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tandfonline.com – Exploring the concept of teaching sea travel: Experiences from Valverde and Montecristi, Dominican Republic

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tandfonline.com har udgivet en rapport under søgningen “Teacher Education Mathematics”: ABSTRACT ABSTRACT This article presents the results of a case study in the Dominican Republic on the educational applications of seascapes as content for teaching about the indigenous peoples, the Amerindians, also referred to in the school curriculum as the first inhabitants. This study applied base knowledge theory to investigate how teachers’ practice can benefit from using archaeological evidence and theory as an instructional strategy. To this end, we utilized participatory action research methods to involve teachers in the process of exploring activities to test whether teachers could apply these topics and strategies to their own classroom setting. Finally, this paper contributes to a growing field of research in Archaeology Education, in which educators are partners with researchers in transferring… Continue Reading →

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tandfonline.com – Inequalities in school leavers’ labour market outcomes: do school subject choices matter?

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tandfonline.com har udgivet en rapport under søgningen “Teacher Education Mathematics”: Abstract Abstract Despite a wide international literature on the effect of vocational and general education on school-to-work transition, relatively little is known about the role of having studied specific subjects in explaining inequalities in young people’s labour market outcomes. This paper aims to fill this gap by examining differences in employment chances of young people who left education early, either at the end of compulsory schooling or at the end of secondary school. Using data from the Scottish Longitudinal Study, a large-scale linkage study created using data from administrative and statistical sources, we found little gender differences but strong parental background differences in school leavers’ employment status and type of occupation entered. Social inequalities in labour market outcomes were only… Continue Reading →