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Maheux, Jean-Francois; Roth, Wolff-Michael – Curriculum Inquiry, 2013
There is considerable agreement about the fact that the presence of researchers in the classroom mediates teaching and learning. Why "should" two very different forms of human activity, one designed to study the other, interact and mediate each other? In this article, we propose cultural-historical activity theory as a framework for understanding…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Educational Opportunities, Educational Researchers, Educational Environment
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Starks, Donna; Nicholas, Howard; Macdonald, Shem – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
This article develops an expanded, collaborative and structured view of the process of critiquing observed lesson fragments and shows how this process can be used as a model for developing students' understanding and thinking about teaching and learning processes. The authors introduce Carter's (2007) notion of a meta-genre, "[a] way of doing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Processes, Beginning Teachers, Criticism
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Hoy, Mary P. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1987
Live microwave broadcasts from two special education and six regular elementary classrooms are disseminated nationally via satellite, providing a special observation laboratory experience available to teacher preparation institutions. Observation theory is merged with effective teaching research in an instructional model that has demonstrated…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Lesson Observation Criteria
Hunter, Roberta; Anthony, Glenda – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
Informed by theory and research in inquiry-based classrooms, this paper examines how classroom practices support students' understanding of decimals. Data from a six-month teaching experiment, based on the work of Moss and Case's (1999) use of percentages and metric measure as visible representations for students' emerging understanding of…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Arithmetic, Mathematical Logic, Classroom Techniques
Trimino, Andy; Ferguson, Nancy – 1993
Materials used in conducting a conference workshop on language immersion are presented, including an introductory overview, a guide for observing and analyzing immersion instruction, findings resulting from analysis of the program in question, and the text of a related presentation made at the same conference. The introductory section describes…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design