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Maass, Katja; Swan, Malcolm; Aldorf, Anna-Maria – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
Inquiry-based learning (IBL) is a more student-centered approach to mathematics teaching that is recommended by many policy and curriculum documents across Europe. However, it is not easy for teachers to change from a more teacher-centered way of teaching to inquiry-based teaching as this involves a change of their role in class. Professional…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Inquiry
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Rasmussen, Klaus – Environmental Education Research, 2017
This paper takes an institutional perspective on the topic of sustainability in order to analyse how this "idea" enters science teacher education through an interdisciplinary approach. It shows how the development and implementation of a course for Danish pre-service teachers was conditioned and constrained by a complex web of…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Teachers, Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Skipper, Mads; Nøhr, Susanne Backman; Jacobsen, Tine Klitgaard; Musaeus, Peter – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2016
Several studies have examined how doctors learn in the workplace, but research is needed linking workplace learning with the organisation of doctors' daily work. This study examined residents' and consultants' attitudes and beliefs regarding workplace learning and contextual and organisational factors influencing the organisation and planning of…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Case Studies, Pediatrics, Medical Students
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Behr, Dorothée – Field Methods, 2015
Open-ended probing questions in cross-cultural surveys help uncover equivalence problems in cross-cultural survey research. For languages that a project team does not understand, probe answers need to be translated into a common project language. This article presents a case study on translating open-ended, that is, narrative answers. It describes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Translation, Surveys, Cross Cultural Studies
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Bonde, Ane Høstgaard; Bentsen, Peter; Hindhede, Anette Lykke – Journal of School Nursing, 2014
Motivational interviewing is a counseling method used to bring about behavior change; its application by school nurses for preventing obesity in children is still new. This study, based on in-depth interviews with 12 school nurses, shows how school nurses adapted motivational interviewing and integrated it into their daily practice along with…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Motivation, Interviews, Prevention