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Mathematics is in the unenviable position of being simultaneously one of the most important school subjects for today's children to study and one of the least well understood.

As this collection of essays demonstrates, over a long career Edward Goodwin Ballard has written on a wide range of topics of philosophical interest.

This book is the culmination of some ten years' theoretical and empirical investigation.

This book presents comprehensive results from case studies of five innovations in science education that have much to offer toward understanding current reforms in this field.

This book presents comprehensive results from case studies of three innovations in mathematics education that have much to offer toward understanding current reforms in this field.

This book addresses a very important aspect of science education and science education research respectively: The research-based development of Teaching Learning Sequences.

Drawing on data generated by the EU's Interests and Recruitment in Science (IRIS) project, this volume examines the issue of young people's participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.

Building on the breakthrough text Philosophy and Engineering: An Emerging Agenda, this book offers 30 chapters covering conceptual and substantive developments in the philosophy of engineering, along with a series of critical reflections by engineering practitioners.

This book offers insights into the exciting dynamics permeating creative arts education in the Greater China region, focusing on the challenges of forging a future that would not reject, but be enriched by its Confucian and colonial past.

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 addresses all facets of faculty development, including academic and career development, teaching improvement, research capacity building, and leadership development.

This volume offers rare insights into the connection between young audiences and the performing arts.

Mathematics curriculum, which is often a focus in education reforms, has not received extensive research attention until recently.

This book shows how Systemic Functional Linguistics may be used to explore and explain the grammar of scientific examination questions.

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 volume is an innovative collection that transcends national boundaries and provides new knowledge about approaches to research and research education in music.

This book features 35 of best papers from the 9th European Science Education Research Association Conference, ESERA 2011, held in Lyon, France, September 5th-9th 2011.

Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said, "e;Ethics is aesthetics.

This book deals with uncertainty and graphing in scientific discovery work from a social practice perspective.

Focusing on geoscience, this book applies a uniquely cross-disciplinary perspective to its examination of the relationship between scientific research and teaching at universities.

From energy and water resources to natural disasters, and from changing climatic patterns to the evolution of the Earth's deep interior, geoscience research affects people's lives in many ways and on many levels.

Rasch Analysis in the Human Sciences helps individuals, both students and researchers, master the key concepts and resources needed to use Rasch techniques for analyzing data from assessments to measure variables such as abilities, attitudes, and personality traits.

Science teacher educators prepare and provide professional development for teachers at all grade levels.

Assessment is a fundamental issue in research in science education, in curriculum development and implementation in science education as well as in science teaching and learning.

This book provides readers with an overview of recent international research and developments in the teaching and learning of modelling and applications from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives.

This book brings together for the first time philosophers of biology to write about some of the most central concepts and issues in their field from the perspective of biology education.

This book emanated primarily from concerns that the mathematical capabilities of young children continue to receive inadequate attention in both the research and instructional arenas.

This book offers results from the comparative "e;Teacher Education and Development Study - Learning to Teach Mathematics (TEDS-M)"e;.

Modeling Students' Mathematical Modeling Competencies offers welcome clarity and focus to the international research and professional community in mathematics, science, and engineering education, as well as those involved in the sciences of teaching and learning these subjects.

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.

Although monotherapy is generally recommended as the treatment of choice, treatment resistance of patients with psychosis, cognitive, mood and anxiety disorders represents a significant clinical problem.

Although monotherapy is generally recommended as the treatment of choice, treatment resistance of patients with psychosis, cognitive, mood and anxiety disorders represents a significant clinical problem.

This volume provides essential guidance for transforming mathematics learning in schools through the use of innovative technology, pedagogy, and curriculum.

Metallomics and the Cell provides in an authoritative and timely manner in 16 stimulating chapters, written by 37 internationally recognized experts from 9 nations, and supported by more than 3000 references, several tables, and 110 illustrations, mostly in color, a most up-to-date view of the "e;metallomes"e; which, as defined in the "e;omics"e; world, describe the entire set of biomolecules that interact with or are affected by each metal ion.

Children's learning and understanding of science during their pre-school years has been a neglected topic in the education literature-something this volume aims to redress.

Founded on the premise that zoos are 'bilingual'-that the zoo, in the shape of its staff and exhibits, and its visitors speak distinct languages-this enlightening analysis of the informal learning that occurs in zoos examines the 'speech' of exhibits and staff as well as the discourse of visitors beginning in the earliest years.

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.

This invaluable addition to Springer's Explorations of Educational Purpose series is a revelatory ethnographic account of the visual material culture of contemporary youths in North America.

Malignant effusions (pleurites, ascites and pericarditis) are some of the most frequent manifestations of dissemination process of malignant tumors.

This volume addresses the key issue of the initial education and lifelong professional learning of teachers of mathematics to enable them to realize the affordances of educational technology for mathematics.

Reflecting the very latest theory on diversity issues in science education, including new dialogic approaches, this volume explores the subject from a range of perspectives and draws on studies from around the world.

Farming Systems Research has three core characteristics: it builds on systems thinking, it depends on the close collaboration between social and biophysical sciences, and it relies on participation to build co-learning processes.

This volume takes on the vital tasks of celebrating, challenging, and attempting to move forward our understanding of equity and diversity in science education.

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an important part of the OECD's Indicator Programme.

It goes without saying that atomic structure, including its dual wave-particle nature, cannot be demonstrated in the classroom.

This volume offers a critical examination of a variety of conceptual approaches to teaching and learning chemistry in the school classroom.

This collection examines issues of agency, power, politics and identity as they relate to science and technology and education, within contemporary settings.

In a changing world that demands new skills, a vital concern of public education is the gap in academic performance between low- and high-achieving students.

Learning in informal settings is attracting growing attention from policymakers and researchers, yet there remains, at the moment, a dearth of literature on the topic.