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Debbie Wong; Hilary Hollingsworth; Elizabeth Cassity; Adeola Monty – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2024
The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) has created an open-access classroom observation tool based on research conducted for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's (DFAT) Teacher Development Multi-Year Study Series, which studied teaching practices in Timor-Leste, Vanuatu and Lao PDR (see…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Educational Quality, Teaching Methods, Cross Cultural Studies
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Durham, Alexis M., III – Teaching Sociology, 1990
Argues that students often memorize, without critical analysis, components and processes of subjects in the sociology curriculum. Suggests that using cross-cultural, comparative material is a means of stimulating the critical energy of students, and subverting the tendency toward uncritical acceptance of factual "nuts and bolts." (DB)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Critical Thinking, Cross Cultural Studies