This paper is aimed at elucidating the current state of inquiry-based science education (IBSE) in Zambia’s high school science curriculum. Therefore, we investigated Zambian teachers’ conceptions of inquiry; determined inquiry levels in the national high school science curriculum materials, which include syllabi, textbooks and practical exams; and determined the extent to which inquiry tasks an...

Combining face-to-face learning and teaching experiences with online tasks and activities has become an increasingly common practice for a growing number of university teachers. This phenomenon, known as ‘blended’ learning, has become part of the educational provision of most ‘conventional’ on-campus universities. The present study investigated how conceptions of teaching and eTeaching, both si...

Abstract Background The presumed conflict between religion and evolution is considered one of the main causes rejection worldwide. However, there a unique group religious people who accept, study, teach evolution. aim this study was to gain better understanding these individuals’ conception relationship religion, factors that influenced conception. Religious biology teachers (n = 10) scientists...

Teachers' technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) for meaningful learning with ICT describes their knowledge for designing ICT lesson activities with respect to five dimensions: active, constructive, authentic, intentional, and cooperative. The ICT lesson activities designed by teachers can be assessed to determine the strengths and weaknesses of their TPACK for meaningful learning ...

This paper reviews 74 journal papers that investigate ICT integration from the framework of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK). The TPACK framework is an extension of the pedagogical content knowledge (Shulman, 1986). TPACK is the type of integrative and transformative knowledge teachers need for effective use of ICT in classrooms. As a framework for the design of teacher educa...

A key goal of educational neuroscience is to conduct constrained experimental research that is theory-driven and yet also clearly related to educators' complex set of questions and concerns. However, the fields of education, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience use different levels of description to characterize human ability. An important advance in research in educational neuroscience would...

The research study shows how pedagogical practicum is conceived, and student-teachers are constructed as language teachers, within the discourses spoken in initial meetings institutional documents of an English teaching undergraduate program Bogota, Colombia. were analyzed under principles ethnography communication linguistic ethnography. This affords insights into a contributory conception ima...

Teachers face a high degree of risk when disciplining students in contemporary China. Under the guidance society theory, based on qualitative study teachers at county town school Southwest China, this paper finds that, context shifting responsibility for education from family to and inequal distribution system school, become primary taker. The culture teacher as service provider with unlimited ...