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Denise Quiroz-Martinez – Environmental Education Research, 2024
Sustainability issues are a problem in Chile because of the policies of the present and previous governments. Chile has a neo-liberal model for development and many ecological problems, which involve social and environmental injustices and an overvalue of economic growth for development. Building on the three pillars model of sustainability of…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Course Content
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Tiare Gonzalez-Vidal; Paul Moore – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2024
Purpose: The professional experiences of teachers of languages and cultures, along with the learning experiences of their students, are embedded in educational contexts, which themselves are informed, and constrained, by national language policies. This study aims to explore 51 English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) secondary teachers' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Jofré, María Isabel Toledo; Stein, Renato Gazmuri – Education as Change, 2019
Teaching "controversial issues" has a high pedagogical potential for students to understand the characteristics of social conflicts and to become critical citizens. Twenty Chilean secondary education Social Studies teachers were invited to participate in a group interview and workshop to establish their conceptions of controversial…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Lesson Plans, Secondary School Teachers
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Carrasco, Diego; Banerjee, Robin; Treviño, Ernesto; Villalobos, Cristóbal – Educational Psychology, 2020
The endorsement of anti-corruption norms is a normative assumption in legal systems with freedom of information acts, where citizens are expected to act as monitors of the public service. Tolerance of corruption counteracts this assumption. We studied tolerance of corruption among 8th graders from Latin-American samples of the International Civic…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Grade 8, Socioeconomic Status, Authoritarianism
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Danielsson, Kristina; Selander, Staffan – Designs for Learning, 2016
The re-conceptualisation of texts over the last 20 years, as well as the development of a multimodal understanding of communication and representation of knowledge, has profound consequences for the reading and understanding of multimodal texts, not least in educational contexts. However, if teachers and students are given tools to…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Course Content, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
Karkkainen, Kiira – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
Innovation is essential for the education sector. The ways in which curriculum decision making is organised reflects different implicit approaches on how educational systems pertain to promote innovation in education. Curriculum holds an outstanding place when seeking to promote innovation in education, as it reflects the vision for education by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Curriculum Development, Secondary Education
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Magendzo, Abraham; Toledo, Maria Isabel – Journal of Moral Education, 2009
This article reviews the moral dilemmas that a teacher faces in the classroom when teaching recent history which deals with military regimes, violation of human rights (1973-1990) and the transition to democracy in Chile (1990-2008). Furthermore, it explores the neutrality of the content taught; the ideological standpoints of the teachers and the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Moral Issues, Foreign Countries, Civil Rights