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Ferreira, Giselle Martins dos Santos; Rosado, Luiz Alexandre da Silva; Lemgruber, Márcio Silveira; Carvalho, Jaciara de Sá – Learning, Media and Technology, 2020
This article discusses issues concerning the spread of data-driven educational technologies in Brazil. Here, as elsewhere, educational technology continues to be promoted optimistically as the bearer of a panacea for historically-rooted social problems. Whilst some of these technologies have indeed contributed to important widening-participation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Innovation
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Marcelos, Maria Fatima; Nagem, Ronaldo Luiz – Science & Education, 2012
This work discusses the use of Darwin's "Tree of Life" as a didactic analogy and metaphor in teaching evolution. It investigates whether biology teachers of pupils from 17 to 18 years old know Darwin's text "Tree of Life". In addition, it examines whether those teachers systematically employ either the analogies present in that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evolution, Biology, Science Instruction
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Goulart, Maria Ines Mafra; Roth, Wolff-Michael – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2006
One important challenge for researchers is to understand what happens inside classrooms that make the environment available for children's learning. This study develops the margin|centre dialectic as a general framework for describing participation of very young children in science-related activities. It employs a cultural-historical approach that…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Figurative Language, Case Studies, Classroom Environment
Novotna, Jarmila, Ed.; Moraova, Hana, Ed.; Kratka, Magdalena, Ed.; Stehlikova, Nad'a, Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2006
This volume of the 30th annual proceedings of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education conference presents: plenary panel papers; research forum papers; short oral communication papers; and poster presentation papers from the meeting. Information relating to discussion groups and working sessions is also provided.…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Instruction