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AbstrAct Learning Objects (LOs) are increasingly considered potentially helpful to improve teachers' work and to spread innovation in the school system. Their technological roots, however, often make them scarcely appealing to the teachers. A key issue to tackle in order to boost their diffusion is to make them closer to actual teacher's work by emphasising pedagogical aspects. To this end, the...

BACKGROUND A traditional lecture-based pedagogy conveys information and content while lacking sufficient development of critical thinking skills and problem solving. A puzzle-based pedagogy creates a broader contextual framework, and fosters critical thinking as well as logical reasoning skills that can then be used to improve a student's performance on content specific assessments. This paper ...

This paper translates the implications of the “do-it-yourself” (DIY) culture of the “new learning” paradigm which is emerging due to digital technology and the Internet into the context of second language (L2)-pedagogy. It demonstrates the relevance of the DIY metaphor to the modern learning context while drawing on theoretical and CALL developments which problematise concepts such as text, eng...

This essay reflects on the academic margins as a space of openness for anthropological teaching and learning. I describe an activity in which students medical anthropology course analyzed primary source materials documenting Black health social movements that were curated class by community archive Los Angeles. Using this example, explore possibilities reshaping toward engaged, liberatory pedag...

In the context of ensuring an effective strategy for sustainable development, it is necessary to consider that modern education mainly focused on theoretical type scientific knowledge, natural and engineering-technological models thinking. At same time, theory pedagogy constantly debated criticized by scientism. It a term doesn’t exist in European countries - humanitarian or humanistic technolo...

This paper discusses the views of Turkish and British novice teachers on pedagogy and pedagogical relationships with school students when confronted with the pedagogical practices of the 'Other'. Experiences of those practices were gained by novice teachers during an exchange visit for British and Turkish university students in 2008-2009. Data was collected through questionnaires and focus grou...

This article seeks to demonstrate the existence of a relationship between instrumental values and religious experience—in this instance, the experiences of God’s presence and of God’s absence in the lives of Polish students of pedagogy and of philosophy. The methods applied involved making use of the Scale of Religious Experience (SRE) of Głaz and the Rokeach Value Survey (RVS). The study was c...

Recent findings have provided growing evidence in support of process-genre-oriented writing pedagogy. However, these types approaches tended to place form-focused instruction (FFI) the background, particularly explicit teaching grammar (i.e., isolated FFI). As such, limited improvement accuracy was reported by recent studies. It is, therefore, important look into how FFI might further improve t...