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Contexts and languages in Rural Education: a discussion on teacher education in mathematics

Revista Brasileira de Educação do Campo, 2019
The Peasant Education is based on the valorization of the peasant context and consequent defense of the contextualization of the content from local contexts, also defends the teaching of the formal knowledge. However, in mathematics teaching problems are
Valdomiro Pinheiro Teixeira Junior
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Semantic primitives and compositionality: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The term semantic primitives refers to a set of basic, atomic concepts from which all other (compound) concepts are constructed. It presupposes the principle of compositionality—the idea that complex items or expressions can be formed by combining simpler constituents.
Birger Hjørland
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Migrant Teachers’ Perceptions of the South African Mathematics Curriculum and Their Experiences in Teaching in the Host Country

SAGE Open, 2017
This article investigates the tensions experienced by Zimbabwean immigrant teachers in teaching mathematics in South Africa. It explores their views on the South African mathematics curriculum and how they are treated at their work stations. The study is
Judah Paul Makonye
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Ciência, misticismo e educação: uma análise russelliana da pretensa neutralidade da matemática frente à religião

Horizontes, 2016
Resumo O propósito deste artigo consiste na elucidação dos elementos da obra de Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), eminente matemático e filósofo, que tornem possíveis os debates acerca da pretensa neutralidade da matemática diante dos misticismos que sempre ...
Júlio César Augusto do Valle
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Listening to Hong Kong children's perspectives through pretend play

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become an increasing concern in recent years. The issue has been regularly discussed by different stakeholders. However, the rising concern regarding quality in ECEC has not seriously taken into account children's perspectives.
Suzannie K. Y. Leung
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A typology of schools across the four nations of the United Kingdom: Class, race and geography

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper we analyse the hierarchical field of schools across the United Kingdom during the transition to university and suggest that there are five socially distinct clusters of schools. Our five‐cluster typology of UK schools is composed of an established group of elite private and state schools, schools for the white rural and suburban ...
Sol Gamsu, Håkan Forsberg
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Principals' Leadership Content Knowledge in STEM contexts

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper we consider the nature of school principals' leadership content knowledge (LCK) for STEM subjects and for integrated STEM. We present a conceptualisation of STEM LCK based on aspects of principals' STEM capability and consideration of the differences between LCK and pedagogical content knowledge.
Kim Beswick, Vince Geiger, Sharon Fraser
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Pathways to employment: Subject choice, job requirements, and early employment outcomes for UK undergraduates

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Higher education in the United Kingdom has dramatically expanded in recent decades, along with questions about its effectiveness in preparing graduates for the labour market. With rising tuition fees and increasing competition for graduate jobs, many students opt to study ‘professional’ subjects—fields closely tied to specific professions ...
Sarah Pemberton
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Engineering Education in Iran; A Comparative Study

آموزش مهندسی ایران, 2010
A comparative study of education of engineering in Iran and some developed countries reveals a fundamental difference in the philosophy of education. In Iran learning is a merit, while today education is an investment.
Jamshid Parvizian , Farshad Tooyserkani
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Understanding international students' agency in developing employability: Case study of a post‐1992 university in the United Kingdom

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Employability remains a critical issue for international students in the United Kingdom. This study adopts the Employability Agency Framework proposed by Pham et al. to explore how a group of international students actively exercised their agency to enhance their employability during their Master's studies in the United Kingdom.
Hoang Nguyen, Ming Cheng
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