The participants (n = 72) were randomly divided and ushered into either one of two identically designed laboratories, thereby forming the enthusiastic pedagogical agent group (n = 38) or the neutral pedagogical agent group (n = 34).
Firenze's intervention included content lectures, pedagogical practice, group work, laboratory work, field trips, and multi-media presentations.
Such scenarios, defined as Units of Learning (UoLs), comprise different components and are organized according to pedagogical approaches to orchestrate group learning processes.
The principal tenet of specific purposes language teaching (LSP) is that of 'specificity': each pedagogical situation and each group of learners is considered to be new and different.
Findings that met the project's aims included revelations of action resulting from wide gaze awareness in communication strategies, seeing respectfulness in transitory learning moments and showing educator's pedagogical awareness of the group of infants.
The method of continuous and uninterrupted filming used to track transitory activities of a focus infant, allowed possibilities for understanding pedagogical dimensions of collectivity and group interaction and, at the same time, also heightened the need for researcher sensitivity to social contexts present in the site.
The non-academic and 'grey' literature on violence prevention education among men tends to emphasise the need for male-only groups and, certainly, there are pedagogical and political advantages to single-sex groups (Flood, Fergus, and Heenan 2009).
In Hungary, for example, the core practitioners who work with under-threes are trained specifically to work in a pedagogical way with this age-group, as is the educatrice in Italy.
PE teachers receive a one-day in-service workshop to train them in delivery of the Y-PATH programme with their first year class groups, with specific pedagogical emphasis on the use of motivational strategies within their teaching such as those detailed above.
