Linking the development of reading, writing, speaking and listening, this book offers a distinctive holistic approach to literacy and language acquisition.
The fictional worlds created by many contemporary American and Canadian Indigenous novelists for young people provide unique access to the lived experiences of Indigenous people, past, present, and future and the often inaccessible worlds they inhabit.
This book includes instructional design and practice of how immersive technology is integrated in discipline-based and interdisciplinary curriculum design.
This book is the fruit of a symposium in honor of Ted Eisenberg concerning the growing divide between the mathematics community and the mathematics education community, a divide that is clearly unhealthy for both.
This book tackles the problems of engineering students and teachers while developing language skills through language education, transforming students' mind-set through cultural studies, developing students' intellectual abilities and personal qualities, and the use of information technologies in order to enhance the educational process.
This concise pocket guide is the first of its kind to provide a solid foundation for those who are involved in academic orthopedic surgery education for medical students, residents, and faculty and program heads.
Thinking about Thinking: Metacognition for Music Learning providesmusic educators with information, inspiration, and practical suggestions for teaching music.
Packed with easy-to-use tools and resources, this book presents intensive intervention strategies for K5 students with severe and persistent reading difficulties.
This book traces the historical development of major language teaching methods in terms of theoretical principles and classroom procedures, and provides a critical evaluation of each.
Citizen Inquiry: Synthesising Science and Inquiry Learning is the first book of its kind to bring together the concepts of citizen science and inquiry-based learning to illustrate the pedagogical advantages of this approach.
Raphael Wess stellt eine Interventionsstudie zur Entwicklung modellierungsspezifischer professioneller Kompetenz in zwölf mathematikdidaktischen Lehr-Lern-Labor-Seminaren vor.
This book show you how you can foster reflective, independent thinking in your class; boost the number of students who actively participate; and prevent the discussions from falling flat or degenerating into "e;bull sessions.
Many people who work in education start out with enthusiastic ideals about education as a positive force that can spur change in the life of the learner and in society at large, yet find themselves frustrated with a bureaucratic system that often alienates and excludes many of its students.
Growing Up Green allows young students (grades K-2) to build critical and creative thinking skills, while also improving skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
Unfreezing Music Education argues that discussing the conflicting meanings of music should occupy a more central role in formal music education and music teacher preparation programs than is currently the case.
How can schools be better designed to enable equitable academic outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse children from communities lacking in economic, political and social power?
Moving the conversation about young children and digital technologies away beyond "e;good"e; or "e;bad"e;, Susan Edwards and Leon Straker present an innovative perspective to educators, researchers, and communities on how to support young children to learn and thrive safely in a digital society.
Makers, Crafters, Educators brings the do-it-yourself (DIY) ethos of maker and crafter movements into educational environments, and examines the politics of cultural change that undergird them.
The 10 volumes in this set, originally published between 1965 and 1994, draw together research by leading academics in the area of religious education and provides a rigorous examination of related key issues.
The essays in this book focus on political strategies, pedagogical models, and community programs that enable adult ESL learners to become vital members of North American society.