In our article, we refer to the interrelation between upbringing and education, within the context of an emerging paradigm of upbringing as a new construct. First we discuss upbringing in the digital era. Then, we state ...

Rapid technological developments ask for so called 21st century skills or competences to prepare citizens for living, working and learning in our current society. Due to these changes many countries worldwide are in the ...

The aim of this article is to examine what resources teachers mobilize when contextualizing instruction. In this instructional method, teachers use students' everyday experiences as tools for teaching subject matter at ...

As digital technologies continue transforming the time and space boundaries that traditionally had been ascribed to different educational settings, the very notion of learning context also is being challenged in educational ...

In this chapter we review key conceptual frameworks that address the challenges of society in contemporary discussions about the curriculum. The central question guiding the chapter is “What should be taught and learned ...

In this article we argue that, for educators in design, urbanism and sustainability, the responsibility of connecting emergent design practice and changing societal needs into pedagogical activities demands that attention ...

In this article we explore the dynamic between the pedagogical and the urban, attending to ‘agentive urban learning’. By this we mean processes by which young people build agency in the urban context, in using the resources ...