Conversations with the Mathematics Curriculum: Testing and Teacher Development
This paper addresses the question: how do mathematics teachers make meaning from curriculum statements in relation to their teaching practices. We report on a teacher development activity in which teachers mapped test items from an international test against the national curriculum statement in mathematics. About 50 mathematics teachers across Grades 3-9 worked in small groups with a... more
Fostering Cross-institutional Collaboration for Open Educational Resources Production
Although there are over a quarter of a million open courses published by an increasing number of universities, it remains unclear whether Open Education Resources (OER) is scalable and productively sustainable. The challenge is compounded when OER is examined in the light of its potential to allow both educators and learners in developing countries to contribute geographically bound learning... more
Guide to gaining ethical consent from patients for content released as OER
OER Africa has developed a guide for OER creators to obtain consent from patients who participate in an OER project. The guide covers general ethical principles to consider as well the importance of obtaining consent in line with the cultural context within which one is working. more
Understand school leadership and governance in the South African context (PDF)
This module gives an overview of what management and leadership is about in a school setting. As an aspiring principal it begins a process of developing understanding about the challenges that face principals on a daily basis and allows you to also explore your own realities and decide on new and better action. In addition, you will look at some of the international trends in management and... more
Managing teaching and learning: ACE School Management and Leadership (PDF)
This module is about the management of teaching and learning. We begin by exploring the school as a learning organization and promoting a culture of learning and teaching, which is dedicated to constant renewal and improvement. We will also tackle the issue of context, and will look at the ways in which the physical environment of the school impacts on the quality of learning. This leads us... more
Creating a Caring School: Toolkit Cover
This resource is comprised of two companion components, the guide and the toolkit. The guide is intended to assist school leadership and management to understand why and how a particular strategy, method, or idea is useful, and not to be just a ?how to? manual of tips. Yet the resource as a whole is at the same time intended to be relevant at all times to the context and practice of the... more
Curriculum: Organizing Knowledge for the Classroom. Section 6
Section 6 is a particularly useful springboard for constructing a module on curriculum because: * Knowledge, when all is said and done, is /the/ central issue in curriculum. Teachers have to be able to organize knowledge. * Section 6 introduces theoretical tools for understanding curriculum concepts. These concepts are invaluable tools for practitioners’ use in understanding the... more
Using Linked Household-level Datasets to Explain Consumer Response to BSE in Canada
Household-level Canadian meat purchases from 2002-2008, household-level egg purchases from 2002-2005 and Food Opinion Survey in 2008 were used to understand how consumers who have different concerns about nutrition react to BSE events and how beef consumption after BSE discoveries were shaped by consumers concerns of food safety and their trust of government and the industry decision makers... more
Agrifood Industry as Industry Intensively Based on Knowledge - Case Study of Vojvodina
During three-hundred-year history of the market economy, the main sources of wealth creation have changed from the natural resources (mainly land and relatively unskilled labor with the exception of the master craftsman), tangible material assets (buildings, machinery and equipment, funds) to intangible assets (knowledge and information of all types) that may be contained in the people,... more
Risk Classification in Animal Disease Prevention: Who Benefits from Differentiated Policy?
Risk classification of livestock farms can help stakeholders design and implement risk management measures according to the possessed risk. Our goal is to examine how differently pig farms may contribute to the societal costs of an animal disease outbreak, how valuable this information is to different stakeholders, and how it can be used to target risk management measures. We show that the... more
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