This study reviewed empirical research conducted in Second Life by educators since
Second Life's launch in 2003. The study's purpose was to identify how Second Life is being …

Constructivism has been a very powerful model for explaining how knowledge is produced
in the world as well as how students learn. Moreover, constructivist teaching practices are …

This article reviews the use of constructivism in traditional brick-and-mortar classrooms, as
opposed to the online learning environment. The applicability of constructivism to nursing …

In the past few decades, a constructivist discourse has emerged as a very powerful model
for explaining how knowledge is produced in the world, as well as how students learn. 1 For …

Educators in professional degree programs are charged with multiple responsibilities in the
classroom and in practice settings. We apply our professional knowledge in a variety of …

This article examines the implications of teachers' beliefs about knowledge. We compare
three epistemological world views we refer to as realist, contextualist, and relativist. An …

During the past 10 years, Jeanne Chall [see A Tribute to Jeanne Chall, in this issue]
encouraged me to focus on the study of vocabulary and how vocabulary growth might be …

In this article, we advance a model of project-based learning (PJBL) offering eight guiding
principles to support a pragmatic and principled approach to teacher preparation at the …

To optimize translanguaging pedagogies, particularly in English‐only environments,
teachers need to scaffold translanguaging activities and help students recognize that …

Background Early childhood teachers' child-centered beliefs, defined as teachers' attitudes
about how children learn, have been associated with teachers' developmentally appropriate …