Foundations of the DEFT Project: tertiary educators Developing Expertise Fostering Thinking

Developing Expertise Through a Deliberate Practice Project

Fostering Collaboration and Developing Higher-Order Thinking with Digital Video

This study examined the role of digital video in supporting higher order thinking processes through various types of adolescent student collaboration in a digital documentary project. Understanding how new technologies such as digital video expands our concepts of literacy is critical to our appreciation of how it shapes the instructional and learning process, especially in promoting the develo...

Book Review: "Developing Expertise Through Experience"

The book ‘Developing expertise through experience’consists of twenty chapters written by language educators. Alan Maley has edited the book. The writers of the chapters have written their stories and experiences about learning English and being an Educator with regard to the notion of ‘sense of plausibility’ defined by Prabhu. Prabhu explains that plausibility in pedagogy is teachers’ intuition...

Fostering Scholarship Capacity: The Experience of Nurse Educators

In a milieu where traditional views of scholarship are embedded in the culture of educational institutions, and nursing programs in particular, this paper reports on a research project designed to support nurse educators’ capacity to engage in scholarly activities. Rogers’ (2003, 2004) “Diffusion of Innovation” model provided a theoretical vantage point from which to consider the ways scholarly...

the effect of using critical discourse analytical tools on the improvement of the learners level of critical thinking in reading comprehension

?it is of utmost priority for an experienced teacher to train the mind of the students, and enable them to think critically and correctly. the most important question here is that how to develop such a crucial ability? this study examines a new way to the development of critical thinking utilizing critical discourse analytical tools. to attain this goal, two classes of senior english la...