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Klaeijsen, Andrea; Vermeulen, Marjan; Martens, Rob – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
Teachers' innovative behaviour and professional development are important aspects of high-quality education. It is often thought that motivation influences teachers' innovative behaviour and professional development. The main purpose of this study is to gain more insight into motivational processes contributing to teachers' innovative behaviour.…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Psychological Needs, Self Efficacy, Structural Equation Models
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Béneker, Tine; Palings, Hans; Krause, Uwe – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2015
One of the challenges of a geography teacher education program is preparing teachers for their leading roles in keeping geography education relevant for the young people of today. It is important to allow teachers to think about geography education and the future and to foster their curriculum-making competences. In a master course at Fontys…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Futures (of Society), Teacher Education Programs, Essays
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Stam, Martin; Miedema, Wietske; Onstenk, Jeroen; Wardekker, Willem; ten Dam, Geert – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2014
This article describes experiences with a qualitative research project into teachers' learning from innovating their own educational practices. Decades of New Public Management (NPM) in the Netherlands, with its top-down and businesslike approach to areas of public interest, obscured the learning and innovating capacity of teachers, teams, and…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
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Czabanowska, Katarzyna; Moust, Jos H. C.; Meijer, Andre W. M.; Schroder-Back, Peter; Roebertsen, Herma – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2012
Despite several years of successfully applying problem-based learning at Maastricht University, the Faculty of Medicine observed a slow erosion of problem-based practices and "PBL fatigue" among themselves and students. In response to this fatigue and new research into the development of the young adult brain, Active Self-Directed…
Descriptors: Fatigue (Biology), Public Health, Problem Based Learning, Learning Processes
Wesselink, Renate; Biemans, Harm J. A.; Mulder, Martin; van den Elsen, Elke R. – European Journal of Vocational Training, 2007
The concept of competence is increasingly the basis for (re)designing VET. In competence-based VET academic disciplines are no longer starting points for curriculum development. Competence needed for working in practice, however, is. Competence-based learning is a dominant trend in VET in several countries because of fewer expected problems in the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Focus Groups, Delphi Technique, Vocational Education
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Appelhof, Pieter – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1984
This article overviews a summative evaluation of the School Advisory Center's innovative initial reading curriculum program from 1972 to 1978 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The evaluation design used was Stake's "countenance model" with description and observation matrices. Reading achievement results were disappointing and were attributed…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Organization, Course Organization, Evaluation Methods