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Concern about the impact of narrative worlds and their heroes offered by the media prompted research on encounters with moral models in experiential, narrative curricula. Researchers tracked the extension of a mandated Language Arts curriculum on 'heroes' through the experiential narratives of four local heroes chosen collaboratively by teacher, students and researcher. They also elicited and analyzed responses from students to these narrative presentations in order to explore how students understood the narrative worlds presented to them.
Published: 2008
Updated: Mar. 02, 2008
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This article describes the principles and the actualization of Korczak's moral education and explores how Korczak reconciled the differences between the ethical world he created in his institutions and the surrounding immoral society. The example set by Korczak's educational praxis serves as an inspiring model of school life across the boundaries of time and place and touches our need to believe in education's responsibility to strive and struggle for a better world, even when it seems an unattainable goal.
Published: 2008
Updated: Mar. 02, 2008
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This article employs Phillips' (1995) analytic framework that divides the pedagogical applications of constructivism into three distinct categories: the good, the bad, and the ugly. The primary objective in this article is to provide teacher educators and teachers with a richer understanding of constructivism - its limitations and its strengths - while offering concrete pedagogical strategies for its classroom application.
Published: 2008
Updated: Mar. 02, 2008
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The article discusses a new approach to promoting anti-homophobia education in teacher education and schooling contexts. The approach includes three anti-homophobia practices: coming out stories, homophobic name-calling, and Pride Week activities. The approach promotes 'safe moments', 'positive moments', and 'queering moments'.
Published: 2007
Updated: Feb. 26, 2008
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The desirable aspect of anger in education is discussed in this article. The author focuses on the argument that emotions, particularly anger in the political sense, are central to the exercise of power relations in the classroom. The author describes conditions that generate angry feelings and the transformative possibilities the feelings create.
Published: 2007
Updated: Feb. 26, 2008
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The Literacies for Learning in Further Education (LfLFE) research project has been funded for three years from January 2004 as part of Phase 3 of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme in the UK. The project involves collaboration between two universities and four further education (FE) colleges. The intention is to investigate students' everyday literacy practices and explore ways of mobilizing these to enhance their learning on college courses.
Published: 2007
Updated: Feb. 11, 2008
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The article described the development and validation of the Beliefs about Primary Education Scale (BPES). The 18-item scale for assessing primary school teachers' beliefs toward the nature of good education is subdivided into a transmissive dimension and the developmental dimension. Recent studies (n=381), construct validity of the BPES was confirmed. The BPES’ DD and TD were shown to correlate significantly with constructivist and traditional teaching beliefs.
Published: 2008
Updated: Feb. 05, 2008
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The aim of this article is to pause to allow time to reflect on the concept of practitioner research from a perspective that sees knowledge, knowledge-constitutive interests and knowledge construction as interrelated.
Published: 2007
Updated: Feb. 03, 2008
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A view of science education is presented from the perspective of art and aesthetics. The authors present a pedagogical model focused on fostering transformative aesthetic experiences, involving methods of crafting ideas out of concepts and methods of modeling and scaffolding transformative aesthetic experiences.
Published: 2007
Updated: Jan. 28, 2008
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This paper explores the dual and seemingly contradictory potential of self-study research to illuminate our fears, anxieties, tensions and uncertainties as teacher educators, whilst acting as a catalyst for community building. This self-study research was conducted during the founding year of a new school of education, drawing data from surveys and interviews with faculty about their own self-study research and participation in one another's studies.
Published: 2007
Updated: Jan. 26, 2008