Advancing teacher knowledge of effective argumentation pedagogy

Effective Teaching Practice Supervison: A Predictor of Teacher Trainees’ Performance in Pedagogy

The quality of teachers prepared for basic education in Africa and other continents of the world is a consequence of the knowledge of content acquired and the pedagogy. Effective teaching practice supervision could determine the level of teacher trainees’ performance in the art of teaching. The study investigated the differences in performance of teacher trainees who embarked on continuous Teac...

The Role of Serendipity in Advancing of Human Knowledge

Tracing the development of teacher knowledge in a design seminar: Integrating content, pedagogy and technology

Effective technology integration for teaching subject matter requires knowledge not just of content, technology and pedagogy, but also of their relationship to each other. Building on Schulman s [Schulman, L. S. (1987). Knowledge and teaching: foundations for a new reform. Harvard Educational Review, 57(1), 1–22] concept of pedagogical content knowledge, we introduce a framework for conceptuali...

Advancing knowledge

I There have been numerous studies on risk perception. The psychometric approach, which is a factorial system using two or three elements, has been preferred. This approach is described as concerning the nature of risks, the knowledge of persons exposed to those risks and the effects to which they are exposed (Slovic, Fischhoff and Lichtenstein, 1980; Slovic, 1987). Other authors have looked at...

The alignment of digital pedagogy to current teacher beliefs

This paper explores teacher beliefs that influence the ways Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) are used in learning contexts. Much has been written about the impact of teachers’ beliefs and attitudes to ICT as ‘barriers’ to ICT integration (Ertmer, Ottenbreit-Leftwich & York, 2007; Higgins & Mosley, 2001; Loveless, 2003). This paper takes a closer look at the types of beliefs tha...