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Shaham, Cahit – Curriculum and Teaching, 2022
This study examines the experience of beginning teachers in their first year of teaching using reflection that reveals successes, challenges, musings, and deliberations. The study was conducted in the qualitative approach using analysis of categories and themes during an academic course at Beit Berl College in Israel. Analysis of the reflections…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Reflection, Teaching Experience
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Rowe, Michael – Curriculum and Teaching, 2018
The experiences of course facilitators in connectivist-type MOOCs are poorly reported. Yet there is evidence that the values and beliefs of facilitators have an important impact on the learning experiences of participants, and that reducing their interactions with students may also reduce the effectiveness of the course. This study aimed to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Facilitators (Individuals), Online Courses, Open Education
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Chan, Cecilia K. Y.; Luo, Jiahui; Lee, Katherine K. W.; Wong, Hannah Y. H.; Liu, Emma K. Y. – Curriculum and Teaching, 2020
Scholars are calling increasingly for educational reform to embed meaningful out-of-class events in the current curriculum, in order to enhance students' generic competency development. Towards this goal, featuring self-confidence as an important generic competency, this mixed-method study explores key characteristics of extracurricular activities…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Learner Engagement, Extracurricular Activities, Secondary School Students
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Yu, Wai Ming; Lee, John Chi Kin – Curriculum and Teaching, 2018
This paper was inspired by three important concerns in higher education, namely, changes in higher education curricula (Bourner, 2004), concept of a fully functioning university (Bourner, 2008), and nature of education, such a university offers (Bourner, Heath, & Rospigliosi, 2013). To prepare university graduates for the unpredictable changes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Centered Learning, Educational Change
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Nelissen, Jo M. C. – Curriculum and Teaching, 2017
From the 1930s onwards, the problem of the transition from primary to secondary school has been a source of discussion and contradiction in the Netherlands. For many years it has been disputed whether this transition problem should be conceived as a problem of selection (testing) or as an educational problem (reforming the instruction and…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Cognitive Processes
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Blankman, Marian; van der Schee, Joop; Boogaard, Marianne; Volman, Monique – Curriculum and Teaching, 2016
This paper describes the result of a design study in which a geography course was developed and tested aiming to develop the Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) of first-year primary student teachers. This resulted in a course called "Consciously Teaching Geography" with characteristics as (1) starting from students' preconceptions and…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Curriculum Design, Pedagogical Content Knowledge