Teacher training

Written by the director and staff of the first, and one of the largest, teaching centers in American higher education - the University of Michigan's Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) - this book offers a unique perspective on the strategies for making a teaching center integral to an institution's educational mission.

This book uniquely offers the distilled wisdom of scores of instructors across ranks, disciplines and institution types, whose contributions are organized into a thematic framework that progressively introduces the reader to the key dispositions, principles and practices for creating the inclusive classroom environments (in person and online) that will help their students succeed.

This edited volume explores the idea that educational success in Scandinavian countries can be attributed to the inherent connectedness of teacher ethics and teaching quality, providing inspiration to teachers and school systems outside Scandinavia.

This book is a collection of narratives from a diverse array of science education researchers that elucidate some of the difficulties of becoming a science education researcher and/or science teacher educator, with the hope that through solidarity, commonality, and "e;telling the story"e;, justice-oriented science education researchers will feel more supported in their own journeys.

This book adds impetus to the nexus between human rights, human rights education and material reality.

There is currently a great emphasis on teaching quality in Higher Education.

This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art overview of medical teaching methodologies with a particular focus on rheumatology.

This book covers studies of computational thinking related to linking, infusing, and embedding computational thinking elements to school curricula, teacher education and STEM related subjects.

This book uses the publicly available TEDS-M data to answer such questions as: How does teacher education contribute to the learning outcomes of future teachers?

This volume represents both recent research in pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), as well as emerging innovations in how PCK is applied in practice.

This  edited  volume is a state-of-the-art comparison of  primary  science  education  across  six  East-Asian  regions;  namely,  the  People's  Republic  of  China, Republic  of  Korea,  Republic  of  China, Hong  Kong  SAR,  Japan,  and  Singapore.

This book communicates new voices, insights, and possibilities for working with the arts and memory in researching teacher professional learning.

This book is a selection of 15 papers developed by participants in ICME 13 held in Hamburg , presenting insights from the latest research on the andragogy of adult and lifelong learning of mathematics.

This book is a narrative inquiry that focuses on four participating Chinese teacher candidates' cross-cultural learning in Canada and stories of induction in Southwest China.

This book explores in detail the role of laboratory work in physics teaching and learning.

Nations around the globe consider physics education an important tool of economic and social development and currently advocate the use of innovative strategies to prepare students for knowledge and skills acquisition.

This book examines continuing professional development (CPD) of teachers in Finland.

This book examines the inter-relationship between music learning and teaching, and culture and society: a relationship that is crucial to comprehend in today's classrooms.

Understanding teachers' professional identities and their development is key to unpacking teachers' professional lives, the quality of their instruction, their motivation and commitment to teach, and their career decision-making.

This book covers studies of computational thinking related to linking, infusing, and embedding computational thinking elements to school curricula, teacher education and STEM related subjects.

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.

This volume gathers recent research findings in the field of foreign language (FL) teaching in Romanian higher education dwelling on both methodology and students' learning outcomes.

This volume brings together recent research and commentary in secondary school mathematics from a breadth of contemporary Canadian and International researchers and educators.

This book uses the publicly available TEDS-M data to answer such questions as: How does teacher education contribute to the learning outcomes of future teachers?

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This book highlights innovative approaches to preparing secondary mathematics teachers.

This edited book provides a global view on evolution education.

This book approaches the prevention of fatal incidents in outdoor education and related fields through detailed study of past tragedies.

This volume is a forward-looking intersection of Sociological perspectives on mathematics classrooms and socio-political perspectives on mathematics education.

People who don't know theatre may think the only creative artist in the field is the playwright--with actors, directors, and designers mere "e;interpreters"e; of the dramatist's vision.

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

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

This book examines African philosophy of education and the enactment of ubuntu justice through a massive open online course on Teaching for Change.

This Handbook examines the essential nature of the law within an educational context and asks why there is not greater preparation for this aspect of a teacher's role.

This book presents current perspectives on theoretical and empirical issues related to the teaching and learning of geometry at secondary schools.

This book advocates that teachers should play an active role in high-stakes language testing and that more weight should be given to teacher judgement.

This book investigates the relationship between context and leadership in post-conflict Cambodia.

This book explores the perception, construction and performance of professional identities in initial teacher education (ITE).

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

This edited collection explores the use of Exploratory Practice (EP) by language teachers in classrooms.

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

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 book provides international perspectives on the use of digital technologies in primary, lower secondary and upper secondary school mathematics.

This book explores how traditional institutions of education are affected by the current discourse and practices of 'learning'; and more specifically, how the evolution towards so-called 'learning environments' affects the kind of gathering or association that is staged and configured within families, schools and universities.

This book is about values education in early years settings and discusses theory and concepts, as well as methodological and empirical perspectives.

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 advocates for an alternative to the hierarchical positioning of leaders.

This book considers some of the outstanding questions regarding language and communication in the teaching and learning of mathematics - an established theme in mathematics education research, which is growing in prominence.