Teacher training

Practitioners working within the EYFS are still uncertain of exactly how to manage assessment.

Practitioners working within the EYFS are still uncertain of exactly how to manage assessment.

This book introduces the use of video analysis into the popular educational research model of action research.

This unique volume addresses issues of gender in education by examining the work experiences and policies affecting women and teaching in Latin America, North America and parts of Europe, with a focus on the social construction of women teachers.

Transformative learning involves experiencing a deep, structural shift in the basic premises of thought, feelings, and actions.

Missing the Meaning investigates recent evidence that school text materials are more problematic than previously imagined.

This essential teaching guide focuses on an emerging body of literature by U.

This book explores literature in its role as a sacred text within the confines of 19th-century French primary and secondary education, helping the school to take over the role of spiritual authority from the Catholic Church.

Is there one global culture of schooling, or many national and local cultures?

This book is a guide to securing an academic post in the humanities in a US University.

World history has expanded dramatically in recent years, primarily as a teaching field, and increasingly as a research field.

Some revision of public schooling history is necessary to challenge the dominant mythology that public schools were established on the grounds of values-neutrality.

Susan L.

Teacher educators live hectic lives at institutional and discipline boundaries.

During the last few years, a new area of creative media industry, namely Serious Games, has started to emerge around the world.

Margaret S.

In this book, a teacher educator examines her practice as a way of learning about teaching as well as challenging teacher education.

Becoming a Teacher Educator is an impressive book for teacher educators who want to be informed about the latest views and practices of their profession.

Most would agree that a learning community of practice cultivates social and intellectual development in educational settings but what are the other benefits and what does a learning community actually look like in practice?

In 1998, my colleague, Forrest Mims, and I began a project to develop inexpensive handheld atmosphere monitoring instruments for the GLOBE Program, an international environmental science and education program that began its operations on Earth Day, 1995.

Critical Pedagogy addresses the shortcomings of mainstream educational theory and practice and promotes the humanization of teacher and student.

I have long admired the mythopoetic tradition in curriculum studies.

A major aim of Comparative and Global Pedagogies: Equity, Access and Democracy in Education which is the second volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, edited by Joseph Zajda and his team, is to present a global overview of recent trends in equity and access in education globally.

This book takes up the challenge of examining the thorniest educational issue from a global perspective.

Powerful Pedagogy: Self-Study of a Teacher Educator's Practice is the outcome of the author's systematically questioning her assumptions about teaching and, in various ways, gives voice to the many individuals who have had an impact on the development of the author's pedagogy as a mathematics teacher educator.

Harry Judge It is doubly fortunate that a foreword is not an introduction.

Kaye Stacey Helen Chick and Margaret Kendal The University of Melbourne Australia Abstract: This section reports on the organisation procedures and publications of the ICMI Study The Future of the Teaching and Learning of Algebra.

It is a great pleasure to present this book, edited by a distinguished team at the Hong Kong Institute of Education and with excellent contributors from nine countries in the region and beyond.

Assessment is the daily life of a teacher; designing plans, setting questions, giving feedback and grading are all activities that teachers undertake on a regular basis.

The aim of this book is to provide an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international concern for the nature, theory and practices of the ideas of values education and lifelong learning.

The Turbulence of Learning to Publish As researchers, we learned about working together and collaborating across multiple dimensions of space, time and our own identities.

This book describes new, model based teaching methods for science instruction.

The intent of this book is to describe how a professor can provide a learning en vironment that assists students to come to grips with the nature of science and engineering, to understand science and engineering concepts, and to solve problems in science and engineering courses.

A major aim of Education and Social Inequality in the Global Culture, which is the first volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, edited by Joseph Zajda and his team, is to present a global overview of the relationship of education, socio-economic status, and globalization.

This series in Teacher Education: Self-study of Teacher Education Practices (S-STEP) has been created in order to offer clear and strong examples of self-study of teaching and teacher education practices.

In the United States it certainly is the case that we live in a country that adheres to an ideology of individualism.

Phillip Hughes: International Educator, Scholar, Teacher This Festschrift is published in honour of Professor Phillip Hughes, an exceptional Australian educationalist and influential member of the international education c- munity.

As has been well illustrated in the other books in this series, the notion of self-study of teaching and teacher education practices has been taken up by teachers and teacher educators as they have searched for new ways of better understanding the complex work of teaching and learning.

One of the qualities of this book is the authors'engagement with personal experience.

In August 2005, over 500 international researchers from the field of science education met at the 5th European Science Education Research Association conference in Barcelona, Spain.

Science is more than a compilation of facts and figures, although one would not know that from observing classroom lessons in science in elementary schools in many parts of the world.

This series in teacher education, Self-study of Teacher Education Practices (S-STEP), is designed to capture and portray a range of approaches to se- study of teaching and teacher education practices.

This book opens doorways to new understandings, even as it poses a challenge to educators, theatre people, and others concerned about the lives of today's children.

I am delighted to have the opportunity to write this foreword for Karyn Cooper's and Robert White's splendid and compelling edited text on The Practical Critical Educator.

Multigrade teaching poses a challenge to learning.

There is surprisingly little known about affect in science education.

Casual reference to moral education or the manner in which young people should be brought up to behave may provoke a range of responses depending on the context and the personalities and ideological perspectives of those present.

This book presents some highlights from the deliberations of the 2003 conference of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT).