What do high levels of learner achievement at school signify, if not access to and successful participation in, specialised knowledge? A battery of predominantly Portuguese studies has shown the association of specific pedagogic features with high learner achievement in primaryand intermediate-level school science, and that these pedagogic features differ slightly for learners in different soci...

"Kybernetische PP adagogik" (cybernetic pedagogic) and research in "Intelligent tutoring systems (ITS)" basically are based on the same idea: to model the structure and process of instruction where the goal is to develop a learner-adaptive, exible and objective teaching programs. The theoretical background was developed by the cybernetic pedagogic. As H. Frank ((Frank70b], S. 260f) realized ins...

This paper proposes a unique framework for comparative analysis of different Adult Higher Education (AHE) systems. The combines, conceptualisation how students’ outcomes are shaped by the way that they and their degree courses positioned in stratified higher education systems with, insights about effects institutional practice individual agency gained from applying Basil Bernstein’s notion peda...

This study explored both teachers’ and learners’ perceptions of teachers’ pedagogic strategies which may engender willingness to communicate (WTC) in an English as a foreign language class and the difference between their perceptions to detect how convergent or possibly how divergent these are. The project used a convenience sample of 300 students taking an intermediate English course and their...

This chapter discusses the changed nature of literacy within new communication contexts, the literacy that is needed for reading, viewing, responding to and producing multimodal and digital texts. Potentials for redesigning literacy pedagogy within new modes of communication are demonstrated for educational contexts. As a basis for this discussion, the author analyses classroom evidence using e...

theatre is not just bound to what happens on the stage and in front of the eyes of the spectators. the process of preparing and practicing theatre is effective in training people. in this way theatre sociologists have studied theatre from the point of view of affects on social contacts and pedagogical theorists who think that childhood is the most important period in forming people personality ...