Curriculum planning and development

This inclusive, cross-cultural study rethinks the nexus between engineering, development, and culture.

Developmental Education is an approach to education in school that aims at promoting children's cultural development and their abilities to participate autonomously and well-informed in the cultural practices of their community.

In this book we outline an optimistic, aspirational and unashamedly ambitious agenda for schooling.

The focus of this book is the fundamental influence of the cyphering tradition on mathematics education in North American colleges, schools, and apprenticeship training classes between 1607 and 1861.

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities.

Core concepts in education are changing.

This book synthesizes research findings on patterns in the last twenty years or so in order to argue for a theory of graded representations in pattern generalization.

Developed in the context of health sciences education in the late 1960s, problem-based learning (PBL) is now widely deployed as an education methodology.

Argumentation-arriving at conclusions on a topic through a process of logical reasoning that includes debate and persuasion- has in recent years emerged as a central topic of discussion among science educators and researchers.

This book consolidates contemporary thinking and research efforts in teaching and learning about the nature of science in science education.

Exemplifying what it advocates, this book is an innovative attempt to retrieve the essay form from its degenerate condition in academic writing.

Socio-scientific issues (SSI) are open-ended, multifaceted social issues with conceptual links to science.

How are curriculum policies translated into opportunities to learn in the classroom?

Advances in Business Education & Training is a Book Series to foster advancement in the field of Business Education and Training.

How are students in Asia and the Pacific taught to be effective citizens?

This book discusses the recent assessment movements in the eastern and western worlds with particular focuses on the policies, implementation, and impacts of assessment reform on education.

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities.

Within educational research that seeks to understand the quality and effectiveness of teachers and school, the role emotions play in educational change and school improvement has become a subject of increasing importance.

The contributing authors of this multidisciplinary text agree that workplace learning truly is extraordinary when it is marked by structural congruence and a positive synergy among the intended and formal preparation of professionals, that tacit learning occurs within the hidden curriculum, and that the subsequent demands, both formal and tacit, are embedded in subsequent workplace settings.

Shift happens: Emerging technologies and globalization have resulted in political, social and cultural changes.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of selected research concerning global and comparative trends in dominant discourses on human rights education.

Globalisation and Historiography of National Leaders: Symbolic Representations in School Textbooks, the 18th book in the 24-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, explores the interrelationship between ideology, national identity, national history and historical heroes, setting it in a global context.

This book explores the interrelationship between ideology, the state, and education reforms, placing it in a global context.

Globalisation and National Identity in History Textbooks: The Russian Federation, the 16th book in the 24-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, discusses trends in dominant discourses of identity politics, and nation-building in school history textbooks in the Russian Federation (RF).

This book offers an accessible, practical and engaging guide that provides sample instructional activities supported by theoretical background information, with a focus on the nature of the instructional process in relation to several variables.

This volume captures the spirit of collaboration and innovation that its authors bring into the classroom, as well as to groundbreaking undergraduate programs and initiatives.

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities.

It is seventeen years since I first formulated 'The paradox of the Chinese learner' in a conference in Kathmandu, Nepal.

The Politics of Education Reforms, which is the ninth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses concerning the politics of education reforms globally.

Globalisation, Ideology and Education Policy Reforms, which is the 11th volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses concerning globalisation and the politics of education reforms.

Global Pedagogies: Schooling for the Future, which is the twelfth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses in comparative education research with reference to globalisation, educational policy and classroom pedagogy.

Environmental education and education for sustainable development have become features of many countries' formal education systems.

This book, which is the eighth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses in decentralisation, school-based management (SBM) and quality in education globally.

What are the future possibilities for the standing of professional practice as it faces growingly problematic markets for services, complex demands for managerial accountability and control, and problematic circumstances and expectations in its ethical and self-regulative governance?

Global Values Education: Teaching Democracy and Peace , which is the seventh volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses in v alues edu- tion globally.

While there is growing awareness of the efficacy of the science of reading, teachers may feel overwhelmed by the volume of research on literacy.

This book explores how school leadership plays a significant role in addressing the issues of poor learning among students in India.

Esta publicación es el resultado del trabajo de toda la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide, UPO (profesorado, alumnado, PAS y tutores externos), que, con los diferentes equipos decanales que han ocupado el cargo de innovación y responsabilidad de estos proyectos (desde el 2009 al 2015), han gestionado y dinamizado las tres fases del proyecto que aquí se presenta.

La educacion siempre tiene consecuencias para el desarrollo personal y social.

Este libro es un manual de orientación educativa que recoge los pilares teóricos y prácticos que necesita conocer un profesional de la orientación para abordar esta compleja labor en el siglo XXI.

La enseñanza en la formación docente.

En todo el mundo, el currículo -ciencias duras, ciencias sociales y humanidades- ha sido dominado y legitimado por el predominio occidental de prácticas y discursos eurocéntricos anglófonos.

¿Cómo se forma un investigador?

Este libro, como indica su título, recoge algunas cuestiones relacionadas con una problemática educativa y escolar preocupante en nuestros días como es el desenganche (disengagement) o desafección de los estudiantes por sus aprendizajes escolares.

En las últimas décadas, la tendencia internacional de las políticas educativas estuvo orientada a generar mejores condiciones para garantizar el derecho a la educación de los sectores sociales más afectados por las desigualdades sociales y educativas.

La Educación Física escolar se ha constituido en los últimos veinte años, siguiendo un proceso similar al de otras disciplinas escolares, en un campo de estudio e investigación, por tanto área de conocimiento, dejando atrás su ligazón con el mero activismo físico e integrándose al corpus de las llamadas didácticas especiales, desde el potencial educativo y educable del cuerpo y la motricidad.

Estudios criticos del curriculo.

Desde el enfoque que pretende el desarrollo pedagógico de la escritura, es decir, para su enseñanza, interesa conocer todos los procesos implicados en la comunicación escrita.

Para ejercer la docencia musical en el área de la Educación Especial, los profesores de música cuentan con herramientas poco suficientes, y deben recurrir a la intuición para llevar a la práctica un tipo de enseñanza que sea lo suficientemente flexible para efectuar las adaptaciones adecuadas, según las poblaciones con necesidades educativas especiales con las que trabajan.