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 ...

It takes a village: supporting inquiryand equityoriented computer science pedagogy through a professional learning community Jean Ryoo, Joanna Goode & Jane Margolis To cite this article: Jean Ryoo, Joanna Goode & Jane Margolis (2016): It takes a village: supporting inquiryand equity-oriented computer science pedagogy through a professional learning community, Computer Science Education, DOI: 10...

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...

For a Virtual Learning Environment a Digital Pedagogy is required, otherwise learning will be the same as usual with the only difference being, that reading and writing will be on the computer, and therefore the opportunity to use the Computer Science and Technology to empower the student’s learning is lost. The Digital Pedagogy needs to be Multi-Referential, which means that different knowledg...

any professors want to promote students’ critical thinking, foster self-examination, and facilitate civic engagement; however, these professors may be uncertain about how they can accomplish these objectives. The paradigm of transformative pedagogy (Mezirow and Associates 2000; Taylor 2000) can provide faculty with a useful theoretical perspective to guide their efforts. Descriptions of transfo...

The application of critical pedagogy in educational contexts has received adequate research attention over the last decades. The main focus of this strand of research has, however, been on raising awareness of the educators. Nevertheless, little is known about the consequences of the violation of critical pedagogy principles from EFL teacher trainers’ perspectives. To begin to address this gap ...

In their article "Intermediality, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy," Kris Rutten and Ronald Soetaert discuss how the notion of intermediality challenges the institutions that traditionally "mediate" culture and they discuss implications for pedagogy. First, they focus on how the museum as an institution is questioned and problematized by describing it as a "medium" that is increasingly influenced by cult...