suggests changes in teacher education and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Child Development, Creative Dramatics, Creativity