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Hauk, Dennis; Gröschner, Alexander; Weil, Maralena; Böheim, Ricardo; Schindler, Ann-Kathrin; Alles, Martina; Seidel, Tina – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2023
Promoting teachers to lead classroom discourse effectively is a relevant topic for teacher professional development worldwide. This study compares the impacts of two teacher professional development programmes that aim to support teachers in their classroom discourse practices. In one programme, an adaptive and practitioner-led approach was…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods, Beliefs
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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
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Krohmer, Maxim; Budke, Alexandra – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2020
The gap between educational knowledge that is taught in universities and actions by teachers can be sizeable. A sustainable change in teachers' efforts requires particular sensitivity and awareness of this gap between subject-specific educational thinking and acting and between theory and practice. This study explored the extent to which a…
Descriptors: Intervention, Teaching Methods, High School Teachers, Theory Practice Relationship
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Putjata, Galina – Language Awareness, 2018
Normative-theoretical discourse in pedagogy calls for transformation in educational approaches towards multilingualism. The key question in multilingual education remains: Can language ideologies be transformed? The present paper investigates how the field of language awareness can contribute to this process and what practical changes and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, Foreign Countries, Intervention
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Freathy, Rob; Parker, Stephen G.; Schweitzer, Friedrich; Simojoki, Henrik – British Journal of Religious Education, 2016
Current discussions on Religious Education (RE), both in Germany and England, focus on the quality of teaching and the professionality of teachers, but neglect the historical and institutional process of professionalisation upon which conceptions of teaching quality and teacher professionality hinge. This article seeks to provide definitional…
Descriptors: Educational History, Religious Education, Educational Quality, Teacher Characteristics
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Sabrin, Mohammed – International Education Studies, 2018
This paper analyzed elementary teacher education (hereafter 'TED') programs in the top performing European (TIMSS) countries to help inform future elementary TED policy in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Methodological emphasis revolved around how much emphasis should be placed on general content knowledge (GCK), as opposed to general pedagogical…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Comparative Education, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
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Wermke, Wieland – Professional Development in Education, 2011
This article investigates the continuing professional development (CPD) culture of teachers, and asks how it is influenced by properties of the school system. It reports the results of a questionnaire study with 418 secondary teachers from Sweden and Germany. The results show highly significant differences between Swedish and German teachers'…
Descriptors: Governance, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Professional Continuing Education