This is a position paper, which argues the position that critical thinking is a crucial skill, which needs to be developed in the school curriculum and that the creative arts can do this. The paper explores the states of the Arts in the present curriculum and goes on to argue that knowing how to develop critical thinking is an important pedagogical skill that needs to be developed in our pre-se...

In this era of globalization, learning multiple languages is becoming necessary. Learning to speak a new language involves knowing how to correctly pronounce words. In many cases, corrections to pronunciation mistakes come from language teachers who can typically give students only limited time and attention. With the rapid development of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies, compute...

Yu, Ji Hyun. Ph.D., Purdue University, December 2013. Development and Validation of Pre-service Teachers’ Personal Epistemologies of Teaching Scale (PT-PETS). Major Professor: Peggy Ertmer. The Internet has changed not only how we conceptualize knowledge, but also how we learn in classroom. Knowledge is not any longer transmitted from experts to nonexperts, but is constructed through communicat...

Epilepsy is a disease frequently seen among school children. Children having seizures may bother their teachers, who do not receive specific training about epilepsy during their education. Moreover, teachers feel desperate not knowing how to handle the situation. In a series of seminars it was our aim both to investigate and to improve the present awareness, knowledge, and attitude of elementar...

Reflection is fundamental in experiential pedagogies, and many studies have been carried out to investigate its impact benefits on student learning outcomes. However, the concept of reflection not well understood. In this study, we focus ensuing approaches it service-learning, an pedagogy that has hailed as a high-impact practice higher education. We first survey semantic background usage servi...