Anita Prest is a Ph.D. candidate in Curriculum & Pedagogy (Music Education) at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Correspondence regarding the article can be e-mailed to: anita_ [email protected]. Special thanks to: Dr. William Doll, Dr. Donna Trueit and Dr. J. Scott Goble. The Journal of Research in Rural Education is published by the Center on Rural Education and Communities, College o...

Open or inspectable learner models have been used to support reflection, knowledge awareness, learner model accuracy, and negotiated assessment. Current systems employ many different mechanisms to present and to support human interaction with the learner model. This paper explores the interactions between learners and inspectable learner models using various guidance mechanisms (i.e. following ...

The teacher/student relationship is considered to be cultural, but it is also pedagogical, as it is established by means of the knowledge intentionally taught and learned. In this scene, the teaching activity must, necessarily, include moments of reflection and criticism, during which the meaning and the teaching methods must be brought about by presenting the student with one's own perspective...

Socratic dialogues has been widely uses as a way of implement an ITS. The idea behind it is that the teaching and learning process should be based upon a personal reflection that can be obtained posing the right question on a guided dialogue. This methodology assumes that the knowledge acquisition is a discovering process in which both the teacher and the student plays an active role. This tuto...

Teachers’ Social Representations in Relation to EJA: affectivity and teacher training. The aim of this article is to present Youth and Adult Education – EJA teachers’ social representations, concerning their teacher training and affectivity in the teaching-learning process. The participants were teachers who work at the Youth and Adult Education Center – CEJA and the Youth and Adult Education S...

BACKGROUND: HealthWise South Africa: Life Skills for Adolescents (HW) is an evidence-based substance use and sexual risk prevention program that emphasizes the positive use of leisure time. Since 2000, this program has evolved from pilot testing through an efficacy trial involving over 7,000 youth in the Cape Town area. Beginning in 2011, through 2015, we are undertaking a new study that expand...

A socio-cultural theory of learning places importance on the social and cultural context of the learning as well as the interaction between a more expert other and the learner. Scaffolding at the level of interaction may be defined as micro-scaffolding, and support which can be found in the context of the learning can be referred to as macroscaffolding. This paper reports on research carried ou...

Enacting science education reforms that call for the teaching of science as argument and explanation (NRC, 1996) requires that teachers both recognize student thinking as it happens and make in-the-moment instructional responses to what they notice. Much work in teacher education is thus devoted to studying, supporting, and improving teacher noticing (e.g. Sherin, 2001). However, although there...

The practice of assessing must ensure that the outcome of the process be a reflection of the learning achieved by students. The aim of this study was to describe the essential attributes of the praxis teacher in the area of Endodontics Learning Evaluation, in the School of Dentistry at the Universidad de Concepción, Chile. This study is designed to diagnose the reliability and objectivity of as...

This paper describes teacher development issues arising in a school based collaborative case study, the Computers and Learning in Primary Schools (CLIPS) research project. This longitudinal project has been based in five schools in Melbourne, Australia since 1992. This paper includes relevant exhacts from the data of one of the case studies and discussion of some overall findings of the project...