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Thijs Loonstra; Valentina C. Tassone; Zoë Robaey; Perry den Brok – Environmental Education Research, 2025
While environmental problems are urgent in modern society, they are especially difficult to tackle because of their normative and politically controversial nature. Universities may choose different theoretical paradigms for the teaching of environmental problems. However, limited theoretical and/or practical analysis has been undertaken of the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Models, Social Problems, Outcomes of Education
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Susanne Kink-Hampersberger; Lisa Scheer; Iris Mendel – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2023
Teacher education's primary goal is to train prospective teachers, which differs from study programmes, such as philosophy or mathematics, that do not cater to defined professions. This traditional understanding of the teaching profession becomes apparent when students ask: 'How is this content, topic, method, task, or question relevant to school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Preservice Teacher Education
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Joelash R. Honra; Sheryl Lyn C. Monterola – Cogent Education, 2024
Bridging theoretical learning with practical applications is crucial in biology education, where the relevance of concepts directly influences learners' adaptability across educational contexts. This study assessed how Design-Based Biology Instruction (DBBI) impacts students' cognitive flexibility. Employing a three-group pretest-posttest…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Design, Thinking Skills, Biology
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Karen Blackmore; Jenny Hatley – Curriculum Journal, 2024
This article explores a form of classroom inquiry linked to postgraduate primary student-teachers' education, whilst on practicum in England. The inquiry model is congruent with Stenhouse's' notions of 'teachers as researchers' undertaking 'systematic' inquiry in a 'naturalistic' environment. Feldman further develops Stenhouse's conception into a…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Classroom Techniques, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Kathryn Isenor; Erin Mazerolle; Conor Barker – in education, 2021
The purpose of the present study was to develop a knowledge translation (KT) activity for educators about the brain in children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The goal was to increase our participants' knowledge about ADHD and its brain basis. In addition to neuroscience content, the KT activity included the…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level
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Quick, Joanne – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2023
Theory is an important element of literacy research. Research designs are informed by theories that explain what literacy is, how it develops, and how it should be taught and evaluated. Sociocultural theories emphasize the socially situated nature of literacies engagement and practices, whereas cognitive theories emphasize the underlying skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Projects, Literacy Education, Barriers
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Ataman, Rebecca; Ibey, Robyn J. – International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher Education, 2022
In Canada, kinesiology academic units are undergoing change. The growth of kinesiology as a health profession is reflected in increased clinical course offerings to train student clinicians. These courses require clinical educators, however, not all programs have clinical staff and faculty with the required knowledge or experience. In particular,…
Descriptors: Evaluative Thinking, Kinesiology, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Foreign Countries
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Hamada, Yo – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2019
Twenty-five years have passed since a teaching technique, called shadowing, was introduced in Japanese EFL contexts. Recently, this technique has gradually been recognized around the world. Given that many studies have been published about shadowing, the time is ripe to summarize the results of the studies and to propose how shadowing should be…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Rivers, Christine; Kinchin, Ian – Management Teaching Review, 2019
Practitioners consider critical thinking skills to be vital for survival in business. Business schools should use such insight wisely by strategically embedding critical thinking skills in the curriculum at module and program levels. Practitioners even go further and say it is the one aspect that cannot be automated and probably the most valuable…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Teaching Methods
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Chapaev, Nikolay K.; Akimova, Olga B.; Selivanov, Andrey V.; Shaforostova, Tatiana V. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The relevance of the problem under study is based on the necessity to solve the permanent problem of the unity of theory and practice in the content of students' cognitive activity in the modern conditions. The purpose of the article is to analyze and to generalize the main concepts of pedagogy by N.F. Talyzina for implementation of the…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Foreign Countries, Theory Practice Relationship, Teaching Methods
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Asadullin, Rail Mirvaevich; Teregulov, Filarit Sharifovich – International Education Studies, 2015
Authors propose a new approach for the development of educational sphere, where philosophical categories of fundamental and applied knowledge are considered as two counter processes of reality and pole cognition, between which project-technological activity is carried out. This fact allows to treat any pedagogical project as a compromise decision,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Concept Formation
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Shepherd, Robin-Marie; Laidlaw, Tannis M. – College Quarterly, 2017
This paper describes an undergraduate course in addictions within the health science sector linking theory with practice at a university in New Zealand. The essence of this addiction course includes both a strong theoretical basis and public health focus. The theoretical and practical content is described with examples of the students' pedagogical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Drug Addiction, Health Sciences
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Huang, Rongjin; Gong, Zikun; Han, Xue – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2016
Lesson study (LS) has been practiced in China as an effective way to advance teachers' professional development for decades. This study explores how LS improves teaching that promotes students' understanding. A LS group including didacticians (practice-based teaching research specialist and University-based mathematics educators) and mathematics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Teacher Competencies, Mathematics Teachers
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Wyatt, Mark – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
There is a need for qualitative research into teachers' self-efficacy beliefs so that the relationship between these beliefs and other cognitions possessed by teachers, including their practical knowledge, can be better understood by teacher educators. Teachers' self-efficacy beliefs may need supporting if they seem too low or challenging if they…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy
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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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