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Books by Kids for Kids: The Impact of a Collaborative Project-Based Learning International Book Exchange on Pre-Service Teachers
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Kalynn Hall Pistorio; Mary Beth Hendricks – PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to discuss the impact of an international book exchange project done with elementary students from a professional development school partnership on the understanding of project-based learning by pre-service teachers. Design/methodology/approach: A collaborative project between a school in Uganda, a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Active Learning, Student Projects, Books
The Cross-Cultural Invariance of Creative Cognition: A Case Study of Creative Writing in U.S. and Russian College Students
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Kornilov, Sergey A.; Kornilova, Tatiana V.; Grigorenko, Elena L. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2016
Unlike intelligence, creativity has rarely been investigated from the standpoint of cross-cultural invariance of the structure of the instruments used to measure it. In the study reported in this article, we investigated the cross-cultural invariance of expert ratings of creative stories written by undergraduate students from the Russian…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Cross Cultural Studies, Case Studies, Undergraduate Students
Picture This: Seeing Diverse Youths' Ideas about Schools' Purposes, Supports, and Impediments--Students from the "Through Eyes" Project
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Zenkov, Kristien; Harmon, Jim; van Lier, Piet – Multicultural Perspectives, 2008
The high school dropout crisis in diverse urban communities in the United States is evidence of an endemic disengagement from formal education. The project on which this essay reports utilized visual sociology methods to explore city students' perceptions of schools' purposes, as well as the supports for and impediments to their school success.…
Descriptors: High Schools, Student Attitudes, Graduation Rate, Dropouts
Investing in the Improvement of Education: Lessons to be Learned from the National Writing Project
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St. John, Mark; Stokes, Laura – Inverness Research, 2008
This paper defines the concept of "improvement infrastructure" and "educational capital" for education, and it uses the case of the National Writing Project to develop an extended, data-based illustration of the design and generativeness of an improvement infrastructure. Since 1983 there have been multiple "waves" of…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Educational Research, Academic Achievement
What Is an American?
Gordon, Josef; And Others – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1994
Ponders the definition of an American, and offers some responses to that question from high school students around the United States. (SR)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Definitions, High School Students, High Schools
Developing Reading-Writing Connections: The Impact of Explicit Instruction of Literary Devices on the Quality of Children's Narrative Writing
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Corden, Roy – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2007
The purpose of this collaborative schools-university study was to investigate how the explicit instruction of literary devices during designated literacy sessions could improve the quality of children's narrative writing. A guiding question for the study was: Can children's writing can be enhanced by teachers drawing attention to the literary…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Writing (Composition), Children
Cross-Cultural Differences as Reflected in Stories Given by American and Chinese Children.
Domino, George – 1985
Two samples of 316 stories generated by 80 Chinese and 80 American children were content analyzed. The stories were generated using a method developed by Metraux, which asks children to complete stories. According to the study's hypotheses Chinese children were expected to: (1) show evidence of greater social orientation, as reflected by such…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Creative Writing