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Potvin, Patrice; Bruyère, Marie-Hélène; Allaire-Duquette, Geneviève; Ahr, Emmanuel; Durocher, Éric; Cyr, Guillaume; Charland, Patrick; Chastenay, Pierre – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2023
The "Forty Electronic Challenges" is a "discovery learning" and socio-constructivist science activity that has become rather popular in Canada. The article recalls its emergence and development. It discusses its theoretical underpinnings and how it fits into the existing literature. It then gives educators all the guidelines…
Descriptors: Energy, Science Activities, Discovery Learning, Foreign Countries
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Angelina Wang; Graham McPhail – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
Musical Futures (MF) is an internationally recognised approach to music teaching aimed at developing high levels of student engagement through practical music making. Set up in the UK in 2003 "Musical Futures" is typical of approaches to education aimed at increasing levels of student autonomy through a strong emphasis on student-led…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Teachers, Music Education, Learner Engagement
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Michelle Honeyford; Jennifer Watt; Sarah Roche; Noah Cain; Katya Ferguson – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2025
In the complexities of current realities, we are a writing collective of educators interested in placing hope in the present, particularly in composing practices and pedagogies. Drawing on a post-qualitative methodology, we weave together examples of practices of dance/movement, digital movie-making, and soil artivism with specific concepts of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Educators
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Boudouaia, Azzeddine – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
This study investigates teachers' perspectives on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum reform in Algeria. The specific objectives of the inquiry are to examine teachers' views about EFL curriculum reform relevance and procedures and draw a conclusion from their perspectives. 176 EFL teachers from middle schools in Algeria are chosen to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Middle School Teachers
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Boyd, Pete; Ash, Andy – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2018
South Asian approaches to teaching mathematics have been influential globally and are entangled with mastery approaches. This study investigates changing strategies and beliefs of Primary School teachers in England as they engage with a sustained curriculum development project. The teachers were working with a commercially available text book…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Mastery Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
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Ehizuelen, Michael Mitchell Omoruyi – Frontiers of Education in China, 2018
Education, skills, and the development of an African workforce are at a critical moment. While it is recognized that Chinese firms hire local people, the focus of the debate is more on the position and opportunities for training and advancement. As such, the paper tries to answer the following questions. Does China really contribute to skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Cooperation, Educational Practices, Education
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Harris, Carol E.; Barter, Barbara G. – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2015
As health threats appear with increasing regularity in our food systems and other food crises loom worldwide, we look to rural areas to provide local and nutritious foods. Educationally, we seek approaches to food studies that engage students and their communities and, ultimately, lead to positive action. Yet food studies receive only generic…
Descriptors: Food, Rural Areas, Agriculture, Curriculum
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Parker, Jan – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2013
This article argues that SoTL may draw on and inform other scholarships--of discovery, application and integration--by bringing them into a classroom- and community-based scholarship of communal inquiry. In so doing, SoTL will resist teaching being regarded and evaluated as transmission and delivery of knowledge made elsewhere, reasserting the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Classroom Research, Learning Processes, Educational Change
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Poggenpohl, Sharon; Winkler, Dietmar R. – Visible Language, 2010
In closing, the guest editors of this "Visible Language" special series reflect on the failures identified in the various papers and interpret what this suggests for design education and research in the context of changing practice. The failures cited in this series point out the fractures in our understanding and practices from user-centered,…
Descriptors: Design, Instruction, Ethics, Semiotics
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Conway, Robin – Teaching History, 2011
Robin Conway's interest in student-led enquiry derived from a concern to encourage his students to take much more responsibility for their own learning. Here he explains how his department gradually learned to entrust students with defining the enquiry questions and planning the kinds of teaching and learning activities to be used over the course…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Discovery Learning, Inquiry, History
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Donnelly, Jim; Ryder, Jim – History of Education, 2011
This paper is concerned with the recent history of science curriculum reform in England, though it traces these developments back to the mid-nineteenth century. It first reviews approaches to science in the curriculum until the mid-1960s, identifying the curricular settlement of the postwar years and the beginning of the so-called "swing from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational History
DiNatale, Lorenza; Steele, Tammy; Elliott, Crystal – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2009
In order for teachers to create child-centered and emergent curriculum for their classrooms it is important for them to observe children to discover their interests and then develop investigations around these interests by using the enthusiasm, knowledge, and curiosity of the other children in the classroom. It is equally as important to allow…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Investigations, Interests, Early Childhood Education
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Meissner, Barbara; Bogner, Franz – Journal of Chemical Education, 2011
Although teachers in principle are prepared to make use of science centers, such excursions often fail to facilitate learning processes. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the link between science centers and schools. The design and evaluation of valuable outreach projects may enhance students' out-of-school science learning. In our study, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teaching Centers, Grade 5, Grade 8
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Gentry, Marcia – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2009
To determine whether having a program is sufficient one must first define what is meant by "program." If by program one refers to the pullout program in the elementary school, or the afterschool enrichment program in the middle school, or the Advanced Placement program in the high school, or the hockey program, then certainly having a "program" is…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Enrichment Activities, Advanced Placement Programs, Special Needs Students
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Kanbar, Nancy – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2012
The population growth together with the unsustainable consumption pattern is putting increasing stress on the planet's natural resources. The increasing realisation that humans are harming the environment is taking the form of a global movement intended to change behaviour towards sustainability, now recognised as a framework that links humans to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Arabs, Business Administration Education
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