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Vulperhorst, J. P.; Dams, J. E.; van der Rijst, R. M.; Akkerman, S. F. – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
There is an ongoing debate in higher education about the value of broad programmes versus specialised programmes. Educational professionals argue that students use the space provided by broad programmes to develop interests in diverse domains, while the scope of specialised programmes allows students to converge in interests. The present study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Seniors, College Freshmen, Student Interests
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Volman, Monique; Karssen, Merlijn; Emmelot, Yolande; Heemskerk, Irma – Curriculum Journal, 2020
The importance of teaching twenty-first-century competencies has increasingly been emphasised. Little is known, however, about how schools actually approach teaching such competencies. We investigated (1) how innovative and innovating secondary schools in the Netherlands implement a focus on self-regulation, collaboration and creativity in their…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Competence, Student Experience, Secondary School Students
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Stoel, G. L.; van Drie, J. P.; van Boxtel, C. A. M. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
The present study seeks to develop a pedagogy aimed at fostering a student's ability to reason causally about history. The Model of Domain Learning was used as a framework to align domain-specific content with pedagogical principles. Developing causal historical reasoning was conceptualized as a multidimensional process, in which knowledge of…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Pretests Posttests, Epistemology