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De nye PISA-målinger viser et bekymrende fald i danske skoleelevers matematikkompetencer. En del af løsningen kan være toårige forskningsbaserede og praksisrettede kompetenceudviklingsforløb for matematiklærere og -vejledere på alle grundskoler,…

Gruppen der skal udarbejde det første systematiske review fra clearinghouse om pædagogisk anvendelse af testresultater, vil bestå af forskere fra alle de skandinaviske lande.

Det naturfaglige niveau i folkeskolen skal forbedres ved at den faglige kultur på skolerne og i lokalmiljøet bliver styrket. Men hvis man ikke giver lærerne tid og resurser til arbejdet, er det kun de stærke skoler, der får noget ud af indsatsen.

A group of researchers won an EU-award for a project that moved vocational counselling into the workplaces. Peter Plant from the DPU is among the researchers who use vocational counselling as a means to bring life-long learning to everyone.

European researchers' freedom to challenge authorities and established truths will come under fire as we further expand on the already popular collaborations between European and Chinese universities. So says Dr. Edward Vickers, PhD in Educational…

Many people think that music teaching improves children's learning of language and mathematics, but there is little hard evidence to support this belief. Professor Frede V. Nielsen presents his arguments for why the Mozart-effect may be a myth after…

We live in a democratic knowledge society, but there is still room for improvement. According to associate professor Anne-Marie Eggert Olsen from the Department of Educational Philosophy, life would be easier if democracy played a reduced role and…

Those who bully and their victims get all the attention, but the quiet acceptance from the witnesses is a requirement for bullying to take place at all. In that light, it makes sense to consider bullying a social rather than individual problem,…

An increasing number of university students allow themselves to be tempted by the rapidly growing amount of knowledge available on the Internet, and stoop to copying others' work for their own university papers. The problem is manifest in the United…

Professor Dietrich Benner from the Humboldt University of Berlin believes that Humboldt's notions of Bildung and autonomous research are still valid today. He also, however, believes that we have to distinguish between various types of knowledge and…