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Maartje van der Eem; Jannet van Drie; Saskia Brand-Gruwel; Carla van Boxtel – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
Fake news and disinformation are easily spread in today's digital society. Therefore, it is important that students learn how to evaluate the trustworthiness of online information, but this skill is often confined to a limited number of subjects in secondary education. History classes can potentially contribute to developing this skill. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Internet, Grade 9, Secondary School Students
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Goodwin, Karl A.; Quinlan, Kathleen M. – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2021
Engagement with primary sources is a key feature of arts and humanities subjects, particularly classics and ancient history. Recent instructional trends emphasise integrating skills with content, particularly in the first year of higher education. We investigate how successfully first-year university students used a variety of sources in an…
Descriptors: Classical Literature, Primary Sources, Humanities Instruction, College Freshmen
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Chu, Shin Ying; Ng, Lay Shi; McConnell, Grace – TESL-EJ, 2022
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a three-dimensional approach to professional services in which high-quality and current research evidence is integrated with practitioner expertise along with client values to inform assessment and treatment decisions. The primary objective of this study is to promote the importance of EBPs for…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Internet, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education
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Nolgård, Olle; Nygren, Thomas – Education Inquiry, 2019
In this study, we analyse 126 secondary pupils' responses to national test questions designed to make them think and care about the history of national minorities in Sweden. Using a mixed method approach we find that historical thinking and empathy as caring are tightly interlinked in the responses. In particular, the cognitive act of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Caring, Social History
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Mears, Wendy; Clough, Helen – Open Learning, 2015
The Open University (OU) is the UK's largest distance education provider and has a large and growing disabled student population. Disabled user support presents particular challenges for an online library service in the distance learning environment. The OU introduced guidelines for working with non-OU--authored content (external content) in 2011…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Open Universities, Foreign Countries, Disabilities
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Davari, Hossein; Iranmehr, Abutaleb; Erfani, Seyyed Mahdi – English Language Teaching, 2012
Critical pedagogy (CP) as one of the most radical changes in English language teaching (ELT) has turned into a common theme of research and discussion in recent years. Despite its practical implications, however, most of the research on this issue has been limited to its theoretical and conceptual dimensions. Conceiving the importance of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Theory, Community Attitudes, Mixed Methods Research
Ferguson, Henry, Ed. – 1981
This handbook was designed to help students learn the cultural contexts in which human rights are variously defined. It provides a comparative study of five nations, selected for their geographic and cultural scope, as a unique way to study human rights. Chapter 1 sets the stage for the study by presenting activities for establishing class…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Civil Rights, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries