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Matemba, Yonah – British Journal of Religious Education, 2021
Through the lens of an anticolonial (as opposed to postcolonial) analytical framework, this conceptual paper examines decolonising efforts (and failures) in Religious Education (RE) as a school subject in post-independent sub-Saharan Africa. It critiques the missionary/European epistemological hegemony that continues to render RE a colonial rather…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Criticism, Epistemology, Foreign Policy
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Newman, Stephen; Latifi, Ashkan – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2021
The work of Vygotsky is widely used in teacher education and other education-related literature, in discussion of sociocultural perspectives, and in relation to themes such as second language acquisition, the teaching of mathematics, and approaches to teaching and learning. Much of this work gives the impression that Vygotsky's work is…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Sociocultural Patterns, Teacher Education Programs, Child Development
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Pileh Roud, Leila Fekri; Hidri, Sahbi – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
The current study addressed the impact of computerized dynamic assessment (C-DA) on the TOEFL "i"BT listening comprehension test administered to Iranian EFL learners (n = 185) who took part in preparation courses on the TOEFL exam in some language centres in Iran. To mediate the test-takers with hints to process the listening questions,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Schartner, Alina; Young, Tony Johnstone; Snodin, Navaporn – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
Non-nationals constitute up to a quarter of the academic staff workforce of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) worldwide. Their motivations to 'work abroad', and their experiences of doing so, are, however, under-researched, especially where migration is to or within the global South. We report a study conducted among internationally mobile…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, College Faculty, Foreign Nationals, Overseas Employment
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Denee, Rachel; Cherrington, Sue – New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2023
The early childhood sector in New Zealand has a long-held tradition of free play and child-led pedagogy, influencing visual arts approaches with young children. However, alongside learning through play, New Zealand's sociocultural curriculum highlights the active role of the teacher and intentional pedagogy. This article explores the practices and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Visual Arts, Art Education, Teaching Methods
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Clarà, Marc – Educational Review, 2023
This paper addresses a problem that greatly complicates the implementation of dialogic educational approaches in schools: the dilemma between driving children's talk towards normatively accepted conceptions and, at the same time, avoiding the introduction of these normative conceptions into the dialogue by the teacher. I argue that this dilemma is…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods, Learning Theories
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Susan Gary Walters – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Nuosu script, a unique character-based script with a long history, permeates the public spaces of Xichang, the capital of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China. Using interviews, photos, observations, and documents, this qualitative study discovers the uses and meanings of Nuosu script in the linguistic landscape (LL). The…
Descriptors: Written Language, Geographic Regions, Sociocultural Patterns, Accuracy
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Huang, Hui-Ling – Children's Literature in Education, 2020
This article explores a narrative approach adopted by three Taiwanese children's books that feature old trees as storytellers and memory-keepers to address aspects of emotional and psychological adaptation when facing drastic life changes. Although these stories are told from the perspective of old trees, the nostalgic tone serves a specific…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Memory, Foreign Countries, Forestry
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Heffernan, Kayla; Peterson, Steven; Kaplan, Avi; Newton, Kristie J. – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2020
Students' relationships with mathematics continuously remain problematic, and researchers have begun to look at this issue through the lens of identity. In this article, the researchers discuss identity in education research, specifically in mathematics classrooms, and break down the various perspective on identity. A review of recent literature…
Descriptors: Intervention, Identification (Psychology), Mathematics Education, Student Motivation
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Rackley, Eric D. – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2020
Informed by interpretive phenomenological analysis and sociocultural theory, this study examines the language experiences of seven Methodist youth. Analysis of 9 months of observations and 30 interviews yielded a set of experiences that represent the intimacy and complexity of youths' religious discourses. As an essential feature of this…
Descriptors: Christianity, Phenomenology, Sociocultural Patterns, Protestants
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Alang, Asrul Haq – Online Submission, 2020
The purpose of this study was to determine the process of cultivating siri' cultural values, developing Islamic education in Muslim children in Tana Toraja, also looking at the opportunities and challenges on the cultivation of siri' cultural values in Muslim children in Tana Toraja, The research method used is qualitative research with a…
Descriptors: Islam, Muslims, Religious Education, Barriers
Karen Ventura-Kalen – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore what happened when preschool teachers engaged in multimodal meaning making around notions of literacy through visual art making. Eight participant preschool teachers attended 3 six-hour long multimodal workshops designed around social semiotic theory of multimodal communication…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Visual Arts, Literacy, Workshops
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Karami, Amirreza; Howlett, Kristina M.; Bowles, Freddie A. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2019
The current literature review reports the results of four international research studies conducted within recent years to investigate the effectiveness of implementing Dynamic Assessment (DA) in assessing vocabulary development of English language learners. The results of the literature review highlight the positive effects of implementing DA in…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Alternative Assessment, Vocabulary Development, English Language Learners
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Kellogg, David – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2019
Vygotsky considered vraschivaniya, or 'ingrowing', an indispensable stage in the 'internalization' of meaning and described three different ways this could happen. But were these different ways options or substages? By logico-semantic analysis of Vygotsky's notebooks and published texts, and by recontextualizing them historically, I show that what…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Semantics, Foreign Countries, Generalization
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Lewis, Colin J. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2019
Despite increasing studies and applications of Vygotsky's theory of learning and development, little has been written connecting Vygotsky specifically to "moral" education. The most comprehensive attempt at formulating such an account is given by Mark Tappan. I critically evaluate Tappan's account before raising several problems for his…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Learning Theories, Criticism
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