Learning and Instruction
August 2004 Volume 14, Number 4
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 4
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Critical thinking as a citizenship competence: teaching strategies
Geert ten Dam & Monique Volman
This article is about enhancing critical thinking as a crucial aspect of the competence citizens need to participate in society. First empirical research into the question which instructional... More
pp. 359-379
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Supporting children’s development of cardinality understanding
Vicente Bermejo, Soledad Morales & Jenny Garcia deOsuna
In this study, we use children’s prior knowledge to support their development of cardinality understanding, based on Bermejo’s (1996) model of cardinality understanding and on the... More
pp. 381-398
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Is children’s naive knowledge consistent? A comparison of the concepts of sound and heat
Jacques Lautrey & Karine Mazens
The aim of this study was to shed some light on the organization of naive knowledge, and on the process of conceptual change in everyday physics, more specifically regarding the concepts of sound... More
pp. 399-423
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Students’ perceptions of teacher control behaviours
Perry den Brok, Theo Bergen, Robert J. Stahl & Mieke Brekelmans
Student perceptions of the kind and extent of control in their teachers’ control behaviours during learning activities were investigated. Theorists distinguish between ‘student-initiated’ and ... More
pp. 425-443
