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Lin, Wei; Yin, Hongbiao; Chai, Ching-Sing; Wang, Wenlan – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2020
This study investigated the relationships between primary school mathematics teachers' conceptions of mathematics, conceptions of teaching and learning, and their commitment in the context of mainland China. A total of 847 primary school mathematics teachers participated in a paper-based questionnaire survey. The results indicated that these…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Bell, Robin – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Encouragement by the Chinese government for education to move from an emphasis on passive learning, rote memorisation and mechanical training towards the development and delivery of education using active, student-centred education approaches has resulted in tensions and challenges, one of which is the reaction of students previously used to…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Shi, Dan; Irwin, Derek; Du, Ping – Classroom Discourse, 2023
The present study aims to explore an embodied approach to students' deep learning; specifically, how deep learning is interactively achieved through teachers' languaging dynamics and multimodal representations in interactive lecturing in L2 higher education (HE) contexts. The purpose is to understand how an instructor's embodied and multimodal…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Classroom Communication, Student Participation
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Li, Xiangdong – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2018
Since 2000, translator and interpreter trainers have been arguing against the use of a transmissionist approach and for the use of a transformationist approach. Such a change in instructional approach is rooted in a shift in trainers' beliefs from behaviourism to social constructivism/situated learning. Teachers' beliefs on the nature of knowledge…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Translation, Educational Change, Constructivism (Learning)
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Lee, John Chi-Kin; Zhang, Zhonghua; Song, Huan; Huang, Xianhan – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
This study examines how the beliefs of Chinese in-service teachers regarding knowledge and knowledge acquisition influence their instructional classroom practices in junior secondary schools directly or indirectly through their conceptions of teaching and learning. The results indicate that the factor of learning effort/process is highly valued by…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes
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Gang, Su – Physics Teacher, 1995
Describes a teaching experiment that uses the Learning Cycle to achieve the reorientation of physics' students conceptual frameworks away from commonsense perspectives toward scientifically rigorous outlooks. Uses Archimedes' principle as the content topic while using the Learning Cycle to remove students' nonscientific preconceptions. (JRH)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Inquiry
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory