As a separate subject and a part of general education, technology education (TE) began to be offered to secondary students in Korea in 1970 under the name of kisul (literally, technology). While it has provided technological knowledge and capability, there have been issues and challenges in curriculum, instruction, and teacher education. This paper presents a brief history along with the status...

A key component of any kind of mathematics curriculum change is the development of professional expertise among teachers. This paper offers an outline model of the stages through which mathematics teachers seem to pass when learning to integrate a graphics calculator into their professional practice. The model describes four developmental stages of progression: (1) Where’s the ON button? (2) Bl...

At 900 persons per square kilometre, Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries of the world and is similar to many developing countries in that nearly half the population is under 19 years of age. On average 41% of the population do not complete Primary Education, completion rates being as low as 27.5% in some areas. The reasons for such high school drop-out rates are complex: f...

Curriculum materials are a crucial tool with which teachers engage in teaching practice. For preservice teachers to learn to use science curriculum materials in productive ways, they must develop a conception of themselves as elementary teachers in which the use of science curriculum materials is a valued dimension of science-teaching practice. We define those dimensions of teachers’ profession...

in 2000, an evaluation of iranian elementary education revealed that it did not successfully prepare students for the future. the failure was attributed to the teacher centered, content-oriented education system. in 2001, the iranian ministry of education began a pilot project that introduced an alternative curriculum, known as “global education,” with unicef’s participation. global education, ...

China began to promote the project on Education for Environment Population and Sustainable Development (EPD) in 1998 and obtained significant gains. After that, in response to the globalscale implementation of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), China, on the basis of a local concept interpretation of education for sustainable development (ESD), as well as...

This study examines the development and acquisition of functional skills for ICT integration within the context of teacher education in Nigeria providing an overview of ICT integration in educational practices in Nigerian teacher training institutions alongside policy issues. It examines issues and problems surrounding the current practices of ICT integration and identifies critical research ga...

Different kinds of discussion methods have been developed to help students achieve different kinds of instructional objectives. The following discussion methods are analyzed from the perspective of the role demands that they make of students and teachers: (1) cooperative learning discussions; (2) the subject mastery discussion method; and (3) issues-oriented discussions. Developers of all three...

It would be hard to imagine a better book on the past, present, and future of Curriculum Materials Centers (CMCs) than this timely collection of articles by authors from thriving centers throughout the country. Rita Kohrman of Grand Valley State University and Suzan A. Alteri of Wayne State University provide illuminating histories of the development of curriculum laboratories at normal schools...

Introduction Within primary and secondary school technology education, engineering has been proposed as an avenue to bring about technological literacy (Lewis, 2005; Dearing & Daugherty, 2004). Different initiatives such as curriculum development projects (i.e., Project ProBase and Project Lead The Way) and National Science Foundation funded projects such as the National Center for Engineering ...