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From Classroom Analysis to Whole-School Professional Development: Promoting Talk as a Tool for Learning across School Departments
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Flitton, Laura; Warwick, Paul – Professional Development in Education, 2013
This paper provides an account of a school-centred research and development project aimed at improving teacher and pupil understanding of talk as a tool for learning. The paper establishes the basis for a dialogic pedagogy and reflects on strategies for creating an effective classroom climate that promotes productive and purposeful talk. It goes…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Interpersonal Communication, Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies
A Brief History of Knowledge Building
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Scardamalia, Marlene; Bereiter, Carl – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2010
Knowledge Building as a theoretical, pedagogical, and technological innovation focuses on the 21st century need to work creatively with knowledge. The team now advancing Knowledge Building spans multiple disciplines, sectors, and cultural contexts. Several teacher-researcher-government partnerships have formed to bring about the systemic changes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Research and Development, Intentional Learning
Higher Education and the Asia-Pacific Century. Proceedings of the '88 PRAHE Seoul Conference.
Kim, Chul-hwan, Ed.; Lee, Wha-kuk, Ed. – 1988
Proceedings of the Pacific Region Association for Higher Education (PRAHE) are presented, including 5 opening speeches, 6 plenary lectures, 7 invited lectures, and 13 general papers. Presentation topics include: higher education and societal change; educational exchange and the Pacific Rim; international cooperation through electronic media;…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Cooperative Education, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Development