Section archive - Instruction in Teacher Training

The article describes the materials available to preservice teachers' education program to be used for critical reflection. The authors report on the development of multimedia resources, such as interactive CDROMs, videos and websites, used as supplements to traditional instructional programs, and methods to enhance the teachers' teaching strategies. Evaluation data was derived from focus group interviews and surveys. Analysis of these data supports the value of multimedia material as a vicarious learning experience; and highlights the extent that multimedia can demystify science teaching.

The article presents an analysis of the relations between academic mathematical knowledge and the mathematical knowledge associated with 'number systems.' Examples of areas of conflict between the two forms of knowledge are presented. Researchers also point out implications of the study to teacher education.

This article focuses on student participation in classrooms. It aims to demonstrate that effective cultivation of educational experience in schools will lead to a new perspective on the process of teaching and learning. There are no privileged methods of teaching and learning, but most of the teachers have in mind some fuzzy ideas of what good instruction is, and there is a great variety of how teachers involve their students and how students get involved in what happens in school.

This article provides an overview of the gradual development, in the span of two decades (1985-2005), of a theorisation which has come to be known as the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic (ATD). It stresses important stages in the dismissing – based on both fact and theory – of some widespread views of teaching and learning, and the establishing of new attitudes towards ‘the didactic’, seen as an anthropological dimension of social life.