The current paper aims to introduce the ‘Reading to Learn, Learning to Write” (R2L) pedagogy [11] and its application in teaching Chinese narrative writing to non-Chinese speaking (NCS) students in Hong Kong. Based on the needs of the NCS students in Chinese language learning for education and employment in Hong Kong, R2L pedagogy functions as an effective toolkit for L1 Chinese teachers to tea...

This paper examines complexities involved in the classroom application of critical pedagogy and antiracism education. It examines the concept of border crossing as a tool for progressive classroom teaching. In educational theory, difference is seen as an analytic tool that students use to examine the ways in which dominant cultures create practices of terror, inequality and exclusions. It has a...

In the context of the national debate over the advantages and disadvantages of honors education, we developed a two-semester honors curriculum designed to draw upon the benefits of integrating teaching and research through student participation in an ethnographic research project. This paper recounts the process of the pedagogy and curriculum and discusses some key findings and outcomes of the ...

Abstract ‘Pedagogy first’ has become a mantra for educators, supported by the metaphor of ‘pedagogical horse’ driving ‘technological cart’. Yet putting technology first or last separates it from pedagogy, making us susceptible to technological pedagogical determinism (i.e. where is seen either as force change set neutral tools). In this paper, I present model entangled pedagogy that encapsulate...

The purpose of the study was to identify the components of holistic school pedagogy as identified by a sample of Finnish secondary school teachers and students from two schools. Holistic pedagogy concerns the development of the whole student and acknowledges the cognitive, social, moral, emotional and spiritual dimensions of education. The data were gathered in spring 2008 and include 19 interv...

New technologies and teaching approaches are having enormous effects on education practices. The inverted classroom has emerged as an exciting unconventional approach to structuring a classroom environment to enhance active learning. This model allows instructors to provide engaging content but also to cater to different learning styles by reserving more classroom time for interaction and probl...

With the development of mobile technology, mobile learning, which is not bound by time and space, has become one of the most essential learning methods for modern people. However, previous studies have suggested that improvements are still needed in mobile learning performance. One of the means to achieve this goal is situated learning, which enhances learners’ autonomous motivation and make th...

Background: Current barriers to effective student evaluations in the clinical area are numerous and growing and new pedagogies need to be developed. We developed an educational pedagogy to aid in critical thinking for graduate and undergraduate nursing students in clinical areas that can replace or augment written care plans. Methods: Evaluate the effectiveness of the new ABC’s pedagogy (A=Anat...

In the light of the education reform driven by Vietnam’s government, information communication technologies (ICTs) are becoming integrated into education, while concurrently, teaching approaches are shifting from teacher-centred to student-centred in Vietnam’s universities. The innovation is top-down and is being applied on a large scale. Emerging from this innovation are some important issues ...