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Aashamar, Peter N.; Klette, Kirsti – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2023
This article examines how teachers and students connect disciplinary knowledge to contexts outside the classroom in naturally occurring teaching in 80 Nordic lower secondary social studies lessons using a standardized observation manual. We found evidence that teachers often connected disciplinary knowledge to students' experiences and wider…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Social Studies, Learner Engagement
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Gissel, Stig T. – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2015
This study was undertaken to design, evaluate and refine an eBook-feature that supports students' decoding of unfamiliar text. The feature supports students' independent reading of eBooks with text-to-speech, graded support in the form of syllabification and rhyme analogy, and by dividing the word material into different categories based on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Books, Electronic Publishing, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Bohn, Annette; Berntsen, Dorthe – Developmental Psychology, 2008
The authors investigated the relationship between the acquisition of cultural life scripts and the degree of coherence in children's and adolescents' life stories. Three groups of Danish school children aged 9 to 15 years participated. In 3 sessions, they wrote down a recently experienced single autobiographical event, their life story, and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Children, Adolescents