Teacher professional development has been considered as the most effective strategy to promote teacher change. However, this mostly presupposes that teacher professional development programmes can change teachers' attitudes and beliefs, subsequently change classroom behaviours and practices, and ultimately improve student learning outcomes. This…

The first of two volumes, this book contains complete texts of 61 papers presented at a 1988 symposium on geographical education. The papers cover many aspects of geographical education in several countries in Western Europe, Africa, and Asia, and are divided into eight sections: (1) "Developing Skills for Living through Geographical…

States that the common school curriculum in Hong Kong caters to the academically gifted. Advocates a broad and balanced science curriculum, differentiated to a range of abilities and aptitudes, to be followed by all students throughout the five years of secondary school. Presents four purposes for science education and describes curriculum…

Argues that genuine problem solving and investigation on the part of pupils rarely occurs in mathematics classrooms in Hong Kong and other Asian countries. Provides a rationale for drawing problems from the content of a curriculum or syllabus. (DDR)

This document, which is intended to assist environmental, health, and community-based educators in Canada and elsewhere, discusses the process of drawing upon the theories and methodologies of transformative learning to plan adult environmental education workshops emphasizing the theme of socio-environmental change. The following are among the…