Environmental education and classroom practice: Some implications for teacher education

Inclusive Education and Classroom Practice

Information Technology in French Education: implications for teacher education

This paper reports a longitudinal study (1992-1996) of the opinions and competencies in informatics of students enrolling at a French University institute for teacher training (IUFM). It showed a substantial increase in computer ownership, better knowledge of computer tools, higher levels of prior training (except in human sciences) and a global increase in students’ expectations of information...

Information Technology in French Education: Implications for Teacher Education

Within a few years, the situation of IT in the French educational system has evolved considerably. The front-line of innovation has moved towards technologies of communication such as the Internet. The teaching of informatics, once developed in senior secondary education has stopped and there is a tendency to consider IT as a global tool whose purpose seems to be to help producing documents rat...

Mathematics Education and Special Education: Searching for Common Ground and the Implications for Teacher Education

This article examines research literature that overlaps the fields of mathematics and special education, with a particular focus on students with disabilities at the middle and high school levels. We report the results of this literature by describing some of the inconsistencies or contradictions between the fields as well as the commonalities that exist in the research and recommendations. Fin...

Student teachers’ first reflections on ICT and Classroom Learning: implications for Initial Teacher Education

This article explores student teachers’ views of the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in schools. There is limited research literature regarding the perceptions that such students develop in relation to the use of ICT in teaching while observing practice in schools. The paper offers an interpretive analysis of the opinions that a cohort of undergraduate student teachers a...