The nursing education literature has also focused mostly on the technical aspects of nursing education reform – changes in qualifications, competencies, curricula, and pedagogy, for example – but commented little on the politics and processes of nursing education reform.
Recent calls for science education reform recommend a shift to more active learning pedagogies that encourage students to learn by solving problems or being actively engaged in the process of experimentation as opposed to the traditional lecture reliant on content delivery.
Henderson et al. (2011) found the most common change strategies documented in STEM education reform efforts fall in to one of the following categories: dissemination of curriculum and pedagogy, encouragement of teachers' use of their own expertise to improve instruction, and the enactment of new policy.
Comenius realized that, to achieve pansophia by universal education, radical reforms in pedagogy and in the organization of schools were required, and he devised an all-embracing school system to meet this need.
Thus, while exploring the political rationalities of Taiwan's education reformers, this study also seeks to gain an in-depth understanding of Taiwanese policymakers' perspectives on supporting science teachers to implement the reform-based curriculum and pedagogies.
These data support the observations on increased cognitive activity levels, supporting the idea that reform pedagogy and neuroscience engage and motivate students.
Classroom observations following BrainU 101 indicated teachers not only implemented neuroscience lessons in their courses, but they adopted many of the techniques of reform pedagogy.
A wave of new participants - social entrepreneurs, private businesses, investment funds, foundations, and advocacy groups - are taking the lead in introducing new pedagogies, new technologies, and structural reforms in their education systems.
In the same vein, the reform policy documents indicated that teacher-education programs were meant to prepare science teachers to effectively implement the reform-based pedagogy.
Moreover, providing professional resources to teachers through setting up local teaching communities was an important strategy for promoting the reform-based pedagogy.
