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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
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Tupas, Ruanni – Intercultural Education, 2014
While there is substantive work in intercultural education, especially that which proposes intellectual or conceptual road maps for pedagogic interculturalism and, more specifically for the classroom, there is a need to surface the complexity of everyday intercultural classroom practices. This article reflects on some Singapore students' responses…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Intercultural Programs, Educational Practices, Student Reaction
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Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2014
This article examines how political discourse, language ideologies, recent Chinese curriculum reforms, and their representations in the media are inextricably related. Using the "Speak Mandarin Campaign" as background for the inquiry, I focus on textual features of the various media sources, TV advertisements, campaign slogans, official…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Chinese, Discourse Analysis
Toh, Pee Choon; Toh, Tin Lam; Ho, Foo Him; Quek, Khiok Seng – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2012
We have applied the "practical paradigm" in teaching problem solving to secondary school students. The key feature of the practical paradigm is the use of a practical worksheet to guide the students' processes in problem solving. In this paper, we report the diffusion of the practical paradigm to university level courses for prospective…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Problem Solving, Models, Thinking Skills
Jasik, Lynne Sperber; Lipsky, Rachel – 1980
The implementation of a 10-day Israeli-designed comprehensive pre-elementary education training course for untrained teachers in Singapore is described in this report. The course was designed (1) to provide untrained teachers with experience in setting up an educational environment, (2) to provide trained teachers with the opportunity to share…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Course Content, Course Evaluation, Day Care
Kirkpatrick, T. A. – 1985
Singapore's grammar-based English language syllabus and the wide range of native languages and English oral ability among secondary school students make the second language teaching situation complex and the use of the communicative approach challenging but not impossible. While grammar is an essential element of second language proficiency, it is…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Content, Curriculum Design