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Basma Hajir – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
This article extends current debates in Education for Peacebuilding (EfP) in conflict settings. It presents and discusses two paradoxes I have observed when examining EfP literature and engaging in conversations with EfP scholars: 'the paradox of liberalism' and 'the paradox of decoloniality'. I unpack these two paradoxes by engaging in conceptual…
Descriptors: Peace, Political Attitudes, Correlation, Decolonization
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Van Geert, Paul; Steenbeek, Henderien – Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 2014
The notion of complexity--as in "education is a complex system"--has two different meanings. On the one hand, there is the epistemic connotation, with "Complex" meaning "difficult to understand, hard to control". On the other hand, complex has a technical meaning, referring to systems composed of many interacting…
Descriptors: Correlation, Educational Practices, Educational Policy, Educational Research
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Arnold, Cath; Brennan, Carmel – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2013
The research project described in this article began because two early childhood organisations, one in England and the other in Ireland, were interested in sharing their ideas about pedagogy. The proposal was to collect data about pedagogic perspectives and practices from one preschool setting linked to each organisation so that similarities and…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Teaching Methods
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Lee, Gyoungho; Byun, Taejin – Research in Science Education, 2012
Bringing successful teaching approaches for stimulating conceptual change to normal classrooms has been a major challenge not only for teachers but also for researchers. In this study, we focused on the relationship between cognitive conflict and responses to anomalous data when students are confronted with a counterintuitive demonstration in the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Conflict, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries
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Thaman, Konai Helu – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2013
This paper argues that all learners need teachers who are not only professionally qualified but also culturally competent. This is particularly so with teachers of indigenous students, who face the conflicting expectations of schools and those of their home cultures. References to Pacific students will be used to illustrate some of the conflicts…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Teacher Effectiveness, Culturally Relevant Education
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Schecter, Sandra R.; Parkhurst, Shawn – American Educational Research Journal, 1993
The ideological positions that developed in a teacher research group were analyzed. The conflicts and interchanges among participants revealed important divisions within the teacher research movement that generate needed discussions of pedagogical practice. (SLD)
Descriptors: Conflict, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Membership
Novotna, Jarmila, Ed.; Moraova, Hana, Ed.; Kratka, Magdalena, Ed.; Stehlikova, Nad'a, Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2006
This document contains the fifth volume of the proceedings of the 30th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Conference presentations are centered around the theme "Mathematics at the Centre." This volume features 59 research reports by presenters with last names beginning between Sac and Zaz:…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Symbols (Mathematics), Preservice Teacher Education