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Higher education has created global citizens who wish to move seamlessly through learning in ways that transcend cultural and political boundaries. In North America, many issues in policy development and institutional administration prevent students from full participation. Transfer procedures as stated in course calendars vary widely. As the higher education market is increasingly driven by student...
These words of home-spun wisdom from an Aboriginal Australian woman capture the profound change that education has the potential to bring about in the lives of individuals and communities. People aspire to a better quality of life, to move beyond where they are today and leave behind situations which dehumanize them. Disadvantage, in a myriad of forms, often highly correlates with lack of education,...
This paper opens with a critique of the majoritarian, post-Enlightenment, scientific worldview, the assumptions it makes about human cosmologies and lifestyles and how, in turn, these assumptions influence the nature of educational systems. The critique focuses on how the experiences of minority cultures, particularly those cultures that are nomadic or pastoralist, challenge some of the fundamental...
Contemporary research in the field of teacher effectiveness has been developed in the frameworks of two distinct models: the process-product” model and the “teacher knowledge and beliefs” model (Campbell et al. 2003; 2004). The main assumption underlying the process–product model is that effective teaching behaviour can be accurately described and prescribed. Consequently, these models focus on observable...
Graduate teachers in New South Wales are expected to have functional levels of computing literacy that would help them in the management and the facilitation of student learning. The Professional Standards of the NSW Institute of Teachers not only state that a graduate teacher should “demonstrate current knowledge and proficiency” (NSW Institute of Teachers, 2005, p. 3) in information and communication...
The research reported in this paper has been developed to support the priorities of the National Centre for Science, ICT and Mathematics Education for Rural and Regional Australia (SiMERR) through the work of its local Hub, which is located at Australian Catholic University in Canberra, Australia. The Centre aims to support student achievement and to enhance teacher growth through research and professional...
This research is designed to address the pedagogical use of virtual reality (VR) and simulation-based learning environments of healthcare. Pedagogical issues are significant issues to consider, because simulation itself is not sufficient to ensure effective learning (Kneebone, 2003). According to Rall and Dieckmann (2005) “simulation, in short, means to do something in the ‘as if’, to resemble ‘reality’...
Practical training is an integral part of studies in the Master’s Programme for Media Education at the University of Lapland, Finland. This three-month period has not included any simultaneous tutoring from the faculty members. Instead, students have attended a practical training seminar after the training period. During their practical training, students have relied on mentoring offered from the...
In many traditions, teachers are honored as holding a place of central importance to the development of society. However, there are signs that teaching as a profession is increasingly being marginalized in society: research studies as well as statements in the public forum tell us that teaching has become a more and more difficult job over the years. The frequent use of terms such as “deskilling”...
A contribution of temperament in schooling started with quite a simple and innocent question of some young researchers. They asked teachers what are the children like who are actually having trouble in school, and what are the children like that are getting well (e.g., for review see Martin, 1989). The teachers did not respond with cognitive terms, but described the students’ temperaments. They didn’t...
One of my biology student teachers two years ago, Roeland, age 25, was teaching three groups of pupils at a secondary school. He had signed up for teacher education because he could not find his ‘dream’ job – being a university teacher – and following the teacher education programme seemed to be ‘not a big waste of time’ because in his plans he also had to teach, but to university students. To give...
This paper offers some perspectives about the shifting place and status of values in education as globalisation affects the activities, participants and stakeholders in learning and teaching. The substance and inculcation of values is both explicit and implicit and framed through factors such as religion, nationalism, capitalism and technology. A constructivist lens helps understand how values are...
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