...Zamira Hyseni Duraku; Linda Hoxha; Besjanë Krasniqi Purpose This study aims to examine the factors influencing early education teachers’ motivation, attitudes and beliefs toward science and continuing education. It also explores perceptions of parental involvement and cooperation among public...

... knowledge and skills. Specifically, teachers should move from “tell and explain” pedagogical techniques to those that “ask and challenge”. This paper considers Prensky's approach in light of today's K‐12 educational system, what K‐12 education needs to deliver for the future, and relevant research findings...

... for a discussion of career education and teacher education in the future. Design/methodology/approach Recent developments in the work of others in futures studies and complexity theory are presented. These developments provide a framework for discussing current understandings of career and teacher...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Education Universities Corporate image Teachers Viewed from the most general perspective, higher education in the American colonies had proceeded along British‐Continental lines. As the new nation expanded westward, land‐grant public...

...Tom P. Abeles Purpose This paper seeks to dentify the problems of K‐12 teachers as resting in large part on the failure of the post‐secondary institutions responsible for teacher education to restructure themselves both at the level of the institution itself and at that of the schools...

...Michael Feldstein; Andrew G. Booth; Brian P. Clark Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a prototype pluggable service‐oriented virtual learning environment, enabling teachers to create an integrated teaching environment using tools that have been chosen to best meet their academic...

...Hongzhuan Song Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how well Chinese teacher education positions itself in preparing qualified teachers for its vast k‐12 education system, especially in the transition from examination‐oriented to that of future‐oriented education. Design...

... Artificial intelligence Educational administration Teachers Students Reasoning Consider the following three situations: The constant emergence of new technologies has profound impacts both on how current teachers use technologies and how both future and current teachers are educated to best use...

...Yam San Chee Advances in technology provide valuable opportunities for furthering the goals and methods of education. In this paper, we argue that, unfortunately, many of these opportunities are not seized because of restrictive conceptions of education that constrain teachers to viewing...