Even though construction tasks have a long history as an activity in the Swedish preschool, technology as a content matter (e.g., construction) is relatively new. Hence, preschool teachers are generally unsure of the content of technology and how to handle it from a teaching perspective. Thus, there is need for deeper understanding of how…

Play is one of the most widely used teaching strategies in Foundation Phase. Grade 3 is the exit grade off the Foundation Phase in the South African context. This paper is an output of a Masters' dissertation that explored the use of play when teaching number sense to Grade 3 learners. The dissertation findings encouraged the researchers to…

This article describes practices to cultivate preservice art teachers' critical racial consciousness rooted in critical race theory (CRT) and educational research. The examples in this article build on the unique position and responsibility of art educators to leverage visual culture's expansive power to generate dialectical classroom practice and…

There is evidence that demonstrates that teaching preclinical and clinical material can have numerous benefits for both students and teachers, with the majority of literature focusing on peer medical student teaching. There is a dearth of literature exploring the benefit of medical students teaching undergraduate, pre-health professional students…

Although a large variety of methodologies, contexts and perspectives have been used to examine educational application of technology, there is a paucity of instruments that are designed to comprehensively evaluate the use of technology in education. This paper presents a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) of an instrument that incorporates eight…

The aim of this study was to investigate the pre-service teachers' metacognitive activities occurring in the teaching scientific reasoning skills with the POE technique. The participants of the research included six pre-service science teachers who were seniors in the science education department of at a university in the west of Turkey. The…

The goal of this study was to identify teacher-reported practices related to teaching the 2018 US Midterm Elections and contemporary social and policy issues. In particular, we sought to identify factors that helped explain why teachers were or were not engaging students in the midterm elections and related contemporary issues and what contextual…

A qualitative research design comprising of open-ended questionnaires and focus group discussions was used to investigate learner-related variables that impede the integration of ethnomathematics approaches into the teaching and learning of geometry. Proportional stratified sampling and recruitment based sampling were used to select the 40…

RBL (Research-Based Learning) is multi-faced learning. RBL can be applied through different instructional strategies and techniques. The outcome of RBL itself also varies according to the skills needed in the 21st century. However, RBL requires specific guidance on how to implement it properly and correctly so that the multi-faced RBL can be…

Multicultural texts are essential classroom tools because they create opportunities for all students to feel visible, included, and valued. In this summary paper, the authors begin with an overview of why multicultural literature and multiple identities have a place inside elementary and secondary classrooms. The authors then describe three…

This article explores the power of picturebooks through key ideas supported by research from New Zealand and around the world. A range of picturebooks are used to exemplify points made, including the power of picturebooks to increase awareness of languages, expand our vocabulary, allow us insight into the lives of others, reflect who we are, and…

"Chapters on Jewish Thought (Prakim BeMachshevet Yisrael)" by Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli is essentially a curriculum for teaching Jewish thought as a school subject in Jewish religious high schools in the 1940s. Therefore, we choose to analyze the book using curricular research tools. We searched for similarities between the curricular…

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between study habits and learning difficulties of upper primary students in class 8 in Kanyakumari district. The study used a sample of 300 students, and employed a Normative Survey method. Data was collected using a Study Habits Scale, and Tests on Reading and Writing Skills, and analyzed using…

In recent years, investment in youth services has been contingent on the measurement of predefined outcomes as 'proof' of effectiveness. However, this approach to impact measurement has been criticised for distorting practice and reinforcing inequalities. As youth work emerges from a decade of spending cuts, there is an urgent need for new…

Music educators often find themselves in the midst of a nearly impossible juggling act that includes preparing students for countless performances while also fostering the development of a wide range of musical skills; however, time and resource constraints frequently inhibit the teacher's ability to provide individual attention to every student.…