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Teachers' Beliefs about Mathematical Horizon Content Knowledge
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Mosvold, Reidar; Fauskanger, Janne – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2014
In this article, we present and discuss an example of how teachers' discussions of mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT) items elicited their beliefs about the knowledge needed to teach mathematics. One category of MKT is "horizon content knowledge," and this can be described as mathematical knowledge not directly deployed in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Epistemology
Negotiating and Reshaping Christian Values and Professional Identities through Action Research: Experiential Learning and Professional Development among Christian Religious Education Teachers
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Johannessen, Øystein Lund – Educational Action Research, 2015
In European societies, major patterns of plurality have changed over recent decades due to modernization and globalization. In schools, these new patterns of plurality have consequences for learning processes and may be challenging for students and teachers. This article investigates these issues, taking as its point of departure the way they…
Descriptors: Christianity, Values, Religious Education, Cultural Awareness
An Analysis of the Ideological Work of the Discourses of "Fair Play" and Moral Education in Perpetuating Inequitable Gender Practices in PETE
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Dowling, Fiona; Karhus, Svein – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2011
Background: Physical education (PE) is a subject which has a long history of legitimising itself on the grounds of its contribution to pupils' social and moral welfare. It therefore seems probable that PE teacher education (PETE) might embrace recent calls for the need to re-moralise society due to the conditions of the late-modern age and not…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Physical Education, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis