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Hickman, Mark; Stokes, Peter – Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education, 2016
Outdoor leader and adventure sport education in the United Kingdom has been characterized by an over-emphasis on technical skills at the expense of equally important, but often marginalized intra- and inter-personal skills necessary for contemporary outdoor employment. This study examined the lived experience of vocational outdoor students in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Outdoor Leadership, Recreational Activities, Adventure Education
Rose, Heath; Montakantiwong, Anuchaya – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2018
With the growth of English worldwide there have been numerous calls for a paradigm shift from teaching English as foreign language to teaching English as an international language (EIL). While there is a growing body of conceptual literature for teaching EIL, the voices of teachers remain severely underrepresented in this movement. As such,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Global Approach
Campbell, Coral, Ed.; Jobling, Wendy, Ed.; Howitt, Christine, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2018
Science education is crucial to young children's discovery and understanding of the world around them. This third edition of Science in Early Childhood has been substantially updated to include the most current research, bringing together an author team of respected science education researchers from across Australia. New chapters address changing…
Descriptors: Science Education, Early Childhood Education, STEM Education, Culturally Relevant Education
Olson, Jennifer D.; Rao, Arthi B. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2017
The edTPA, a national performance assessment for teacher candidates, has seen rapid adoption across the country since its development in 2009. Against the national backdrop of high stakes testing and accountability, the edTPA was developed to be an indicator of teachers' readiness to teach. The varying perspectives and responses to edTPA in…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, High Stakes Tests, Preservice Teachers
Ramezanzadeh, Akram – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2017
This grounded theory study explored the conceptualization of authenticity in language education. The participants were 30 Iranian English language educators, who were studied as adult learners. The findings revealed that authenticity was conceptualized by language educators as a social and reflective practice under the influence of the…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Gadanidis, George; Cendros, Rosa; Floyd, Lisa; Namukasa, Immaculate – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2017
As computational thinking (CT) is increasing in focus in K-12 education, it is important to consider how teacher education programs may better prepare teacher candidates (TCs). Previous studies have found that TCs do not always have a firm understanding of what CT involves, and they might not have clear ideas about how to develop CT in their…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Mathematics Education, Preservice Teacher Education
Malik, Sufiana Khatoon; Nasim, Uzma; Tabassum, Farkhanda – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The major purpose of the study was to assess the perceived effectiveness of professional development programs of teachers at higher educational level. The objectives of the study were: "to assess university level teachers'" opinion about effectiveness of professional development training with reference to quality teaching, to measure…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
Kibble, Bob – Primary Science, 2015
When Bob Kibble told an eight-year-old girl that he teaches teachers, she asked him, "So, who teaches you?" The question stopped him in his tracks, and has probably been the question that has made him think more than any other question. Kibble poses the following questions to those who are teachers or teachers of teachers whose…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Reflective Teaching, Teaching (Occupation), Professional Continuing Education
Makar, Katie; Bakker, Arthur; Ben-Zvi, Dani – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2015
Developing argumentation-based inquiry practices requires teachers and students to be explicit about classroom norms that support these practices. In this study, we asked: "How can a teacher scaffold the development of argumentation-based inquiry norms and practices in a mathematics classroom?" A primary classroom (aged 9-10) was…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Persuasive Discourse, Inquiry, Primary Education
Klehr, Mary – New Educator, 2015
I am a public elementary teacher currently serving as a school-based supervisor for a Professional Development School (PDS) undergraduate elementary-teacher-education program in Madison, Wisconsin, where our charge is to leverage the intersecting contexts of school, university, and community to prepare skilled and caring teachers for urban…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Professional Development Schools, Constructivism (Learning), Social Justice
Campbell, Katy – Journal of Learning Design, 2015
The article "Conversation as Inquiry: A Conversation with Instructional Designers" (Campbell, Schwier & Kenny 2006) appeared in the "Journal of Learning Design" Volume 1, Issue 3 in 2006. Nine years on, Professor Katy Campbell, Dean of the Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta, reflects upon the arguments articulated…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Inquiry, Educational Technology, Personal Narratives
Winch, Christopher; Oancea, Alis; Orchard, Janet – Oxford Review of Education, 2015
In this paper, we argue from principle that teacher education must enable a positive relationship between educational research and teaching knowledge and practice. We discuss two popular conceptions of good teaching, which conceive of the teacher as craft worker and as executive technician, and suggest that, while each of these aspects of knowing…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Philosophy, Theory Practice Relationship, Reflective Teaching
Cherrington, Sue; Thornton, Kate – Professional Development in Education, 2015
Professional learning communities are receiving increasing attention within the schooling sector but empirical research into their development and use within early childhood education contexts is rare. This paper reports initial findings of an exploratory study into the development of professional learning communities in New Zealand's early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Early Childhood Education, Faculty Development
Blumenreich, Megan; Falk, Beverly – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
This article reports on a study of teachers who have engaged in systematic research about their practice. It describes the inquiries of two urban teachers into challenges and dilemmas common to many who work with diverse groups of students. The accounts presented reveal how teachers are able to construct new knowledge about teaching when they…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Educational Research, Teacher Researchers, Educational Practices
Appell, Lindsey – Think Global, 2015
In this Thinkpiece, the author, who is a Fulbright Teaching Assistant, examines what it really means to have mutual cultural exchange. She reflects on her experience as an American working in a university in Bucharest. In this paper she describes how some of her assumptions about academic life were challenged, and how being open to these…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Study Abroad, Exchange Programs, Cultural Awareness