Enhancing the Nigerian Educational System through Creative Dramatics

Enhancing educational effectiveness through teachers’ professional development

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Enhancing Elementary Students Creative Problem Solving through Project-based Education

This paper reports on one dimension of a longitudinal study that researched the impact on student creativity of a unique intervention program for elementary students. The intervention was based on the National Profile and Statement (Curriculum Corporation, 1994a, 1994b) for the curriculum area of Technology. The intervention program comprised project-based, collaborative and thematically-integr...

Enhancing Metaphoric Competence through the Cognitive Approach

Studies in cognitive linguistics have highlighted the importance of metaphors for language teaching. Metaphoric competence, as an important aspect of intelligence, can contribute to the learning of languages. Most textbooks in ESL/EFL avoid the issue of figurative language and concentrate only on the denotative aspects of language. This article reports a study conducted at the Islamic Azad Univ...

Classroom Dramatics

Comprehensive and Creative Conclusions: Enhancing Structural Design Educational Opportunities in Labs for Architecture Students

For decades, structural design has erroneously been taught to architecture students using a modified version of an engineering-based pedagogical model. Instead of imparting a broad range of information for how structural design considerations could be critically integrated into architectural design, these courses instead focus on a narrow range of curricular topics and analytical methods that n...