Education for Sustainability is a key priority in today's schools, as our society seeks to find a balance between environmental, social, cultural, political and economic imperatives that affect our future.
The STEM Students on the Stage (SOS)(TM) model was developed by Harmony Public Schools with the goal of teaching rigorous content in an engaging, fun and effective way.
Scientific literacy is approached on the premise that language is key to understand the nature of both learning and participation, in scientists' practices as well as in liberal education for citizenship.
This volume presents distinctive, innovative models of teacher education from Australia, discusses their successful elements and considers possibilities for successful teacher education in the twenty-first century.
This book provides science teacher educators and science educational researchers with a current overview on the roles of beliefs in science education settings.
This book provides professional development leaders and teachers with a framework for integrating authentic real-world performance tasks into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) classrooms.
To naturalists, there is no such thing as complete justification for any claim, and so requiring complete warrant for naturalist proposals is an unreasonable request.
Current research into student learning in science has shifted attention from the traditional cognitivist perspectives of conceptual change to socio-cultural and semiotic perspectives that characterize learning in terms of induction into disciplinary literacy practices.
This second edition of Project-Based Learning (PBL) presents an original approach to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) centric PBL.
The Language of Science Education: An Expanded Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts in Science Teaching and Learning is written expressly for science education professionals and students of science education to provide the foundation for a shared vocabulary of the field of science teaching and learning.
In this careful articulation of science, the editors provide an intellectual marriage of Indigenous science and science education in the African context as a way of revising schooling and education.
This series aims to provide a rich scientific subject to help schools, teachers, students and those interested in preparing outstanding talented students who have a passion for mathematics to participate in the field of international mathematics competitions.
Language, Literacy, and Learning in STEM Education brings together a range of applied linguistic researchers and projects that address the interface among language studies, science, engineering, and education.
Durante las últimas décadas, la globalización y la revolución de las nuevas tecnologías han marcado un antes y un después en las formas de articulación del poder.
El objetivo de esta obra es proporcionar al estudiante un completo y ameno panorama de los campos fundamentales de la matemática y la física y química, a través de gran cantidad de ilustraciones acompañadas de unas breves notas que explican de una forma lógica y sencilla la parte teórica, así como muchas de las aplicaciones prácticas que hoy día se encuentran en las actividades más diversas de la vida diaria y que han contribuido al fantástico progreso de la humanidad.
Un libro sumamente claro, sencillo y muy bien estructurado que explica detalladamente, y con un enfoque profundamente humanista, todos las etapas evolutivas del desarrollo de la personalidad, desde el periodo prenatal y el nacimiento hasta la adolescencia.
La danza del tiempo es un álbum lleno de imaginación y también de información, que resultará útil para padres y profesores que quieran adentrarse con los niños en un viaje diferente a través del sistema solar.
The Descent Of Man Charles Darwin - In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of language, of our social structures and our moral capacities, he attempts to show that there is no clear dividing line between animals and humans.
One of the finest history books for children, this well-loved Hillyer classic features stories of world history from prehistoric man through the 20th century, inspiring an appreciation of how events relate to one another.
