Aims: To understand the relationship between what students understand to be their knowledge and what the educational system takes to be its knowledge. The latter appears to replace the former in some manner and it is this process which the article seeks to expose and comprehend....
Provision of Infrastructure is a facilitator for economic advancement at various levels. The impact on local economic development and the mitigation of poverty is immeasurable. Lack of or poor infrastructure has always impeded economic development. In some cases, CBOs embark on p...
Aims: The study aims to map out the way Brazilian school workers discursively construct images of contemporary immigrants in Brazil. It intends to describe and analyze how in their discourse they move back and forth between a negative and a more sympathetic imaginary when talking...
Aim: This study investigates the scientific literacy level of Nigerian university undergraduates paying special attention to the science knowledge, science process and skill, thinking/reasoning skill, as well as application of science to technology. Study Design: Descriptive rese...
Research is beginning to show that school violence is becoming a global concern. Schools in various countries experience some form of violence. Long before they go to school, children learn that the society solves its conflicts and its problems through violent means. In many scho...
Aims: The aim of this research was to investigate the progress of students who study at Small Rural Primary School (SRPS), made in the first three grades of high school, based on their school performance since there is not such an empirical research in Greek bibliography. Study D...
A. E. O. Malau-Aduli, E. Nightingale, P. McEvoy, J. U. Eve, A. J. John, A. A. Hobbins, A. A. S. Alamoudi, K. R. Petrie, P. Damen, M. E. French, A. M. Cragie, S. K. Bales, A. Kashani, B. W. B. Holman, J. Vargas-Bravo, S. M. Jones, B.S. Malau-Aduli & P. A. Lane·Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science·2011
The primary objective of this Australian Wool Education Trust funded teaching initiative on inquiry-based learning and research-led teaching approach was to enhance students’ critical thinking and target their learning needs through active participation in hands-on experience wit...
Aims: In the present paper, we have examined the interaction between formal, intuitive and algorithmic knowledge in the solution for the subtraction operation (Fischbein, 1994). Study design: Qualitative analysis. Place and duration of study: Department of Didactic, Organization...
Aims: The aim was to study the health and academic performance of school children alongside the indoor environmental quality in Finnish elementary schools. Study design: Cross-sectional study. Place and duration of study: Data were collected between March 2007 and April 2008. Met...