TEACHING HISTORY AND INDIGENOUS CULTURES IN BASIC SCHOOL EDUCATION

Principles of Indigenous Education for Mainstream Teaching

This paper examines workable principles of indigenous education that can be applied to mainstream classrooms: finding each student’s gift, professionalism, using real objects and tools, practicums, apprenticeships, elders and older students as teachers, and observation. These principles are illustrated with personal teaching experiences and historical examples. While examining these principles,...

Experiments for Physics Education at Basic School

One of the ways of promoting students’ interest in physics is the performance of experiments. This paper is concerned to experiments which could be used in physics classes taught at basic education. A questionnaire was created to determine to what extent basic school physics teachers are willing to incorporate experiments into their teaching method repertoire. The questionnaire underwent a pilo...

The Impact of Professional Development and Indigenous Education Officers on Australian Teachers’ Indigenous Teaching and Learning

The study investigated the impact of professional development (PD) in Indigenous teaching on teachers’ psychological and behavioural aspects, and Indigenous students’ learning engagement. Adopting a multiple-indicator-multiple-indicator-cause model, frequency of PD was found to have positive paths to teachers’ self-concept in Indigenous teaching and all the teaching strategies, but had a non-si...

Research on Effective Teaching in Elementary School Physical Education

Medical education and autonomy in teaching hospitals

Introduction. Despite the implementation of hospital autonomy in many developed (France, Denmark) and developing countries(Ghana, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Indonesia) since the early 1980s , relatively little research has been directed towards evaluating the experiences of these hospitals .Efficiency, equity, accountability and quality of care can be considered as four main evaluative criteria in ass...