This study explored the role of age and the classroom management styles in differentiating educators’ predisposition to conceptual perspectives in achieving citizenship education goal of social studies in schools in Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria. It was assumed that analysis of these conceptual perspectives can be useful in the selection of content and methods consistent with the desired citizensh...

Pedagogy Transparency is a quality driven concept built from the junction of the new pedagogy movement, based on Vygotsky ́s social interactionist theory, and the notion of information disclosure. Pedagogy Transparency aims the disclosure to students of how they are being taught and why, as to improve their awareness about the learning process. We present a study conducted to evaluate three peda...

High expectations are attached to ‘reflection’ in the context of individual professionalisation. This is linked questions about design reflection-oriented courses and as a goal for future professional work. And yet term not theoretically defined sufficiently empirically validated. applies particular social pedagogical qualifications, such education courses, pedagogy studies or teacher education...

The article determines the features of implementation communicative-activity approach in competence-oriented educational process higher education. prospects and directions development modern system are actualized. Society more than ever needs new specialists, who would find answers for challenges era effectively implement them daily professional activity. author substantiates idea that dominant...

In Finland the goal of elementary teacher program is to produce innovative, reflective and collaborative-oriented teachers who can combine knowledge of educational science with knowledge of subject pedagogy, e.g. mathematical pedagogy. In this paper we are presenting the use of narratives as tools in mathematics education course as one of the innovations in Finnish teacher education. Narratives...

although university efl students represent a wide array of social and cultural identities, their multiple and diverse identities are not usually considered in foreign language classrooms. this qualitative case study attempted to examine identity conflicts experienced by iranian efl learners at the university context. to this end, two shiraz university students' identities were investigated. sem...

Humans are adapted to spontaneously transfer relevant cultural knowledge to conspecifics and to fast-learn the contents of such teaching through a human-specific social learning system called 'pedagogy' (Csibra & Gergely, 2006). Pedagogical knowledge transfer is triggered by specific communicative cues (such as eye-contact, contingent reactivity, the prosodic pattern of 'motherese', and being a...