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Meredith Susan Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative quasi-experimental study, adopting a pretest/post-test control/treatment group design, investigated the efficacy of instructional strategies for developing divergent thinking in gifted and talented students within K-6 heterogeneous cluster classes. It specifically explored the problem of insufficient evidence-based approaches for…
Descriptors: Gifted Education, Gifted, Creative Development, Creative Thinking
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Brecka, Peter; Cervenanská, Marcela – Education and Information Technologies, 2016
The introduced study represents methodology and results of research focused on utilization of interactive whiteboard as didactic technology mediating information through multimedia worksheets applied in education process in pre-primary education. Its aim was to determine whether it can significantly increase the level of children's acquired…
Descriptors: Creativity, Elementary Education, Creative Development, Educational Technology
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Jornet, Alfredo; Erstad, Ola – Digital Education Review, 2018
As digital technologies continue transforming the time and space boundaries that traditionally had been ascribed to different educational settings, the very notion of learning "context" also is being challenged in educational research literature. In this article, we contribute to this debate by offering an empirically grounded discussion…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Context Effect, Learning Processes, Lifelong Learning
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Hanson, Michael Hanchett; Herz, Rebecca Shulman – Art Education, 2011
Art and creativity are closely linked in the minds of most people. When asked to explain why art should be part of the school curriculum, respondents commonly answer that art provides an opportunity for students to be creative and express themselves. As professionals who have worked with art education for years, the authors suggest a different…
Descriptors: Creativity, Art Education, Teaching Methods, Creative Development
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Cumming, Rachel – Literacy, 2007
This article begins by identifying that children have a spontaneous predilection for playing with language, engaging in poetic discourse even before their first poetry lesson. Although children's language play is relatively unresearched in the classroom, in a case study of two groups of pupils aged between 10 and 11, it was observed that children…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Poetry, Play, Language Acquisition
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Lange, Diane M. – General Music Today, 2006
This article explains the difference between concepts and skills in music education. Concepts about music cannot be taught; they are acquired through meaningful experiences. These experiences are typically called musical skills and include singing, chanting, playing, moving, creating, improvising, and writing. Suggestions for organizing the school…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Music Techniques, Singing