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Simmonds, Claire – Teaching History, 2016
Disappointed that the use of the "PEEL" writing scaffold had led her Year 11 students to write some rather dreary essays, Claire Simmonds reflected that a lack of specific training on historical writing might be to blame. Drawing on genre theory and the work of the history teaching community, Simmonds attempted to theorise the…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Writing Instruction, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
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Hadjidemetriou, Constantia; Williams, Julian – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2010
Linear models are frequently inappropriately applied to various situations. When misapplied, linearity is traditionally referred to as a tendency, a misconception, or an error. Cognitive linguistic, situated cognition, and sociocultural or cultural-historical activity theory, on the other hand, suggest that linear models are adopted by learners…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Graphs, Secondary School Mathematics, Learning Theories