Following political devolution in 1999, Scotland’s already distinctive education system has diverged further from the rest of the United Kingdom. A major trend has been a weakening of input regulation of the school curriculum. Scotland’s recently developed Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) has been predicated upon notions of curricular flexibility, local autonomy and school-based curriculum devel...

Laboratory education can play a vital role in developing a learner's autonomy and scientific inquiry skills. In an innovative, mutation-based learning (MBL) approach, students were instructed to redesign a teacher-designed standard experimental protocol by a "mutation" method in a molecular genetics laboratory course. Students could choose to delete, add, reverse, or replace certain steps of th...

This study explored the relationships between teacher satisfaction/frustration of three basic psychological needs for competence, autonomy and relatedness, adoption motivating demotivating teaching styles. Nine hundred forty-nine Italian teachers filled in self-report questionnaires. The results showed that competence relatedness satisfaction were associated with participative, attuning, guidin...

Where the role of instructor discourse has been the focus of much recent research on asynchronous online instruction, the anatomy of effective instructional discourse of foreign language educators has yet to be examined. Indeed, the majority of work in the area of foreign language and telecommunications has concentrated on student–student, student–peer interaction and the power through autonomy...

Due to the recent increase in trade, travel and political and social co-operation, language competence has become a key skill in modern Europe. Great efforts have been made to improve language training at all education levels. Whereas in the past language teaching was mainly related to cultural themes with an emphasis on literature, communicative aspects in everyday international contact situat...

Institutions of Higher Education are beginning to place a greater emphasis on quality teaching and student learning. However, few faculty receive any type of teacher training prior to entering the academy. As a result, faculty development is one likely solution to teacher quality issues. But faculty development is faced with serious shortcomings that impede its ability to improve teacher qualit...

According to Self-Determination Theory, need-supportive teaching fosters students’ motivation. The present study examined the interplay between three dimensions of need support: autonomy support, structure, and involvement. Using both student teacher-reports (N = 287 Grade 7 students), configurations support were with Latent Profile Analyses. Balanced profiles identified based on reports (low, ...

In this article, we draw on teacher surveys and interviews to explore elementary teachers’ perceived professional space, especially in relation autonomy, what these perceptions reveal about the achieved agency of individual teachers. Our analyses revealed two distinct profiles for a positive correlation between pedagogical autonomy some aspects space. However, teachers that experienced more sup...

The purpose of this study was to examine the utilization opportunities offered by teacher and school autonomy in entrepreneurship education with companies involved. research question was: How do schools teachers use their implementation education? This complemented two additional questions that were: does benefit want utilize teaching? qualitative used content analyses data were collected via s...