Teacher training

In this lively, student-centered work, Dr.

For decades, scholars in the field of music education have recognized the need for growth and change in our approach to teaching music, yet despite these calls for change, the music education curriculum today remains remarkably similar to that of a century ago.

This book reports on an innovative study into the first five years of mathematics teaching: FIRSTMATH.

This book examines the history of formative assessment in the US and explores its potential for changing the landscape of teaching and learning to meet the needs of twenty-first century learners.

The field of political science has not given sufficient attention to pedagogy.

This book proposes a new way of understanding the concept of currere, first described by William Pinar, as an approach to curriculum studies.

This book explores the role of students' involvement in teacher professional development.

This book seeks to understand how to internationalize curriculum without imperializing or imposing the old, colonial, and so-called first-world conceptualizations of education, teaching, and learning.

This book discusses current issues in literacy teacher education and illuminates the complexity of supporting self-efficacious educators to teach language and literacy in the twenty-first century classroom.

This book explores the experiences of early career teachers in a profession that has become highly stratified by market processes.

The Relevance of the Humanities to the 21st Century Workplace provides a blueprint for higher education faculty, boards, presidents, senior leaders, parents, students, recent graduates, and other stakeholders.

This book explores student-staff partnerships through a breadth of co-authored research projects.

Italian critical theorist Giorgio Agamben may be best known for his political writings concerning the curtailing of privacy rights in the wake of 9/11 and the status of prisoners of war and refugees.

This volume focuses on work that has its origin and motivation in formal linguistics and theory-driven research on the acquisition of grammar, and on this basis tries to establish links to language pedagogy, including students' and teachers' beliefs about what 'grammar' actually is.

This book presents thoughts on and experiences with the introduction of Theme-centered Interaction (TCI) into academia.

This book examines quality teaching in professional education in the fields of engineering and international knowledge structures.

This book analyses examples of quality teaching in professional education in the human client fields.

This book discusses novel research on and practices in the field of physics teaching and learning.

This book examines the benefits of applying the Identity Structure Analysis (ISA) to teacher professional development.

This book is based on the power of stories to support children in all areas of their lives.

This textbook presents an integrative approach to thinking about research methods for social justice.

This book explores the emerging trends and patterns in online student evaluations of teaching and how online reviews have transformed the teacher-student relationship as developments in technology have altered consumer behaviors.

This edited volume, now in its second edition, brings together the some of the most important figures in the evolution of Critical Pedagogy and a number of up-and-coming scholars.

This book explores the development of educational leadership within difficult contexts via the lens of a previously failing English secondary school in an area of urban poverty.

The book is made up of 21 chapters from 25 presentations at the 23rd MAVI conference in Essen, which featured Alan Schoenfeld as keynote speaker.

This is the first volume addressing the importance of teaching quality of life theory and methodology in different domains: social sciences, philosophy, sociology, political science, marketing, education, urbanism, statistics, economics, online learning, public health, sports, and constraint contexts in terms of their relationship with the Capability Approach.

This book provides tools to help pre-service teachers and teacher-preparation programs identify, evaluate, and respond to misaligned expectations early in the teacher-preparation sequence.

This edited book aims to provide a global perspective on socioscientific issues (SSI), responsible citizenship and the relevance of science, with an emphasis on science teacher education.

This book examines the study of citizenship by means of reading and creating graphic novels and comics in the social studies classroom.

This edited book examines modern foreign language teachers who research their own and others' experiences of identity construction in the context of living and teaching in UK institutions, primarily in the Higher Education sector.

This book responds to the call for praxis in L2 education by documenting recent and ongoing projects around the world that see partnership with classroom teachers as the essential driver for continuing to develop both classroom assessment practice and conceptual frameworks of assessment in support of teaching and learning.

This edited book examines how teacher education utilises international immersion and field teaching (or service-learning) experience to develop teachers' global, multilingual and intercultural competencies, in preparation for entering today's culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms.

This volume provides a comprehensive and contemporary depiction of the swift evolution of learning technologies and the innovations that derive from their deployment in school education.

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

This book examines the paradox of creativity in art education and proposes a possible resolution.

This volume documents on-going research and theorising in the sub-field of mathematics education devoted to the teaching and learning of mathematical modelling and applications.

This volume provides conceptual syntheses of diverging multilingual contexts, research findings, and practical applications of integrating content and language (ICL) in higher education in order to generate a new understanding of the cross-contextual variation.

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.