Many countries are implementing educational objectives aimed toward preparing citizens for the information society. The Norwegian teacher education is still in the relatively early stages of adopting ICT. Although there seem to be numerous shortcomings in teacher education , a number of relatively innovative projects are under way several places. This paper will present to innovative cases. ICT...

Internet technologies recently have developed extremely fast. The development of WWW applications has increased the accessibility of the Internet. New information and communication technologies are developing and playing a growing role in engineering education. Based on these technologies and new teaching methodologies, this study designed a cooperative distance-education paradigm for engineeri...

INtrODUctION The goal of educational methods is to allow the pupil the acquisition of knowledge. Even so, the way in which this aim is pursued originates four different currents of methods sorted by two criteria: (1) who leads the educational process and (2) requirement of pupil physical attendance. Regarding the former criterion, the process may be conducted either by the teacher—Teaching-Orie...

The Nature of Teacher Research Barbara Henderson, PhD, is a professor of education at San Francisco State University. She co-coordinates the MA program in Education, Early Childhood Education Concentration, and teacher graduate and credential classes. Her interests are teacher research and children’s development in cultural contexts. She is also co-editor of the online teacher research journal ...

In recent years, as evidenced in the transnational proliferation of codified competence frameworks for teacher education purposes, we have seen increased politicisation and regulation task teaching what it means to be a teacher. Making case an ethico-political conceptualisation identity and, using Foucauldian-based framework identity, apply discourse analysis approach unravel ‘preferred’ constr...