Critical thinking: An ambiguous concept in educational policy contexts
What is the role of transnational and national education policies in the realisation of critical thinking?
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The language that affirms gendered violence in schools
Those who study and work within education know that it is not just the explicit, intentional content that is taught in schools and that results in learning. Moment-to-moment transfers of meaning...
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Phonological processing and mathematical achievements: A new look at the gender gap in mathematics
Phonological processing refers to an individual’s sensitivity to the sounds of a language, and the capacity to use these sounds to decode linguistic information. It is noted that phonological...
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Curriculum coherence facilitates school development
The ways in which local educational stakeholders interpret and understand curriculum reform is crucial to its effects on everyday school practice (see for exampleSpillane, Reiser & Reimer, 2002)....
Continue readingEducation for Justice
Societies in many parts of the world are still dealing with the colonial legacy of educational systems that served a privileged few. Efforts are constantly made to redress the resulting historic...
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The roles of school leaders and teachers in a technology-facilitated instructional reform
Generous access to technologies in the digital age provides alternative resources for educational practices. While the educational use of information and communication technology (ICT) increases...
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Shifting power in children’s literature: Story Makers Press
Literary criticism of children’s literature focusses on the power relations between the adult writer and the child reader. At one end of the spectrum, this relationship is described as...
Continue readingEarth surface modeling for education: How effective is it?
Mixed or inconclusive results regarding the effect of computer simulations in enhancing students’ learning have been reported in the literature (see for example Edsall & Wentz, 2007)....
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Curriculum is – or should be – at the heart of educational practice
New forms of national curriculum emerging worldwide have shifted the focus from input regulation – detailed specification of content to be taught – to output regulation – evaluation of the...
Continue readingEngagement in business simulation games: A self-system model of motivational development
The concept of student engagement has attracted increasing attention over recent years due to its potential predictiveness of students’ learning outcomes, and to the fact that student...
Continue readingWhere is the ‘theory’ within the field of educational technology research?
We know that research in the field of educational technology has grown substantially in importance over the last decade or so – mainly due to the huge investment by many governments in...
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It’s time to place our students first, by putting feedback first
You’re at work late on a Friday night. The clock reads 9:58pm, and you’ve just finished providing feedback for the very last of your students’ essays. In the corner of your office, you spot...
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