Collaborative Interaction Analysis involves quantitative and qualitative techniques of coding and interpreting recorded group activities, mostly used by researchers of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL). These techniques are usually tedious and necessitate specialized knowledge, so they are not suitable for everyday class practice. A hypothesis investigated in this paper is that s...

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach has become the prevailing language teaching methodology across the world. However, beginning language teachers’ application of CLT in foreign language teaching has yet to be explored in past research. This paper reports the use of CLT from the perspective of beginning Mandarin teachers. A grounded theory approach is employed as research methodology...

This dissertation explores the ways that three urban middle school teachers use curriculum materials to enact a 10-week classroom science project. Unlike typical studies of implementation, this work devotes particular attention to the nature of the curriculum designs and the ways that teachers use these resources to design everyday instructional settings. I introduce a scale for characterizing ...

When teachers reflect on their teaching, their most lasting memories are when students have struggled with knowledge and constructed their own understandings, discovered relationships, and articulated original ideas – original, at least, in the child’s perspective. Teachers want students to build a relationship with information, to analyse and critique others’ ideas and then invent and develop ...

This study aims to understand teachers’ perspectives on their roles in higher education, their views about the adoption of a social-constructivist approach to teaching and learning and the integration of online collaborative learning in blended learning environments in higher education from a cross cultural perspective. We interviewed 60 Chinese teachers from Beijing Normal University and Capit...

Background: In a context of scarce statistical information, this paper focuses on the professional development of Vocational Education and Training teachers in Italy, namely those teaching vocational subjects. It provides a statistical picture of it, in an international perspective and along three dimensions (participation, needs and barriers). Methods: Data used in this article originate from ...

The purpose of this study was to use a cross-sectional survey design, with an integrated theoretical perspective, to examine clinical teachers' (n = 64) and nursing students' (n = 352) empowerment, teachers' and students' perceptions of teachers' use of empowering teaching behaviors, students' perceptions of nurses' practice behaviors, and students' confidence for practice in acute care setting...

1 Escola Secundária de Vila Verde (PORTUGAL)2 Universidade do Algarve (PORTUGAL)3 Minho (PORTUGAL)