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Narendra D. Deshmukh; Sandhya A. Thakur – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2025
The growing emphasis on STEM education and the diverse needs of learners necessitate the adoption of innovative, inclusive teaching strategies. This study investigates the impact of multimodal teaching strategies--integrating visual, kinesthetic, and auditory modes--on in-service and pre-service teachers. Training sessions were conducted with 34…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, STEM Education, Preservice Teachers, Faculty Development
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Singh, Chandra B. P. – Issues and Ideas in Education, 2021
The study attempted to answer two basic questions of classroom teaching: a. what were the most common teaching practices at the elementary school level? And b. did teachers foster curiosity in children during teaching? Classroom proceedings enfolded various teaching activities that might lead to a knowledge gap in students. 137 primary and middle…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Design, Learning Motivation, Foreign Countries
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Singh, Garima; Khunyakari, Ritesh – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2023
Learning about components and processes of complex biological systems is challenging and requires abstraction through mediational tools such as text, visuals, models and visualisation experiences. The 'systems concepts' necessitate building coherent relations and anticipating consequences, requiring greater mediational support. This article…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods
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Pathare, Shirish; Huli, Saurabhee; Ladage, Savita; Pradhan, H. C. – Physics Education, 2018
The first law of thermodynamics involves several types of energies and many studies have shown that students lack awareness of them. They have difficulties in applying the law to different thermodynamic processes. These observations were confirmed in our pilot studies, carried out with students from undergraduate colleges across the whole of…
Descriptors: Physics, Thermodynamics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Jones, Verity; Mitra, Saptarshi; Gupta, Nobina – London Review of Education, 2022
In 2019 India was ranked seventh most affected nation by climate change, yet 65 per cent of the Indian population had not heard of climate change. India's revised National Education Policy mentions climate change and environmental issues as part of its work towards reaching the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. However, to date,…
Descriptors: Climate, Sustainability, Environmental Education, Teaching Methods
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Pathare, Shirish; Huli, Saurabhee; Nachane, Madhura; Ladage, Savita; Pradhan, Hemachandra – Physics Education, 2015
Thermal equilibrium is a basic concept in thermodynamics. In India, this concept is generally introduced at the first year of undergraduate education in physics and chemistry. In our earlier studies (Pathare and Pradhan 2011 "Proc. episteme-4 Int. Conf. to Review Research on Science Technology and Mathematics Education" pp 169-72) we…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Thermodynamics, Scientific Concepts, College Science
Abdul Gafoor, K.; Kurukkan, Abidha – Online Submission, 2015
Mathematics holds a relevant and unique place in the school curriculum as it is important for a better living of the individual. But, it is known that most of the students are considering mathematics as difficult. This study examines the difficulties perceived by high school students and teachers in learning and teaching mathematics. Two hundred…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Learning Problems, Mathematics Instruction
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Jena, Ananta Kumar; Bhattacharjee, Satarupa; Gupta, Somnath; Das, Joy; Debnath, Rajib – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2018
Web 2.0 is a revolutionary technology operates Facebook, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google+ and other social networks. The study aimed to explore the effects of individual and collaborative web 2.0 technologies on the learning performance and self-regulation of secondary school students over traditional approach of learning. One hundred ten…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Social Media
Benedict, K. Y. – Online Submission, 2010
The paper is the outcome of an experiential learning episode encountered by a teacher educator (the author) with a group of student-teachers under his mentorship during a session of the practice teaching programme (2006-07) at the secondary school level. The crisis faced by a student teacher in connection with the development of a lesson template…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Student Teachers, Experiential Learning, Concept Formation
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Agrawal, Dulli C.; Menon, V. Jayaram – Physics Education, 1998
Describes a procedure based on the assumption that during the rated lifetime of a light bulb roughly half of the radius of the filament evaporates. Explains how the filament's operating temperature can be deduced. (DDR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Electricity, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Finken, Helen – Social Education, 1979
Describes preparation and implementation of a data analysis and card-sorting activity to help junior high and high school students use categories on a continuum to determine the power, status, and roles of men and women in India. (CK)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Data Analysis, Females, Learning Activities
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Bhatia, Sunil – Early Education and Development, 2001
Observed Hindi-speaking Indian caregivers and their children to examine how caregivers use language to create diverse conceptions of personhood. Distributional analyses examined the proportion of person references and class-based patterns of co-occurrence between particular social acts and person references. Discussion explored ways in which…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Speech, Child Caregivers, Concept Formation
Ministry of Education and Social Welfare, New Delhi (India). – 1971
The concept of functional literacy is defined as literacy integrated with the occupation of the learner and directly related to development. Its ultimate goal is to assist in achieving specific socio-economic objectives by making adults receptive to change and innovations and by helping them to acquire new vocational skills, knowledge and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Attitude Change, Concept Formation, Conceptual Schemes