A favourable classroom climate – essentially one in which there is a well-ordered and calm environment – is likely to be conducive to learning and therefore important for pupil progress....
Maltese society has for years been described as bilingual. The national language is Maltese and is spoken by 90% of the population aged 10 years and over (NSO, 2007) while English is the second...
International trends indicate that internet access is now widespread in developed countries around the world including New Zealand. So you may be surprised to discover that not all New Zealanders...
Governments in countries around the world are applying standards-based reforms to education in attempts to achieve future economic prosperity and social cohesion (Levin, 2010; Rizvi & Lingard,...
Globalisation has impacted education increasingly in recent years (Townsend, 2011) and internationalisation has been used within higher education as a concept to explore this (Luginbühl (2011)....
Local and national governments in Australia claim that the inclusion of standards within official curriculum will support teachers to use assessment for and as learning. The provision of standards...
a rigid concept of teaching where discipline in the classroom seems more important than the overriding goal of the curriculum In a recent publication in the Curriculum Journal (Fredholm,...
This study was inspired as a response to an Erasmus Mobility Grant to the Netherlands. Anecdotal conversations with colleagues there led to a discussion about the different approaches being taken...
This short text aims to shed some light on the education of first year child welfare pedagogues in Norway. These are undergraduates and social pedagogy is mandated in their education and...
The 60th World Assembly of the International Council for Education for Teaching (ICET) took place in Kingston Jamaica on 18-21 July, and included keynotes from: the Hon. Errol Miller, former...
In Sweden, international trends are challenging traditional conceptions about teaching practices. On the one hand, Swedish schools are regulated through a system of accountability, which leads to...
Globalisation, cyborg identities, potentially powerful social media oblige educators to deploy educational tools, toys, texts and technologies for oecumene, global bioethics, political justice for...