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Gilmore, Gwen – Intercultural Education, 2019
This research investigates an intercultural praxis approach to using visual research methods, in Australia and Vietnam, with preservice teachers in a Diploma of Early Childhood (DEC) course. The paper results from limited research with DEC preservice teachers exploring the development of intercultural praxis and limited research in teaching whilst…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Preschool Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Burns, Lawrence R.; Stephenson, Paul L.; Bellamy, Katy – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2016
Although students make some epistemological progress during college, most graduate without developing meaning-making strategies that reflect an understanding that knowledge is socially constructed. Using a pre-test-post-test design and a within-subjects 2 × 2 mixed-design ANOVA, this study reports on empirical findings which support the Socratic…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques, Lecture Method, Psychology
Liu, Siping – New Horizons in Education, 2010
Background: The international science competitions show that students from different countries perform differently in subjects such as mathematics, physics and chemistry. In the literature comparative empirical studies tried to address the reasons for cross-national students' differences in performance from different perspectives such as teaching…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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Creech, Andrea – Music Education Research, 2010
The aims of this research were to identify the ways in which parents may most constructively support their children's musical development, and to ascertain whether styles of parent-teacher and parent-pupil interaction would influence the extent to which parents engage in different types of supportive behaviours. A model of parent involvement as…
Descriptors: Music Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Parent Participation
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Cianciolo, Jennifer; Flory, Luke; Atwell, Jonathan – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2006
Performing inquiry should enhance the intellectual development of students on numerous levels. We evaluate whether inquiry-based activities elicit inquiry behaviors by comparing these activities with traditional review sessions. We find that both inquiry-learning and teaching behaviors increase during inquiry-based activities, but that teachers…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Intellectual Development, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving
Zankov, L. V., Ed. – 1968
This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a document examining the objective connections existing between the system of training and the course of general development of students. It proposes a more effective system of education than the one in operation at the present time. The various contributors to the work…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Classroom Observation Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Didacticism
Swinton, William – Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1880
This textbook of English Grammar presupposes a certain amount of previous training in the theory and practice of English, and its specific place in the curriculum is to be found in the advanced grammar grades of public schools, though the book is also suited to the wants of high schools and academies. The author would state in a single sentence…
Descriptors: Grammar, Syntax, Teaching Methods, English Instruction
THURSTONE, THELMA GWINN – 1959
AN EVALUATION AND OBJECTIVE COMPARISON WAS MADE BETWEEN THE PROGRESS OF YOUNG MENTAL RETARDATES IN REGULAR CLASSROOMS WITH THE PROGRESS OF PEERS IN SPECIAL CLASSES. THE BASIS OF COMPARISON OF THE TWO TEACHING METHODS INCLUDED MENTAL DEVELOPMENT, PROGRESS IN REGULAR SCHOOL SUBJECTS, ACHIEVEMENT TOWARD OTHER EDUCATIONAL GOALS, SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Class Organization, Comparative Analysis
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Leung, Doris Y. P.; Kember, David – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
The expansion in the number of people entering higher education has resulted in a substantial increase in the proportion of students enrolling in nontraditional modes, such as part-time study. This study examined the question of whether part-time study curtails the development of the types of intellectual capabilities needed for a knowledge-based…
Descriptors: Full Time Students, Teaching Methods, Teacher Student Relationship, Part Time Students
Gooch, S.; Pringle, M. L. Kellmer – 1965
Beginning in 1956 about 250 students in two London, England junior schools were intensively studied over a 4-year period for intellectual, educational, emotional, and social development. The schools approached instruction differently; one was child-oriented; the other was subject-oriented. In 1964 this followup study was conducted with some of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Educational Innovation
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Williams, James L.; And Others – Teaching Sociology, 1995
Maintains that U.S. society's emphasis on individuality and pragmatism renders theoretical study of criminal deviance difficult for many students. Presents a structured approach to this problem that includes an emphasis on practical applications, comparative analysis, analytical skills, and the substantive content of theories. Describes teaching…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Criminology, Critical Thinking