ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Playbuilding and Social Change
Author: Norris, Joe
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Interviews,Social Change,Drama,Teaching Methods,Dramatics,Foreign Countries

In this interview, Joe Norris reflects on his early experiences with performance and how he became involved with collective creations and playbuilding. His work has led him to develop and implement qualitative research methods using playbuilding. In his role as artistic director of Mirror Theatre, he has been the driving force behind numerous plays that inspire social change. He shares candid observations about the challenges of doing performative work and gives advice for educators wishing to pursue this kind of work.
The Role of Performances in Educational Practices: Experiences of BEd Students Preparing for the Classroom
Author: Roessingh, Hetty
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Practices,Student Experience,Preservice Teacher Education,Preservice Teachers,Lesson Plans,College Freshmen,Microteaching,Reflection,Feedback (Response),Cooperative Learning,Field Experience Programs,Elementary Secondary Education,Modeling (Psychology),Foreign Countries

Performances and artefacts of student learning provide tangible evidence of their understanding of classroom instruction. Hattie (2012, 2015) uses the term &quot;visible learning&quot; to focus attention on the need for teachers to gather and consider these as evidence of students' ongoing learning, linking these tightly to teachers' pedagogical repertoire identified for having impact value. This article describes and illustrates a progression of learning tasks in an Initial Teacher Education (ITE) program that affords insights into students' beginning ability to complete and execute lesson plans in their first year, first semester of the program.
Using Performances in a Flipped Classroom Setting
Author: Bernauer, James A.
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Blended Learning,Teaching Methods,Student Evaluation,Educational Psychology,Instructional Effectiveness,Student Centered Learning,Performance,Student Attitudes,Constructivism (Learning),Learning Theories,Learning Processes,Undergraduate Students,Teacher Education Programs

The purpose of this study is to explain how performances are used within a flipped classroom environment in a university educational psychology class. This instructional approach also incorporates the concept of &quot;integrated assessment&quot; where assessment and instruction are intimately connected. Examples of student-led instruction using performances are provided. Results of a teacher-developed assessment administered during the past several years to elicit student evaluations of these instructional practices have provided evidence that using this instructional approach is effective for most but not all students.
The Effect of Intelligence and Mind Games on Secondary School Students&apos; Writing Success
Author: Kuzu, Tülay Sarar
Date: 2020-07-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Secondary School Students,Writing Skills,Thinking Skills,Learning Activities,Turkish,Writing Instruction,Grade 7,Teaching Methods,Conventional Instruction,Student Interests,Game Based Learning,Multiple Intelligences,Educational Games

Language, which is the main tool of communication that consists actions without understanding and explaining, has vital importance in every field of life. Mother tongue teaching is a process that enhances school-type learning in all disciplines starting from the primary education level. It is also an area that links to development of thinking skills. In this context, there is a need for applications that encourages mother tongue development and enriches higher thinking skills based on active learning in educational settings. One of the educational activities that develop high-level thinking skills is Mind-Intelligence Games. Intelligence Games are defined as activities offered for individuals to realize their own potentials, to make fast and correct decisions, to produce their own unique solutions to problems, and to renew themselves continuously. In this study, the applicability of Mind Games in writing Turkish lessons was investigated. The aim of the study is to examine the effect of the Intelligence and Mind Games selected in accordance with the content and achievements of the Turkish Lesson Curriculum on the writing process. The research was carried out by quantitative research method on two equivalent groups studying in the 7th grade of a public secondary school. Semi-experimental design with experimental and control groups was used in this research. In the experimental group, the process to be tested on the dependent variable, namely the lesson taught with the Mind Games, was applied. In the control group, a standard course was taught with the ongoing method. Intelligence and Mind Games discussed in this study were effective especially in the preparation phase of writing The data received from the two groups selected by matching were evaluated by the experts on the writing skills assessment scale. It was found that the students in the group where the lessons were taught with the Mind Games were more successful in writing than the students in the group where the classical lesson was taught. It was observed that the interest and attention of students in the experiment group increased also.
Using Performative Art to Communicate Research: Dancing Experiences of Psychosis
Author: Boydell, Katherine
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Interdisciplinary Approach,Artists,Scientists,Dance,Social Science Research,Mental Disorders,Health Services,Psychosis,Creativity,Researchers,Cooperation,Research Methodology

This paper highlights a collaborative effort to bring art and science together. In the field of arts-based research, collaboration between social scientists and artists is critical.1Horsfall and Titchen state that &quot;critical creativity as methodology disrupts traditional edges and enables participation of people in the research who are unlikely to engage in philosophical, theoretical and methodological study, but who can understand its assumptions through embodied experience … [It] opens up endless spaces for genuine democratization of knowledge creation&quot; (156). It was this type of democratized space that we wanted to create. We believed that bringing artists and scientists together would contribute to minimizing boundaries that often exist between these two worlds. We found that our collaboration provided a chance for meaningful dialogue and partnership. Additionally, as Jones states, &quot;reaching across disciplines and finding co-producers for our presentations can go a long way in insuring that, rather than amateur productions, our presentations have polish and the ability to reach our intended audiences in an engaging way&quot; (71).
Vignettes from a Lifetime of Studying Performance
Author: Schechner, Richard
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Vignettes,Performance,Drama,Theater Arts,Playwriting,College Faculty,Teaching Methods,Theory Practice Relationship,Anthropology

In this commentary, summarized from a recent interview, the author shares insights and memories from a career devoted to drama and performance studies. He enthusiastically recounts events, initiatives, and collaborations that have helped sustain his lifelong passion for performance.
Relationship between Teachers&apos; Attitudes towards Technology Use in Education and Autonomy Behaviors
Author: Serin, Hüseyin
Date: 2020-07-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Attitudes,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Gender Differences,Institutional Characteristics,Educational Attainment,Professional Autonomy,Academic Rank (Professional),Predictor Variables,Foreign Countries,Computer Attitudes

With the advances in science and technology, the use of technology in education continues to become widespread. This situation also increases importance of studies on teachers' attitudes towards the use of technology in education. The present study aimed to examine the relationship between teacher attitudes concerning technology use in education and autonomy behaviors. Analyzes were carried out with the data collected from a total of 440 teachers. According to the analysis results, teacher attitudes concerning technology use in teaching do not change according to gender and school type, but according to their education level. While the autonomy behaviors of teachers do not vary in relation to their gender and education level, it differs according to the type of school they work. The attitudes of teachers regarding technology use in teaching and autonomy behaviors do not differ according to their professional seniority. According to the order of importance, the teacher's teaching process autonomy and professional communication autonomy behaviors significantly predict their attitudes regarding technology use in education. These two variables together explain 30% of teachers' attitudes toward technology use in education.
Walking, Talking, Performing in Place: Learning from/with/on the Land
Author: Borhani, Maya Tracy
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Graduate Students,Workshops,Writing (Composition),Ecology,College Faculty,Natural Resources,Foreign Countries,Drama,Poetry,Indigenous Knowledge

This autoethnographic essay describes an ambulatory workshop with fellow graduate students, a walking tour to remote parts of campus where we paused to consider writing prompts and to create short performative sketches highlighting the nature of our relationships to the land around us. In this reflection on our &quot;walk and talk,&quot; I consider how teachers and students co-create what we learn together, the mysteries of engaging in interactive drama and poetry methods, and the performative ways in which we might come to know the places where we live and work more intimately and more imaginatively.
Winter&apos;s Walk: All the Light I Hold in This Moment
Author: Fels, Lynn
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Writing Instruction,Writing (Composition),Teaching Methods,Drama,Higher Education

How do we enlarge the space of the possible to encourage our students to notice the educational, social, economic, communal, and political scripts that perform us? Academic performance imagines new ways of performing research. Conventional academic performances have been interrupted. Be aware. We can never take for granted the performance that is us. I want to be awakened to the gaps and absences in the performances that our students offer us, as we create space for them to perform in our classrooms, on school stages, in our hearts. How might performance become an action site of resistance, of resolution, of advocacy, of invitation, of renewal?
Ekphrastic Poetics: Fostering a Curriculum of Ecological Awareness through Poetic Inquiry
Author: Kulnieks, Andrejs
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Poetry,Inquiry,Higher Education,Ecology,Natural Resources,Indigenous Knowledge,Foreign Countries,Aesthetics,Teacher Education

In this article, we outline the role of ekphrastic poetics in an ecological practice of poetic inquiry. Ekphrastic poetics, as a rhetorical device, involves one medium of art relating to another medium by unfolding its form and essence. Ultimately, our work involves a poetic response to an aesthetic form and it is through our ongoing collaborations that we are able to outline the importance of the poetic benefits of dwelling in natural places. We offer specific examples of how we engage in interpretive response activities that help to foster ecological habits of mind in teacher education.
Life &amp; Mortality: A Teacher&apos;s Awakening
Author: Molnar, Carli
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Death,Terminal Illness,Poetry,Elementary School Students,Classroom Environment,Student Needs,Teacher Role,Student Behavior

This paper is a collection of pieces that contemplate life and mortality in the realm of education. A terminally ill, eight-year-old boy named Kole and his struggle within the confines of formal schooling inspires it. This piece of poetic inquiry gives voice to questions that need to be addressed in schools today, such as: In the face of mortality, what matters each day in classrooms? Why do terminally ill children need to come to school to prepare for the future? What does it mean to live well with children each day? This writing is a story that attempts to illuminate within each of us the recognition that mortality is nearer than one thinks, even for those of us without a terminal condition.
Performing Embodied Pedagogy: Listening to the Small Talk of My Injured Back
Author: Ramsay, Lorna Louise
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Poetry,Inquiry,Human Body,Collaborative Writing,Personal Narratives,Biographies,Reflection,Undergraduate Students,Writing (Composition),Performance,Creative Writing

My poetic inquiry contemplates possible exchanges between educator and learner in a writing intensive university course designed to invite collaborative co-authoring of embodied, emotive, and informed reflective responses to ongoing life narratives and histories expressed/performed. I intend to open up my inclusive learning environment to feelings of belonging, a shared &quot;performance of place,&quot; (Kaye, 2000, p. 3) that supports risk-full exploration of embodied texts like those living in and expressing through the small talk of my injured back. I challenge self-made definitions of educator, learner, and researcher in dedication to critical, informed, contemplative practices around sometimes unexpected, multidisciplined, transmediated places of embodied expression and emergent pedagogy.
Liminal Lives: Navigating the Spaces between (Poet and Scholar)
Author: Clarke, C. L.
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Inquiry,Poetry,Autobiographies,Foreign Countries,Indigenous Knowledge,Figurative Language

This paper focuses on the importance of narrative beginnings to narrative inquiry, arguing that an examination of narrative beginnings is essential to positioning the researcher within the research. Through a series of personal poems, I unpack the significance of my own autobiographical beginnings from a narrative perspective, and from my proposed research on life and learning on the edges of community. In this paper, I also highlight the efficacy of employing poetic representation within a narrative inquiry. Through poetic representation, I demonstrate the liminal nature of understanding field texts and interim field texts as determined by the context of the three-dimensional narrative inquiry space, encompassing temporality, sociality, and place.
Poetic Inquiry and Its Lyrical Potential for Research
Author: Shidmehr, Nilofar
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Poetry,Inquiry,Ethics,Learning Processes,Imagination,Critical Thinking,Creative Thinking,Research Methodology

Including both discursive and lyrical inquiry as complementary sides of research and education, educational poetics is a way of re-imagining education that creates greater critical awareness of and ethical responsibility for our learning processes and inspires learners to employ their human potential for imagination and critical thinking to revise and remake &quot;common sense.&quot;
Poetic Inquiry as Visiting: &quot;Stories of Men&quot;
Author: Latremouille, Jodi Marie
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Rural Schools,Foreign Countries,Indigenous Populations,Poetry,Story Telling,Residential Schools,Indigenous Knowledge,Cultural Influences,Student Experience,Teaching Methods,College Preparation

This article is a reflection on how stories can come to inhabit a place in a pedagogical way, as Keith Basso notes, &quot;wisdom sits in places&quot; (1996). In this story, I write about my experiences teaching a college preparation English and math class in rural British Columbia. In the short story entitled &quot;Stories of Men,&quot; I describe the act of witnessing the stories of suffering and hope of men who grew up attending local residential schools, alongside the stories of their sons' coming of age in the contemporary school system.
The Radiance of the Small
Author: Fidyk, Alexandra
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Coping,Poetry,Animals,Death

The challenge and conundrum are to integrate within ourselves the dark/light cycles of the natural world, yet flourish in times of grief and pain. But how does one lose and be grateful? How does one create harmony between body and soul? Here we explore the lessons of a snail wedded to the earth, astute in its slowness, in its minute shadow; we listen for the small-throated life; we adopt the unapologetic, razor eyes of the raven. Questions lived and explored evoke shadow-answers and other questions. What lessons can be culled in the light of healing? What can we learn by entering moments closely? The suddenness of a death can bring us back to the radiance of the small: to see by means of black and to be at home in suffering.
Artificial Neural Network Approach to Predict LMS Acceptance of Vocational School Students
Author: Ozkan, Umut Birkan
Date: 2020-07-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Predictor Variables,Integrated Learning Systems,Expectation,Social Influences,Males,Academic Achievement,Student Behavior,Intention,Educational Environment,Adoption (Ideas),College Students,Technology Integration,Foreign Countries,Vocational Schools,Models

The contribution of e-learning technologies, especially LMS which has become an important component of e-learning, is significantly increasing in higher education. It is critical to understand the factors that affect the behavioral intention of students towards LMS use. The aim of this study is to explore predictors of students' acceptance of Course Portal at a postsecondary vocational school level. We utilised a framework suggested by Sezer and Yilmaz (2019) for understanding students' acceptance of LMS. This framework obtains the main constructs in UTAUT: namely, performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence and facilitating conditions. More external variables, associate degree programs, high school type, academic grade point average were also adopted. Accordingly, 387 students were answered the questionnaire for investigating behavioral intention. Artificial neural network analysis (ANN) was used to predict students' acceptance of LMS use according to variables associated with their use of LMS technology. ANN analyses in the present study revealed that performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence and facilitating conditions are important predictors of students' behavioral intention to use LMS. Nevertheless, performance expectancy was found to be the most influencing predictor of LMS use. The analyses of this research provides evidence on the utilization of ANN to predict the determining factors of LMS acceptance.
From Robo-Sapiens to Robo-Ludens: Re-Thinking Future Learning with Smart Personal Digital Playmates
Author: Sezgin, Sezan
Date: 2020-07-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Handheld Devices,Telecommunications,Teaching Methods,Electronic Learning,Special Education,Educational Games,Man Machine Systems,Computer Simulation

This systematic review investigates two foci: identifying the ongoing status of smart personal digital assistants in educational contexts and the possible relationship between smart personal digital assistants and gamification elements. This relationship is expressed in almost two new figurative terms, namely, robo-sapiens and robo-ludens and the present study lays on the foundations of these terms. Therefore, this paper presents a holistic approach for the review and synthesis of the previous literature. The data of the study were gathered based on the findings reported in the related research articles, conference papers, dissertations, book chapters and project reports by focusing on 9 sets of generic keywords. As a part of this study, smart personal digital assistants in learning processes were scanned purposively in the lens of gamification. To this end, a two step inclusion criteria was implemented to review the studies of the research scope. Content analysis was the main method used for data analysis. The research findings revealed the most significant fields for the use of smart personal digital assistants are dominantly e-learning and special education. The research also discusses game-related components in smart personal digital assistant use in edu-centric purposes.
Insights from the Implementation of a Flipped Classroom Approach with the Use of a Commercial Learning Management System
Author: Lakarnchua, Onuma
Date: 2020-07-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Blended Learning,Integrated Learning Systems,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Second Language Learning,Public Colleges,College Freshmen,Delivery Systems,Instructional Effectiveness,Writing Apprehension

As an option to help cope with challenges such as differing student needs, lack of student interest, and limited contact hours, the commercial learning management system (LMS) Blackboard was used to support a flipped classroom approach in a first-year English as a foreign language course at a large Thai public university. The aims of the study were to determine students' perceptions of the course and how it affected their second language writing anxiety, in order to improve later versions of the course. Data were collected over the course of two non-consecutive measures from 272 participants in the first semester and 141 in the second. Data on students' perceptions and anxiety were collected using a questionnaire and the Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (Cheng, 2004). After quantitative and qualitative analysis, results showed that participants' second language writing anxiety was not significantly affected by the modified course. Their perceptions of the course appeared to be impacted by technological difficulties that occurred. The results seem to indicate that frustration with technology should be of greater concern when attempting to utilize an LMS or similar platform.
The Use of Feature Film for Teaching Undergraduate Bioethics: Course Format and Assessment through Student Narratives
Author: Searight, H. Russell
Date: 2020-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Films,Teaching Methods,Student Attitudes,Emotional Response,Diaries,Reflection,Formative Evaluation,Relevance (Education),Medicine,Ethics,Moral Values,College Students,Personal Narratives,Critical Thinking

Film is a form of engaging narrative being employed with greater frequency in undergraduate and graduate education. To optimize their pedagogical impact, it is important to carefully select films that address core course objectives. Additionally, viewing should be structured with written guidelines to direct the audience to consider the relevant dimensions associated with the instructional goals of the film. A course, &quot;Medical Ethics and Film&quot; is described to illustrate cinemeducation. In order to assess the impact of this recently developed course, students kept ongoing diaries in which they regularly wrote about their reactions to each film. Analysis of the diaries revealed that students routinely addressed the moral dilemmas portrayed and often applied specific ethical theories. While ethical theory is typically presented as a series of cognitive frameworks, students often expressed strong emotional reactions and frequently linked the dilemmas portrayed to their own life. [Co-written with Alyssa Burnash, Molly Campbell, Megan Chmielewski, Morgan Edmonds, Heather Gregg, Lyndsey Ren Johnson, Ellie Lytle, Katelyn Mills, Natalie Nowak, Camdyn Odykirk, Kaycie Rachels, Mikayla Schrotenboer, Sierra Strutz, Teresa VanDyke, Sydney Zuke, and Michael Zurek.]