Historically, social studies teaching (and teacher education) discourses have focused on the cognitive registers, both in how teachers teach--their inquiries, objectives, and aims--and in how social studies teaching lives are imagined to be lived (and felt). This study departs from these discourses to focus on the affective registers, aiming to…

While graduate admissions in physics directly affects only a small number of people on an annual basis, the number of people indirectly affected is orders of magnitude greater. Those who complete graduate degrees in physics will go on to become leaders in industry, government, and academia, with the latter educating the next generation of leaders…

Teacher educators broadly agree upon the need to prepare teachers who, as lifelong learners, are poised to meet the perpetually changing demands of teaching. One widely cited approach to addressing this need is to promote the development of an inquiry stance among teacher candidates by engaging them in the cyclical process of practitioner…

The digital environment of journalism has transformed the business of gathering information (Van Der Haak, Parks, & Castells, 2012). This teacher-researcher case study explored the process in which students advance their knowledge within a self-directed university TV Broadcast Journalism course. Journalism is a process to develop a system of…

The problem addressed in this qualitative phenomenological study was how poverty affected educators in teaching literacy achievement in secondary high school classrooms. The purpose addressed the experiences of educators to create a model of their lived experiences. Using sociocultural theory, a multilayered environment was analyzed using a…

Research examining students' historical reasoning has heavily relied on evidence in the form of students' written work to make claims about students' ability to reason historically and have argued that the document-based history essay holds the most promise for assessing students' historical thinking (Nokes & De La Paz, 2018). However,…

The focus on systems has been a part of science education for many decades, and more recently there has been a new emphasis on teaching with a "systems thinking" approach. Integrating systems thinking methods involves enhancing a student's understanding the complexity of systems, particularly the interactions that occur within and…

In this work, we study the mathematical practice of defining by mathematics researchers. Since research is an important part of many professional mathematicians, understanding how they do research is a necessary step before thinking about future researchers' undergraduate and postgraduate education. We focus on the defining process associated with…

In this approach, formulae based mnemonics by counting lone pair of electrons (localized or delocalized) have been highlighted by innovative and time economic way to enhance interest of students' who belong to paranoia zone of chemistry for the prediction of Hybridization state of hetero atom and Aromatic, Anti aromatic, non aromatic behavior of…

Learning in data-rich environments has been a focus of learning sciences research since the inception of the field, with increasing interest in the ways learners "narrate data." This article examines the narration of data from the perspective of "learning on the move," identifying mobilities of data, and of the narratives in…

The trajectory of successfully completing an undergraduate educational program, attaining postgraduate employment, and beginning advanced degree programs was examined using the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B: 2008/2012), a large U.S. nationally representative longitudinal sample survey of college graduates who completed the…

Research directed at institutions focusing on diverse aspects of childrens social and cognitive development outside school is a growing field. This article discusses Swedish school-age educare centres for children between 6-12 years of age before and after school. These centres are regarded as important for young children's learning and care,…

The modernization of the education system, taking place in Kazakhstan today, is connected with the renewal of its goals. The State program for the development of education of the Republic of Kazakhstan 2020-2025, as one of the conditions for improving the quality of secondary (full) general education, identifies the experience of independent…

Self-regulated learning, reflective thinking, and meta-cognition have been given greater emphasis in Singapore's education system as central to the development of 21st century competencies and lifelong learning capacities. This study explores students' perceptions of their Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) strategies in Secondary Social Studies after…

The purpose of this study was to analyze the need to promote active citizenship and media literacy among pre-service social studies teachers. Questionnaires were distributed among 327 social studies lecturers and pre-service teachers, and structured interviews were conducted with six participants, the Dean of the Faculty of Education, and other…