Language teaching and critical literacy curriculum in Greek primary education: implementation and perspectives

Examining critical thinking and teaching it in education

To have a healthy community requires a healthy family; and one of the key to having a healthy family is transcendental education with the program. As education is one of the main pillars of a progressive society, attention to its basic pillars and structures has a special place. In recent years, Critical Thinking has been supposed as one of the essential components of education. Despite the imp...

Extent of Food and Nutrition Literacy Considerations in Primary School Curriculum and Textbooks

Background and Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyze contents of Grades 1–6 textbooks in Iran, regarding food and nutrition literacy domains and their components.  Materials & Methods: This study included content analysis of primary school textbooks (Grades 1–6) in 2019–2020 academic year. Analysis included all pages of 41 books of primary schools (4878 pages). Data collection was c...

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

Teacher Education Curriculum and Its Collaborative Implementation Model: A Transformative Strategy for Teacher Education in Iran

This article engages the reader with a critical and challenging issue in teacher education domain. The issue chosen is the structure of the program which extends itself quite naturally to the issue of implementation in terms of institutions involved. The author argues that although there is no definite answer to the question of which pre-service teacher education program assures training of eff...

Teaching Grammar: Perspectives on Language Learning in Higher Education