Teaching of a specific subject

What does it mean to have a visual representation of a mathematical object, concept, or process?

Initially genetic disorders were all considered as rare diseases.

This edited book promotes thinking, dialogue, research and theorisation on multiple ways of making connections in mathematics teaching and learning in early childhood education.

This book discusses Asian medicine, which puts enormous emphasis on prevention and preservation of health, and examines how, in recent decades, medical schools in Asia have been increasingly shifting toward a curative approach.

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 book argues that integrating artistic contributions - with an emphasis on culture and language - can make Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects more accessible, and therefore promote creativity and innovation in teaching and learning at all levels of education.

This book provides an overview of science educationpolicies, research and practices in mainland China, with specific examples ofthe most recent developments in these areas.

The book covers all the dimensions of Physical Education and Sports Sciences through nine major branches namely, Anthropometry, Biomechanics, Endurance, Flexibility, Hormones, Psychological Variables, Rehabilitation, Speed and Yoga.

How well do I take account of the needs of different classes and individual learners to facilitate and enhance progress?

Lesson study is a professional development process that teachers engage in to systematically examine their practice, with the goal of becoming more effective.

Concerns about quality mathematics education are often posed in terms of the types of mathematics that are worthwhile and valuable for both the student and society in general, and about how to best support students so that they can develop this mathematics.

The quality of primary and secondary school mathematics teaching is generally agreed to depend crucially on the subject-related knowledge of the teacher.

The language of science has many words and phrases whose meaning either changes in differing contexts or alters to reflect developments in a given discipline.

In the coming decades, the general public will be required ever more often to understand complex environmental issues, evaluate proposed environmental plans, and understand how individual decisions affect the environment at local to global scales.

Oncothermia is the next generation medical innovation that delivers selective, controlled and deep energy for cancer treatment.

Our objective is to publish a book that lays out the theoretical constructs and research methodologies within mathematics education that have been developed by Paul Cobb and explains the process of their development.

Science education at school level worldwide faces three perennial problems that have become more pressing of late.

Ethics in Psychiatry: (1) presents a comprehensive review of ethical issues arising in psychiatric care and research; (2) relates ethical issues to changes and challenges of society; (3) examines the application of general ethics to specific psychiatric problems and relates these to moral implications of psychiatry practice; (4) deals with recently arising ethical problems; (5) contains contributions of leading European ethicists, philosophers, lawyers, historians and psychiatrists; (6) provides a basis for the exploration of culture-bound influences on morals, manners and customs in the light of ethical principles of global validity.

Coteaching is two or more teachers teaching together, sharing responsibility for meeting the learning needs of students and, at the same time, learning from each other.

Few faculty members in academic medical centres are formally prepared for their roles as teachers.

The idea of teachers Learning through Teaching (LTT) - when presented to a naive bystander - appears as an oxymoron.

Health and the environment are important learning areas in science education and their significance is growing.

In higher education institutions across the globe, there is a growing interest in integrating classroom learning with experience in practice settings.

Over the past twenty years, much has been written about the knowledge bases thought necessary to teach science.

Since its beginnings, science education has been under the influence of psychological theories of knowing and learning, while in more recent years, social constructivist and sociological frameworks have also begun to emerge.

The emerging field of using geospatial technology to teach science and environmental education presents an excellent opportunity to discover the ways in which educators use research-grounded pedagogical commitments in combination with their practical experiences to design and implement effective teacher professional development projects.

As the first book to explore the confluence of three emerging yet critical fields of study, this work sets an exacting standard.

Initially genetic disorders were all considered as rare diseases.

Higher education internationally is in a state of transition and transformation, leading to an increase in the level of participation, and a consequent increase in number of non traditional and underprepared students.

This book has its origins in a special issue of the journal Science & Education (Volume 18 Numbers 6-7, 2009).

Informed by her in-depth ethnomusical knowledge, the result of detailed fieldwork, Mans's book is about musical worlds and how we as people inhabit them.

Based on topics that frame the debate about the future of professional music education, this book explores the issues that music teachers must confront in a rapidly shifting educational landscape.

Preparing professionals to meet the demands of changes in practice is a compelling issue for the development of society, professions and individual professionals.

Once again, our nation has a powerful need for a revolution devoted to creating scientists.

Mountaineers, Rock Climbers, and Science Educators Around the 1920s, rock climbing separated from mountaineering to become a separate sport.

Exploring one of the central themes in science education theory, this volume examines how science education can be considered as a scientific activity within a broad post-positivist notion of science.

A discourse on women's leadership within science education has, until now, been largely invisible in book form.

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This volume contains selected papers from the 4th Language International Conference on 'Teaching Translation and Interpreting: Building Bridges' which was held in Shanghai in December 1998.

Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals is written for an audience with a general interest in readability studies, linguistics and technical writing.

This volume is about computers and translation.

What is the future of languages in an increasingly globalized world?

Re/reading the Past is concerned with the discourses of history, from the complementary perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL).

This book advances a model for the analysis of contemporary satirical humour.

Covering nearly one thousand years, this volume explores medieval and modern English texts from fresh perspectives.

After decades of being overlooked, corpus evidence is becoming an important component of the teaching and learning of languages.

This book explores the structure and use of academic and professional discourse through the lens of corpus linguistics.

When politicians and pundits in the Middle East discuss democracy, do they mean it?

This edited volume offers a cohesive account of recent developments across the world in the field of learner and teacher autonomy in languages education.

Selected papers from a lively conference on the state of the art in translator and interpreter training.