This new collection of essays follows in the footsteps of the successful volume Thinking Ahead - Essays on Big Data, Digital Revolution, and Participatory Market Society, published at a time when our societies were on a path to technological totalitarianism, as exemplified by mass surveillance reported by Edward Snowden and others.
This edited volume is the premier book dedicated exclusively to marine science education and improving ocean literacy, aiming to showcase exemplary practices in marine science education and educational research in this field on a global scale.
Over the past few decades there has been increased interest in how students and teachers think and learn about negative numbers from a variety of perspectives.
This book reflects the changes in technology and educational trends (cross-disciplinary learning, entrepreneurship, first-year learning programs, critical writing requirements, course assessment, among others) that have pushed theatre educators to innovate, question, and experiment with new teaching strategies.
This book presents research involving learning opportunities that are afforded to learners of science when the focus is on linking the formal and informal science education sectors.
In providing a comprehensive overview of the career paths currently open to oral health professionals, this book will serve as an essential reference guide for anyone considering a career in oral health.
This valuable resource provides an overview of recent research and strategies in developing and applying modelling to promote practice-based research in STEM education.
This book covers the current state of thinking and what it means to have a framework of representational competence and how such theory can be used to shape our understanding of the use of representations in science education, assessment, and instruction.
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 presents and elaborates on how the teaching of global ethics in healthcare contributes to furthering ideals of cosmopolitanism: solidarity, equality, respect for differences and concern with what human beings, and specifically patients have in common, regardless of where they live and who they are.
This volume weaves together a variety of perspectives aimed at confronting a spectrum of ethico-political global challenges arising in the Anthropocene which affect the future of life on planet earth.
This volume offers researchers and practitioners new perspectives on applied theatre work, exploring the relationship between applied theatre and its intent, success and value.
This book exposes a disturbing misuse of the scientific method to advance policies and agendas that are in fact detrimental to both science and education.
This book offers an up-to-date overview of the research on philosophy of mathematics education, one of the most important and relevant areas of theory.
This book examines the increasing popularity of online citizen science projects arising from developments in ICT and rapid improvements in data storage and generation.
Around the globe, there is an increasingly urgent need to provide opportunities for learners to embrace complexity; to develop the many skills and habits of mind that are relevant to today's complex and interconnected world; and to make learning more connected to our rapidly changing workplace and society.
This book covers the approaches, applied methods and central participatory processes at the science-stakeholder interfaces embedded in the development of the "e;Earth System Knowledge Platform (ESKP)"e;.
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 investigates a number of issues needed to develop a modular, effective, versatile, cost effective, pedagogically-embedded, user-friendly, and sustainable online laboratory system that can deliver its true potential in the national and global arenas.
Drawing on John Dewey and the later Ludwig Wittgenstein, this book employs philosophy as a conceptual resource to develop new methodological and analytical tools for conducting in situ empirical investigations.
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.
This edited monograph contains a comprehensive overview of educational developments in the fields of operations research (OR) and management science (MS).
This book offers a comprehensive overview of research at interface between History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science (HPSS) and Science Teaching in Ibero-America.
This book includes 18 peer-reviewed papers from nine countries, originally presented in a shorter form at TSG 25 The Role of History of Mathematics in Mathematics Education, as part of ICME-13 during.
This book brings together a collection of research-based papers on current issues in early childhood mathematics education that were presented in the Topic Study Group 1 (TSG 1) at the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13), held at the University of Hamburg in 2016.