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Nisanka Uthpalani Somaratne Rajapakse Mohottige; Annette Hessen Bjerke; Renate Andersen – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2024
Owing to its recognition as a 21st-century skill, computational thinking (CT) is currently being introduced into school curricula around the world. However, in-service teachers are largely unprepared for this implementation, which, in turn, makes teacher educators (TEds) important stakeholders in preparing prospective teachers to integrate CT into…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Education, Computation, Thinking Skills
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Skalstad, Ingunn; Munkebye, Eli – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Asking questions is an important way of acquiring information and knowledge and plays a significant role in a child's learning processes. In this study, we examine what characterises the questions asked by children to their teachers in two kindergartens (4-6-year-olds) and six primary school classes (2nd-4th grade) when situated in a natural…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Natural Resources, Preschool Education, Preschool Children
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Utler, Stine Johansen – Journal of Social Science Education, 2021
Purpose: This study investigated the political aspects of 1st- to 4th-grade social studies education in Norwegian primary schools through qualitative interviews with 30 social studies teachers. The research examined how and to what extent politics is in focus in initial social studies education using the pre-political perspective as a theoretical…
Descriptors: Political Science, Elementary School Teachers, Citizenship Education, Social Studies
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Borge, Julie A. Ødegaard – Journal of Social Science Education, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine mock elections as political education in school, taking the Norwegian case as an empirical example. Methodology: This study's qualitative content analysis is based on data collected through fieldwork in five upper secondary schools in the Western region of Norway, through observations and in 18…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Political Attitudes