Since the 1980s, educational experts and scholars from western countries have carried out multi-level multi-angle research on “reflection,” “reflective teaching,” teacher,” other subject matters, fruitful results been achieved [1]. late 1990s, reflective teachers in China has gradually deepened. Not only a considerable number of papers published, but also numerous monographs. This paper defines...

This study was undertaken to better understand the nature of preservice teachers' reflective thinking during case discussions about classroom management in two online formats: synchronous versus asynchronous. Findings indicated that when participants engaged in synchronous online case discussions they had higher levels of critical reflection than when they engaged in asynchronous online case di...

This paper details a study within a doctoral research project that used an ePortfoliobased learning environment. The aim was to increase engagement of pre-service teachers in the process of reflection. The learning environment utilized the PebblePad ePortfolio platform to facilitate an Enculturation Teaching Model that included exemplars of good practice, opportunities to interact with other st...

As learning technologies increasingly facilitate the internationalisation of subject offerings, it becomes correspondingly important to try and ensure that the needs of diverse student groups are met, and to provide for ongoing improvement of their learning experiences. A variety of evaluation procedures is valuable in this respect, but particularly those that illuminate these experiences. This...

Heterogeneous online learning environments such as Go-Lab foster student-centered and exploratory STEM education through the promotion of Inquiry Learning. Although the learner is encouraged to create learning objects such as concept maps or hypotheses, the interpretation and reflection on them is complicated by differences in their form of representation. This work presents the ConceptCloud ap...

As educators embrace theories of complexity to inform their teaching and research practice, theoretically relevant methods will be required to appropriately conduct and study complexity-based approaches to education. Action research has been identified as offering significant potential for studying complexity, acting as a form of 'real life modeling' for learning and teaching. In this paper it ...

This article examines three conceptual reforms in US teacher education (competency-based teacher education (CBTE), reflective teacher education (RTE) and constructivist teacher education (CTE)) for their effects on the education of multicultural, multilingual youth, as well as considering alternative certification (AC), known here as an ‘anti-reform’. The author suggests that although each refo...

Is practitioners’ integration of ICT use into subject teaching motivated by a concern to "tick the right boxes" or a belief that it promotes "genuine useful learning"? This study took place in a climate of significant government investment in ICT resources and an intensified focus on approaches to whole school improvement through embedding technology in teaching, learning and management. Resear...

Digital media have unique potential to amplify student voice in both high school teacher preparation and academic development for college faculty. This paper applies narrative analysis to participant descriptions of how three uses of digital media amplify student voice in the context of a single higher education consortium: (1) high school students and prospective high school teachers use email...