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Sarah Probine; Rachael Burke; Jo Perry; Joanne Alderson; Yo Heta-Lensen; Fi McAlevey; Helen Wrightson – Early Childhood Folio, 2024
Children's inquiry is an approach where tamariki explore and research their own questions and curiosities over sustained periods of time with the support of their kaiako. This article explores findings from research examining how this approach has been interpreted and enacted by early childhood kaiako in Aotearoa New Zealand. The article examines…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Culturally Relevant Education
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Patrix, Melanie; Benade, Leon – New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2018
The policy intent of the New Zealand Ministry of Education to develop innovative learning environments (ILEs) is underpinned by the belief that changing the physical environment will change pedagogy by enabling collaborative teaching and learning (Benade, 2017b). This policy intent is driven by the pressure to prepare students with '21st-century…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Cooperative Learning, Physical Environment, 21st Century Skills
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Cherrington, Sue; Thornton, Kate – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2013
This article explores the influences on and nature of continuing professional development in the New Zealand early childhood education sector. In addition to discussing the nature of professional development and providing an explanation of the policy context that informs the delivery of professional development, the paper draws on evaluations of…
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Lee, Virginia S. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
Inquiry-guided learning (IGL) has widespread appeal in higher education as a suite of teaching strategies that promotes learning through students' increasingly independent investigation of questions, problems, and issues using the methods of inquiry of the disciplines. Framed as especially appropriate for research universities, IGL has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation
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Dabner, Nicki; Davis, Niki; Zaka, Pinelopi – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2012
Online learning and teaching is rapidly increasing in many countries, including high schools in the USA and teacher education worldwide. Online and blended approaches to professional and organizational development are, therefore, becoming essential to enable effective and equitable education. Authentic project-based learning to support the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Projects, Elementary Secondary Education, Formative Evaluation
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Milne, Louise; Eames, Chris – Design and Technology Education, 2011
This paper describes teacher responses to a framework designed to support teacher planning for technology. It includes a learning experience outside the classroom [LEOTC] and is designed specifically for five-year-old students. The planning framework draws together characteristics of technology education, junior primary classrooms and LEOTC to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expertise, Learning Experience, Technology Education
Garcia, Ofelia, Ed. – 1991
The collection of essays on bilingual education is divided into five sections covering theoretical considerations, planning, policies and implementation in an international context, U.S. policies, and practices. Papers include: "A Gathering of Voices, a 'Legion of Scholarly Decency' and Bilingual Education: Fishman's Biographemes as…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Bilingual Education, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Education