The dissertation study is a mixed method sequential explanatory study which focuses on the use of a digital tool to assess argumentation as a mediator of teacher argumentation professional vision. The study is driven by an experimental randomized control trial to determine the relationship between the professional vision components and the use of…

Educational outcomes remain highly unequal within and across nations. Students' mindsets--their beliefs about whether intellectual abilities can be developed--have been identified as a potential lever for making adolescents' academic outcomes more equitable. Recent research, however, suggests that intervention programs aimed at changing students'…

In a self-study the main author examines the difficulties and challenges his students experience in their literary development. The central question is: How can my teaching support students in their literary development? This self-study is supported by a research group, examining together one literature lesson given by the main author, striving…

This study examined the literacy identity development of fourth graders engaged in a writer's workshop, with literacy identity development referring to the ways students come to see themselves as readers and writers or the ways that others come to see them as readers and writers. The researcher collected data through observations during writing…

An open classroom'' with an integrated day and inter-age grouping is not enough in and of itself...to assure continuity for each child....The role of the teacher is still crucial. (Authors)

Author describes the objective planning sheet, a vehicle which allows students - working from established content objectives - a considerable degree of flexibility in developing learning programs to suit their own needs. (Author)

Dialogue, though a broad concept, may be characterized as the interaction of individuals engaged in the process of human growth. These individuals, who differ in values, needs, and orientations, communicate in a mode without static elements, rules, or dogmas. The application of dialogue-centered learning to the classroom is explained. (BJG)

The author describes an affective education program which helped fifth grade students to understand themselves better and to increase their vocabulary for expressing emotions. As a result, students seemed to increase friendships. Various learning tasks and procedures were used to achieve the above. (SE)

The psychology of personal constructs is suggested to help students interpret cultural facts and events in light of underlying attitudes and values. By constructing both their own and foreign values and extending them, students can find bridges to another culture and discover alternatives to their own cultural patterns of thought. (MSE)

Truly integrated learning calls for all the school's resources and careful planning by teachers and pupils. (Author)

Examines individual differences in psychological development among prospective teachers as these affect the adaptive, "person-centered" quality of their communication with students. Discusses implications of the results in terms of the impact of differences in teachers' communicative development upon development of students. (JMF)

This study focuses on observations of classroom conversation as an approach to assessment of relationships between a teacher's teaching and pupils' learning and identity-development processes. Detailed observation notes from two conventional conversation situations from a first grade classroom are written down as narratives and analysed within a…

The function that a specific environment is said to fulfill depends critically on who is in control within the environment. The paper develops this argument and suggests how its implications might be tested empirically. (Author/AM)

Argues that the area in which the artistic development of young children can be helped immediately, without awaiting teacher retraining in the various arts, is story telling: if children are continually asked to tell stories, and if delight is shown in their stories, then the stories improve; eventually children want to write them down. (Author/JM)