The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into how rural teachers were empowered to become co-creators of innovative practices in their classrooms. The co-creation was operationalised as a merging of teachers existing knowledge of their subject, context and new knowledge of using mobile tablets towards enhancing their teaching practices in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa over a ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Many schools rely upon community preceptors for office-based education of medical students. These preceptors struggle to balance clinical care with the learning needs of students. We aim to gain a deeper understanding of the teaching rewards and challenges of current community preceptors. METHODS Five schools' family medicine clerkship directors conducted in-depth in...

ABSTRACT This paper is based on the central idea that networked teaching may best be improved by those engaged in it. Systematic enquiry into educational interactions can yield understandings and insights about one of the fundamental relationships of all educational endeavours: between teaching and learning. The paper explores this relationship through analyses of teaching and learning in a net...

Research confirms that people learn more effectively by active enquiry rather than passive reception and through experimentation and collaboration. Collaborative problem solving comprises a set of skills that are considered necessary for success in today’s world (O’Neil et al. 2003). Importantly, the development of such skills requires a learning/teaching approach that combines both problem cen...

Michalinos Zembylas is an associate professor of education at Intercollege, 46 Makedonitissas Ave., Nicosia 1700, Cyprus; e-mail: [email protected], and an adjunct professor of teacher education at Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA. He is interested in emotions in teaching and learning, science and technology education, curriculum theory, and the philosophy of education. His recent pa...