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Nelissen, Jo M. C. – Curriculum and Teaching, 2017
From the 1930s onwards, the problem of the transition from primary to secondary school has been a source of discussion and contradiction in the Netherlands. For many years it has been disputed whether this transition problem should be conceived as a problem of selection (testing) or as an educational problem (reforming the instruction and…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Cognitive Processes
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Blankman, Marian; van der Schee, Joop; Boogaard, Marianne; Volman, Monique – Curriculum and Teaching, 2016
This paper describes the result of a design study in which a geography course was developed and tested aiming to develop the Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) of first-year primary student teachers. This resulted in a course called "Consciously Teaching Geography" with characteristics as (1) starting from students' preconceptions and…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Curriculum Design, Pedagogical Content Knowledge