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Nurcan Tekin; Oktay Aslan – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2024
Socioscientific issues (SSIs), which are an important component of scientific literacy in science education, are scientific-based issues with dilemmas and no clear answers. SSIs can be local issues that affect a region or global issues that affect the world. This study aimed to investigate informal reasoning (IR) patterns and their influencing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Thinking Skills, Scientific Literacy
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Öztürk, Mustafa; Pizmony-Levy, Oren – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the dispositions of early career teacher educators as young academics toward sustainability and accountability for sustainability issues. Through their interpretations, concerns, awareness and ownership of sustainability, the study portrays how a global phenomenon is articulated specifically within the local…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Schools of Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Harun Serpil; Eren Kesim – Open Praxis, 2024
This study aims to perform a descriptive analysis of the websites of public and foundation universities in Türkiye to reveal the current positioning context of their units in relation to artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystems. The study was designed using a holistic multiple case study method, in which the dimensions specified in the…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Higher Education, Technology Uses in Education, Global Approach
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Ulum, Ömer Gökhan; Köksal, Dinçay – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2021
The expanding hegemony of English caused English Language Teaching to suddenly turn into an international business with huge financial investment, and accordingly produced EFL textbooks evolved into a cornerstone of the business. Further, studies on the relation between ideology, hegemony, and textbooks have multiplied in recent decades as a…
Descriptors: Ideology, Critical Theory, Cultural Literacy, Cultural Influences
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Yilmaz Findik, Leyla; Bayram, Ilknur; Canaran, Özlem – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how sustainable development (SD) is conceptualized by pre-service English language teachers in Turkey and design a specialized course syllabus on SD in English language teaching (ELT) in the light of the research findings. Design/methodology/approach: The study used a mixed-methods sequential…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
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Toprakci, Nihal; Özaydinli, Belgin – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2021
Recent research has revealed that the relationship between language and culture stands out as an important factor in language teaching. The purpose of this study was to examine the cultural content of ninth-grade textbooks used in teaching English based on the WorldReadiness Standards for Learning Languages (WRSLL), and also from teachers'…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Textbook Publication, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Çuhadar, Elif; Ünal, Fatma – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
In this study, while the definition of informal education, which displays the main features of lifelong learning, is made, it is also attempted to identify the contributions of the local newspapers, through which the society can reach its own unique and necessary information, to the lifelong learning of their readers. In the research, within this…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Newspapers, Local Issues, Informal Education
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Krengel, Fabian – Global Education Review, 2021
A key goal of global education in language teaching is to "have students 'think globally and act locally'"(Cates, 2013, p. 278) -- an idea in line with the concept of glocality. Virtual exchange -- i.e. connecting learners with different lingua-cultural backgrounds over extended periods of time via digital communication technologies (The…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Dogancay-Aktuna, Seran, Ed.; Hardman, Joel, Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2008
Today's English language teaching goes beyond the norms of English spoken and taught in native-English-speaking countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, or Australia. Increasingly, a variety of countries have established, formally or informally, a kind of English unique to their own populations, and English language teachers within…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Local Issues, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)