In 2008, the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation asked the National Research Council (NRC) to conduct two workshops to explore the nature of computational thinking and its cognitive and educational implications.
Lector voraz y escritor prolijo y prolífico, Alfredo Veiga-Neto es el gran divulgador, para el campo de la educación, del pensamiento de Foucault en América Latina, pues, sin lugar a dudas, no hay otro intelectual en nuestro continente que haya dedicado parte significativa de su vida profesional a interpretar y difundir el pensamiento del filósofo francés.
Drawing on eight crowdsourced cases, Interdisciplinary Practices in Higher Education demonstrates the range and diversity in approaches to teaching, learning and collaborating across disciplinary and institutional borders.
Over the past five years, business and education groups have issued a series of reports indicating that the skill demands of work are rising, due to rapid technological change and increasing global competition.
An emerging body of research suggests that a set of broad "e;21st century skills"e;such as adaptability, complex communication skills, and the ability to solve non-routine problemsare valuable across a wide range of jobs in the national economy.
Research Universities and the Future of America presents critically important strategies for ensuring that our nation's research universities contribute strongly to America's prosperity, security, and national goals.
In 2008, the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation asked the National Research Council (NRC) to conduct two workshops to explore the nature of computational thinking and its cognitive and educational implications.
Educating dual language learners (DLLs) and English learners (ELs) effectively is a national challenge with consequences both for individuals and for American society.
An emerging body of research suggests that a set of broad "e;21st century skills"e;such as adaptability, complex communication skills, and the ability to solve non-routine problemsare valuable across a wide range of jobs in the national economy.
Research impact is increasingly expected within academia, but does the pressure to 'do impact' risk an unhealthy focus on what can be counted rather than what counts?
Research impact is increasingly expected within academia, but does the pressure to 'do impact' risk an unhealthy focus on what can be counted rather than what counts?
Originally published in 1975, the essays in this book explore a particular level at which the concept of equality must be applied if educational equality is to be realised.
Originally published in 1975, the essays in this book explore a particular level at which the concept of equality must be applied if educational equality is to be realised.
Hablar de cambios en la vida cotidiana de una institución implica centrarse en la posibilidad de mejoras continuas, que a su vez se instalan a partir de una mirada crítica sobre los modos habituales de vivir en las instituciones, a fin de evitar caer en una rutina que puede generar desaliento, desesperanza y desmotivación.
Taking military charter schools as her subject, and drawing on years of research at one school in particular, Brooke Johnson explores the underpinings of a culture based on militarization and neoliberal educational reforms and probes its effects on individual identity and social interactions at the school.
El lector hallará reunidos acá siete fragmentos biográficos destinados a reactivar la memoria de la práctica pedagógica Colombiana, Se trata de una selección de las trayectorias vitales e intelectuales de hombres como don Martín Restrepo Mejía (1861-1940), Don Agustín Nieto Caballero (1889-1975), el doctor José Francisco Socarrás (1906- 1995), el maestro Estanislao Zuleta (1935-1990), Marco Raúl Mejía Jiménez (1952) Francisco Cajiao Restrepo (1947), y el "profe" Antanas Mockus Šivickas (1952- ), matemático, filósofo, pedagogo, rector universitario, alcalde de Bogotá, candidato a la presidencia y actual senador electo por el partido Alianza Verde.
This volume offers a crucial resource for those interested and involved in linking schools and higher education with communities to foster justice-oriented curriculum and instruction.
This volume offers a crucial resource for those interested and involved in linking schools and higher education with communities to foster justice-oriented curriculum and instruction.
This volume brings together a breadth of new research on how service-learning - combining community-based experiential learning with classroom instruction - can best be employed at community colleges.
Matthew Volume 1: Chapters 1-7 is a book written with the purpose of helping people engage the Word of God, whether they are already a Christian or if they are a pre-Christian.
Este libro da cuenta de reflexiones que algunos de los profesores de la UPN hicieron despues de haber implementado, con un grupo de docentes de varias regiones, la estrategia denominada por el MEN y Fecode como Evaluacion con Caracter Diagnostico Formativa.
This book makes a strong case for the abiding relevance of Dewey's notion of learning through experience, with a community of others and what this implies for democratic education in the 21st century.
Demonstrating that the supposed drawbacks of the humanities are in fact their source of practical value, Jay explores current debates about the role of the humanities in higher education, puts them in historical context, and offers humanists and their supporters concrete ways to explain the practical value of a contemporary humanities education.
A través de este libro, Betzalel Elazar nos propone una re-evolución educativa para la evolución de la humanidad fundamentada en la idea de todos en el todo.
Gerechtigkeit, Mut, Klugheit, Besonnenheit sowie Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung – in welcher Weise hat der überkommene Tugendkatalog immer noch Gültigkeit und wie bewährt er sich innerhalb der heutigen Zeit?
By presenting a series of intricate analyses of educational phenomena through the theoretical lenses offered by Immanuel Wallerstein and Istvan Meszaros, the book engages readers and helps them to critically analyze their own participation in the global economy, as citizens, policy-makers, and academics or teachers.
Why is it so hard for international development organizations-even ones as well-resourced and influential as the World Bank-to generate and sustain change in the way things are done in those countries where they work?
A practical and comprehensive resource, Supporting Multilingual Learners' Academic Language Development: A Language-Based Approach to Content Instruction introduces an accessible language-based approach to teaching academic language to multilingual learners across the content areas.
