Teacher training

This book discusses how to approach critical literacy in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts.

This volume focuses on resilience in educational contexts which has emerged as an important field of research, with recent investigation into resilience of school students teachers, and post-secondary students and staff.

This volume provides readers with a broad view on the variety of issues related to the educational research and practices in the field of Creativity in Mathematics and Mathematical Giftedness.

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 offers a comprehensive overview of research at interface between History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science (HPSS) and Science Teaching in Ibero-America.

This book explores emerging practices in distance education that have been facilitated by the development of educational technology.

This book explores the use of Exploratory Practice (EP) as a tool for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) by language teachers, and responds to the increasing demand for teachers to engage in research.

Effective teaching starts with quality instruction that most students respond well to.

This textbook introduces the basics of protein structure and logically explains how to use online software to explore the information in protein structure databases.

This book introduces the specifics of mathematics lesson study with regard to regional/national particularities, discussing the methodological and theoretical tools that can be used to pursue research on lesson study (its forms, contents, effects etc.

This book gives insight in the vivid research area of early mathematics learning.

This book synthesizes the latest findings on neuroplasticity and learning, drawing on rich phenomenological research carried out with teachers, psychologists, parents and students from around the world to examine the implications for current teaching and for the advancement of learning methods.

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

This book focuses on research-based teaching and learning practices that promote social justice and equity in higher education.

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

This book examines the impact of internationalization, student mobility and transnational workforce mobility on the changing nature of teacher work and teacher professional learning in the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector.

This book describes a series of ground-breaking residential workshops in therapeutic counselling in the 1960s, for people working in mental health and social care disciplines seeking to expand and deepen their reach.

The purpose of this Springer Brief is to provide a comprehensive review of both the STEBI methods and findings through the use of a clearly defined analytic framework.

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 focuses on the intertwined relationships between globalisation, nation-building, education, and reform as manifested throughout the modern history of Brunei Darussalam, an Islamic monarchy located on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia.

This book covers Rudolf Steiner's biography, presented from an educational point of view and also unfolds the different aspects of Steiner's educational thought in Waldorf Education.

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

This book explores the application of Soft Systems Methodology in educational research as a qualitative research tool to generate theory, and identifies the mechanisms that engender the behaviours and discourse of social groups.

This book provides a diverse look at various aspects of preparing informal science educators.

This book reflects a range of pedagogical responses to increasingly complex educational contexts.

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 textbook takes a Complex Systems Theory approach to examine individual differences between learners and the potential impact of these variables on the process of acquiring a second language.

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

This edited volume explores the multifaceted nature of teacher emotions, presenting current research from different approaches and perspectives, focused towards the second language classroom.

This book addresses the current issues of inclusive education during the time of the global pandemic of COVID-19.

This book originated from a Discussion Group (Teaching Linear Algebra) that was held at the 13th International Conference on Mathematics Education (ICME-13).

This edited volume presents interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to drama and science in education.

This edited volume presents the current state of the art of genetics education and the challenges it holds for teaching as well as for learning.

This book provides a platform for male teachers to share how their professional and personal identities are enacted in the classroom.

This edited volume explores and extends themes in contemporary educational research on teacher preparation and the evolution in social justice education to antiracist pedagogy.

This book provides prospective and practicing teachers with research insights into the mathematical difficulties of students with learning disabilities and classroom practices that address these difficulties.

This book focuses on the effect of psychological, social and demographic variables on student achievement and summarizes the current research findings in the field.

This book addresses and demonstrates the importance of critical approaches to autoethnography, particularly the commitment that such approaches make to theorizing the personal and to creating work that embodies a social justice ethos.

This book explores new trends and developments in mathematics education research related to proof and proving, the implications of these trends and developments for theory and practice, and directions for future research.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th IFIP WG 11.

This multidisciplinary book focuses on best practices in sustainability research in the Asia-Pacific Region.

This book engages with important debates about multicultural British identities at a time when schools are expected to promote Fundamental British Values.

This book explores education in the 21st century in post-modern Western societies through a philosophical lens.

This book demonstrates the continuing relevance of economics for understanding the world, through a restatement of the importance of plurality and heterodox ideas for teaching and research.

This book investigates the racism experienced by Black teacher trainee Post-graduate students whilst on teaching placements in South London primary schools.

This volume addresses innovations in language teacher education, offering a diversity of personal/psychological perspectives and topics in the theory and/or practice in language teacher education.

This book presents more than 70 physics experiments from iPhysicsLabs-column of the Journal The Physics Teacher.

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

This book examines Transnational Chinese Language Education (TCLE) in the Australian context.

This book presents, for the first time in English, the state of the art of Mathematics Education research in Brazil, a country that has the strongest community in this field in Latin America.