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Gogus, Aytac – Online Learning, 2023
Offering online courses can be seen as a way of enhancing the three essential "presences" (teaching, cognitive, and social) of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model. Creating and enhancing cognitive, teaching, and social presences require an innovation for teachers during planning, implementing, and evaluating their online courses. As…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Learning Experience, Cognitive Processes
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Heide K. Bruckner – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
In recent years, there have been numerous calls for Geographers working in higher education to put into practice anti-racist pedagogies. Less well-developed is scholarship on the approaches which expand students' understanding of race and the socio-spatial and material processes of their own racialization. Within the context of food geographies,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Food, Race, Geography
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Potter, Patricia; France, Bev – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2018
Design and problem solving are central to technology and have distinguished learning in technology from other curriculum areas. This research investigated how expert technologists learn design and problem solving through experience. Data was collected from four expert technologists and this information was analysed using learning theories that…
Descriptors: Design, Problem Solving, Technology Education, Expertise
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Li, Zhan – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2021
This case study examines an under-explored domain of teaching, namely, teachers' use of curriculum materials to enact instructions. It focuses on English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) teachers' enactment of instructions through utilising prescribed textbooks in Higher Education (HE) in China. Drawing on interviews and lesson observations from two…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Faculty Development
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Connelly, F. Michael – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2013
The "Practical 1" paper combines Schwab's abiding concern, for the nature and quality of educational experience with another abiding concern, for how we think about what we do. The Practical 1 is the first of a set of four "practical" essays. These in turn are the product of his thinking about college education and his…
Descriptors: Criticism, Educational Philosophy, Educational Experience, Essays
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Watagodakumbura, Chandana – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
With the emergence of a wealth of research-based information in the field of educational neuroscience, educators are now able to make more evidence-based decisions in the important area of curriculum design and construction. By viewing from the perspective of educational neuroscience, we can give a more meaningful and lasting purpose of leading to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Neurosciences
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Kivunja, Charles – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
Efficacy of a teaching strategy technically refers to the ability of that strategy to produce a desired or intended learning outcomes. To date, there is little information on the efficacy of social media technologies in academia and it is likely to be some time before their effectiveness is proven. It is therefore legitimate to ask the question,…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Communities of Practice, Teaching Methods, Universities
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Owens, Kay; Paraides, Patricia; Nutti, Ylva Jannok; Johansson, Gunilla; Bennet, Maria; Doolan, Pat; Peckham, Ray; Hill, John; Doolan, Frank; O'Sullivan, Dominic; Murray, Libbey; Logan, Patricia; McNair, Melissa; Sunnari, Vappu; Murray, Beatrice; Miller, Alissa; Nolan, John; Simpson, Alca; Ohrin, Christine; Doolan, Terry; Doolan, Michelle; Taylor, Paul – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2011
As a result of a number of government reports, there have been numerous systemic changes in Indigenous education in Australia revolving around the importance of partnerships with the community. A forum with our local Dubbo community established the importance of working together and developed a model which placed the child in an ecological…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
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Eilam, Billie; Poyas, Yael – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2012
The paper examined expert literature teachers' coping with a novel textbook, integrating literature with visual arts, which is a particular interdisciplinary case of text-image relations in textbooks. Examination was performed within the framework of teachers' responses to curricular changes and of theory regarding strategies of interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Arts, Semitic Languages, Visual Arts
Priest, Annie – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2009
This paper aims to contribute to the discussion on the quality and accessibility of underpinning knowledge in competency-based training. It uses the Vocational Graduate Certificate and the Vocational Graduate Diploma in Education Design in a Queensland TAFE [technical and further education] institute to examine how the "traditional"…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Competence, Training, Foreign Countries
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Wang, Tsungjuang – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2009
A model of curriculum development that enables students of architecture in the developing nation of Taiwan to draw on their own life experiences in formulating their own architectural education is proposed. Such an ideology recognizes that while education certainly includes the acquisition of the technical skills needed to ply one's trade, its…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development, Architectural Education, Architecture
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Schwab, Joseph J. – School Review, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Educational Theories
Kamii, Constance – 1970
Specific instruction refers to the teacher's knowing (a) what to teach and when, (b) what not to teach and why, and (c) when to let the preoperational child be "wrong." This paper is in agreement with Bereiter's criticism of Kohlberg's conclusion against specific instruction but suggests that Bereiter's argument should be developed into…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development, Educational Strategies
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Choat, Ernest – Mathematics in School, 1980
Space and shape, estimating and measuring, and number are viewed as the three strands of mathematics that come together as a child develops mathematically. Five cognitive/mathematical levels of development, labeled discrimination, order, application, operation, and estimation, are identified and discussed. (MP)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development
Macdonald, C. A. – 1990
The Threshold Project focuses on the language and learning difficulties that children in Southern African schools experience when they change from their mother tongue to English as a medium of instruction in their fifth year of schooling. This report discusses Threshold Project research relating to the nature of pupils' cognitive capacities and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development
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