Curriculum planning and development

This book explores the impact of the socio-historical, political, and economic environment in South Africa, both during and after Apartheid.

In Teaching Core Practices in Teacher Education, Pam Grossman and her colleagues advocate an approach to practice-based teacher education that identifies ';core practices' of teaching and supports novice teachers in learning how to enact them competently.

Teach Meaningful is a practical guide to designing curriculum that meets standards, serves personal and institutional values, and intentionally leads to successful student learning.

This book explores four interrelated themes: rethinking civic education in light of the diversity of U.

As has been well illustrated in the other books in this series, the notion of self-study of teaching and teacher education practices has been taken up by teachers and teacher educators as they have searched for new ways of better understanding the complex work of teaching and learning.

This book investigates the market-driven transformation of the higher education sector and the response given by the translation programmes in the UK and China, two vastly different social and economic contexts.

Given the increasing speed of change and the information explosion around the world, this book draws attention to the practice of teaching for conceptual understanding, which has been heralded as an effective approach within many curriculum frameworks.

This fourth international handbook discusses developments not recognized or dealt with fully in the first three Springer Mathematics Education handbooks and tackles controversial issues in the field.

Gerry Stahl Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA The theme of engaged learning with emerging technology is a timely and important one.

This volume deals with innovative developments of many different kinds in the local school systems in the years up to 1970.

Environmental education expert David Sobel joins with a variety of colleagues to share their experiences and steps for creating a successful forest kindergarten program.

In this sixth edition of David J.

This collection of essays generates important enquiries into the teaching and practice of anti-racism education, by way of working through conversations, contestations, and emotions as presented by a diverse group of strong women committed to social justice work in their own right.

A survey of the ways in which misinformation campaigns damage race relations and educational integrity in US public schools and universities and a blueprint for how to counteract such efforts

Based on case studies of 11 societies in the world's most dynamic region, this book signals a new direction of study at the intersection of citizenship education and the curriculum.

Numerous studies indicate that team competencies, based on effective virtual and face-to-face communication, are a key factor for successful IT project work.

Originally published in 1993.

According to author Mike Schmoker, there is a yawning gap between the most well-known essential practices and the reality of most classrooms.

In this timely book, curriculum expert Gerald A.

The Educational Significance of Human and Non-Human Animal Interactions explores human animal/non-human animal interactions from different disciplinary perspectives, from education policy to philosophy of education and ecopedagogy.

This book revisits the 1970 Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, using a new approach of currere and psychoanalytic guided regression.

There is much discussion of multiculturalism in education.

This book is motivated by questions of how arts and cultural education-like all other fields-are affected by and-together with other fields-can contribute to glocal developments, challenges, and shifts.

The new millennium presents us with unexpected events that challenge us to think and act in different ways.

Would you like to ignite the inquisitive nature of your students?

Looking for Learning: Maths through Play is a full-colour, practical guide linked to current policy and the EYFS framework.

Winner of the 2021 Association for Writing Across the Curriculum/WAC Clearinghouse award for Best WAC MonographA 2008 survey of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) programs found that nearly half of those identified in a 1987 survey no longer existed twenty years later, pointing to a need for an approach to WAC administration that leads to programs that persist over time.

The curriculum is not a recipe or compendium of what should be taught in a particular grade or at a particular level.

This book explores and builds on the extraordinary work of Professor Paul Black across assessment and pedagogy across the curriculum, including STEM, humanities and social science subjects.

The book makes an important contribution to the discourse on student experience in higher education.

This book synthesizes theoretical perspectives, empirical evidence and practical strategies for improving teacher education in chemistry.

This book examines the idea of 'good education' which is thought to include a scientific and technical component, a mathematical component, a writing component, and an ethical and aesthetic component.

One of Americas greatest challenges is to reverse the steep decline of the intellectual performance of its young men.

This volume reflects on the role played by textbooks in the complex relationship between war and education from a historical and multinational perspective, asking how textbook content and production can play a part in these processes.

Published in 1975, Margaret Mathieson has drawn on her experience both in schools and in the training of English teachers to relate the discussions and writings of the previous two centuries to the debate, probably livelier than ever before, among English practitioners about the role of their subject.

Many introductory texts claim to make sociology relevant to student interests.

Have you ever wondered why students too often have only a rudimentary understanding of mathematics, why even rich and exciting hands-on learning does not always result in "e;real"e; learning of new concepts?

The restructuring of teaching is a global issue, the result of a transnational movement of policy.

Under-achievement in maths is a growing concern for many teachers.

Planning for authentic learning begins with engaging children.

This text looks at each national curriculum subject and analyzes it in terms of culture and ideology represented.

As one of the experimental projects initiated by Springer Nature for AI book content generation, this book is the result of a collaboration between a human editor and an artificial intelligence algorithm to create a machine-generated literature overview of research articles analyzing the importance of reconfiguring, restructuring and re-evolving educational practices.

This book, the seventeenth instalment in the 24-volume series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, explores the interrelationship between ideology, the state and human rights education reforms, setting it in a global context.

During this uncertain time, teacher education has never been more needed for West-East dialogues and Reciprocal Learning.

Embrace the cycle of the seasons with children.

This edited book makes an epistemic claim that disability studies' approaches to curriculum are doing more than merely critiquing how privileged knowledge excludes disability from curriculum theory and praxis.