The Epistemic Generativity of Using a Model of a Big Idea
Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Science instruction should involve learners in generating and warranting ideas, what we call epistemic generation. In modeling instruction, epistemic generation should be achieved by coordinating a model structure with the experienced world in reciprocal directions denoted as developing models and using models. In the former, a model structure
Jonathan T. Shemwell, Daniel K. Capps
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Relevance of positive psychology in the veterinary profession: A narrative review
Veterinary Record, EarlyView.Abstract Background Veterinary professionals encounter myriad stressors that challenge their wellbeing and mental health. Positive psychology provides an evidence‐based approach to improving mental health by emphasising individual strengths, effective coping mechanisms, and the promotion of overall wellbeing.
Aiman Khattak +5 more
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“Environmental sustainabity” in portuguese textbooks [PDF]
, 2007 The sustainable development is the principal issue of the society contemporary, in order to have a future. We have to care about the resources to avoid their over exploration and to protect the nature, not only for the human but also for the other living
Carvalho, Graça Simões de +3 more
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Experimental activities in primary school to learn about microbes in an oral health education context [PDF]
, 2014 Activities of experimental science in primary school enable children to make important cross-curricular learning. In this work experimental activities on microbiology were carried out by the 16 pupils of a Portuguese grade-4 classroom (9-10 years old ...
Carvalho, Graça Simões de +2 more
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“Management of resources” in textbooks of 13 countries: comparative analysis since the early school until the last grade [PDF]
, 2007 The management of resources is a preoccupation of the modern society because of their over exploration. In this work we analysed the topic “Management of resources” in the textbooks from ten countries European, two African ones and another from the ...
Carvalho, Graça Simões de +3 more
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Poor approach to sustainable development: lack of environmental management and scarce emphasis in behaviour change in textbooks of 13 countries [PDF]
, 2008 Nowadays natural resources are being used in an over exploration way, which implies vast environmental problems such as decrease of biodiversity, green-house effect, pollution.
Carvalho, Graça Simões de +3 more
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In quest of legitimacy: The theoretical and methodological foundations of entrepreneurship education research [PDF]
, 2016 This editorial discusses contemporary entrepreneurship education research and identifies the manner in which the three articles comprising this special issue contribute to advancing the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field. In so doing
Business, Novancia +4 more
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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External Didactic Transposition in Undergraduate Mathematics
, 2019 Undergraduate mathematics programmes in Europe are typically delivered in hierarchical structures of modules whose contents are in general assumed to be quite similar across universities. These programmes and the mechanisms through which they are maintained, revised and developed, have so far not been the subject of systematic research, as most ...
Bosch, Marianna +3 more
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