This article explores the complex relational landscape of international partnerships where local and transnational education objectives are entangled. We present a methodological practice for experimenting with diagrams maps. Our emphasis on spatial rendering local/global relationality is intended to invite discussion about postcolonial context work geopolitics curriculum. pursue diagrammatic a...

The hidden curriculum comprises unspoken or implicit values, behaviors, procedures, and norms in an educational setting. This can be alternative to empowering attitudes, ​​and non-cognitive skills, for example, politeness, honesty, hard work, cooperation, tolerance students during the implementation of innovations.. An alignment between intended/official innovation implemented encourages positi...

Issues emerging from instructional innovation are inevitable, yet basing any curriculum shift on a theoretical framework is paramount. This paper grounds the case-based pedagogy in three learning theories: behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism. The three theories are described and situated in relation to the case study method. An in-depth exploration of the assumptions of each theory hel...

The final project for students enrolled in Geospatial Technologies for the K-12 Classroom (GEOG 321) is the development of a lesson for their future classroom. An obstacle to implementing geospatial technologies in public classrooms is lack of relevant curriculum and data. After reviewing the limited existing curriculum, students design age-appropriate lessons for possible publication on the Ne...

Most generic curriculum reform efforts have to deal with a gap between the innovative aspirations of the initial designers and the daily reality of the intended audience of teachers. That tension is not alarming in itself. One might even say that without it no compelling reason for starting development work would exist. Unfortunately, many evaluation studies on the implementation and impact of ...

this study was framed on the theory of language socialisation and a systematic functional linguistic (sfl) approach. the aim of the study was to analyse the oral presentation discourse produced by an elemen- tary iranian english as second language (esl) postgraduate student in an american university four times (september/december, 2015 and march/september, 2016) over one year. the data were col...

Abstract Being literate empowers individuals to be active citizens and enhances self-esteem, self-confidence, independence. In today’s society, literacy requires much more than alphabetic knowledge. Curriculum documents provide content knowledge for teachers refer as they assess plan the learning needs of their students. However, also have embedded within them particular views on what is taught...

A computer-assisted instruction (CAI) module on polymers was used to introduce chemistry teachers (n=64) to the ariety of possibilities and benefits of using courseware in the current chemistry curriculum in Israel. From an analysis of a pre-and post-attitude questionnaire regarding the use of computers in chemistry teaching, it was concluded there was a positive change in teachers' e"..titudes...

The intelligent learning systems provide a direct customized instruction to the learners without intervention of human tutor on the base of Semantic Web resources. The principal role ontologies play in these systems is as an instrument for modeling learning process, learner, learning objects, and resources. In the chapter, a variety of relationships and conceptualizations of ontologies used in ...

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) has been a force in education for more than 25 years. Yet WAC in chemistry might seem still something of a mystery, especially for the chemist new to teaching or to the language studies teacher unfamiliar with conventions of thinking and writing in chemistry. Fortunately, teachers in higher education who wish to explore the uses of writing in chemistry have a...