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María Isabel Ballesteros; Carlota López-Fernández; Esther Paños; José-Reyes Ruiz-Gallardo – Journal of Environmental Education, 2025
Could a school initiative modify pro-environmental behaviors in an entire village? For three years (2016-2018), the School Agenda 21 program was implemented in a rural primary school in Spain. The study evaluated participants' perceptions (64 students, 48 parents, 11 teachers, and 22 town residents) through qualitative questionnaires after the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Parents, Elementary School Students
Carroll, Matthew; Constantinou, Filio – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented disruption to education around the world. There is much to learn from this period, to better understand what happened, to provide support to those affected, and to inform future responses to disruption. This research aimed to contribute to this field by recording teachers' experiences of teaching in the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Teaching Experience, Elementary School Teachers
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Toscano, Rocío; Gavilán-Izquierdo, José María; Sánchez, Victoria – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2019
From a commognitive approach, this article focuses on the discourse generated by preservice primary teachers who are solving didactic-mathematical tasks. Our aims are to study the characteristics of the aforementioned discourse and, through these characteristics, identify whether a discourse close to the one of primary teachers is beginning to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Discourse Analysis, Preservice Teachers
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Martínez Ruiz, María A.; Hernández-Amorós, María J. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
This study seeks to address the main difficulties encountered by principals when carrying out their leadership role. A total of 100 principals from infant, primary, and secondary schools in the province of Alicante (Spain) were interviewed. The results show that the respondents were more affected by external problems and difficulties inherent to…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Nyairo, Franklin – Online Submission, 2013
Communication, the flow of ideas and information between individuals in a social context, is the heart of educational experience. Constructivism and constructivist theories form the foundation for the collaborative learning processes of creating and sharing meaning in online educational contexts. The Learning and Collaboration in…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning, Social Networks, Network Analysis
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Artemeva, Natasha; Fox, Janna – Written Communication, 2011
This article reports on an international study of the teaching of undergraduate mathematics in seven countries. Informed by rhetorical genre theory, activity theory, and the notion of Communities of Practice, this study explores a pedagogical genre at play in university mathematics lecture classrooms. The genre is mediational in that it is a tool…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Video Technology, Mathematics Education, Teaching Experience
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Herrero, Luis Carlos; Pardo, Fernando; Fernando, María Luisa; González, María Luisa – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2011
We hereby present the main conclusions and perspectives obtained by the Group of Teaching Innovation in Electronics (Grupo de Innovación Docente en Electrónica, GIDEN) of the University of Valladolid (UVa) with regard to its main areas of work. This group comprises teachers of the "Specialty in Industrial Electronics" degree, and the…
Descriptors: Electronics, Teamwork, Engineering Education, Teaching Methods