Curriculum planning and development

This book presents the growing interconnection of two pillars from the world's higher education institutions: academic integrity and libraries.

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 volume brings together many of South Africa's leading scholars of education and covers the full range of South African schooling: from financing and policy reform to in-depth discussions of literacy, numeracy, teacher development and curriculum change.

This book explores innovative pedagogical practices and teaching and learning strategies in the engineering curriculum for empowered learning.

Teaching Stephen King critically examines the works of Stephen King and several ways King can be incorporated into the high school and college classroom.

This book explores art practice and learning as processes that break new ground, through which new perceptions of self and world emerge.

Finally a fun way for children to learn to read and writeLearning can and should be fun.

Discover how today's corporations are benefiting from accelerated learning to speed training time, improve results, and reduce costs.

This book represents an exposition of 'judicial pedagogies' as a new concept, and discusses juridical-educational issues in detail, through an analysis of the educational claims and assumptions of judges' decisions in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

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Winner of the 2021 Ruth Lovell Murray Book Award

Dance Education redefines the nature of dance pedagogy today, setting it within a holistic and encompassing framework, and argues for an approach to dance education from a soci-cultural and philosophical perspective.

In our contemporary learning society, expectations about the contribution of education and training continue to rise.

The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units offers instructional modules on the basic concepts and elements of Understanding by Design (UbD), the "e;backward design"e; approach used by thousands of educators to create curriculum units and assessments that focus on developing students' understanding of important ideas.

This inclusive cross-cultural study rethinks the nexus between engineering education and context.

Rob Carpenter took a school from Special Measures to Outstanding in less than two years and firmly believes that the quality of teaching and leadership holds the key to raising standards in our schools today.

Problematizing the "e;reason"e; of schooling as historical and political, in this book leading international and interdisciplinary scholars challenge the common sense of schooling and the relation of society, education, and curriculum studies.

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

Based on the highest levels of Bloom's taxonomy, The Social Studies Helper easily integrates technology into every core high school social studies course as well as two electives.

How can elementary school teachers--the proverbial jacks-of-all-trades--feel more confident in their knowledge of science and teach science more effectively?

This book analyses discourses of effective learning environments globally.

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

Teaching World History Through Wayfinding, Art, and Mindfulness approaches world history instruction through standards-based arts- and story-telling prompts.

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.

Winner of a 2005 Critics Choice Award fromThe American Educational Studies Association, this is a groundbreaking collection of oral histories, letters, interviews, and governmental reports related to the history of Latino education in the US.

Attitudes to bilingualism have always been contradictory.

In a time of rapid policy and curriculum change, educators must be knowledge workers who continue to develop professionally.

Engaging Minds: Cultures of Education and Practices of Teaching explores the diverse beliefs and practices that define the current landscape of formal education.

Positioning diversity in the curriculum is a complex task and knowing where to start is one of the biggest challenges teachers face.

This book discusses current challenges related to teaching geography, mainly at the secondary school and higher education level.

This textbook prepares teachers to incorporate gamified learning experiences into middle school classrooms.

Improving Student Retention in Higher Education provides a practical, curriculum-based response to the current situation in higher education, where participating students emanate from a range of backgrounds; international and lower socioeconomic backgrounds, mature aged students, students with disabilities as well as those for whom higher education is the first family experience.

This book examines critically major issues confronting human rights implementation in schools, both locally and globally.

Education is a values-based experience.

Integrating theory with practice, this core textbook provides a structured and sequential introduction to motor learning and motor control.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to curriculum theories and approaches in early childhood and early primary settings.

One of the areas of study students find most difficult to master--and are most fearful of--is math.

This book exhibits a collection of proposals for how school curriculum may be conceived, designed, and realized.

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This book showcases the transformative impact of Aboriginal community-based educators teaching local histories and cultures to preservice teachers.

This book focuses on summarizing four elements from the classic Chinese literary theory: truth, beauty, emotion and imagination.

This book addresses an important, yet under-researched domain in interpreting education: how theoretical training models should be responsive to context.

Haunted by the fear of teaching the same lesson twice, Stephen Lockyer always makes sure he has lots of ideas up his sleeve!

Of interest to scholars both within and outside the U.

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 book discusses the topic of graduate employability from the premise that in this era of 'massification,' economic austerity, and political uncertainties, higher education (HE) no longer guarantees a clear 'work place advantage.

This innovative guidebook offers proven methods to strengthen instruction and help K12 students acquire successful learning strategies using the SOAR approach: Selecting key lesson ideas; Organizing information using comparative charts and other representations; Associating ideas to create meaningful, memorable connections; and Regulating and reinforcing learning through practice.

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