How does early social experience affect children’s inferences and exploration? Following prior work on children’s reasoning in pedagogical contexts, this study examined U.S. children with less experience in formal schooling and Yucatec-Mayan children whose early social input is predominantly observational. In Experiment 1, U.S. two-year-olds (n=77) showed more restricted exploration of a toy fo...

We analyze why and how erroneous examples can be beneficially employed in learning mathematics. The ‘Why’ addresses reasoning and attitudes that are rarely fostered in today’s mathematics lessons but which are useful for learning, certainly needed in real life and in all applications of mathematics as well as in maths itself. The ‘How’ addresses pedagogical strategies capitalizing on errors via...

The Internet can be used to solve pedagogical problems. To give an example, seminars for crowded courses exceeding a hundred participants would not be possible without web-based arrangements. These arrangements may provide help especially for adult learners. We organized a web-based coursework and seminar during the Knowledge Work and its Tools course for some students (experimental group). Sim...

Coordinating stakeholder’s actions in a supply chain provides an efficient approach to enhance supply chain performance and win today’s fierce competition in the market. Using quantitative examples is proved to be an efficient pedagogical methodology to motivate students learning and facilitate students’ in-depth knowledge in supply chain management education. This study provides six quantitati...

Nurses' patient education is important for building patients' knowledge, understanding, and preparedness for self-management. The aim of this study was to explore the conditions for nurses' patient education work by focusing on managers' discourses about patient education provided by nurses. In 2012, data were derived from three focus group interviews with primary care managers. Critical discou...

According to authors’ idea this paper presents a new general approach to the theoretic pedagogics and the pedagogical practice. As the substance authors use following terms: pedagogical system, pedagogical process, pedagogical technology. Pedagogical system describes the main bounds and relations, structure and organisation of an object. Pedagogical process describes, what takes place in the st...