Saba ayman-nolley

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Northeastern Illinois University

When gestures occur with speech during math instruction, learning outcomes improve, indicating that gesture has the potential to mitigate educational inequities. One population that could benefit from an instructional tool like gesture is English Language Learners (ELLs). To increase our understanding of gesture’s potential benefits for math learni...

Previous studies have shown that teachers’ gestures are beneficial for student learning. In this research, we investigate whether teachers’ gestures have comparable effects in face-to-face live instruction and video-based instruction. We provided sixty-three 7–10 year old students with instruction about mathematical equivalence problems (e.g., 3 +...

Leadership has been a focus in the Chinese culture and philosophy since antiquity. Philosophers such as Confucius (Ware, 1995) and Mencius (Lau, 1970) advised the emperors and leaders of the time. Now, China is transformed from the world’s greatest opponent of globalization into a committed advocate of globalization (Overholt, 2005). The opening of...

Studies investigating the role gesture plays in communication claim gesture has a minimal role, while others claim that gesture carries a large communicative load. In these studies, however, the role of gesture has been assessed in a context where speech is understood and could easily carry the entire communicative burden. We examine the role of ge...

During the 20th century the whirlwind of beliefs and psychological theories of adolescence included divergent views such as a 'stage of storm and stress' and 'adolescents as criminals' as well as a 'stage of abstract and reflective thoughts' and 'adolescents as builders of society'. It is not clear, however, what role the empirical psychological re...

This article challenges the widely accepted myth that Piaget did not address the concept of creativity in his theoretical exegesis of the development of the mind. Using Piaget's own explanations, the possibility of a dialectic approach to creativity is explored. This approach would be dynamic and developmental in nature. The proposed explanation do...

From the three translated papers of Vygotsky which directly addressed creativity, one can extract the outlines of a viable theory explaining the development of creativity. Vygotsky claimed that creative imagination is the distinguishing feature between the world of culture and the world of nature, and the basis of all mature mental activity. He fou...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Education, August 1985. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-91).