Teacher training

This book aims to be a reference for understanding an educational system throughout Latin America aligned with the Catholic Church.

This book starts with the premise that beauty can be an engine of transformation and authentic engagement in an increasingly complex world.

This volume is the first handbook that brings together cutting-edge international research on teacher ethos from a broad array of disciplines.

This exciting new book brings fresh knowledge of affective pedagogies in early childhood education and care.

This book discusses a number of ways in which out-of-school science education can uniquely engage learners with 'wicked' global problems such as biodiversity loss and climate change.

This book highlights contemporary questions around Early Childhood Education in Finland.

This handbook showcases extraordinary educational responses in exceptional times.

This book is Volume 43 of the Educational Media and Technology Yearbook.

This book addressed teachers' necessity to be able to respond to the new needs and demands caused by an ever-evolving educational system, as recognized in the national and international policy and research literature.

This book explores what mindfulness could mean for teachers and educational researchers.

This book addresses Problem-based Learning (PBL) in elementary schools and reveals how this can promote elementary students' development in critical thinking, creativity, communication, collaboration, and citizenship, also known as the 5 Cs.

This book explores theory and best practices to improve teaching and learning to promote equity in the classroom in specific disciplinary areas including STEM, healthcare, and the humanities.

The need to improve the mathematical proficiency of elementary teachers is well recognized, and it has long been of interest to educators and researchers in the U.

This textbook is for prospective teachers of middle school mathematics.

This book offers new empirical insights into the current state of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) characterisation (through an innovative proposal to link CLIL to English as a Lingua Franca), implementation (via observation protocols and SWOT analyses), and research (by examining the effects of CLIL on the L1, foreign language, key competences, and content subjects taught through English).

This book is a rich, yet highly accessible volume that details an exciting and much-needed inquiry into the notion of literacy: what it is, why it is, and how it might be framed most effectively for 21st century education.

This book is a collection of leading international authors in the field of music education taking the concept of 'craft' as a starting point to deconstruct and reconstruct their understanding of the practices and theories of music education.

This book provides a theoretical and pragmatic guide to the use of situated learning within structured interpreting programs.

This book documents ongoing research and theorizing in the sub-field of mathematics education devoted to the teaching and learning of mathematical modelling and applications.

Drawing upon data from an Australian study, this book gives voice to beginning teachers navigating their way through their first year of teaching and discovering what it means to be professional learners.

This book deals with the importance of interculturality in teacher education and training.

This book explores narratives from teacher educators working in university settings in the Caribbean.

What do we mean when we speak about teacher autonomy?

This book examines the development of civic education in the United States through the lives of two teachers at Shortridge High School (SHS) in Indianapolis around 1900.

This book provides the first evidence-based reference about inclusive education in Kazakhstan, one of the post-Soviet Union countries.

This book is written for teacher educators who are looking for strategies to teach a foreign or second language in a more meaningful way whilst applying active methodologies to develop critical thinking skills.

This book explores how to help teachers become better advocates for sexual orientation equality in secondary schools.

This edited book brings together chapters from diverse geographical and educational contexts to examine the question of transnationalism in English Language teacher education.

This book presents a radical reconceptualization of subject-focused and research-led teacher professional development.

This book conceptualizes the nature of mathematical modeling in the early grades from both teaching and learning perspectives.

This book explores ethos and games while analyzing the ethical dimensions of playing, researching, and teaching games.

Research in mathematics teacher education as a distinctive field of inquiry has grown substantially over the past 10-15 years.

This book explores how, why, and with what consequences one no-excuses charter network marketizes teaching and learning, through the author's 1000 hours of covert participant observation at a network charter school.

This book revolves around curriculum making, reciprocal learning, and the best-loved self.

This edited volume explores how Chinese school-based educators learn from others and attain awareness in dialogue with the world in an era of increasing globalization and information exchange.

This volume emphasizes the role of chemical education for development and, in particular, for sustainable development in Africa, by sharing experiences among specialists across the African continent and with specialists from other continents.

This book aims to present the results of research in the sphere of business language and culture, as well as the experience of pedagogical staff and practitioners concerned with broadly understood business.

This book presents the educational view and practice of the Polish-Jewish doctor, writer and pedagogue Janusz Korczak (Warsaw 1878-Treblinka 1942).

This book presents the authentic voices of science teachers engaged in practitioner inquiry as one component of a comprehensive professional development program.

This book focuses on the impact of sustained and evolving collaborations, showcasing research and scholarship in a faculty group-consisting of 28 professors from five regional universities-meeting and supporting each other since 2002.

This book brings together a compendium of the collaborative research from eight PhD students and three researchers, addressing an existing problem for teachers of students with additional learning needs in mainstream classes.

This volume asks how we, as International Relations scholars, support our students, and indeed each other, to create classroom spaces that foster the critical curiosity and engagement required to understand and live in a world that feels dangerously disrupted?

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to Nature of Science (NOS), one of the most important aspects of science teaching and learning, and includes tested strategies for teaching aspects of the NOS in a variety of instructional settings.

This book is a theoretical and practical guide to implementing an inquiry-based approach to teaching which centers creative responses to works of art in curriculum.

This edited volume examines new ways of teaching mathematics through a cross-cultural reciprocal learning project between sister schools in Canada and China.

This edited volume offers a crosscutting view of STEM and is comprised of work by scholars in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

This book explores the community of practice at New York City College of Technology engaged in interdisciplinary team teaching.

This book examines educational semiotics and the representation of knowledge in school science.

This book traces the early history of the Montessori movement in the United States through the lives and careers of four key American women: Anne George, Margaret Naumburg, Helen Parkhurst, and Adelia Pyle.

This book traces the origins and activities of the longest-standing collaborative teacher group in education, the Portfolio Group.