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Direct linkMarek Oziewicz; Afton Northrup; Colleen Redmond; Jalen Giles; Maya Symonanis; Genesis Garcia Newinski – English Journal, 2025
There is a growing body of research arguing that, alongside education in climate science literacy, our education systems need a deeper, broader, and more interdisciplinary education in climate literacy. Specifically, the push is to reframe climate literacy from a narrow competence taught in science classes to a broad socioscientific and cultural…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Cultural Awareness, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Childrens Literature
Download full textTom Børsen – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2024
This paper reflects on a slow re-reading of Maggi Savin-Baden's "Impact of Transdisciplinary Threshold Concepts on Student Engagement in Problem-Based Learning" and its relation to the author's experiences as a teacher and curriculum developer in Techno-Anthropology at Aalborg University. It explores four transdisciplinary threshold…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Criticism, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Beach, Richard – Teacher Educator, 2023
Teachers often lack adequate teacher preparation in knowledge and practices for engaging their students to address the climate crisis, suggesting the need for an increased focus on climate change in teacher education programs. This review of theory and research on preparing preservice teachers for addressing the climate crisis examines seven…
Descriptors: Climate, Self Efficacy, Case Studies, Positive Attitudes
Vollmer, Helmut Johannes – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021
This contribution will outline the development of a specific approach of theoretical educational thinking in Germany, associated with the notions of "Didaktik"/didactics and "Fachdidaktik"/subject-matter didactics as well as its comparative, generalized form called "General Subject Didactics" (GSD). The first one…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Intellectual Disciplines, Teaching Methods
Birney, Lauren; McNamara, Denise – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2019
Professional Development in the field of education has undergone several shifts in focus. Currently, teacher content knowledge and the ability to disseminate this knowledge is the focus in professional learning communities. The importance of creating a thriving STEM workforce in the United States has been promoted for the last decade. Studies have…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, STEM Education, Student Interests, Learner Engagement
Brandl, Matthias; Vinerean, Mirela – Open Education Studies, 2023
In a Swedish second semester course on Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry in mathematics education at Karlstad University, a bridging teaching strategy comprising elements from Mathematics, Didactics, History, Literature, and Technology was applied by using the concept of Narrative Didactics and Digital Interactive Mathematical Maps developed by…
Descriptors: Geometry, Mathematics Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
Viehrig, Kathrin; Siegenthaler, Daniel; Burri, Samuel; Reinfried, Sibylle; Bednarz, Sarah; Blankman, Marian; Bourke, Terri; Brooks, Clare; Hertig, Philippe; Kerski, Joseph; Kisser, Thomas; Solem, Michael; Stoltman, Joseph; Behnke, Yvonne; Lane, Rod; Lupatini, Marco; Scholten, Nina; Siegmund, Alexander; Sprenger, Sandra – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2019
Earth Science and Geography teacher preparation has developed to some degree along different lines, despite sharing many of the same issues, especially with regard to challenges in teacher education. The conference "International Perspectives on Geography and Earth Science Teacher Education 2016" wanted to bring together educators from…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Geography Instruction, Earth Science, Conferences (Gatherings)
Uzzo, Stephen Miles; Ba, Harouna; Umer, Laycca – Advances in STEM Education, 2018
In this chapter, the authors discuss the potential, value, and barriers to supporting PCK in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines through collaborations across learning settings, with special attention to the role of informal science learning institutions in preservice teacher preparation. Particular focus is provided…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Informal Education
Henderson, Deborah – Geographical Education, 2020
Three decades ago, Stephen Kemmis (1990) argued that curricula provide insights into how nations and states interpret themselves and how they want to be interpreted. He also noted that 'debates about curriculum reveal fundamental concerns, uncertainties and tensions which preoccupy nations and states as they struggle to adapt to changing…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach, Barriers, Geography Instruction
Savin-Baden, Maggi – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2016
There has been much recent discussion about student engagement in higher education, and in the last few years a number of authors have undertaken extensive international research on the topic, which has been summarized in a number of literature reviews. However, to date, there has been relatively little in-depth exploration of student engagement…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, College Students, Learner Engagement, Problem Based Learning
Meriläinen, Merja; Piispanen, Maarika – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
Learning should make information meaningful to the students. We can all agree with that --but the messages coming from schools will tell us a different story. Instead of enthusiasm, happiness and joy of learning, the echo repeats problems, ill behaving and indisposition. This makes us wonder: has the traditional school come to its end? This…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Relevance (Education), Transformative Learning
Vecellio, Shawn – Schools: Studies in Education, 2013
In this article the author examines the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) to argue for changes in "standards-based" perspectives and practices that grew out of No Child Left Behind. Drawing on an article by David T. Conley, cochairman of the Validation Committee for the CCSS, the author offers a new model for the professional…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Educational Practices, Interdisciplinary Approach
Mishra, Punya; Koehler, Matthew J.; Henriksen, Danah – Educational Technology, 2011
This article examines the concept of transformative learning, with a focus on the importance of trans-disciplinary thinking (cognitive skills that cross disciplines) and new technologies in creating 21st century learning and transformative teaching. The article introduces the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework as a way…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Thinking Skills, Interdisciplinary Approach
Gritter, Kristine – Reading Horizons, 2010
This article explores content area pre-service teacher beliefs about disciplinary knowledge, perceptions of effective content area teaching, and existing beliefs about how to integrate literacy into the content areas. Ten pre-service teachers across ten secondary content areas were asked to describe three important variables in secondary teaching:…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Literacy, Epistemology, Preservice Teachers
Naumescu, Adrienne Kozan – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2008
Science teachers' competencies are analyzed in this paper. The importance of teachers' competencies is underlined and also the importance of competencies in so called "good practices" obtaining, is studied. The definition of science teachers competencies and their taxonomy are very important in understanding the educational…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Competence, Science Process Skills, Best Practices
