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 ...

This reflective essay follows a faculty working group as they attempt to understand barriers access course materials through the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). Through workgroup’s research collaboration with students in problem-based course, workgroup uncovered elements hidden curriculum assumptions regarding material procurement. The has served foundation for efforts begin transf...

The COVID-19 pandemic posed numerous challenges for instructors and students. Professors, example, struggled to quickly effectively migrate face-to-face courses remote teaching modalities. What had not been anticipated, however, were the additional be managed when returning in-person teaching. This reflective essay provides some insight into how faculty at University of Puerto Rico attempted mo...

The present study aimed to investigate the interaction among grade dropping and reflective thinking abilities of the participants and to also check if action research enhances learners’ reflective thinking. A cyclic action research was run for 8 sessions. Kember et al.’s (2010) reflective thinking questionnaire and three in-term quizzes were administered. Students also made questions based on t...

The present study is aimed at investigating the relationship among Iranian EFL teachers’ reflective teaching, reflective thinking and classroom management ability. To this purpose, 102 male and female EFL teachers, aged between 25 and 40, with different academic background who were teaching at different levels, were chosen to fill in three questionnaires on reflective thinking, reflective teach...

Reflective writing may be undervalued as purely expressive rather than a critical or an academic tool in undergraduate public health biology courses. When grounded course concepts and learning, reflective essay can learning for students that helps them use discipline knowledge apply it to real-world issues. Studies on teaching reflection have identified its value training thinking improving sel...

Reflective Teaching and Its Impact on Students' Achievement in English F. Ghorbaan Dordinejaad, Ph.D. M. Rashvand Reflective teaching as a style in teaching has shown to be effective across different academic areas, in which teaching English is no exception. To demonstrate its effectiveness, a sample of 70 English teachers in Ghazvin was asked to answer two sets of questions o...

This article constitutes a critique from the inside of constructivist pedagogy. It begins with a short history of constructivist pedagogy and its relationship to constructivist learning theory. It then addresses four issues in the ways in which constructivist pedagogy are being approached in research and practice. The first issue recommends more of a research focus on student learning in classr...