Classroom boundaries and teacher agency: Challenges of implementing Ireland's new primary curriculum
Abstract This article reports on a doctoral study examining teacher agency in one Irish primary school at a timely moment ahead of the implementation of the new Primary Curriculum Framework in September 2025. The framework embeds teacher agency as a central professional principle, yet findings from this study reveal a more cautious and bounded reality.
Máiréad Nally +2 more
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Perceived Teacher Support Profiles and Students' Mathematics Engagement, Anxiety and Attitude: A Latent Profile Analysis. [PDF]
Zhou Y, Jing B, Ma H, Liu H.
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Perceived importance and didactic difficulty of chemistry education: Insights from Czech teachers
Abstract This empirical study examines how chemistry teachers in lower and upper secondary schools in the Czech Republic evaluate the content of the chemistry curriculum, focussing on its perceived importance and didactic difficulty. Based on a quantitative survey (N = 146), the study provides insight into the pedagogical content knowledge of ...
Jitka Lorenzová +6 more
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The impact of teacher training on the evaluation and selection of STEM augmented reality applications and TPACK self-assessment. [PDF]
Küng J, Brovelli D.
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Abstract This paper presents a qualitative case study of how the Mechanical Engineering Diploma programme at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) systematically aligned its curriculum with both national and international graduate attribute (GA) standards.
Ali Rugbani, Simphiwe Nqabisa
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Should mathematics teachers be humorous? A study based on the instructional humor processing theory. [PDF]
Wijaya TT +4 more
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Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge
Abstract This paper advances a theoretical account of threshold concepts as metaphorical‐relational structures that reorganise meaning across contexts. Building on conceptual metaphor theory, we propose that threshold concepts can be understood as sites of schema‐level reorganisation: deep, embodied patterns of relational logic that scaffold abstract ...
Maria Karrol +1 more
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Gifted but Misunderstood? An Interpretive Systematic Review of Gifted Education Policy, Practice, and Socio-Emotional Experience in England. [PDF]
Karakaş Mısır S, Thomas M.
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Abstract Assessing interdisciplinary learning within school curricula remains a persistent challenge in educational research. Difficulties in articulating shared assessment criteria, alongside differing disciplinary and pedagogical perspectives, have contributed to ongoing uncertainty around how interdisciplinary learning should be evaluated.
Hermione Paddle
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The impact of number talks on the number sense of fourth-grade primary school students. [PDF]
Minaz MB, Taş H.
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