This article investigates the way (catholic) religion and youth are represented in different Flemish newspapers. The case of World Youth Day (WYD) 2005 offers a well-defined corpus, which is very suitable for an analysis of the discourse on religion, youth and media. Based on a linguistic analysis of the corpus, we have been able to describe the representation given to the WYD, of the presenc…
News has parts and each part gives information about what happened and what happens . For that reason , the study focuses on the second part of news which is lead . Lead is somehow short and brief in order to shed light on some points of the news leaving other points to the paragraphs that come after . To explain the pragmatic aspects of leads , this study shows the influence of using maxims an…
Teaching is characterized as such activity which is undertaken with the rationale of bringing about learning. Teaching is among one the ways by which education is achieved; the common ingredient of education is teaching. This paper provides reviews of findings on microteaching and provides suggestions. It aimed (i) to examine the application of microteaching in teacher education programs, (ii) …
Purpose: This study examined the extent to which teacher responsivity education affected preschoolers' language and literacy development over an academic year. Additional aims were to determine whether children's initial language abilities and teachers' use of responsivity strategies were associated with language outcomes, in particular. Method: In this randomized controlled trial, preschool…
We are presently witnessing a great shift in how young people learn and in the benefits that social software has to offer. New technologies can augment and build on traditional forms of social learning, giving birth to an improved and more multifaceted approach to knowledge acquisition that complements the current more general shift toward an increasingly technological world. The purpose of thi…
Education is a process of living through a continuous reconstruction of experiences. It is the development of all those capacities in the individual, which will enable him to control his environment and fulfill his possibilities. Education, in its limited sense, included and influences deliberately planned, chosen and employed by the community for the welfare of its coming generations. The purp…
In this article, the need for teacher education programmes to offer support for the development of pre-service teacher agency is discussed in order to enable prospective teachers to operate agentically in their professional contexts. Using Priestley et al.'s (2015) ecological framework for teacher agency, I reflect on the extent to which I achieve this goal in my own teacher education context a…