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International literacy assessments have provided ample data for ranking nations, charting growth, and casting blame.

This book addresses a significant gap in the research literature on transitions across the school years: the continuities and discontinuities in school literacy education and their implications for practice.

Exploring People and Cultures: Authentic Ethnographic Research in the Classroom provides teachers with tools and activities for conducting a classroom study of ethnic groups and cultures.

At a time when misinformation in the media is abundant, this book explains the difficulty in nurturing students to become critical researchers and offers practical lessons that empower students to excavate information that will help them learn.

This book completes a scientific life trilogy of books following on from the Hows (i.

Modern language classrooms are currently dominated by the communicative method of language teaching.

This book offers strategies for the transfer of knowledge through combining information technology and visual arts, and examining how to visually enhance and convey knowledge.

Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017 AwardThis comprehensive collection of top-level contributions provides a thorough review of the vibrant field of chemistry education.

In the four decades since Imre Lakatos declared mathematics a "e;quasi-empirical science,"e; increasing attention has been paid to the process of proof and argumentation in the field -- a development paralleled by the rise of computer technology and the mounting interest in the logical underpinnings of mathematics.

The Media-Savvy Middle School Classroom is a practical guide for teachers of Grades 5-8 who want to help their students achieve mastery of media literacy skills.

This book provides insights into the development of competency-based learning approaches and specific instructional activities designed to enhance healthcare management students' twenty-first-century skills (21CS).

This book explores the science inherent in good early years practice and provides a rich range of ideas to inspire you to have a go in your setting.

In A Place for Wonder, Georgia Heard and Jennifer McDonough discuss how to create a landscape of wonder, a primary classroom where curiosity, creativity, and exploration are encouraged.

This brand-new book offers a reference guide to understanding and applying the rules for properly conducting clinical trials to meet the international quality standard - Good Clinical Practice - provided by the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH).

"e;This is a must read for all 11-18 geography educators.

Originally published in 1972.

This book develops a fresh perspective on everyday forms of engagement, one that foregrounds the role of objects, technologies and settings in democracy.

Two decades ago, Mandarin Chinese seemed set to become a mainstream school subject in Anglophone settings.

The term used in the title of this volume--thinking practices--evokes questions that the authors of the chapters within it begin to answer: What are thinking practices?

Originally published in 1989, Henry Pluckrose, well-known as an educational consultant, writer, and lecturer, examines the way in which a study of the local environment can enrich young children's learning and be used as a starting point for all manner of cross-curriculum work.

First published in 1951.

This edited book analyses the lessons which can be drawn from Northern Ireland's experiences of combating terrorism.

An International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) Honour Book for 2023This book is a comprehensive and thorough introduction to children's and young adult literature in English language education.

Teach students how to engage in thoughtful discussions about a text.

A Co-Publication of Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Measurements in Evaluating Science Education is a comprehensive, intuitive guide to many of the key instruments created to assess science education environments, learning, and instruction.

Originating in a recent CIERA conference held at the University of Michigan, this book brings together the nation's most distinguished researchers to examine how readers understand text and how comprehension is assessed.

10 Performance-Based STEM Projects for Grades 6-8 provides 10 ready-made projects designed to help students achieve higher levels of thinking and develop 21st-century skills while learning about science, technology, engineering, and math.

Necessary Conditions of Learning presents a research approach (phenomenography) and a theory (the variation theory of learning) introduced and developed by Ference Marton and taken up by his wide and varied following around the world-together with their practical applications in educational contexts.

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) sits at the nexus of constant change, which makes it vitally important for language teachers to engage in continuous development and keep abreast of the sociopolitical milieu in which they are embedded.

Human beings rely equally on narrative (or storytelling) and metaphor (or analogy) for making sense of the world.

Teaching Recent Global History explores innovative ways to teach world history, beginning with the early 20th century.

Concept Mapping in Mathematics: Research into Practice is the first comprehensive book on concept mapping in mathematics.

Originally published in 1996, Art for All is aimed at the non-specialist teacher of art, and offers a practical approach for working with pupils with wide-ranging learning needs.

Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning: Using the Outdoors as an Instructional Tool K-8' shows how the school groundsregardless of whether your school is in an urban, suburban, or rural settingcan become an enriching extension of the classroom.

During the first decade of the 21st century the Catholic Church in the developed world has faced a decline in its moral authority, increasing accusations of irrelevance to a secular age, and a steep and steady decline in commitment among successive generations from the 1960s on.

Learning to read is not natural for many individuals, who remain dependent on the skill, knowledge, and persistence of their teachers to acquire reading proficiency.

This book is a collection of the best scientific research presented during the First International Conference of Indonesian Medical and Health Professions Education (INA-MHPE Conference 2022) hosted by the Departments of Medicine, Health Professions Education, and Bioethics in the Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing at the Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Indonesia.

Debates in English Teaching explores the major issues all English teachers encounter daily in their professional lives.

Managing Educational Technology examines the ways in which stakeholders from businesses, K-12 schools, and universities can influence the quality and success of technology integration in primary and secondary classrooms.

Bring math to life with routines that are academically rigorous, standards-based, and engaging!

First published in 1985.

This book  offers a meso-level description of demographics, science education, and science teacher education.

This book addresses college students' weak foundation in algebra, its causes, and potential solutions to improve their long-term success and understanding in mathematics as a whole.

The use of technology within the lifelong learning sector brings many benefits to learners, teachers and managers.

Demokratie ist keine Selbstverständlichkeit, sondern eine lebenslange Herausforderung, die gelernt und gelebt werden muss.

This volume provides readers with a broad view on the variety of issues related to the educational research and practices in the field of Creativity in Mathematics and Mathematical Giftedness.

Multimodal Pedagogies in Diverse Classrooms examines how the classroom can become a democratic space founded on the integration of different histories, modes of representation, feelings, languages and discourses, and is essential reading for anyone interested in the connection between multimodality, pedagogy, democracy and social justice in diverse classrooms.

Have you ever sat in a science classroom as either a pupil or an observer and been bored?