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.
Hit the open road with I Truck: A Big Rig's Epic Trip-an action-packed picture book that celebrates the power, purpose, and adventure of trucking across America.
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.
Using autobiographical accounts acquired from her extensive career in education, the author has explored the multi-faceted influences on teacher career motivation and professional development in special and inclusive education in China.
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.
Hit the open road with I Truck: A Big Rig's Epic Trip-an action-packed picture book that celebrates the power, purpose, and adventure of trucking across America.
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.
Attention has increasingly turned to the preparation and ongoing education of early childhood educators as governments have become increasingly aware of the importance of early childhood education as a key part of educational provision.
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.
