Internationalising the teacher education curriculum: An analysis of syllabi and student experiences
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Internationalisation has increasingly become a key dimension of quality in initial teacher education (ITE) programmes. Although it is recognised as a means to strengthen future teachers' competencies and expand their professional knowledge, it remains underdeveloped in practice.
Nafsika Alexiadou, Mai Trang Vu
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Social Constructivism in Medical School Where Students Become Patients with Dietary Restrictions. [PDF]
Adv Med Educ Pract, 2020 Hennrikus EF, Skolka MP, Hennrikus N.
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Classroom boundaries and teacher agency: Challenges of implementing Ireland's new primary curriculum
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.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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Scaffolding Strategy In Mathematics Learning [PDF]
, 2011 Mathematics learning should be designed so that it is oriented to the goal which is focused on process. Learning orientation is focused on the development of ‘mathematical thinking’ and ‘mathematical disposition’.
Tedy , Machmud
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Perceived importance and didactic difficulty of chemistry education: Insights from Czech teachers
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.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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Solid, Ductile and Liquid: Changing Notions of Homeland and Home in Diaspora Studies [PDF]
Does diaspora imply a homeland? For a number of scholars who pioneered the growth of diasporic studies in the 1990s this was the sine qua non of the concept.
Robin Cohen (QEH)
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E-Learning as a Cultural Artifact. An empirical study of Iranian Virtual Institutions [PDF]
, 2012 Choice, design and use of technology in education settings can be dependent on culturally embedded norms, i.e., assumptions about the nature of knowledge, ways of communications, kinds of teaching and learning strategies\ud and methods, etc.
Lindström, Berner, Masoumi, Davoud
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For the Few, Not the Many: Tracing the Residualist and Compensatory Nature of British Energy Support
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing on extensive documentary analysis, this article traces the evolution of British energy policy support since World War II. It analyses shifts in policy design through two interpretive lenses: eligibility (residualist vs. universalist) and function (compensatory vs. preventive).
T. M. Croon +4 more
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The role of constructivism in research in science education [PDF]
Investigações em Ensino de Ciências, 1998 In this paper we will examine the challenges placed on research studies in science education inspired in the Piagetian constructivism. We will do so by assessing the merit of some criticisms that are being made to the constructivist research in science ...
Orlando Aguiar Jr.
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