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Tang Wee Teo – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
Many empirical studies about STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) curriculum present problems for students to solve. This paper draws upon the data collected from the enactment of an integrated STEM curriculum to discuss problems as constitutive of problem spaces where four Grade 5 Singapore students engage with the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Integrated Curriculum, Inquiry, Problem Solving
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Kua, Joanne; Teo, Winnie; Lim, Wee Shiong – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2022
Whilst adaptive experts have well-researched beliefs and attitudes towards learning, what is unclear are the interactions that occur within the learning environment that constitute their learning experiences. The practice of geriatric medicine emphasises the interdisciplinary care of complex frail older adults. Our study sets out to understand the…
Descriptors: Expertise, Learning Experience, Geriatrics, Medicine
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Wen-Chia Chang – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2024
In educational reform initiatives worldwide and in Singapore, educators are increasingly encouraged to take ownership of their work through involvement in practitioner inquiry and evaluation efforts to transform teaching and learning. Educators' epistemological beliefs -- their view of knowledge and knowing -- play a critical role as they learn to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Outcomes of Education, Masters Programs, Foreign Countries
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Yun Wen; Chun Lai; Sujin He; Yiyu Cai; Chee Kit Looi; Longkai Wu – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
The impact of Augmented Reality (AR)-based science learning on cognitive development has been established, but the effect of AR on the improvement of students' academic performance remains inconclusive. Additionally, while epistemic beliefs as a significant determinant on student learning outcomes is well-documented, there is little research in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Epistemology, Beliefs, Student Attitudes
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Geerlings, Lennie; Lundberg, Anita – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2020
This paper analyzes how knowledge is reproduced as "universal" in contemporary higher education and how this production of universality influences the application of knowledge. Using a case study of clinical psychology, it describes the results of over two years of ethnographic fieldwork in a university and professional settings in…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Global Approach, Higher Education, Ethnography
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Tan, Seng Chee; Wang, Xinghua; Li, Lu – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2022
This study explored the development trajectory of shared epistemic agency in online collaborative learning through epistemic network analysis and lag sequential analysis. It was carried out in a postgraduate course with 14 in-service teachers. Drawing on the online discussion data from six sessions and the participants' academic scores, this study…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Epistemology, Personal Autonomy, Online Courses
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Heiney-Smith, Jill – International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 2018
Teacher preparation programs aim to provide pedagogical skills for knowledge development and critical thinking. Yet teacher candidates themselves have views and understandings of the very nature of knowledge, or epistemology, which might inhibit or advance their development as teachers. This paper begins with an overview of Kitchener's (1983)…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Epistemology, Reflection, Foreign Countries
Ong, Yann Shiou – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The study reported in this dissertation is a response to the call for school science argumentation interventions to shift from a focus on argument framework towards epistemic criteria valued by the scientific community, and to focus on the practice of critiquing in addition to constructing arguments, as both practices are part of scientific…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Epistemology, Intervention, Science Instruction
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Ho, Ezra; Ang, Nicholas – Environmental Education Research, 2018
Environmental and sustainability programmes in higher education have gained traction over the last several decades. More-than-disciplinary epistemologies and innovative pedagogies promise transformational learning to grapple with contemporary environmental challenges. Environmental programmes thus have implicit messages of social change.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Bachelors Degrees, Environmental Education
Jamaludin, Azilawati; Shaari, Imran – Educational Technology, 2016
This article discusses peer apprenticeship learning (PAL) as situated within networked learning communities (NLCs). The context revolves around the diffusion of technologically-mediated learning in Singapore schools, where teachers begin to implement inquiry-oriented learning, consistent with 21st century learning, among students. As these schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Relationship, Apprenticeships, Social Networks
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Tay, Su Lynn; Yeo, Jennifer – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
Great teaching is characterised by the specific actions a teacher takes in the classroom to bring about learning. In the context of model-based teaching (MBT), teachers' difficulty in working with students' models that are not scientifically consistent is troubling. To address this problem, the aim of this study is to identify the pedagogical…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Models
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Fayette, Rainart; Bond, Caroline – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2018
Recent systematic reviews have found that the participation of adolescents and young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) within research is limited despite an increasing international recognition of the importance of incorporating the views of all children and young people on matters that affect their lives. The purpose of this current…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism
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Chua, Shuyi; Sim, Jasmine B.-Y. – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2017
Critical patriotism is an ideal in many liberal Western nations. Few studies, however, explore how teachers understand and teach critical patriotism and the possible tensions arising from its adoption, especially in non-Western contexts. This qualitative case study explores the understandings and practices of two Social Studies teachers from an…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Patriotism, Critical Thinking, Public Policy
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Toh, Yancy; Hung, Wei Loong David; Chua, Paul Meng-Huat; He, Sujin; Jamaludin, Azilawati – International Journal of Educational Management, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the dialectical interplay between centralisation and decentralisation forces so as to understand how schools leverage on its autonomous pedagogical space, influence the diffusion of innovations in the educational landscape of Singapore and how a centralised-decentralised system supports (or…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Administrative Organization, Educational Innovation
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Goh, Deborah – SAGE Open, 2016
The connective approach is developed by Sir Peter Strawson, emeritus professor of philosophy at Oxford University, as an effective way to understand the fundamental structure of human thinking in the field of analytical philosophy. This article provides insights for extending the work of Strawson, Tay, and Tay et al. to education, in particular,…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Biology, Science Instruction, Science Teachers
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