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Zhang, Zheng; Nagle, Joelle; McKishnie, Bethany; Lin, Zhen; Li, Wanjing – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2019
This systematic review is built on the seminal work by the New London Group in 1996. Few endeavours have synthesized findings of empirical studies pertaining to the effects and challenges of multiliteracies practices in various schooling and geographical contexts. Through a five-point Likert scale and a deductive and inductive thematic analysis,…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Educational Research, Data Collection, Data Analysis
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Vos, Pauline; Frejd, Peter – Journal on Mathematics Education, 2022
Many students do not experience usefulness in mathematics. To address this problem, we offered them a mathematical tool, Sankey diagrams, which is a flow chart appearing in news media to visualize social, industrial or environmental processes. We carried out an Educational Design Research (EDR) to develop and evaluate lesson materials about…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Mathematics Instruction, Visual Aids, Lesson Plans
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Solheim, Ksenia; Roland, Pål; Ertesvåg, Sigrun K. – Educational Research, 2018
Background: Improvement in classroom interaction is a significant part of teacher profession that is often overlooked. The Norwegian Ministry of Education established a national initiative to develop lower secondary schools in the fields of reading, writing, numeracy and classroom management from 2012 until 2017. It provides a context where…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Communication, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Engeness, Irina; Edwards, Anne – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The relationship between the different mediational means for supporting students' learning with digital tools in science group work in a Norwegian lower-secondary school is examined. Analyses of teacher-student and student-student interactions are located in cultural-historical theory and draw on Galperin's conceptualisation of learning processes.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Electronic Learning, Secondary School Curriculum, Teacher Student Relationship
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Hanken, Ingrid Maria – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2016
Research on peer learning in higher education indicates that learning from and together with peers can benefit students in a number of ways. Within higher music education in Western, classical music, however, the master-apprentice tradition with its dominant one-to-one mode of tuition focuses predominantly on knowledge transmission from teacher to…
Descriptors: Music Education, Seminars, Learning Processes, Excellence in Education
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Ludvigsen, Sten R. – Learning, Media and Technology, 2012
In this article, I develop a perspective on learning as multilayered phenomena. I take a socio-genetic approach in order to understand human activity and to show how categories are a fundamental part of learning in a specific type of institutional practice. In the empirical section, student dialogue is analysed in relation to a set of categories…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Science Education, Inquiry
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Bjuland, Raymond – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2004
This paper reports research that focuses on student teachers' reflections on their learning process in a collaborative problem-solving context. One group of students with limited mathematical backgrounds worked on two problems in geometry without teacher intervention. We focus on two episodes from the group dialogues. In the first episode (section…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Student Teachers, Geometry, Problem Solving
Clausen, Trond – 1998
The Engineering College at Hogskolen i Telemark has since 1982 practiced cooperative learning as the model of promoting student learning. It has earlier been shown that the Telemark Model does enhance many important aspects of learning and human growth. However, new demands on higher education in Norway asks for new roles of universities and…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Educational Change, Engineering Education
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers