Tolerating inquiry is essential even if there are such things as questions no one should ask.
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Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Indonesian teachers have struggled to adapt to online learning. To overcome this, teachers should be taught to be bolder in introducing ‘uncertainty in learning’.
Female teachers perform better in the classroom and women principals lead to achieve better school management. But, female educators have to wait longer to be promoted.
Many historians and other scholars say what Americans have traditionally learned about the complex period that followed the Civil War falls short of what we should know.
Integrating technology into schools involves understanding the dynamic relationship between technology, how it’s used in the classroom and the content of the curriculum.
Constructivism is an educational philosophy that underpins the inquiry-based method of teaching, where the teacher facilitates a learning environment in which students discover answers for themselves.
There are two types of knowledge – we’ve evolved to acquire the first naturally; we need schools for the second. Cognitive load theory explains how to teach knowledge we don’t automatically get.
A large number of young people are reluctant to accept evolution. How we teach the topic might be a key reason why.
A scholar’s efforts to learn how textbooks in New Jersey were portraying the Holocaust leads her to testify against a history teacher who taught his students to question if the Holocaust took place.
Explicit instruction is a type of teaching model where students are shown what to do and how to do it.
The ability of multilingual children to learn and advance academically from pre-primary has little to do with their English proficiency.
By improving trainee physics teachers’ content knowledge and skills, we make them better.
You may not “like” it, but Facebook has an important role to play in education.
Math instruction is stuck in the last century. How can we change teaching methods to move past rote memorization and help students develop a more meaningful understanding – and be better at math?
Students in high school now will be eligible to vote during the 2020 election cycle. How can we prepare them to become informed citizens in an era of misinformation, where anyone can publish anything?
In English and science alike, every student and teacher brings his or her own language patterns to class. But how can educators make sure that language bias doesn’t harm student achievement?
A complex issue requires sensitive techniques.
We must know people as they would like to be known, not as some dominant power has decided we shall know them.
Our schooling system needs a rethink.
In both the global North and South, economics tends to be taught with micro- and macroeconomic models that are disconnected from sociopolitical realities. We suggest new ways of teaching economics.
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Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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The University of Western Australia
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Reader, Department for Health, University of Bath
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Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Derby
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Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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PhD Researcher in the Department for Health, University of Bath
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Professor & Head, School of Science & Mathematics, Mauritius Institute of Education
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Emeritus Professor Miraca Gross, UNSW
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Educator and Researcher, The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR)
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Emeritus Professor of Education and Director of Oracy Cambridge, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor of Practice, Center for Learning and Teaching, American University in Cairo
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Chercheure Associée au laboratoire ACTé, Cheffe de projet Learn'in Auvergne pour l'innovation pédagogique, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)
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Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture and Director of the Center for Social Science Scholarship, University of Maryland, Baltimore County