Inspired by a similar book in science education, the editors of this volume have put together a book with a practice-oriented approach towards technology education research.
This volume presents the "e;state-of-the-art"e; of Nordic research on mathematics education within four broadly defined areas: * the study and design of mathematics teaching in classrooms * the identity and education of mathematics teachers * the use of new technology in mathematics education * meanings and challenges of providing mathematical education to all citizens in modern societies.
On the Outskirts of Engineering: Learning Identity, Gender, and Power via Engineering Practice falls at the intersection of research about women in sites of technical practice and ethnographic studies of learning in communities of practice.
This book arises from the author's experience of the South African science curriculum development and teaching since 1994, exploring definitions of science and approaches to science education appropriate to a newly liberated developing country.
Worldwide efforts to improve students' learning of mathematics have turned educational researchers' attention to some high-achieving education systems, especially those in East Asia including Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.
Christopher Emdin is an assistant professor of science education and director of secondary school initiatives at the Urban Science Education Center at Teachers College, Columbia University.
This edited book on ethics represents the outcomes of an international collaborative project that examined the role and place of bioethics in science and technology curricula.
In this volume scholars from diverse strands of research have contributed their perspectives on a process of mathematisation, which renders social, economical or political relationships increasingly formal.
The history of human development records the courageous efforts made by the generation of teacher educators to train the school leaders who are responsible to implement educational policies.
Researchers from all over the world are fascinated by the question on how to design powerful learning environments and how to effectively integrate computers in instruction.
Science Inquiry, Argument and Language describes research that has focused on addressing the issue of embedding language practices within science inquiry through the use of the Science Writing Heuristic approach.
In this book, the authors argue that science concepts are more than what lecturers say and write on the board-science concepts cannot be abstracted from the complex performances that take place in the classroom.
This book is a compilation of papers from the inaugural International Science Education Conference held at the National Institute of Education (Singapore).
In this engaging and well crafted book, Change Agents in Science Education situates the science educator in dynamic social, political, and cultural environments where individuals are engaged in science for change.
In this book, Wolff-Michael Roth takes a 38-minute conversation in one science classroom as an occasion for analyzing learning and development from a perspective by and large inspired by the works of Mikhail Bakhtin but also influenced by Lev Vygotsky and 20th century European phenomenology and American pragmatism.
To understand a living system, such as a tree, in an ecologically systemic way involves more than simply reducing the tree down to its parts or by analyzing the tree from part to whole.
In this book, the reader is invited to enter a strange world in which you can tell the age of the captain by counting the animals on his ship, where runners do not get tired, and where water gets hotter when you add it to other water.
Every four years, beginning in 1984, the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) produces a review of Australasian research in mathematics education.
This book brings together selected papers from a conference focusing on Redesigning Pedagogy, organized by the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, National Institute of Education, Singapore.
This narrative about the research journey explores the motivation to study practices of environmental education and the privilege that supports the authors ability to do so.
Over the recent years, identity has become one of the most central theoretical concept and topics of scholarship in a number of disciplines, including science education.
The Finnish students'success in the first PISA 2000 evaluation was a surprise to most of the Finns, and even people working in teacher education and educational administration had difficulties to believe that this situation would continue.
This book presents a coherent collection of research studies on teacher knowledge and its relation to instruction and learning in middle-grades mathematics.
Mathematics education research has blossomed into many different areas which we can see in the programmes of the ICME conferences as well as in the various survey articles in the Handbooks.
Critical mathematics education brings together a series of concerns related to mathematics and its role in society, the practices of teaching and learning of mathematics in educational settings, and the practices of researching mathematics education.
The author takes readers on a journey of a large number of issues in designing actual studies of knowing and learning in the classroom, exploring actual data, and putting readers face to face with problems that he actually or possibly encountered, and what he has done or possibly could have done.
The success of Problem Based Learning and Project Organised learning (PBL) as an educational method in the field of Higher Engineering Education is clear and beyond any doubt.
In this book, Ubiratan D'Ambrosio presents his most recent thoughts on ethnomathematics-a sub-field of mathematics history and mathematics education for which he is widely recognized to be one of the founding fathers.
This first volume in the International Technology Education Series offers a unique, worldwide collection of national surveys into the developments of Technology Education in the past two decades.
