scholarly journals Less is more

Author(s):  
Arnold Wentzel

Pedagogical practices that are effective in content courses are often effective in CLIL courses too, yet one such practice – content compression – is generally neglected. Content compression is the purposeful reduction of the content to be taught; however, the CLIL literature often warns against the reduction and simplification of content for fear that it might harm students’ understanding of the subject content. This paper explains the ostensibly paradoxical result that content compression improves students’ understanding of content and shows why it is well suited to CLIL, if applied correctly. It presents content compression principles and techniques that are appropriate to content production and teaching practice in the CLIL classroom and shows how it was used to enhance language acquisition by students in a CLIL business course at a Colombian university over a period of three semesters. This experience suggested that content compression, in combination with other pedagogical practices, not only increased students’ linguistic confidence, but also enhanced their perceived learning in both content and language.

2021 ◽  
Vol 121 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-188
Author(s):  
Rachael Dixon ◽  
Gillian Abel ◽  
Lisette Burrows

PurposeIn Aotearoa New Zealand, Health Education is socio-critical in orientation and is offered as a subject that can offer credits towards the national secondary school qualification. The purpose of this paper is to explore the learning experiences of people who studied Health Education to the final level of secondary schooling in Aotearoa New Zealand. The authors focus specifically on how the subject is taught; or the pedagogical practices that are “put to work” in the Health Education learning environment.Design/methodology/approachUsing in-depth interviews as the authors’ method of data production, they experiment with a post-qualitative approach to analysis while traversing the theoretical terrain of new materialism. In doing so, they explicate the non-human and human elements that are arranged in a pedagogical assemblage – and explore what these elements can do.FindingsThe authors found that an array of pedagogical practices were put to work in the senior secondary school Health Education classroom: Student-centred approaches, a non-judgemental and energetic tone to teaching, deployment of human and non-human resources, and students connecting with the community. The authors argue that these practices open up possibilities for a critical Health Education.Practical implicationsThis research addresses an empirical gap in the literature by focusing on Health Education in the senior secondary levels of schooling. The findings in this paper may provide readers who are Health Education teachers with ideas that could be of material use to them in their teaching practice. In terms of implications for researchers, the authors demonstrate how putting “new” theory and methodological approaches to work in the area of school-based Health Education can produce novel ways of thinking about the subject and what it can do.Originality/valueThe shifting nature of the pedagogical assemblage can ignite new ways of thinking about teaching practice in the Health Education classroom and the capacities that result for learners. In combination with a post-qualitative approach to analysis, the paper provides a novel approach to exploring Health Education.


Author(s):  
Hannah Cobb ◽  
Karina Croucher

This book provides a radical rethinking of the relationships between teaching, researching, digging, and practicing as an archaeologist in the twenty-first century. The issues addressed here are global and are applicable wherever archaeology is taught, practiced, and researched. In short, this book is applicable to everyone from academia to cultural resource management (CRM), from heritage professional to undergraduate student. At its heart, it addresses the undervaluation of teaching, demonstrating that this affects the fundamentals of contemporary archaeological practice, and is particularly connected to the lack of diversity in disciplinary demographics. It proposes a solution which is grounded in a theoretical rethinking of our teaching, training, and practice. Drawing upon the insights from archaeology’s current material turn, and particularly Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of assemblages, this volume turns the discipline of archaeology into the subject of investigation, considering the relationships between teaching, practice, and research. It offers a new perspective which prompts a rethinking of our expectations and values with regard to teaching, training, and doing archaeology, and ultimately argues that we are all constantly becoming archaeologists.


Author(s):  
Olga M. Khlytina ◽  

The article summarizes the results of an Internet survey of history teachers, in which 216 teachers from 31 regions of Russia took part. The author considers the development of the subject-oriented ability to work with historical sources in the context of the development of schoolchildren's functional literacy as a priority task of the modern Russian school. The aim of the study is to characterize the methodological ways of teaching schoolchildren the methods of analyzing historical sources dominant in teachers' work based on expert teachers' assessments of how well graduates of the 9th and 11th grades mastered the ability to critically analyze historical sources, identify their effectiveness, suggest options for improving mass teaching practice. The analysis of literature has shown that the ability to analyze historical sources is interpreted as the basis for the development of historical and critical thinking, a person's ability to independently cognize the past. Methodological science has substantiated various models of student analysis of historical sources based on the methodology of modern historical science and focused on the development of schoolchildren' subject and metasubject skills, functional literacy. At the same time, the results of the survey indicate that the vast majority of the teachers organize work with sources outside any system and sequence, and no more than once or twice during the term. Explaining the reasons for this, the teachers point to work overload, lack of high-quality didactic support of courses, and a low level of student learning. They also say they need advanced training in teaching schoolchildren to work with historical sources. The teachers note the low level of their students' mastery of the basic procedures for analyzing historical sources: according to the teachers' assessments, in 60-80% of classes in Russian schools, less than half of the students mastered the basic ability to “read” sources (extract explicit and implicit information). According to a third of the teachers, no more than 20% of their students are able to complete tasks on commenting on a historical source when a student, relying on knowledge of the context, begins to understand the past, think as historians think. Another quarter of the teachers indicated an interval of 30-40%. When working with sources, the dominant feature is the formation of historical knowledge, and the tasks of the students' learning the activity- and value-based components of educational historical knowledge are not solved effectively enough, which ultimately makes it difficult for students to achieve results in the subject and complicates the solution of the complex tasks of improving the quality of education that Russian education is faced with today.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milana Pivaš

Equally effective and demanding for all students, the traditional paradigm prevents independent acquisition of knowledge in a changed social context. Students should be able to independently research and analyze natural and social phenomena and processes. The role of the teacher is to create a complete picture, and not to interpret the content knowledge as biological, geographical, or historical. To avoid the passivity of students in the teaching process, it is necessary to choose an informal context and adapt it to the content being learned. In this paper, we have tried to point out the importance of an integrative approach in the non-formal educational context within the content of the subject Science and Social studies. We have presented the practical implication regarding natural and social contents. Lack of resources, time and interest of teachers are cited as obstacles to this way of working. In addition to pointing out the effective application of the informal context in a changed social context, we also provided suggestions for future research to improve teaching practice.


2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Reza Talebinejad ◽  
Aasa Moattarian

<p class="1"><span lang="X-NONE">Over the past several decades, a substantial body of research on second language acquisition has been provided. The current study was an attempt to investigate language teachers’ views on applying research findings in their every day practice of language teaching through a critical lens. Data for this qualitative study was collected by means of a semi structured interview with 10 language teachers teaching English at different language institutes in Iran. Analyses of data revealed that, although teachers find second language acquisition research a useful tool for their professional development; they do not usually consult bodies of research in their every day teaching practice. They report problems in applying second language research in their practice due to problems with practicality, particularity, and possibility. The findings suggest that language teachers need to be exposed to insight from SLA research and practice.</span></p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 487-510
Author(s):  
Sejla Almadi

Conceptual frameworks are conjectural/hypothetical research tools that are particularly important and widely used in the disciplined inquiry, including educational (technology) research. However, there is a lack of guidance on how to construct them. Hence, the objective of the current research was to provide a methodological perspective through a case study on how to develop such a framework for deductive research with a complex research subject. To this end, a five-step technique was constructed and implemented: text database, research panorama, authors’ network and thread, location, and definition. The case of Pygmalion effect was actual and significant as a recent meta-analysis found it to have an outstanding impact, among other leadership interventions, and relevant to educational research as it was first experimented in educational context. The conclusion found the five steps to be intertwined as they were built upon each other, carried the thread forward and opened it up deeper and closer to the research subject by each section. The errors and limitations involved uniqueness, availability, less is more, meaningfulness, approach, and space. Hence, the recommendations were defined as the regard for the complexity of the research subject and the approach to which the defined steps were delegated, the preliminary search on the most up-to-date academic papers on the subject, the only necessary number of collected sources and classes, the sense-making in implementing the steps, and the adaptation to longer essays, theses, or to prepare the foundation of research proposals.


2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Rif’ati Dina Handayani ◽  
Agung Ryskiadi ◽  
Ali Machrus ◽  
Rifan Acik

Lesson study is a development model for educators through sustainable and  collaborative learning. Lesson study was conducted in three phases, namely the plan, do, see phase, in which these phases were implemented in a structured, cyclical and continuous manner. In this study, the subject of lesson study implementation were four Physics pre- service conducted teaching practice in one of public junior high schools in Bondowoso. Results showed that lesson study implementation enhance these physics pre-service teachers teaching ability from poor to excellent.Keywords: Lesson Study, Pre-service Physics Teacher, Teaching AbilityABSTRAKLesson study merupakan suatu model pengembangan kemampuan mengajar melalui pengkajian pembelajaran secara kolaboratif dan berkelanjutan. Lesson study dilaksanakan dalam tiga tahapan, yaitu plan, do, see yang dilaksanakan secara terstruktur, bersiklus dan berkelanjutan. Dalam penelitian ini subjek dari pelaksanaan lesson study adalah empat orang  mahasiswa calon guru fisika yang sedang melaksanakan PPL di salah satu SMP Negeri di Bondowoso. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penerapan lesson study dapat meningkatkan kemampuan mengajar mahasiswa calon guru fisika dari kriteria kurang baik menjadi kriteria sangat baik.Kata kunci: Calon guru fisika, Lesson Study, Kemampuan Mengajar


Author(s):  
Aura Cecilia Pedraza A. ◽  
Edna Rocio Bravo I.

RESUMEN:El propósito de este estudio fue explorar los resultados de la utilización de videos sobre casos de emprendimientos locales orientados a complementar el aprendizaje en la cátedra de Creación de Empresas de la Escuela de Estudios Industriales y Empresariales de la Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS). El análisis cuantitativo mostró que la utilización de está práctica de innovación docente mejoró la percepción de los estudiantes sobre la eficiencia en el proceso de aprendizaje.ABSTRACT:The purpose of this study was to explore the results obtained when using videos on local entrepreneurial cases which complement the learning process in the subject called Company Creation at Escuela de Estudios Industriales y Empresariales de la Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS). This quantitative study shows that the application of this teaching practice improves the students´ perceptions on the successfulness of the learning process.RESUMÉÉ:Le but de cette étude est d’explorer les résultats de l’utilisation de vidéos sur des cas d’entrepreneuriat locaux orientés à la complémentarité d’un cours de Création d’Entreprises de l’Ecole d’Etudes Industrielles et Entrepreneuriales de l’Université de Santander (UIS). L’analyse quantitative a révélé que l’utilisation de cette pratique d’innovation dans l’enseignement améliorait la perception des étudiants sur l’efficacité du processus d’apprentissage.


Author(s):  
Julia Zoraida Posada Ortiz ◽  
Luceli Patiño Garzón

This study aims to describe the pedagogical practices that take place at the Language Institute of a university based on the observation of classes, questionnaires and interviews of teachers and students. In order to achieve the purpose of the project, the researchers adopted a qualitative approach and also combined an ethnographic perspective which denotes a constant reflection on the part of the teachers who participated as objects of the study. The results of the study demonstrate that most of the teachers employ the PPP (Presentation, Practice, and Production) model to language teaching and that the students make use of direct and indirect strategies in order to help themselves learning.


2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (110) ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Lolo Jua Mamani Daza ◽  
Ana Rosario Miaury Vilca ◽  
Liliana Rosario Alvarez Salinas ◽  
Hilda Lizbeth Pinto Pomareda

The teaching work implies facing constant challenges, in all academic senses, and among these, the challenges of cultural diversity in the classroom, where scientific, technological, social and cultural traditions of each person's place of origin coexist in the classroom. This paper evaluates epistemological proposals for intercultural teaching practices. Academic works developed to improve multicultural teaching practice are reviewed. The results show that there has not been a real and conscious debate on multiculturalism in the classroom and aspects related to migration and education. Anthropology has not taken a significant role in the subject. Keywords: Multiculturalism, migration, education. References [1]RAE, «Real Academia Española,» 2021. [Online]. Available: https://dle.rae.es/intercultural#Ra6Zgbj. [Last access: July 01, 2021]. [2]J. Godenzzi, «Equidad en la diversidad. Reflexiones sobre educación e interculturalidad en los Andes y Amazonía,» Centro Bartolomé de Las Casas, , Cuzco-Perú. [3]Y. Harari, De animales a dioses, Titivillus, 2014. [4]V. Rovagnati, E. Pitt y N. Winstone, «Feedback cultures, histories and literacies: international postgraduate students’ experiences,» Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021. [5]M. Tovar, «Una América plural: Los retos de la interculturalidad,» La Piragua, vol. 24, nº II, p. 66, 2006. [6]El Universo, «¿Es el Ecuador racista?,» 17 marz0 2003. [Online]. Available: https://www.eluniverso.com/2003/03/17/0001/21/A43872FA22014CF7943CF6B117E70E94.html. [Last access: July 4, 2021]. [7]Ministerio de Cultura, «Discriminación y Racismo en el Perú,» [Online]. Available: https://alertacontraelracismo.pe/discriminacion-y-racismo-en-el-peru. [Last access: July 4, 2021]. [8]Á. Bello y M. Rangel, «ETNICIDAD, "RAZA" Y EQUIDAD EN AMÉRICA LATINAY EL CARIBE,» CEPAL, 2000. [9]Unión europea de protección civil y ayuda humanitaria, «Conociendo a la población refugiada y migrante de Lima Metropolitana,» PNUD, Lima-Perú, 2020. [10]Ministerio de Cultura del Perú, «Estadísticas de reportes,» Ministerio de Cultura del Perú, Lima-Perú, 2013.


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