Environmental Citizen Science (CS) initiatives are argued to provide a promising vehicle for involving citizens in the investigation of various socio-environmental issues. However, environmental CS have often been criticized merely focusing on achievement their scientific goals and outcomes (science-oriented), rather than empowering transforming participants into ‘environmental citizens’ (citiz...

The resurgence of Confucian education in present-day China has received increasing academic attention over the last two decades. However, certain aspects this trend remain poorly understood, particularly parents’ involvement their children’s education. Based on a qualitative study conducted at school, article sheds light why some Chinese parents today send children to learn classics. interviewe...

Although a number of rape prevention programs exist, the interACT Troupe is distinguished by their commitment to social justice pedagogy and proactive performance. Influenced by critical pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed, interACTuses embodied techniques aligned with feminist pedagogies to raise awareness, promote empathic responses, challenge (hyper)masculinity and encourage bystander inte...

Kline argues that it is crucial to isolate the respective roles of teaching and learning in order to understand how pedagogy has evolved. We argue that doing so requires testing species that learn from pedagogy but that rarely teach themselves. Here, we review how one previously neglected species - domesticated dogs (Canis familiaris) - may allow researchers to do just that.

This paper examines how current theorizing on public pedagogy can be used to understand scholarship on creative, arts-based pedagogies in informal environmental education for adults. In particular, the study applies Biesta's (2012, 2014) typology of public pedagogies to three bodies of literature: arts-based adult learning and education in the environmental movement, eco-art, and Tactical Urban...

The need for change and development in pedagogical approaches in infant classes in Ireland is clearly indicated by a number of recent reports. These reports, reviewed here, present a picture of pedagogy in infant classes as overly formal, insufficiently interactive and incoherent with current knowledge about learning in early childhood. Future developments in early childhood pedagogy will need ...

We propose that the cognitive mechanisms that enable the transmission of cultural knowledge by communication between individuals constitute a system of 'natural pedagogy' in humans, and represent an evolutionary adaptation along the hominin lineage. We discuss three kinds of arguments that support this hypothesis. First, natural pedagogy is likely to be human-specific: while social learning and...

Abstract Many students are becoming increasingly disengaged in school, particularly mathematics. This is an important problem as lack of engagement may threaten students’ achievement and performance A flipped learning pedagogy, which encourages to take active role mathematics, has become a widely researched topic recent years. However, few empirical studies date have focused on the influence st...

This article reports on a narrative case study that showcases the local English teachers’ perceived inequality practices and identity construction in Indonesia’s micro-reality context of private language school domain. Grounded social theory power, privilege, positional identities, three synchronous online interviews were conducted to explore LETs voices about what it means experience equality ...