Teacher training

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.

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.