The scope of this research is to discuss the relevance and need for pedagogical training of university lecturers in the Public Health field. The contention is that college teaching is a practice that requires specific training, since it is characterized by complex elements that transcend the mastery of given content. Considering stricto sensu graduate studies as an important stage in the traini...

Disciplinarity” and “interdisciplinarity” have become keywords for knowledge and education in the twenty-first century. This development requires that administrators, curriculum planners, and teachers at all levels of the educational system have a common understanding of both terms and their relationship. The primary case study is the school level in the United States. Yet, comparisons with oth...

This paper reports on two phases of a study of a group of advanced TEFL (teachers-of-English-as-a-foreign-language) students. To raise their awareness of the importance of discourse intonation while they were receiving teacher training, this study focuses on examining their sociocultural and psychological inclinations in the choice of phonological models. The first phase is an exploration of th...

Frameworks for professional learning offer models of progression that analyse and describe changes in learner behaviours practices. This paper argues frameworks teacher theoretical can enhance teachers’ agency their own development. Teachers’ use two primary science are considered: the Trajectory Professional Development (TOPD) subject leadership, Teacher Assessment Primary Science (TAPS) asses...

The authors investigated the benefits and pitfalls of social media use for schoolteachers. included opportunities teacher agency, a resource wellbeing, an efficacious communications marketing tool schools. However, along with these were associated including challenges to esteem threats authenticity in profession. This study employs hermeneutic phenomenology, investigating teachers’ lived experi...

This case study investigates language teacher agency in the context of ESP curriculum reform a Chinese university. Data collected from classroom observations and semi-structured interviews with both teachers students five classes are analyzed by conducting thorough thematic analysis. It is revealed that instead following national institutional requirements, as policy arbiters make their own imp...

The focus on developing teacher expertise makes teaching and learning more sustainable, as it is a way of working to create improvement in education. objective this study was explore the direct or indirect impacts principal instructional leadership school support mediating effect teachers’ professional development agency. A survey 1123 teachers conducted at 21 primary schools 20 secondary Hebei...

This study examines the sense of agency developed through hybrid identities two Chilean educators working across a university physics department (as teacher educators), secondary school part-time teachers), and self-organized professional community to which they belong. A Freirean conceptualization together with border crossing hybridity was used as theoretical frameworks. Data were collected b...

Recently there has been growing interest in and debate about the relation between cognitive neuroscience and education. Our goal is to advance the debate beyond both recitation of potentially education-related cognitive neuroscience findings and the claim that a bridge between fields is chimerical. In an attempt to begin a dialogue about mechanisms among students, educators, researchers and pra...

Over the past decade, education reform and teacher training projects have spent a great deal of effort to create and support sustainable, scalable online communities of education professionals. For the most part, those communities have been created in isolation from the existing local professional communities within which the teachers practice. We argue that focusing on online technology solely...