Most colleges and universities require that future elementary school teachers take social studies and science classes. But a new report argues that these requirements may not be well aligned to what ...

Becoming a Further Education teacher allows you to share your knowledge with the next generation of workers (Department for Education) Whether it’s solving a logistical problem, navigating a tricky ...

The origins of American higher education were closely tied to religious and classical traditions. Harvard College, founded in ...

Constructivism is an educational philosophy that deems experience as the best way to acquire knowledge. We truly understand something—according to a constructivist—when we filter it through our senses ...

“Knowledge-building” has become a buzzword in reading instruction. It refers to English/language arts approaches that aim to systematically build students’ understanding of the world—rather than ...

Daniel D. Pratt presents five perspectives on teaching gathered from several years of research across five different countries. These perspectives are presented in both theoretical and practical forms ...

A cynic might think that Research Excellence Framework (REF) funding is pre-allocated to the “usual suspects” – the research intensive league leaders – while Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) funds ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about higher ed issues, leadership, finance, and innovation. Universities are places of teaching and learning, but also of ...

The goals for teaching engineering in US classrooms are both ambitious and varied, but, as explained in chapter 4, the majority of K–12 educators do not currently teach engineering and have little ...

Why are knowledge and human capital becoming a key source of economic growth? How are BRICS countries shaping competing ...