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Anda Fournel; Chrystelle Blanc-Lanaute; Qionghua Cai – Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 2024
Existing research recognizes the crucial role played by imagination in giving meaning to our experience, thinking critically and paying attention to difference. By using a design based on what we called 'embodied imagination' (analogical reasoning) and 'narrative imagination' (contributions from universal stories), we conduct an exploratory study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Conflict Resolution
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Peppler, Kylie; Sedas, R. Mishael; Dahn, Maggie – Education Sciences, 2020
The maker movement advocates hands-on making with emerging technologies because of its value for promoting innovative and personally meaningful transdisciplinary learning. Educational research has focused on settings that primarily serve youth from dominant groups, yet we know surprisingly little about making among minoritized youth and the kinds…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Experiential Learning, Family Environment, Learner Engagement
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Brown, Aaron; Bauer, Michael – Athens Journal of Education, 2021
Engineers provide essential services to society, solving pressing challenges through technological inventiveness. Students new to engineering often cite the lure of creative problem solving as attracting them to the discipline. However, traditional engineering curricula typically focus on a narrow application of fundamentals for solving…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Service Learning, Community Development, Sustainable Development
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Longaretti, Lynette; Toe, Dianne – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
Classroom teacher quality can significantly impact student learning outcomes. Increased access to skilled teachers in low socioeconomic status (SES) schools could substantially improve the learning outcomes and engagement levels of young people. The National Exceptional Teaching for Disadvantaged Schools (NETDS) programme is a university based…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Disadvantaged Environment, Administrator Attitudes, Preservice Teacher Education
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Abdul Razzak, Nina Lutfi – Cogent Education, 2016
This paper presents a reflection on students' levels and types of motivation at a college of health sciences in Saudi Arabia and highlights the social and cultural factors possibly contributing to the differences in motivation among those students. The results of this study, which followed a mixed-methods approach, indicate a multiplicity of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Student Motivation, College Students
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Quaynor, Laura – Journal of Peace Education, 2015
Although policymakers stress the importance of education in promoting peace, little research examines the ways that schools prepare students affected by conflict to participate in the restoration of peace in their political community. Post-conflict societies experience severe challenges in strengthening political processes and social cohesion.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conflict, Social Change, Citizenship Education
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Forzano, Lori-Ann B.; Chelonis, John J.; Casey, Caitlin; Forward, Marion; Stachowiak, Jacqueline A.; Wood, Jennifer – Psychological Record, 2010
Self-control can be defined as the choice of a larger, more delayed reinforcer over a smaller, less delayed reinforcer, and impulsiveness as the opposite. Previous research suggests that exposure to visual food cues affects adult humans' self-control. Previous research also suggests that food deprivation decreases adult humans' self-control. The…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Disadvantaged Environment, Cues, Females
Rochkind, Jonathan; Ott, Amber; Immerwahr, John; Doble, John; Johnson, Jean – Public Agenda, 2007
This report raises questions about the support given to new teachers who come to teaching through "alternate routes." It focuses on new teachers in high-needs schools, comparing the perspectives of those from traditional teacher education versus those from three alternate-route programs: Teach for America, Troops to Teachers and The New Teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Work Attitudes, Teaching Experience, Alternative Teacher Certification
Black, Harry; And Others – 1993
This document presents findings of an evaluation of two projects of the Aga Khan Foundation's School Improvement Programme located in Kisumu, Kenya, and Bombay, India. The program is based on the assumption that effective change consists of a focus on the individual school, clinical methods of teacher development, and improved school management.…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations, Disadvantaged Environment, Educational Improvement
Templeton, Rosalyn Anstine; Johnson, Celia E. – 1995
This paper presents findings of a study that investigated the factors perceived by teachers as significant to the development of a safer school-work environment. The case study involved a 4-year project to decrease school violence in an urban, elementary, Chapter 1 school. Data were obtained from administration of the School Level Environment…
Descriptors: Aggression, Conflict Resolution, Disadvantaged Environment, Educational Environment