This book shares exemplary teaching and learning practices from the tertiary sector, and addresses important issues concerning quality, scholarship and innovation in teaching and learning in tertiary settings.
The tenth edition of the four-yearly review of mathematics education research in Australasia, compiled by the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA), critically reviews research in mathematics education in the four years from 2016 to 2019.
This cutting edge book considers how advances in technologies and new media have transformed our perception of education, and focuses on the impact of the privatisation of digital tools as a mean of knowledge production.
This book examines current context-specific trends and developments in empirical research on arts education and arts in education, in order to evaluate and create responsive approaches to future global challenges.
This book brings together fifteen contributions from presenters at the 25th IUPAC International Conference on Chemistry Education 2018, held in Sydney.
This book shares global perspectives on Catholic religious education in schools, chiefly focusing on educational and curriculum issues that take into account the theology and the pedagogy which support learning in connection with Catholic religious education.
This book provides a one-stop resource for mathematics educators, policy makers and all who are interested in learning more about the why, what and how of mathematics education in Singapore.
This book is a Festschrift for Emeritus Professor Stephen Kemmis, who has a long and eminent career as an educational researcher and academic spanning over 40 years.
This cutting edge book considers how advances in technologies and new media have transformed our perception of education, and focuses on the impact of the privatisation of digital tools as a mean of knowledge production.
This book offers international readers a comprehensive introduction to higher education in China, and will help readers around the globe make sense of the huge and complex machinery that makes up the university and college sector in China today.
This book discusses the discipline standards of History in Australian universities in order to help historians understand the Threshold Learning Outcomes and to assist in their practical application.
In a frank contemplation as she nears the end of her shortened course of life, educator Sie Siok Hui reveals moments of epiphany while honing her craft and examines critical factors in the curriculum design process.
This book provides a collection of critical pieces that support the idea that good teaching and learning of geography in fieldwork and using technology should consider the dimensions of curriculum design, instructional design and resource provision, as well as assessment for such learning activities.
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.
This book introduces Chinese educational reforms and developments rolled out in the year 2014, examining them from both macro and micro perspectives and pursuing a mixed-methods approach.
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 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.
There is much discussion about what needs to change in education institutions in the 21st century, but less attention given to how core disciplinary studies should be considered within that context.
With the ninth edition of the four-yearly review of mathematics education research in Australasia, the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) discusses the Australasian research in mathematics education in the four years from 2012-2015.
La finalidad de este libro es provocar, incitar y estimular el diálogo respetuoso y altruista con los profesores y con nosotros mismos, pero un diálogo crítico y reflexivo, que nos permita cuestionar nuestra propia práctica pedagógica y comprender las teorías del aprendizaje y modelos pedagógicos que subyacen en ella.
El presente libro es el resultado de un proyecto de investigación diseñado y ejecutado por los investigadores de la Red de Programas de Psicología de la Orinoquía, quienes se plantearon documentar los principales aspectos del desarrollo histórico de los programas de Psicología (relacionados con las funciones de docencia, investigación y proyección social) en el departamento del Meta.
Este libro recoge las practicas de diseño curricular en seis programas académicos de ingeniería electrónica del suroccidente colombianos, que admiten ser caracterizadas desde las variables de fundamentación y de estructuración, incluyendo buena parte de las subvariables e indicadores considerados para cada una.
La presente obra permite develar las comprensiones en dos instituciones oficiales de educación básica y media de Colombia en torno a dos asustos de permanente actualidad: la praxis curricular y las competencias, como aquellos escenarios que por su misma naruraleza nos pone en la esfera de lo aplicado, demostrativo y actuado.
La elaboración de un currículo intercultural para las comunidades afrocolombianas, parte de la convicción de ser capaces de revalorar lo propio, cristalizado en los saberes que se han heredado por medio de la palabra "dicha" de una generación a otra.
Este libro es resultado de un proceso investigativo decolonial a partir de nuestra reflexión como docentes en una institución educativa de Tucurinca, en el municipio de Zona Bananera, Magdalena.
La elaboración de un currículo intercultural para las comunidades afrocolombianas, parte de la convicción de ser capaces de revalorar lo propio, cristalizado en los saberes que se han heredado por medio de la palabra "dicha" de una generación a otra.
A través del estudio de la Evolución Humana o Paleoantropología, el libro invita a aproximarnos a una disciplina fascinante constantemente gracias al descubrimiento de nuevos fósiles, de comportamientos que no habíamos observado en otros primates, de la aplicación de la Genética y de otras Ciencias, permitiendo una mejor comprensión de nuestro pasado y de nuestro presente.
"Esta obra brinda información a familiares, profesores, cuidadores, profesionales y todas aquellas personas interesadas en convertir espacios cotidianos de la casa, el barrio o contextos sociales, en espacios para que niños y niñas puedan, de manera libre y espontánea, jugar, disfrutar, crear y explorar.
Este libro presenta un conjunto de elaboraciones teóricas y reflexivas escritas por los docentes de las facultades las cuales buscan sistematizar el conocimiento y la experiencia académica acerca de la investigación sus procesos problematizaciones y posibilidades.
La esencia de la inter y la transdisciplinariedad es la construcción o producción de conocimiento para enfrentar problemas que requieren de una mirada múltiple -los llamados problemas complejos- y ofrecer soluciones, o para buscar una perspectiva holística en medio de la creciente compartimentación del saber en especialidades cada vez más alejadas unas de otras.
Tras el renacer que ha experimentado el pensamiento del italiano Antonio Gramsci en las últimas décadas, la presente investigación explora los aportes que el pensamiento del intelectual italiano puede hacer a la disciplina-profesión del trabajo social.
This volume examines what and how the media teach, to and by whom, and for what purpose, in a rapidly shifting milieu of media content, platforms, and relations.
This book examines the work of the leading critical and decolonial intellectual Boaventura de Sousa Santos and its impact on education in general, and curriculum in particular.
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.
"e;It has been a while since a scholarly book, so authoritative in its claims and innovative in its concepts, threatens to shake up the curriculum field at its foundations.
How do schools protect young people and call on the youngest citizens to respond to violent conflict and division operating outside, and sometimes within, school walls?
Our book is a compilation of the work of experienced educational researchers and practitioners, all of whom currently work in educational settings across North America.
