The acquisition of skills is an important part of many new curricula in secondary education.
According to these curricula, students have to acquire the ability to identify, to classify, to …

In our increasingly complex world, independent information collection is very important and
with the help of modern technology this is becoming easier each day. However, it is very …

Education proves more efficient when students acquire procedural knowledge in addition to
declarative knowledge. Procedural knowledge offers opportunities for more and different …

The introduction of new media is changing geography education fast. Especially the introduction
of the Internet offers the opportunity to study almost every place in the world anytime …

The current Dutch curriculum for 15–19-year-old students in the upper levels of secondary
education is completely new, but is it 'millennium proof'? Requiring students to write a …

This article describes the results of a study in which teachers from different subject areas in
two schools agreed to coordinate their efforts in teaching students’ research skills and to vary …

In some recent inquiries in the Netherlands,'Environmental problems' was answer number
one to the question'what is the main problem you face in life?'. Since the end of the Cold War, …

Om tot wereldoriëntatie te komen, is slechts onthouden en begrijpen van feitjes over de
wereld onvoldoende. Leerlingen moeten geografische fenomenen en processen binnen en …

Ondanks de dreigende oorlog weet slechts 13 procent van de jonge Amerikanen waar Irak
ligt op de kaart van het Midden-Oosten en Azië. Met Israël of Afghanistan, waar Amerikanen …