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Dave Hewitt – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2024
The author has been influenced throughout his time in mathematics education by the work of Caleb Gattegno. Gattegno made extensive use of the word awareness whereas much educational literature from a psychological perspective talks about memory (for example, Justicia-Galiano, MartÌn-Puga, Linares & Pelegrina, 2017). This has, amongst other…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Memory, Mathematics Education
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Nikula, Pii-Tuulia; Fusek, Adrienne; van Gaalen, Adinda – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2023
This article applies cognitive dissonance theory to the internationalisation of higher education sector to comment on tensions experienced by practitioners associated with their work's climate impact. The existing literature and relevant climate action drivers and challenges within the sector are reviewed. A case study of a global grassroot…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Climate, Case Studies
Antje Disterheft – European Commission, 2023
Well-being (WB) and Learning for Sustainability (LfS) are two concepts and areas of concern for further action that are receiving increasing attention from policy makers, scholars, educators and many others, due to their relevance in developing of societies fit for the future. In the time of writing of this ad hoc paper, two important reports have…
Descriptors: Well Being, Sustainability, Correlation, Ecology
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Zhao, Steven – Educational Theory, 2021
In this essay Steven Zhao provides an existential-phenomenological account of radicalization and extremism. This elaboration is in response to what Zhao perceives to be the two problematically dominant perspectives of discourse on radicalization: the ideational perspective and the psychological perspective. The ideational perspective is risky…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Phenomenology, Antisocial Behavior, Psychological Patterns
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Li, Lu; Gow, Andrew Douglas Isherwood; Zhou, Jiaxian – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2020
Humans are inherently emotional creatures due to our social nature, and emotions are able to influence how well we learn and even affect academic outcomes. Emotions are rarely a chief concern in educational settings, and we will discuss the mechanisms underlying how emotions are processed in the brain and how they influence the key aspects of…
Descriptors: Positive Attitudes, Neurosciences, Psychological Patterns, Learning Processes
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Dineen, Katy – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
This journal recently published a special issue on Kant, evil, moral perfection and education. The essays included in the special issue discussed the vulnerably and imperfection of human beings and the role of education as facilitating such beings in their pursuit of moral perfection. The contribution of this article is to put forward a Kantian…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Social Change, Role Models, Moral Values
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McAllister, Ken S.; Ruggill, Judd Ethan – American Journal of Play, 2018
The authors discuss the relationship of death and play as illuminated by computer games. Although these games, they argue, do illustrate the value of being--and staying--alive, they are not so much about life per se as they are about providing gamers with a playground at the edge of mortality. Using a range of visual, auditory, and rule-based…
Descriptors: Death, Play, Correlation, Computer Games
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Kaur, Jasleen; Sharma, Anupam – SAGE Open, 2021
The primary objective of this article is to create a conceptual Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) happiness framework for preschool children in India. Although happiness is regarded as one of the key elements that influence early childhood development, an effective happiness framework does not exist for preschools in rural and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
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Hannula, Markku S. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2019
This article is a commentary for the special issue on affect and mathematics in young children, written from the perspective of research on affect in mathematics education. The studies in this special issue focus on the individual learners' affective traits and use primarily surveys as the method. The most common type of affect is emotions, but…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Affective Behavior, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation
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Laermans, Jorien; Scheers, Hans; Vandekerckhove, Philippe; De Buck, Emmy – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2020
The intervention of interest in this review is paper (hard copy) book reading, e-book reading or audiobook listening as a leisure activity ("reading for pleasure" or "recreational reading"). These interventions include lone reading, as well as reading aloud in a one-on-one setting, and being read to in a one-on-one setting.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Older Adults, Leisure Time, Aging (Individuals)
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Errázuriz, Valentina; García-González, Macarena – Curriculum Inquiry, 2021
Reading is often regarded as a public good and an essential part of developing almost every aspect of human potential. In this article, we survey the "affective economies" of literary reading through a textual and visual analysis of documents issued by Chile's Ministry of Education. Through a critical and diffractive reading of these…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits, Affective Behavior, Power Structure
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Oxford, Rebecca L. – Applied Language Learning, 2015
Emotion is "the primary human motive" (MacIntyre, 2002, p. 61). The human brain is an emotional brain, creating relationships among thought, emotion, and motivation in a complex dynamic system (Dörnyei, 2009). Emotion "functions as an amplifier, providing the intensity, urgency, and energy to propel our behavior" in…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Psychiatry, Second Language Learning, Emotional Response
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Stasulane, Anita – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2017
The article addresses the issue of children and young people's well-being at school. The issue has been known as topical for already some time. In recent decades, in order to be able to determine the true nature and essence of the phenomenon of well-being, the necessity to find the ways for identification of children and young people's…
Descriptors: Well Being, Educational Environment, Sustainability, Trend Analysis
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Marques-Brocksopp, Lorna – British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2012
What is meant by the term "wellbeing"? Much has been written on the relationship between chronic illness and mental health outcomes, particularly in terms of "happiness", and the reciprocal relationship between physical and emotional health. Visual impairment research into wellbeing has tended to focus specifically on the concept of "emotional"…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Chronic Illness, Mental Health, Well Being
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Shaw, Janet – Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2012
This paper takes Betty Joseph's concept of "addiction to near death," which describes a clinical situation in which sadism and masochism dominate the relationships of a particular group of patients, and applies it specifically to the case material of a girl in adolescent psychotherapy treatment. A link is made between the patient's retreat from…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Suicide, Sexuality, Psychotherapy
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