Teacher training

This book focuses on international research in statistics education, providing a solid understanding of the challenges in learning statistics.

This book considers the diffusion and transfer of educational ideas through local and transcontinental networks within and across five socio-political spaces.

This volume presents the history of Western education through the biographies of some 70 individuals, past and present, who exemplify the education of their times or have made important contributions to the development of educational theory or practice.

This book examines how educational practice can be improved through practice-focused educational research.

This book explores how citizen teachers can expand our capacities to generate more equitable and just spaces with families by working as community organizers.

Drawing on the author's lifelong practice in the non-competitive and defensive Japanese art of Aikido, this book examines education as self-cultivation, from a Japanese philosophy (e.

This book advances the theory of action research, analyzing how it can be used to develop autonomy among language teachers.

This book explores teaching abroad during initial teacher education, an increasingly common practice in the initial preparation of teachers.

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 provides a research-based guide to using ePortfolios to develop critically reflective teachers capable of transformative learning for educational equity.

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

This volume conceptualizes and distinguishes storying from narrative and storytelling to establish itself as a method.

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

This book highlights new developments in the teaching and learning of algebraic thinking with 5- to 12-year-olds.

This book draws together various theoretical and research-based perspectives to examine the institutionalization of mentoring processes for beginning teachers.

This book presents research on the intersection of self-study research, digital technologies, and the development of future-oriented practices in teacher education.

This book invites readers to explore how fourteen different experts in their respective fields create deeper meaning in their profession and work with students through thinking, in multiple ways, about the self who teaches, the self who learns, and the ways in which these selves interact within the academy.

This book presents the most up-to-date research contributions focusing on progress in the field of physics education.

This book provides a comprehensive method for learning modern management processes, and applying those methods to improve leadership in educational settings.

This book presents a selection of the best contributions to GIREP EPEC 2015, the Conference of the International Research Group on Physics Teaching (GIREP) and the European Physical Society's Physics Education Division (EPS PED).

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.

This book traces raciolinguistic ideologies in England's schools, focusing on post- 2010 policy reforms which frame the language practices of low-income, racialised speakers as limited and deficient.

This book examines how injustice based on social positioning is performed within the context of international schools.

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

This volume examines the theoretical and practical issues related to mentoring/peer mentoring as a support and development strategy for both pre-service and in-service language teachers, and thereby offers a practical and empirical introduction to the field.

This book is about values education in early years settings and discusses theory and concepts, as well as methodological and empirical perspectives.

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 books offers new ways to think about teaching excellence in higher education and presents a definition of the concept of teaching excellence.

This book provides an in-depth discussion of the emergence of technology acceptance theories and models, how we can use these theories and models in education, and data collection and analysis processes of technology acceptance research in education.

This second volume of Diverse Pedagogical Approaches to Experiential Learning (Palgrave, 2020) contains a new collection of experiential learning (EL) reflections, case studies, and strategies written by twenty-eight authors across sixteen academic disciplines.

This book presents innovative approaches and state-of-the-art empirical studies on mathematics teacher learning.

This book explores teachers' cognitions about the teaching of writing in English as a foreign language (EFL) and their teaching practice, as well as factors influencing the formation and reformation process of their cognition.

This book presents educators with research-based strategies to promote civic education in their classrooms.

This book focuses on mentoring in English language education internationally, as it applies to students, language teachers, practitioner researchers and research mentors themselves.

This book explores the concept of the "e;best-loved self"e; in teaching and teacher education, asserting that the best-loved self is foundational to the development of teacher identity, growth in context, and learning in community.

This book explores the perception, construction and performance of professional identities in initial teacher education (ITE).

This volume is important because despite various external representations, such as analogies, metaphors, and visualizations being commonly used by physics teachers, educators and researchers, the notion of using the pedagogical functions of multiple representations to support teaching and learning is still a gap in physics education.

This book reframes gender and education issues from a feminist and capabilities perspective through a multi-generational study of women as teachers.

This book uses the metaphors of practice spaces and practice sessions to demonstrate the connection between creative and performance practices, and critical pedagogy.

This handbook provides an important overview of corporeality, embodiment and learning in education from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.

This book discusses a significant area of mathematics education research in the last two decades and presents the types of semiotic theories that are employed in mathematics education.

This book outlines a range of innovative methods to gather student feedback, and explores the complex relation between student engagement, student satisfaction, and student success.

This book aims to advance ongoing debates in the field of mathematics and mathematics education regarding conceptions of argumentation, justification, and proof and the consequences for research and practice when applying particular conceptions of each construct.

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

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

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

From 1966 to 1970, historian Martin Duberman transformed his undergraduate Princeton seminar on American radicalism.

This edited book brings together a collection of research-based chapters that address a variety of topics related to the teaching of English in different contexts around the world.