Teaching is reportedly rare in hunter-gatherer societies, raising the question of whether it is a species-typical trait in humans. A problem with past studies is that they tend to conceptualize teaching in terms of Western pedagogical practices. In contrast, this study proceeds from the premise that teaching requires the ostensive manifestation of generalizable knowledge: the teacher must signa...

y and perhaps reconsider previously held This paper examines one such approach in online learning, where an alternative pedagogy was utilized to offer opportunities for rich and sustained dialogue amongst the teachers (participants in the study) involved in a course, Reflective Practice for Teachers. The pedagogy referred to in this study is predicated on Fenwick’s (2005) notion that pedagogy i...

In this perspective paper, we present a case study of food systems pedagogy and critical community-university engagement within school public health at large research university. We start by providing contextual foundation for the importance intentionally centering equity-oriented curriculum community partnerships in academic settings. After highlighting institutional mandates curricular innova...

abstract literature review indicates that an effective and good teacher has an important role in students' performances and their success. pivotal roles of teachers may affect students’ attitudes and motivations to language learning. improving the field of foreign language teaching and learning without improving the qualities of efl teachers seems impossible. this attempt, at first hand, r...

Numerous research studies support the claim that affect plays a critical role in decision-making and performance as it influences cognitive processes [1] [2] [3]. Despite this body of research there is insufficient theory within educational pedagogy to recognize and address the role and function of affect. The innovative models and theories that have been proposed to facilitate advancement in t...

This research scrutinized the diffusion of a medical education pedagogy to the context of teacher education. Specifically, it focused on the use of standardized parents as an emerging pedagogy in teacher education. Preservice teachers taking part in a six case, fifteen-week intervention showed advances in multicultural awareness and ethical sensitivity as they engaged in multiple simulated pare...

This paper reports on a new pedagogy for Chinese language teaching and learning at elementary schools through exploratory classroom instruction using Information and Communication Technologies. The study used quantitative method to collect data from two elementary schools of China. The results showed that:(1) the three-in-one pedagogy of “character recognition, in-class reading and in-class wri...

Previous experimental studies have indicated that young people’s text comprehension and summarisation skills can be improved by techniques based on text concept mapping (TCM). However, these studies have done little to elucidate a pedagogy that can make the techniques adoptable within the context of typical secondary school classrooms. This paper explains how a collaborative research approach h...

Clarification of conceptual and terminological apparatus is an urgent task modern pedagogy, in this connection the paper deals with concept pedagogical event, as well its relationship main categories: education, training upbringing. Based on research conducted within social human sciences, integral features such significance changes life subject spatial temporal characteristics were identified,...

Historically, imitation has frequently been proposed as the central mechanism mediating the reproduction, spread, intergenerational transmission and stabilization of human cultural forms, population-specific behavioral traditions found in groups of non-human primates, or both (Baldwin 1894; Bandura 1986; Blackmore 2000; Byrne and Russon 1998; Dawkins 1976; Dennett 1995; Donald 1991; Meltzoff 19...