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Are you struggling to get your head around John Dewey's educational pragmatism?

For all STEM faculty, chairs, administrators, and faculty developers who work to support students' learning and thriving in STEM - especially those students who have felt unwelcome and unsupported in their past STEM experiences - this book offers sustainable strategies that are now being widely adopted to create inclusive environments in undergraduate STEM classes and programs.

Critical thinking-every scholar in the literature has defined it, but there is no clearly agreed upon definition.

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.

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.

Grab those paddles.

Responding to the sudden and far-reaching implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in college classrooms and on campus, Emerging Stronger assembles an original compilation of chapters that revisit, reframe, and refine the practice of teaching in a fundamentally altered landscape.

This book questions some of our most ingrained assumptions, not only about the nature of teaching and learning, but about what constitutes education, and about the cultural determinants of what is taught.

Written by a sitting college president who has presided over transformative change at a state university, this book takes on the big questions and issues of change and change management, what needs to be done and how to do it.

This edited volume examines the implications of misinformation and youth digital life in a new information environment.

Online learning can be so dullor not!

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.

Research indicates that of the pedagogies recognized as "e;high impact"e;, learning communities - one approach to which, the linked course, is the subject of this book - lead to an increased level of student engagement in the freshman year that persists through the senior year, and improve retention.

Research has identified cooperative learning as one of the ten High Impact Practices that improve student learning.

This edited volume examines the implications of misinformation and youth digital life in a new information environment.

How can I simultaneously support students' critical engagement with course content and develop their intercultural awareness?

Finalist for Foreword Magazine's 2011 Book of the YearWith his knack for making science intelligible for the layman, and his ability to illuminate scientific concepts through analogy and reference to personal experience, James Zull offers the reader an engrossing and coherent introduction to what neuroscience can tell us about cognitive development through experience, and its implications for education.

Professors and students seem to come from different planets (or candy bars).

À une époque que d'aucuns qualifient de post-factuelle, la question des faits occupe le devant de la scène médiatique et éducative.

This book is written for anyone who has been inspired by the idea of Team-Based Learning (TBL) through his or her reading, a workshop, or a colleague's enthusiasm, and then asks the inevitable question: how do I start?

At this time of a renewed call for colleges and universities to create campus cultures that support and develop students' understanding and commitment to civic participation, what is known about the design of service learning courses and their effectiveness to achieve this goal?

Here is a compelling read for every teacher in higher education who wants to refresh or reexamine his or her classroom practice.

Workshopping the Canon for Democracy and Justiceadopts and adapts foundational reading and writing workshop structures for democratic and justice teaching in the context of the middle and secondary classroom and curriculum.

This pioneering volume provides a thorough understanding of children's spirituality from a holistic development perspective and explores the ways early childhood educators can nurture spirituality in the secular classroom.

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.

Team-Based Learning (TBL) is a unique, powerful, and proven form of small-group learning that is being increasingly adopted in higher education.

Research indicates that of the pedagogies recognized as "e;high impact"e;, learning communities - one approach to which, the linked course, is the subject of this book - lead to an increased level of student engagement in the freshman year that persists through the senior year, and improve retention.

College teachers all too often still play Sage on the Stage - lecturing to rooms full of passive and supposedly absorbed students.

This practical handbook for designing and teaching hybrid or blended courses focuses on outcomes-based practice.

This timely book will guide researchers on how to apply qualitative research methods to explore English-medium instruction (EMI) issues, such as classroom interactions, teachers' and students' perceptions on language and pedagogical challenges, and stakeholders' views on the implementation of EMI.

This pioneering volume provides a thorough understanding of children's spirituality from a holistic development perspective and explores the ways early childhood educators can nurture spirituality in the secular classroom.

This volume explores the socio-cultural and media background of a critical and ongoing political challenge: the complex entanglement between European integration and strong national agendas in the context of globalisation.

This is a practical introduction to blended learning, presenting examples of implementation across a broad spectrum of disciplines.

This book focuses on one of the key questions in education: What determines a student's success?

This volume explores the socio-cultural and media background of a critical and ongoing political challenge: the complex entanglement between European integration and strong national agendas in the context of globalisation.

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This edited volume showcases first-hand accounts of crafting and handling feedback during the peer review process from early career researchers (ECRs), journal editors and experienced reviewers to develop the concept of 'feedback literacy' in academic peer review contexts.

Defining the progression toward inquiry learning, this book provides an extensive overview of the past five decades and the evolution of inquiry in science, history, language arts, and information literacy studies.

Parler du droit à l'écriture, c'est dire qu'elle n'est pas accessible à tous, ni aux enfants dans le cadre du système scolaire, ni aux adultes dans leur vie quotidienne ou professionnelle.

Faire le choix d'une pédagogie coopérative, c'est permettre aux enfants la construction d'une citoyenneté active, c'est lutter pour le respect de la laïcité et de ses valeurs dans la classe et dans le monde.

Le premier tome de ce livre, « À ère nouvelle, nouvelle école », s'attelait à exposer le cadre administratif du Conservatoire, les caractéristiques de son fonctionnement, la carrière de ses professeurs et le cursus de ses élèves il y a 200 ans.

'Adrian Bethune is an inspiration and this book should be required reading for everyone involved in teaching young children.

Aujourd'hui, on recense presque trois viols toutes les heures en France.

Cet ouvrage propose une problématisation philosophique d'une question éducationnelle à partir de la figure paradigmatique et fondatrice de Socrate.

Cet ouvrage se penche sur un thème peu traité : les ressources des parents dont les enfants ont connu ou connaissent des difficultés.

Are you struggling to get your head around John Dewey's educational pragmatism?

** 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.