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PISA 2018 Results: Are Students Ready to Thrive in an Interconnected World? Volume VI
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OECD Publishing, 2020
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines what students know in reading, mathematics and science, and what they can do with what they know. It provides the most comprehensive and rigorous international assessment of student learning outcomes to date. Results from PISA indicate the quality and equity of learning…
Descriptors: Test Results, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Foreign Countries
Thought-Experiments about Gravity in the History of Science and in Research into Children's Thinking
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Blown, E. J.; Bryce, T. G. K. – Science & Education, 2013
This article examines the main strands of thinking about gravity through the ages and the continuity of thought-experiments, from the early Greeks, through medieval times, to Galileo, Newton and Einstein. The key ideas are used to contextualise an empirical study of 247 children's ideas about falling objects carried out in China and New Zealand,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World Views, Teaching Methods, Motion
Learning about Inclusion by Listening to Ma¯ori
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Berryman, Mere; Woller, Paul – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2013
Behavioural and learning difficulties experienced by students from minoritised cultural groups often arise because their cultural beliefs, values and preferred practices differ markedly from those of their teachers and their school. Research in New Zealand has shown that if inclusive education is to have real meaning for these students and their…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Indigenous Populations
Straying beyond the Boundaries of Belief: Maori Epistemologies inside the Curriculum.
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Smith, Cherryl Waerea-I-Te-Rangi – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2000
Examines issues of Maori knowledge within a university curriculum. Discusses the reframing of Maori knowledge and world views as knowable within colonizing Western epistemologies. Examines three Maori beliefs (interrelationships and animate nature of all things and accessibility of "unseen" worlds to humans) that were considered…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cultural Differences, Culture Conflict, Epistemology
Philosophy and Indigenous Cultural Transformation.
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Fitzsimons, Patrick; Smith, Graham – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2000
Argues for proper engagement between educational philosophical inquiry and Maori "ways of knowing the world." Critiques positivism, hermeneutics, critical theory, and Foucault's notion of power/knowledge in this regard. Examines the success of Maori educational initiatives based in "Kaupapa Maori" theory and the need to…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Interrelationships, Cultural Maintenance, Culturally Relevant Education
Our Family, Our Friends, Our World: An Annotated Guide to Significant Multicultural Books for Children and Teenagers.
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn – 1992
This bibliography lists 1,038 multicultural books for children and teenagers, published between 1970 and 1991, that can assist librarians, teachers, and parents in educating children and young adults about their changing world. The books are selected to enhance opportunities for children to live and learn together by providing them with fair and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Annotated Bibliographies, Books, Children