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Change is an ongoing aspect of education and educators are always seeking alternative and effective approaches to it.

Geographers regard fieldwork as a vital instrument for understanding our world through direct experience, for gathering basic data about this world, and as a fundamental method for enacting geographical education.

We are pleased to present the ESERA 2001 Conference book, which is based on contributions submitted and presented to the Third International Conference "e;Science Education Research in the Knowledge Based Society"e; that was organised by the Department of Primary Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and held in Thessaloniki from August 21 to August 26, 2001.

This volume presents a "e;photograph"e; of the state of the art in Science Education Research in Europe as it has emerged from the first ESERA Conference held in Rome in September 1997.

The origins of this book are in my first attempts to understand psychology as a post-war student in the Cambridge of the late 1940s.

Recent years have generated a huge increase in the number of research and scholarly works concerned with teachers and teaching, and this effort has generated new and important insights that are crucial for understanding education today.

Research on teaching in higher education shows that students who are well taught learn more than students who are poorly taught, and there are some teaching behaviors and strategies that are consistently associated with good teaching.

This is a research-based book on mathematics teacher education.

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Research in science education is now an international activity.

This book provides a detailed examination of how systems located within five countries shape the early career learning of beginning teachers.

Everywhere in the world, except, for the time being, in some Asian countries, young people are losing interest in science.

In the future a more competent workforce will be required as workers will have to acquire the competence to predict and deal with novel situations at work.

Assessment in Science combines professional development and classroom practice in a single volume.

In Search of a Pedagogy for Conflict and Dialogue for Mathematics Education is of interest to mathematics educators, researchers in mathematics education, gender, social justice, equity and democracy in education; and practitioners/teachers interested in the use of project work in mathematics teaching and learning.

Researching Visual Arts Education in Museums and Galleries brings together case studies from Europe, Asia and North America, in a way that will lay a foundation for international co-operation in the future development and communication of practice-based research.

This book explores teacher workplace learning from four different perspectives: social policy, international comparators, multi-professional stances/perspectives and socio-cultural theory.

This book addresses a very important aspect of science education and science education research respectively: The research-based development of Teaching Learning Sequences.

This book sets out the necessary processes and challenges involved in modeling student thinking, understanding and learning.

This book offers valuable guidance for science teacher educators looking for ways to facilitate preservice and inservice teachers' pedagogy relative to teaching students from underrepresented and underserved populations in the science classroom.

This volume is an innovative collection that transcends national boundaries and provides new knowledge about approaches to research and research education in music.

This book provides a multifaceted, multilayered examination of the processes and challenges language teachers face in constructing their professional identities in multilingual contexts such as Hong Kong.

This book critically reflects on the context in which lifelong learning policies and practices are organized in Europe with contributions of researchers and policy makers in the field.

This volume offers an alternative vision for education and has been written for those who are passionate about teaching and learning, in schools, universities and in the community, and providing people with the values, knowledge and skills needed to face complex social and environmental challenges.

This book presents thoughtful reflections and in-depth, critical analyses of the new challenges and opportunities instructors face in teaching race during what has been called the "e;post-racial era"e;.

This book offers a challenge to traditional approaches to classroom teaching and pedagogy.

In response to highly publicized incidents of school violence, educators across the United States and in many other nations are seeking effective ways to prevent and modify aggressive and anti-social behaviors in students.

Science teacher educators prepare and provide professional development for teachers at all grade levels.

This book offers results from the comparative "e;Teacher Education and Development Study - Learning to Teach Mathematics (TEDS-M)"e;.

Bringing together a wide collection of ideas, reviews, analyses and new research on particulate and structural concepts of matter, Concepts of Matter in Science Education informs practice from pre-school through graduate school learning and teaching and aims to inspire progress in science education.

This book brings together internationally recognised scholars with an interest in how to use the power of assessment to improve student learning and to engage with accountability priorities at both national and global levels.

Among the welter of books on critical pedagogy, this volume will be especially valued for its direct focus on early years and elementary educators.

This book makes a major contribution to knowledge and theory by drawing implications of teacher effectiveness research for the field of teacher training and professional development.

The immense changes that the world is undergoing in terms of globalization and migration of peoples have had a profound effect on cultures and identities.

This edited volume of papers from the twenty first International Conference on Chemical Education attests to our rapidly changing understanding of the chemistry itself as well as to the potentially enormous material changes in how it might be taught in the future.

In a context where schools are held more and more accountable for the education they provide, data-based decision making has become increasingly important.

It goes without saying that atomic structure, including its dual wave-particle nature, cannot be demonstrated in the classroom.

This book, by combining sociocultural, material, cognitive and embodied perspectives on human knowing, offers a new and powerful conceptualisation of epistemic fluency - a capacity that underpins knowledgeable professional action and innovation.

This volume offers a critical examination of a variety of conceptual approaches to teaching and learning chemistry in the school classroom.

This collection examines issues of agency, power, politics and identity as they relate to science and technology and education, within contemporary settings.

In a changing world that demands new skills, a vital concern of public education is the gap in academic performance between low- and high-achieving students.

In contemporary society, science constitutes a significant part of human life in that it impacts on how people experience and understand the world and themselves.

We live in dangerous times when educational policies and practices are debated largely in terms of how they fit with the needs of the free market.

In an effort to reverse the purported crisis in U.

Part of a vital Springer series on self-study practices in teaching and teacher education, this collection offers a range of contributions to the topic that embody the reflections of science teacher educators who have applied self-study methodology to their own professional development.

The experiences of the first years of new teachers' professional lives are critical to their decisions about embracing or leaving the teaching profession.

Once the Cinderella of the education system, early years education has evolved into a much more substantially funded sector with staff experiencing greater opportunities for higher-level training and education as well as increasing demands.

This book synthesizes research findings on patterns in the last twenty years or so in order to argue for a theory of graded representations in pattern generalization.

The work of the Kyoto School represents one of the few streams of philosophy that originate in Japan.

Argumentation-arriving at conclusions on a topic through a process of logical reasoning that includes debate and persuasion- has in recent years emerged as a central topic of discussion among science educators and researchers.