This paper presents the results of a study designed to develop pre-service teachers‘ skills and pedagogical understanding of how game-based learning can be used in a classroom. The study used a technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) conceptual model. 18 pre-service science teachers participated in the study that used Death in Rome, a point and click inquiry-based game to learn how ...

This study explored the use of virtual world role-play activities to increase pre-service teachers’ sense of teaching efficacy and attitudes toward inclusion. These constructs are also important for teacher identity development since they influence teacher dispositions, effort, professional development and beliefs in intrinsic obligations. The activity was embedded in an undergraduate course fo...

INTRODUCTION The analysis of the representations of the health of their students by teachers is key to the understanding of the attitudes and behaviors that, in general, take place inside the school community and the educational processes. In fact, social attitudes by teachers and individual within the school environment are often the result of simple categorization and stereotypes, which hinde...

This study was designed to examine the effects of adults' labeling and use of social groups on preschool children's intergroup attitudes. Children (N=87, aged 3-5) attending day care were given measures of classification skill and self-esteem and assigned to membership in a novel ("red" or "blue") social group. In experimental classrooms, teachers used the color groups to label children and org...

This study is mainly aimed at analyzing cohesive devices in the reading texts on Accounting at ULSA, finding out teachers’ attitudes towards cohesion teaching. Four reading texts were chosen as core materials for the analysis of the cohesive devices. Five teachers from English Department were asked to take part in the interview in order to give ideas about their attitudes towards teaching cohes...

Science experiments are inseparable and indispensable parts of learning experiences. The experiments provide both acquiring science concepts and learning scientific method for learning experiences. Thus, various studies have been carried out to specify the science teachers’ professional knowledge, attitudes towards aims of science experiments (West, 1972; Lynch & Ndyetabura, 1983; Gayford, 1988...

Cultural differences in the amount of time spent on homework and in beliefs and attitudes about homework were investigated through interviews with more than 3,500 elementary school children, their mothers, and their teachers. The children lived in 5 cities: Beijing, Chicago, Minneapolis, Sendai (Japan), and Taipei. Chinese children were assigned more homework and spent more time on homework tha...

Since the 1960’s there have been calls for reforms in teacher education programs to reflect the growing diversity represented in our nation’s schools. One response is multicultural education courses aimed at addressing attitudes and beliefs about diversity. Such courses have received mixed reviews. Some research has reported that pre-service teacher’s attitudes and beliefs were changed in a pos...

OBJECTIVE To assess perceptions and attitudes regarding sex education among middle and high school teachers in Portugal. METHODS A study comprising 371 middle and high school teachers, both female and male, was conducted in Portugal in February and March 2006. Data was collected through snowball technique. The questionnaire was made up of two parts: the first collected data on demographics, c...