Teacher training

The message of the book is straightforward and easy to apply: it derives from the interweaving of long years of field work with a solid theoretical background.

As a teacher educator you are (or were) identified as a credible practitioner in your given community of practice.

This volume presents distinctive, innovative models of teacher education from Australia, discusses their successful elements and considers possibilities for successful teacher education in the twenty-first century.

This book examines the shifting portrayal of the nation in school textbooks in 14 countries during periods of rapid political, social, and economic change.

"e;The recognition and study of African American (AA) artists and public intellectuals often include Martin Luther King, Jr.

For What Child, a must read for parents, future educators, and those interested in the education of the child.

This book provides science teacher educators and science educational researchers with a current overview on the roles of beliefs in science education settings.

Harnessing conceptual inspiration through the work of Harriet Tubman and Queen Nanny the Maroon of Jamaica, this book explores the historical and contemporary role that education has-and can continually play as an instrument of personal and group liberation.

"e;Pedagogies for the Future illustrates a unique and exciting endeavor whereby a group of academics across one university developed a professional learning community for the purposes of investigating, articulating and developing their scholarship of practice.

This book provides a unique insight into the learning experiences of career change professionals in teacher education.

Teachers empower both the next generation of learners and educators.

Literacy Teacher Educators: Preparing Teachers for a Changing World brings together the perspectives of 26 literacy/English teacher educators from four countries: Canada, U.

Winner!

This book is intended to illuminate the experiences of teachers working in higher education, the tensions they face in working in an increasingly complex professional landscape.

As standardization and "e;accountability"e; have continued to increase in the 21st century, educators and scholars of education have become increasingly frustrated.

The student teaching experience is often considered by teachers as one of the most influential aspects of teacher preparation.

This scholarly work appears at a crucial moment in South Africa.

Assessment for learning (AfL) is bound up with students becoming autonomous lifelong learners who are active participants in the classroom and beyond.

The journey of becoming a teacher is a complicated, emotional, and often intricate endeavor.

This book foregrounds the ideas of an important European pedagogue whose writings provide insights for a critical social justice oriented approach to education.

This volume is a collection of studies examining the key role of the teacher in the process of school change when innovative pedagogical practices and better ways to develop the school are being sought.

In this volume, we take a holistic approach to education, viewing human beings as lifelong learners who need interaction in all educational domains-cognitive, affective, psychomotor-to actualize their full potential.

Students deserve great teachers and learning to become a great teacher is a lifelong journey.

Working with parents is a significant aspect of educators' roles, yet it is rare to find curriculum in teacher education programs designed to prepare individuals to consider, in philosophical, theoretical, and pedagogical ways, who they will be in relationship with parents and why.

Why did Kurt Vonnegut shun being labeled a writer of science fiction (SF)?

How to achieve school reform and organisational change has been a subject of much inquiry and interest by educators, education systems and academics.

This book provides practitioners, researchers, and those involved in mentoring activities insight into varying types of mentoring.

* How do children, individually and collectively, make meanings of their learning experiences?

If the status and quality of science education in schools is to improve, efforts need to be made to better understand the classroom practices of effective science teachers.

This book deals with commonly reported accusations about the nature of teacher education based on arguments and disagreements about what teacher education should do, how it should do it and what it should produce in its graduates.

This book provides no answer key.

The main idea of the book is to contribute to a broader understanding of learning, identity and diversity by presenting actual research findings that were retrieved from classroom settings and related social practices.

"e;Teaching is a richly multifaceted endeavor.

It Takes a Village: A Collaborative Assault on the Struggling Reader Dilemma has a wellspring of incredibly useful information for teacher educators, pre-service and in-service teachers alike.

This groundbreaking book examines why the majority of Australian school leavers want to go to university and have resisted government attempts to promote alternative forms of tertiary education.

During the last several decades, self-regulation of learning has permeated all areas of learning and development, including teaching preparation programs.

This book emphasizes the significance of teaching science in early childhood classrooms, reviews the research on what young children are likely to know about science and provides key points on effectively teaching science to young children.

Read this book if you care about students really understanding physics and getting genuine intellectual satisfaction from doing so.

This volume examines the interface between the teachings of art and the art of teaching, and asserts the centrality of aesthetics for rethinking education.

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.

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.

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.