Search results for "instruction"

Realisation of strategic leadership in leadership teams' work as experienced by the leadership team members of basic education schools

2013

This article introduces a quantitative research into how the leadership team members of 49 basic education schools in the city of Vantaa, Finland, experienced the realisation of strategic leadership in their leadership teams' work. The data were collected by a survey of 24 statements, rated on a five-point Likert scale, and analysed with the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The only variant explaining the differences in experiencing the realisation of strategic leadership in the leadership teams' work statistically, almost significantly, was the leadership team membership.

Utilizing content analysis in teaching materials for children with autism spectrum disorder

2019

It is important to look at how education materials for students with disability view disability itself. Raising the general public's awareness on autism is crucial because of the rise in the antivaxx and anti-science movements, particularly in the United States. This thesis utilizes Content Analysis to explore how a set of teaching materials for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) understands ASD and the agency of the ASD child and creates trust with the readers. I analyze two argumentation styles to understand how those forms of argumentation create trust with the readers. This study is qualitative and relies on philosophical and cultural definitions of agency and personhood. In a…

Victor Schoelcher, abolitionniste et républicain : approche juridique et politique de l'oeuvre d'un fondateur de la République

2000

The aim of this judicial and political analysis is to reveal Victor Schoelcher's decisive influence in the fight for equal rights and for the republic, in the French mainland as well as in its colonies. His well known fight against slavery was just a part of his humanist defense of the republican principles : Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Schoelcher truly was a founder of the republic, taking part in the barricade insurrections against the 1851 coup and fighting against any kind of slavery or absolutism. His work addressed many aspects of our society, among which : - Slavery and the colonies (legal status of slaves, emancipated slaves and of the colonies) - Rights and liberties of men and …

Impact of the knowledge society in the university and in scientific communication

2014

Over the last two decades, as a result of the introduction and intensive use of technologies for information and general knowledge, especially from the internet, the university is living in a process of complete transformation that affects it´s academic and organizational structures as well as the conception of educational methodology. The ICTs have demonstrated a need to establish coherent institutional strategies in their use and application, along with the possibility to expand the sphere of institutional action, in regards to general access to higher education. All of this shows an existing change from a model of education based on the transmission of knowledge, that was rather limited …

Music training, cognitive abilities and self-concept of ability in children

2009

Revista electrónica de investigación y evaluación educativa

2012

El objetivo de este trabajo es acercar al lector la actualidad del debate sobre las dificultades específicas de aprendizaje. La barrera que impone la literatura científica en inglés hace que profesionales y estudiantes universitarios se pierdan los apasionantes avances sobre esta categoría diagnóstica que tan polémica trayectoria ha tenido desde su nacimiento formal. Presentamos las definiciones de las dificultades de aprendizaje que han estado vigentes hasta la primera década del siglo XXI, las nuevas definiciones y discutimos dos características de la historia de las definiciones en este campo. Concluimos con las exigencias que plantean las nuevas formulaciones. The purpose of this articl…

Helping Low Achievers to Succeed in Tertiary Education: Explicit Teaching of Academic Literacy as a Way to Positive Educational Experiences

2016

Since tertiary schools in Poland have started admitting all low-achieving students who are willing to continue their education, there is an urgent need to help the low-achievers, who have become a majority in many classes, to stay and succeed in college. Academic teachers are facing the challenge of how to adapt their teaching to suit the needs of these students. The paper looks for a way to teach an introductory linguistics course to students of English whose academic skills are insufficient for tertiary study, but the discussion is relevant to teaching all introductory academic courses. It addresses the issue of how to integrate content instruction with explicit teaching of academic liter…

Clarification requests as a method of pursuing understanding in CLIL physics lectures

2018

AbstractUsing multimodal conversation analysis, this article examines how students strive to resolve non-understandings through requests for clarification during teacher-fronted physics lectures ta...

Znawca języka czy człowiek komunikujący się? O strukturze kompetencji językowo-komunikacyjnej ucznia klas IV-VI szkoły podstawowej wpisanej w podstaw…

2019

The article aims to answer two questions: how the language instruction framework was inscribed into the 2017/2018 Polish language curriculum and what image of the linguistic and communicative competence results from this document. The research method is based on the assumption that these two questions can be answered by analysing the cognitive operators used in the description of specific requirements. The article analyses the operators found in the ‘language instruction’ section of the curriculum. Within the linguistic and communicative competence, the document distinguishes among metalinguistic, analytical, linguistic (including normative and grammar-lexical competences) and communicative…

¿Qué aporta el género a la formación de docentes de historia? La valoración de la perspectiva de género entre los estudiantes del Máster de Profesor/…

2020

Nuestro artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación sobre género e historia enseñada diseñada e implementada mediante cuestionarios en el Master de Formación de Profesor/Profesora de Enseñanza Secundaria de la Universidad de Valencia (especialidad de Geografía e Historia, cursos 2016-2017 y 2017-2018). Hemos tratado de determinar tanto la formación previa en género de losy las participantes como la valoración que les merecen las aportaciones realizadas por la perspectiva de género a la enseñanza de la historia y su investigación. Los cuestionarios han sido completados por una muestra de 70 estudiantes. Se trata de un estudio colectivo de casos en cuyo análisis hemos considerado co…