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van der Schee, Joop; Leat, David; Vankan, Leon – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2006
Expressing the desire that geography should be a more challenging subject that helps pupils to become better learners, a group of academic geographers and geography teachers from northeast England developed teaching strategies to stimulate pupils to think through geography. Teachers in England and the Netherlands report that these strategies are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Educational Strategies, Geography
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Swan, Malcolm – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2006
Currently, the teaching of retake GCSE mathematics in further education is predominantly teacher-centred and transmission-oriented. This paper argues that this approach is ineffective for students' learning and for their attitudes towards learning and that a student-centred, collaborative approach to learning, where discussion and reflection are…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Mathematics Instruction, Adult Education, Student Attitudes