Teaching of a specific subject

Mathematics is traditionally seen as the most neutral of disciplines, the furthest removed from the arguments and controversy of politics and social life.

This volume takes a critical look at teaching and learning English across the globe.

Despite technology's presence in virtually every public school, its documented familiarity and use by youth outside of school, and the wealth of resources it provides for teaching social studies, there has been relatively little empirical research on its effectiveness for the teaching and learning of social studies.

This book originates from a collaborative research initiative to examine how various societies in the Asia-Pacific Region construct moral and civic education, and to what extent these systems achieve the democratic objective of creating socially responsible citizens.

The 6th book of the International Review of History Education Series, Contemporary public debates over history education, presents public debates on history education as they appear in 14 different areas of the world, in Asia, Europe, North and South America.

This book takes stories of learning relationships from popular films, television programmes and literature, and uses them as a catalyst for beginners and experts alike to reflect critically on their own mentoring and coaching practice.

This book that explores the mathematics education of Latinos/as in 13 original research studies.

A NEW emphasis IN THIS edition of Spark the Brain, Ignite the Pen is writing to learn in the content areas.

This volume, The New Social Studies: People, Projects and Perspectives is not an attempt to be the comprehensive book on the era.

With the increasing amount of diversity taking place in the United States and in our K-12 schools, this book will help school leaders become prepared.

This edited book provides new research highlighting philosophical traditions, emerging perceptions, and the situated practice of global citizenship education (GCE) in Asian societies.

STEM project-based instruction is a pedagogical approach that is gaining popularity across the USA.

What do teachers, principals, school administrators, superintendents, state policy makers, and parents need to know about the growing trend to use technology in physical activity environments?

This book is grounded in the author's experiences of teaching mathematics for prospective elementary school teachers and conducting research on their understanding of mathematical concepts.

Why a book on gender issues in mathematics in the 21st century?

Working with Mixed Heritage Students offers a collection of writings that bridges the social science and educational literature related to mixed heritage identity development and schooling in diverse contexts.

Without contraries there is no progression.

The purpose of this volume is to provide a review and analysis of the theory, research, and practice related to geospatial technologies in social studies education.

This volume investigates the evolution of the geometry curriculum in the United States over the past 150 years.

This volume was written primarily for teachers who have developed (or who are being encouraged to develop) an awareness of and commitment to teaching mathematics for understanding.

This book is a valuable one for teacher educators and teacher education programs in the United States and Europe, since it is organized around numerous data sources.

The monograph Promising Practices for Teachers to Engage with Families of English Language Learners provides practical activities, communication skills, events, resources, and policies to work with families who are English language learners.

As a set of studies, Diverse Methodologies represents and reflects the music education research community at a truly unique moment.

The chapters in this volume illustrate how teachers are bringing creativity, higher-order thinking, and meaningful learning activities into particular school settings despite pressures of standards and testing.

This book provides examples of the ways in which 9-12 grade mathematics teachers from across North America are engaging in research.

This research anthology is the fourth volume in a series sponsored by the Special Interest Group Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans (SIG-REAPA) of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education.

This book aims to fill this gap in the scholarship on social education by drawing on the research findings and/or experiences from scholars in eight East and Southeast Asian societies.

This volume provides a comprehensive critical analysis of the research in mathematics education for young children.

The Impact of the Laboratory and Technology on K-12 Science Learning and Teaching examines the development, use, and influence of active laboratory experiences and the integration of technology in science teaching.

This volume represents a detailed analysis of the grade placement of mathematics learning goals across all state-level curriculum standards published as of May 2005.

International Perspectives and Research on Social Justice in Mathematics Education is the highly acclaimed inaugural monograph of The Montana Mathematics Enthusiast now available through IAP.

The influence of culture on learning and motivation has been the topic of much research in recent years.

According to NCTM's Principles and Standards for School mathematics,"e;Technology is essential in teaching and learning of mathematics; it influences the mathematics that is taught and it enhances students' learning.

(Published in Co-operation with the National Council of Teacher of Mathematics)According to NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, "e;Technology is essential in teaching and learning of mathematics; it influences the mathematics that is taught and it enhances students' learning.

Taken together, these authors explore the many and varied challenges faced by teacher educators generally, and social studies teacher educators specifically.

The aim of this volume is to provide a detailed description of the process of initiating, maintaining and assessing a top quality elementary school foreign language program and to assist planners by providing them with a workable model.

A discussion of the contributions made by African Americans to public and private black schools in the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries.

This volume presents the very important issue of integrating culture into the second language classroom.

The editors and contributors of these ten articles focus on the idea that communication includes both what is happening and being said among participants in a classroom and also the politics, values and ideologies that serve as the foundation of the practice.

This anthology is the second volume in a series sponsored by the Special Interest Group-Research on the education of Asian and Pacific Americans (SIG-REAPA) of the American Educational Research Association and California Association for Asian and Pacific American Education.

The purpose of this book is to reach out to teachers, parents, coaches, and students who may be hoping to, or just investigating the possibility of, how to get started with robotics.

This book explores the diversity of American roles in such cross-cultural engagement in education for democracy, both within the United States and around the world.

The purpose of this book is to document the work of the Show-Me Project (1997-2007) and to highlight lessons learned about curriculum implementation.

The aim of this book is to present some recent research findings on dif-ferent aspects of multicultural education, thus informing educators of issues, policies and new approaches to multicultural education being used around the world.

This book is divided into seven chapters including: a broad overview of mathematical cognition; development of mathematical cognition; working memory, automaticity and mathematical problem solving; mathematical problem solving; and methematical learning disabilities.

A study of successful reading instruction.

Rarely do we find books in educational research that are both thick in context and rich in theory.

Through the chapters in this volume we learn about the research foci and/ or questions that these classroom teachers are interested in examining, the mathematics content through which they engaged their students in these explorations, the data sources they used to make sense of their focus and questions, and their roles in the research.

Volume 1 in the two volume set about overcoming the odds in African American Education.

Includes discussion on the rationale of teaching about genocide; the history of genocide; and 10 cases studies of genocide perpetrated in the 20th century.