Search results for "Didaktik"
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Behind the teaching of American culture in the second language classroom
2019
Master's thesis English EN502 - University of Agder 2019 In this thesis, anempirical study will show how different teachers might differ in their way of teaching Americanculture in the Norwegianclassroom. Three main questions have been made to structure theway in which the study will take on the issue. The objective is to investigate the issue on the basis of these three research questions:•How might a class about Americanculture differ from other Englishlessons, is there a difference in planning and source material used?•What methods are used when teaching Americanculture and why are these methods chosen?•How can culture teaching have aneffect on the dynamics and language learning in the c…
English Academic Writing in the Norwegian Upper Secondary School : How does upper secondary school ESL instruction help students develop academic wri…
2021
Master´s thesis in English (EN502) The purpose of this thesis has been to investigate how English academic writing instruction in Norway is perceived by upper secondary students, and how it is carried out from their point of view as a support to improve their academic writing skills. The following was the research question for my thesis: What do students in Norwegian upper secondary school know about writing academic English, and how do they practice writing English as a preparation for higher education? The question calls for a review of the current ESL instruction as well as a review of the English subject curriculum (LK20). The corpus consisted of nine students of English, three females …
Social studies in early childhood education and care: A scoping review focusing on diversity
2020
Currently, little research exists on social studies within the context of Norwegian early childhood education and care, and how early childhood teachers work to familiarise children with social studies contexts . This article is a scoping literature review offering a preliminary research agenda. Its aim is to explore the ways in which the early childhood teacher can work to ensure young learners’ social studies education with a specific focus on cultural diversity and subsequent educational challenges. The research question guiding the article asks: How does previous educational research show that early childhood teachers can use social studies to address diversity with and amongst children…
What Sense Can We Make of the Possibility of Vocational Didactics? An Approach from the Spanish School-Based System Complemented by Non-Formal Vocati…
2015
International journal for research in vocational education and training 2 (2015) 3, S. 170-181
Language learning strategies and teaching practices in adult L2 education : The case of Swedish for Immigrants
2019
This article highlights the use and co-construction of language learning strategies (LLS) in second language education for adults with short previous education. In a case study, we explore how LLS are used and co-constructed by one student and one teacher. The data for the article was created in an action research programme comprising two Swedish for Immigrants (SFI) schools, and the methodology used was classroom observation based in linguistic ethnography. In accordance with Griffiths (2013, p. 15) LLS are defined as “activities consciously chosen by learners for the purpose of regulating their own language learning”. For the analysis of LLS, Oxford’s (1990) taxonomy was chosen. In the ch…
Investigating the affordances of a flipped mathematics classroom from an activity theoretical perspective
2020
Abstract Flipped Classroom as a pedagogical framework has gained popularity at secondary and tertiary levels of mathematics education, but there is a lack of research based on a solid theoretical foundation. This article considers the flipped mathematics classroom from the perspective of affordances and cultural–historical activity theory. The empirical background is based on semi-structured interview data from eight first-year computer-engineering students following 1 year of flipped classroom teaching. The thematic analysis of the data indicates that the flipped format offers a range of affordances at various levels of the activity system. This article advances research on affordances for…
Recent Nordic research in mathematics education illustrated by examples from NORMA17
2021
A characterization of recent Nordic research in didactics of mathematics is presented based on the 32 research reports from the Nordic and Baltic countries in the proceedings from NORMA17 (The eighth Nordic conference on didactics of mathematics). Recent Nordic research in didactics of mathematics is observed from several aspects such as choice of problem, theory, method, result, and target for the message. The analyses of the papers on different levels and from a manifold of perspectives build up an image of what Nordic research in DM (didactics of mathematics) contains and represents currently. The closeness and cooperation between researchers in the Nordic countries is characteristic as …
Et introduksjonskurs til GeoGebra : en designstudie av introduksjonskurset med fokus på å lære å bruke i 1T i videregående skole
2016
Masteroppgave matematikkdidaktikk – Universitetet i Agder 2016 As a teacher, I have observed over the past years a change in focus on the use of tools in the teaching of mathematics. Starting in spring 2015 the use of digital tools by students will be a requirement in the examinations in mathematics at high school level. This means that teachers must be even more aware of how we can best help our students to master the use of such tools while refining their understanding of mathematics. The aim of my study was to find a way to introduce GeoGebra (a mathematical tool with options for dynamic geometry, for plotting functions, and for CAS) to students in grade 11. The introduction should be su…
Faculty Perception of Inclusion in the University: Concept, Policies and Educational Practices
2021
European universities must face the challenge of diversity and design inclusive practices to address it as part of their social responsibility. However, not all universities are doing the same in terms of diversity practices, so it is important to gather the perceptions of the protagonists. To this end, we have analysed university faculty’s perceptions using a mixed model with a concurrent methodological strategy, including an ad hoc questionnaire validated with 880 educators, as well as 17 semi‐structured interviews. The triangulation of these two instruments allowed us to analyse three key dimensions associated with the idea of attention to diversity in the university: diversity concept o…
Profiling in-service teachers across Europe to determine their attitude to IBSE
2013
The ESTABLISH FP7-funded project is involved with development and implementation of professional development workshops to support teachers in adopting more inquiry based approaches in their teaching. Identifying teacher views, goals, practices and the challenges they face in implementing inquiry activities, can inform teacher educators of the needs of their participating teachers. This can also inform them to provide the appropriate support in order to help teachers overcome obstacles and develop their own practice in inquiry. This paper outlines the initial results from a profiling instrument used to examine teachers’ beliefs about IBSE, attitudes to teaching science and teaching by inquir…