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This book introduces readers to the latest research and findingsfrom projects focusing on teaching education for sustainable development atuniversities.

This book explores terminology, frameworks, and research being conducted worldwide on virtual manipulatives.

This book addresses the complex issues that arise in school-university collaborative action research projects.

Self-study research is making an impact on the field of science education.

Science Education: A Global Perspective is 'global' both in content and authorship.

This second edition goes beyond the question of whether or not a pedagogical technique is effective, towards more of a focus on answering the question of why a particular technique or class of techniques is effective.

This book explores why veteran teachers choose to remain in the classroom, making teaching their life's career.

This book highlights innovative approaches to preparing secondary mathematics teachers.

This book provides innovative pedagogy, theory, and strategies for college and university professors who seek effective methods and materials for teaching about gender and sex to today's students.

This monograph describes the development and use of a 3D visualization teaching-learning trajectory for elementary age learners.

This book is about imaginative approaches to teaching and learning school science.

This volume reviews the background of mandated teacher performance assessment with an emphasis on policy, privatization, and professionalization.

This volume presents different conceptual and theoreticalframeworks as well as research methods that have helped educational researchersto study emotions.

This book argues that modelling should be a component of all school curricula that aspire to provide 'authentic science education for all'.

This book presents the outcomes of research and practical endeavour in some of the diverse contexts in which learning takes place: classrooms, schools, professional development settings, community projects and service sector agencies.

This edited text recaptures many of Joe L.

This volume informs the reader about new teachers in urban underserved schools and their development as teachers for social equity.

This book reminds us teachers about all the little things we can do to be more student-centric.

This book analyses the superintendent position and relations and shows how the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is being adapted to national contexts.

In this book, the educational theory of metacognitive learning and its instructional implications are used to describe and illustrate how learners can become effective or self-directive learners.

How teachers may be better educated for a changing global world is a challenge that faces many systems of education worldwide.

The volume is a practical introduction to the ways in which the teachers deal with classroom events in the context of change for researchers, teachers, administrators who wish to implement curriculum reform to EFL in schools.

This book will help post-secondary educators to discover the joys and challenges of implementing theoretically grounded civic engagement projects on their campuses.

In this volume teacher educators explicitly and implicitly share their visions for the purposes, experiences, and commitments necessary for social studies teacher preparation in the twenty-first century.

This book explores the beneficial impact of pedagogically updated practices and approaches in the teaching of science concepts as well as elaborates on future challenges and emerging issues that address Science and Technology Education.

This monograph presents the current views, challenges and future needs of educators from a global online exchange where educators and researchers discuss the 21st century skills needed by students and teachers.

This volume offers educators, higher education institutions, communities and organizations critical understandings and resources that can underpin respectful, reciprocal and transformative educative relationships with First Peoples internationally.

This volume captures the innovative, theory-based, and grounded work being done by established scholars who are interrogating how teacher education can prepare teachers to work in challenging and diverse high-poverty settings.

Through a narrative inquiry approach, this book examines the personal professional journeys of teacher educators who have undertaken self studies, and/or researched the professional development of teacher educators.

Creative Contradictions in Education is a provocative collection of essays by international experts who tackle difficult questions about creativity in education from a cross-disciplinary perspective.

Zizek demands we take a long, hard look at the painful reality of education in contemporary capitalist society, and to actively seek out its 'trouble in paradise': Why is it education is supposedly failing to meet the demands of our society?

This book covers theoretical aspects of Catholic Religious Education in schools and examines them from multiple theoretical and contextual perspectives.

This book includes studies that represent the state of the art in science education research and convey a sense of the variation in educational traditions around the world.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 11.

In this volume cultural, social and cognitive influences on the research and teaching of mathematical modelling are explored from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives.

The purpose of this book is to highlight the work of teacher educators in the field of rural education.

This book explores teaching and learning in lower secondary classrooms in the three PISA domains science, mathematics and reading.

This book provides an international perspective of current work aimed at both clarifying the theoretical foundations for the use of multimodal representations as a part of effective science education pedagogy and the pragmatic application of research findings to actual classroom settings.

This volume contains a unique compilation of research and reflections representing multiple vantage points stemming from different parts of the world that can help science educators and teacher educators in finding ways to meaningfully and purposefully embed sustainability into teaching and learning.

This book presents innovations in teaching and learning science, novel approaches to science curriculum, cultural and contextual factors in promoting science education and improving the standard and achievement of students in East Asian countries.

This book illuminates what must always be at the heart of powerful schooling and authentic learning.

This book re examines the role of arts integration in the preschool and primary school curricula, arguing for the creation of an educational environment where children can process every taught subject as an aesthetic stimulus.

This volume contributes to debates about the teaching profession by reviewing international and national reports on its status, as well as on reforms of various education systems.

This volume draws on the ecojustice, citizen science and youth activism literature base in science education and applies the ideas to situated tensions as they are either analyzed theoretically or praxiologically within science education pedagogy.

This book offers insight into the spread and impact of English language education in China within China's broader educational, social, economic and political changes.

This book presents narratives of eminent social justice educators, which provide a window into why these educators have made it their mission to educate for attainment of social justice; it succinctly defines what social justice education is and what it is not.

This updated second edition presents an analytical description of the education systems of all European countries, following common guidelines.

This book examines the diverse use of visual representations by teachers in the science classroom.

This volume offers insights in current theoretical discussions, observations, and reflections from internationally and regionally celebrated scholars on the theory and practice of teaching English informed by a new school of thought, English as an International Language (EIL).

In this in-depth examination of self-study as a research methodology, an international selection of physical education scholars share their ideas and experiences and consider the value of self-study as a vector for highlighting the emerging conflicts, dilemmas, and debates currently developing in teaching and teacher education pedagogies.