Reflective teaching, which has gained the status of an integral element of teacher pedagogy, is still an elusive concept, probably because it is merely attainable when teachers are provided with opportunities for building professional knowledge and for showing reflective teaching practices. The present study aimed at examining the English language teachers’ perception of their level of reflecti...

The complexity and variability of human culture is unmatched by any other species. Humans live in culturally constructed niches filled with artifacts, skills, beliefs, and practices that have been inherited, accumulated, and modified over generations. A causal account of the complexity of human culture must explain its distinguishing characteristics: It is cumulative and highly variable within ...

There are numerous excellent textbooks that provide guidance on what and how to teach modelling, founded on sound principles (e.g., mathematics, domain analysis, object-orientation) and engineering practice. There is less guidance available on what and how not to teach modelling i.e., what principles to avoid conveying either directly or indirectly, and what engineering practices should be igno...

Abstract “MakIN Teach—MAKerspaces for INnovation in TEACHing practices” is a two-year project recently funded by the Erasmus + program. It aims to promote exchange of good practices use rapid prototyping techniques, tools and spaces fields education training. The supports teachers/educators working with students/learners showing poor educational results theoretical subjects (e.g., mathematics, ...

This paper evaluates the impact of a student-centered teaching pedagogy program by local education authority on cooperative behaviors 610 students in five middle schools. We measure changes students’ cooperation with lab-in-the-field experiments, implemented before and after program. Relying classroom-level fixed effect strategy, we show that has positive linear public goods experiment way reme...

The new global communication systems and their integration in all media communication, together with their potential interactivity, are changing our culture and are introducing new questions and challenges in the educative system. The teaching practices are strongly impacted by the development of the new technologies, not only because they influence the professional skills of the teachers, but ...