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Søren W. Eskildsen; Maria Jensen – Classroom Discourse, 2024
Design and content of classroom activities are crucial to foreign/second (L2) language learners' motivation, be they children or adults. Lifeworld relevance and learner autonomy are two important aspects in building motivational L2 curricula for adults (e.g.), but such considerations rarely filter through to primary school learners due to…
Descriptors: Learner Controlled Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, English Language Learners
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Krechevsky, Mara – Scottish Educational Review, 2019
This article describes what happened when a group of middle school teacher-researchers at the International School of Billund (ISB), Denmark, joined university-based researchers from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to engage in a new qualitative methodology called "Playful Participatory Research" or PPR (Baker & Davila…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, School Schedules, Teacher Researchers, Foreign Countries
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Iversen, Ann-Merete; Pedersen, Anni Stavnskaer; Krogh, Lone; Jensen, Annie Aarup – SAGE Open, 2015
The article introduces a new term in higher education: learner-led approaches in education (LED). This does not represent a single approach or dogma to replace existing dogmas, but a way of approaching learning and education that mirrors the complexity of society as it develops. LED is based on the assumption that all students have their own…
Descriptors: Learner Controlled Instruction, Higher Education, Active Learning, Student Projects
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Sin, Cristina – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
Student-centred learning has gradually come to the foreground of the Bologna Process. In parallel, learning outcomes have been advocated as key degree descriptors, illustrative of student-centred approaches. This paper examines learning outcomes in their diverse understandings and enactment in three European countries--England, Portugal and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Learner Controlled Instruction, Policy Formation
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Morrill, Richard – Knowledge Quest, 2003
Discusses school librarianship in Denmark. Highlights include proposals for a joint school library/public library system; student responsibility for their own learning; teaching students to use appropriate information technology to meet information needs; critical analysis of information; cataloging and classification of library materials; and…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Brostrom, Stig – 1992
Drawing from a comparison of Danish and American kindergarten students, a review of theories of child activity, and action research, this report outlines several principles for pedagogical practice among 5- and 6-year-old children. The report first focuses on the crosscultural, ethnographic, and comparative study of Danish and American…
Descriptors: Childrens Games, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Developmentally Appropriate Practices