First published in 1968, Learning Begins at Home records an attempt by two researchers to initiate and assess an innovation in a school in a working-class neighbourhood.
L'augmentation de désorientation chez les tout jeunes enfants a engagé l'auteur à envisager le problème sous l'angle de la physiologie, celui sous lequel on peut très rapidement apporter une solution, de façon préventive et à l'échelle nationale.
Blended (also called hybrid) classrooms, in which face-to-face interaction is intentionally combined with online activities to aid student learning, are becoming more and more common.
Entre don de soi, désir de reconnaissance, transmission du métier, contraintes organisationnelles et difficultés à évaluer les stagiaires, l'engagement tutoral apparaît source de nombreux défis et tensions pour les professionnels-tuteurs.
This concise guidebook on desirable difficulties is designed to be a resource for academics who are interested in engaging students according to the findings of peer-reviewed literature and best practices but do not have the time to immerse themselves in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Through the narratives of practitioner-researchers, this practical guide shares the proven processes, phases and supports that are most effective for generating living-educational-theories with values of human flourishing.
Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Leadership in Higher Education has been designed to bring together case studies to facilitate the development of effective and well-equipped leaders within the higher education sector.
In How and Why We Teach Shakespeare, 19 distinguished college teachers and directors draw from their personal experiences and share their methods and the reasons why they teach Shakespeare.
Alors que le président de la République Emmanuel Macron a déclaré l'égalité entre les femmes et les hommes grande cause nationale du quinquennat le 25 novembre 2017, cet ouvrage s'intéresse à l'égalité filles-garçons à l'école, fondation nécessaire pour se saisir de l'enjeu qu'est l'égalité femmes-hommes.
This volume centres the notion of "e;chance"e; in education as a key concept in contemporary education - relating to aspects like accountability, datafication, or international large-scale assessments - and discusses the impact that the historical desire to "e;tame"e; this notion has had on present-day educational policy and practice.
Depuis la Loi pour la refondation de l'école de la République de 2013, le terme bienveillance a particulièrement progressé dans les textes et discours institutionnels, sans pour autant questionner sa réception singulière chez les enseignants.
El desarrollo vertiginoso de las tecnologías digitales de las últimas décadas ha contribuido a conformar las grandes características de la sociedad postdigital.
Community-based research (CBR) refers to collaborative investigation by academics and non-academic community members that fosters positive change on a local level.
Synthesizing the best current thinking about learning, course design, and promoting student achievement, this is a guide to developing college instruction that has clear purpose, is well integrated into the curriculum, and improves student learning in predictable and measurable ways.
Co-published with In 2007, the American Association of Colleges and Universities named learning communities a high-impact practice because of the potential of these communities to provide coherence to and ultimately improve undergraduate education.
Difficult Subjects: Insights and Strategies for Teaching about Race, Sexuality and Gender is a collection of essays from scholars across disciplines, institutions, and ranks that offers diverse and multi-faceted approaches to teaching about subjects that prove both challenging and often uncomfortable for both the professor and the student.
Co-published with and Students need more than just academic skills for success in college and career, and the lack of an explicit instructional focus on the "e;soft skills"e; critical to postsecondary success poses a challenge for many students who enter college, especially the underprepared.
If you have ever been apprehensive about initiating classroom discussion, fearing silences, the domination of a couple of speakers, superficial contributions, or off-topic remarks, this book provides strategies for creating a positive learning experience.
Contingent Academic Labor is a concise guide that offers higher education professionals a way to measure the degree of equality taking place in work environments for non-tenure track faculty across institutional settings.
This book introduces community college faculty and faculty developers to the use of faculty learning communities (FLCs) as a means for faculty themselves to investigate and surmount student learning problems they encounter in their classrooms, and as an effective and low-cost strategy for faculty developers working with few resources to stimulate innovative teaching that leads to student persistence and improved learning outcomes.
When faculty unexpectedly encounter students' religious ideologies in the classroom, they may respond with apprehension, frustration, dread, or concern.
For teachers in higher education who haven't been able to catch up with developments in teaching and learning, James Davis and Bridget Arend offer an introduction that focuses on seven coherent and proven evidence-based strategies.
Education partnerships are central to - and often a requirement of - most education reform initiatives promoted by state and local governments, by foundations, and by business funders.
However personally committed faculty may be to helping students learn, their students are not always as eager to participate in this endeavor, and may react with both active and passive resistant behaviors, including poor faculty evaluations.
Pauses constitute a simple technique for enlivening and enhancing the effectiveness of lectures, or indeed of any form of instruction, whether a presentation or in an experiential setting.
When faculty unexpectedly encounter students' religious ideologies in the classroom, they may respond with apprehension, frustration, dread, or concern.
Wu's book provides an innovative perspective on, and recommendations for, the major aspects of second language (L2) teaching from a Hegelian anthro-philosophical perspective.
À l'heure où l'Éducation nationale s'empare explicitement des questionnements relatifs aux identités de genre en milieu scolaire, cet ouvrage propose d'analyser des expériences de jeunes « trans » en éducation physique et sportive (EPS).
** By the authors of the acclaimed Introduction to Rubrics** Major growth of interest in keeping journals or diaries for personal reflection and growth; and as a teaching tool** Will appeal to college faculty, administrators and teachers One of the most powerful ways to learn, reflect and make sense of our lives is through journal keeping.
Que faire, comment faire, pour mettre en œuvre l'égalité des sexes à l'école, en particulier dans les situations de lire-écrire au cours préparatoire ?
À l'heure où l'Éducation nationale s'empare explicitement des questionnements relatifs aux identités de genre en milieu scolaire, cet ouvrage propose d'analyser des expériences de jeunes « trans » en éducation physique et sportive (EPS).
De nombreux ouvrages sur les grandes figures de l'éducation existent, celui-ci présente 23 grandes figures qui ont fait évoluer les débats et les conceptions de l'enfance et parfois ont mis en œuvre une éducation spécialisée puis une éducation inclusive.
Co-published with Promoting learning among college students is an elusive challenge, and all the more so when faculty and students come from differing cultures.
Students who know how to collaborate successfully in the classroom will be better prepared for professional success in a world where we are expected to work well with others.
Depuis la Loi pour la refondation de l'école de la République de 2013, le terme bienveillance a particulièrement progressé dans les textes et discours institutionnels, sans pour autant questionner sa réception singulière chez les enseignants.
