Programmed control systems are ubiquitous in the present-day world. In current educational practice, however, these systems are hardly being addressed, and little is known about children’s spontaneous understandings about such systems. Therefore, we explored pupils’ understandings prior to instruction …

This study analyze data from three national contexts in which teachers worked with the same teaching materials and inquiry classroom activities, investigating teachers’ use of strategies to promote interaction and scaffolding when participating in a professional development program. The data material …

Het rapport is deel B van het 5e tussenadvies van de wetenschappelijke Curriculumcommissie. Het rapport richt zich op de verdeling van verantwoordelijkheden van partijen in het onderwijs bij het verbeteren van de organisatie rond curriculumonderhoud in het funderend onderwijs (basisonderwijs en voortgezet …

Het rapport is deel A van het 5e tussenadvies van de wetenschappelijke Curriculumcommissie. Het rapport onderzoekt of de vernieuwde kerndoelen voor het onderwijs in Nederlands, rekenen en wiskunde voldoen aan de doelstellingen van de curriculumherziening. In het bijzonder voor het terugdringen van overladenheid …

Technology curricula are evolving at a rate of perhaps no other school subject, as a result of innovations within technology itself and due to new visions about technology education, such as described in this book. Moreover, education as a whole is constantly reinventing itself in new societal contexts, …

Online supplements to Smit, E., Tuithof, H., Savelsbergh, E., & Béneker, T. (2023). Geography teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge: A systematic review. Journal of Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221341.2023.2173796 Supplement 1: Extended information on selected studies Supplement 2: Full references …

Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) is the knowledge teachers use to teach a specific subject to a specific audience. The importance of PCK to quality teaching is widely recognized. However, an overview of research about geography teachers’ PCK is missing. To fill this gap, we conducted a systematic …

Worldwide, pupils with migrant backgrounds do not participate in school STEM subjects as successfully as their peers. Migrant pupils’ subject-specific language proficiency lags behind, which hinders participation and learning. Primary teachers experience difficulty in teaching STEM as well as promoting …

Leerlingen groeien op in een wereld die permanent online is. Ze hebben toegang tot een grote hoeveelheid informatie en ze zijn constant online in interactie. Het onderwijs kan leerlingen opleiden tot mediawijze burgers.

The maker movement is increasingly finding its way into informal and formal educational settings. This chapter welcomes that trend and reflects on the cases in this book through five lenses, whereby informal and formal settings are contrasted. The first lens focuses on the development of a maker identity. …