Università della Svizzera italiana

Confidence in technology use : the development and validation of a technological, pedagogical, and content self-efficacy scale for teachers

Fanni, Francesca ; Cantoni, Lorenzo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014COM007.

This thesis is positioned at the intersection of education, technology, and motivation research fields, specifically in the context of K-12 teaching. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between teachers’ self- efficacy and their technology use, and design and validate a self-efficacy measure to assess teachers’ beliefs about technology use in their profession. This...

Haute Ecole pédagogique Fribourg

L’éducation en vue d’un développement durable dans la formation des enseignants en Suisse : entre directives ministérielles et mises en oeuvre pratiques

Pellaud, Francine ; Bourqui, François ; Gremaud, Bertrand ; Rolle, Lionel

In: Vertigo : la revue électronique en sciences de l'environnement, 2013, no. Hors-série 13, p. 1-19

By presenting the Swiss school system and its specificities concerning education for sustainable development, this article discusses the theoretical foundations of that education. It also presents the concrete avenues offered to students of the Haute école pédagogique (HEP) of Fribourg, responsible for the training of future primary school teachers in this township. An important role in the...

Université de Fribourg

‘Taking culture seriously’: implications for intercultural education and training

Ogay, Tania ; Edelmann, Doris

In: European Journal of Teacher Education, 2016, vol. 39, no. 3, p. 388-400

Albeit indispensable to understanding human action, the concept of culture has suffered from excessive enthusiasm in the fields of intercultural education as well as in intercultural teacher training, leading too often to culturalist stances. These excesses of intercultural education and training as well as their contradictory message (between praising and minimising – even ignoring –...

Haute Ecole pédagogique Fribourg

Une typologie des traces numériques utilisées par de futurs enseignants = A typology of digital traces used by future teachers

Coen, Pierre-François ; Bouzenada Sottas, Céline

In: Questions vives, 2019, no. 31, p. 1-19

In order to build links between theory and practice and develop their self-assessment skills and reflection, students of the High Pedagogical School (HEP-FR) have to prepare a learning folder. Thereby, they are encouraged to collect data (pictures, videos, paper) of their activities (especially when they are on field training) and to reflect upon the theoretical concepts seen during the courses....

Università della Svizzera italiana

Using Self-Efficacy to measure primary school teachers’ perception of ICT : results from two studies

Fanni, Francesca ; Rega, Isabella ; Cantoni, Lorenzo

In: International journal of education and development using ICT, 2013, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 100-111

The aim of this article is twofold. First, the final results of two research projects, which investigated the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on primary schools teachers in disadvantaged areas in Brazil (BET k-12) and South Africa (MELISSA), are presented and discussed. Second, the Self-Efficacy construct is proposed as a tool to measure how teachers’ perception of...