Recently added articles from Research in Education:
Where learners' questions meet modes of teaching: A study of cases
Nov 01, 2007; ... In what follows we determine particular styles of questioning and argue that these styles can complement or conflict with particular modes of teaching. There can be match or mismatch between learning and teaching. The sceptical reader may quickly dismiss this issue: a sure-fire way to resolve ...
Emergence of Confucianism from teachers' definitions of guidance and discipline in Hong Kong secondary schools
Nov 01, 2007; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) Teachers in Hong Kong secondary schools have been concerned about students' misbehaviour. Two separate teams of guidance and discipline teachers are commonly formed to deal with these issues and support teachers' teaching and learning ....
A comparative survey of the impact of ethnicity and religious affiliation on the alienation of staff from their work environment in Nigerian universities
Nov 01, 2007; ... In Nigeria, there are conflicts that are purely religious or ethnic, but in most cases the two factors of religion and ethnicity usually reinforce each other and cannot be separated from each other. Ethnicity and religious affiliation are both very strong factors in social interaction in ...
Sex differences in the forms of aggression among adolescent students in Ghana
Nov 01, 2007; ... The school environment, as an academic setting, is supposed to be a safe and harmonious place where teaching and learning should take place. It is also a place where students can socialise and develop healthy relations among themselves and with relevant others irrespective of social class, sex, ...
Reconstructing music education through ICT
Nov 01, 2007; ... New technologies are transforming approaches to teaching and learning in primary and secondary schools. Their adoption as part of teaching and learning processes is part of a much larger social and cultural change driven by the arrival of digital technologies (Somekh, 2000; Selwyn, 2002). It is ...
'They're gonna think we're the dumb lot because we go to the special school': A teacher research study of how mainstream and special school pupils view each other
Nov 01, 2007; ... Recent educational debate relating to inclusive practices in the UK reflect a consensus that genuine inclusive education extends way beyond the physical placement of pupils into the mainstream of education. The publication of the Index for Inclusion (Booth et al., 2000), for example, has gone ...
Experiential learning of history through youth journeys to Poland: Israeli Jewish youth and the Holocaust
Nov 01, 2007; ... The Holocaust stands as the single greatest calamity in modern Jewish history, and is central to the shaping of recent events. The Holocaust refers to the years 1941-45, when the Nazi regime in Germany established the Final Solution, a systematic policy of annihilating Jews. It was by ...
The psychometric properties and factor structure of a Welsh translation of the school short form of the Coopersmith Self-esteem Inventory
Nov 01, 2007; ... Self-esteem (SE) is a widely employed variable in many domains of psychology, including personality, health and health-related behaviours, and in clinical psychology, where it is usually found that those who are anxious or depressed exhibit low levels of SE. The construct is also widely used in ...
'Drugsbridge': A humanistic approach to drug education
Nov 01, 2007; ... While there is a large body of literature describing and evaluating drug prevention programmes, we believe there is a dearth of educational theory to underpin these. Negreiros (1994) describes three broad theoretical approaches: 'Information/communication', 'Cognitive behavioural' and ...
Changing roles: The music co-ordinator in the primary school
Nov 01, 2006; ... Since the introduction of the National Curriculum for Music (1991, revised 2000) a growing number of composers, conductors, musicians and music educators have expressed concern about the quality of 'musical literacy' in primary schools today (Music Teacher, 2003). Their strongly voiced concern ...
Environmental design and educational performance with particular reference to 'green' schools in Hampshire and Essex
Nov 01, 2006; ... The aim of this article is to investigate the argument that attention to environmental conditions in the classroom helps support the delivery of the curriculum. There are two interconnected themes: first, that energy efficiency leads to quasi-natural environments in schools which are valued by ...
Numerical ability, course of study and gender differences in students' achievement in Practical Geography
Nov 01, 2006; ... Nigerian educational policy, which was first published in 1977, adopted the 6-3-3-4 system. It became operational after its revision in 1981. The national policy took care of all levels of education: pre-primary, primary, secondary, vocational and tertiary. Primary education, which runs for six ...
Conceptions and misconceptions of inclusive education - one year on: A critical analysis of Newly Qualified Teachers' knowledge and understanding of inclusion
Nov 01, 2006; ... Background The latter part of the twentieth century observed the development of inclusive educational practice within the English educational system (Hodkinson, 2005). It may be argued that the emergence of inclusive education, within State schools, began with the election of New Labour ...
Attitude toward Christianity and religious experience: Replication among 16-18 year old adolescents in Northern Ireland
Nov 01, 2006; ... The social scientific study of religion properly distinguishes between different dimensions of religion, including personal religious practice (say, prayer), public religious practice (say, church attendance), religious belief (say, belief in God), religious experience, and the attitudinal ...
Teacher competence and students' conflict handling strategies
Nov 01, 2006; ... Background The role of the teacher today has developed considerably, from being a transmitter of knowledge to encompassing all aspects of the learning and development of the individual student. The focus is no longer limited to students' knowledge and skills but today also incorporates ...
Attitudes and attainment: A comparison of Hong Kong, Singaporean and English students' reading
Nov 01, 2006; ... Most students in schools in Hong Kong are taught how to read Chinese as well as English text. Having to come to terms with the process of reading an alphabetic language such as English that can be decoded into phonemes and morphemes is a task that daunts many young readers in Western countries ....
CHILDREN'S DIVINE DREAMS: A CONCEPTUAL AND EMPIRICAL STUDY WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR RELIGIOIUS EDUCATION
Nov 01, 2006; ... This doctoral study is a conceptual and empirical exploration of the belief in, and experience of, dreams which the dreamer attributes a divine connection to. Whilst psychology is the contemporary home of dream research, the earliest records of discussion of dreams are located within religious ...